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

Benefits of Cloudflare Access

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.

Analyst recognition

Cloudflare named a "Leader"

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

Secure hybrid work

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.

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Why choose Cloudflare?

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.

Connect users to internal resources

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

“Cloudflare Access was a game-changer for Bitso. It made Zero Trust much easier. We now manage access to internal resources more efficiently, ensuring the right people have the right level of access to the right resources, regardless of their location, device or network.”

Mario A Peréz Alejo
Cybersecurity Lead

“Cloudflare Access became available just in time to prevent us from having to go through the hassle of deploying a VPN. It was an easy choice for us, and Cloudflare Access was shockingly simple to deploy.”

Conor Sherman
Head of Security

“Cloudflare’s flexibility and ease of use enabled Platzi to achieve Zero Trust remote access with minimal effort. It’s Zero Trust in a box -- it just works!”

Ronald Escalona
Head of Cloud Engineering

"At Delivery Hero, we always strive to deliver an amazing experience to our customers. Cloudflare Access helps us do the same for our internal teams: offering them a secure working environment, and removing the need for a VPN to access all of our applications across the globe."

Willian Carminato
Senior Director, Engineering

Helping organizations worldwide progress towards Zero Trust

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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.