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Cloudflare Access
Internet-native Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
- Create an aggregation layer for secure access to all your self-hosted, SaaS, or non-web applications
- Connect users faster and more safely than a VPN
- Try it forever for up to 50 users with our Free plan
Strengthen the employee experience
Improve team productivity with modernized security that makes on-prem apps feel just like SaaS apps. No more slow, clunky VPNs or employee complaints.
Eliminate lateral movement
Reduce cyber risk and shrink your attack surface by granting context-based, least privilege access per resource rather than network-level access.
Scale Zero Trust effortlessly
Improve tech efficiency by protecting critical apps or highest risk user groups first, then expanding Internet-native ZTNA to protect your entire business.
Cloudflare named a "Leader"
KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for ZTNA 2022
Through its ZTNA market analysis, KuppingerCole Analysts AG cited several Cloudflare strengths such as our:
- Fully integrated organically developed security and access management platform
- Largest global cloud infrastructure with low-latency reach for 99% of the world population
- Massive market presence and global brand recognition
Top use cases for Access
- VPN replacement - Access is faster and safer than traditional VPNs. Start offloading critical apps for better security and end user experience.
- Accelerate mergers & acquisitions - Avoid a traditional network merge entirely. Integrate with multiple IdPs and provide per-app internal access during M&A.
- Contractor access - Authenticate third-party users like contractors with clientless options, social IdPs, and more.
- Developer access - Provide privileged technical users secure access to critical infrastructure without performance tradeoffs.
- Phishing-resistant MFA - Roll out strong authentication, like FIDO2-compliant security keys, everywhere.
Easy setup and management
Radically simplify the setup and operation of on-ramping traffic to private resources with app connector software and tunnel orchestration.
Seamless, always-on experience
Achieve peak end user performance and resilience to network outages with Cloudflare's global Anycast technology, ensuring reliability.
Rapid, early-adopter innovation
Keep up with the evolution of the Internet itself with a Zero Trust provider that constantly out-innovates its peers to make app access faster and more secure.
How it works
- Clientless capabilities support HTTPS traffic and in-browser SSH or VNC terminals, while our device client can help evaluate device posture or extend traffic to other in-line services like Cloudflare Gateway
- Access verifies identity and device posture and grants continuous, contexual access to all of an organization's internal resources, creating a software-defined perimeter
- In-line WAF and DDoS threat mitigation further strengthen L7 security for apps protected behind Access
Helping organizations worldwide progress towards Zero Trust
Additional resources
How to augment or replace your VPN with Cloudflare
See why and how to offload key applications from your traditional VPN to Cloudflare Access.
Zero Trust guide to securing contractor access
Read how ZTNA makes connecting third-party users like contractors and partners secure and simple.
Zero Trust guide to developer access
Unburden technical teams with safer, faster access to critical tools and infrastructure.
How strong authentication helps stop phishing attacks
Learn how ZTNA can help require strong authentication, like security keys, and roll it out everywhere.