CryptoSeal (YC S11) Offers VPN As A Service

Re:CryptoSeal (YC S11) Offers VPN As A Service by rdl on Monday January 14, 2013 @08:02PM (#5057797)

Yeah. We're primarily positioning this for a group of developers or other users who want access to internal resources, like AWS servers or potentially any SaaS application we support (would love to set up tunnels to internal-use tools like Salesforce).

All of your traffic goes via us to your servers. This isn't ideal from a privacy perspective, but does allow IDS, DLP, etc. filtering. It's a tradeoff.

I wouldn't do it, personally, for individuals. For businesses, however, a contract with a service provider to do this kind of thing is totally reasonable. You still can use ssh/ssl/etc. on all of your traffic to your servers. This protects lower-value stuff and/or is belt-and-suspenders.

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Re:CryptoSeal (YC S11) Offers VPN As A Service by sehrope on Monday January 14, 2013 @08:38PM (#5057981)

I've been looking for something like this for our product (SaaS database client, shameless plug: http://www.jackdb.com/) as security during network transit is obviously a big deal. At the moment there's is no explicit SSL/SSH tunnel so it relies on the underlying driver to handle.

Being able to plug into something like this would be useful if it can automate/offload the client side VPN setup and simplify things for a client adding a new connection.

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