Overview

The iboss private access service inverts the VPN model completely. Instead of granting a user access to a private network, iboss ZTNA service never places the user on any private network at all. Instead, the iboss private access service provides the user with access to the application itself, without ever granting or connecting the user directly to the network from which that application is being hosted. In fact, you can think of iboss private access as Zero Network Access, as the user never actually has access to the network itself. The iboss private access service is connected to all private resources an organization needs to grant access to and leverages this to connect users, based on their role, to the private application directly.

Users are connected through the iboss cloud service at all times, and the iboss cloud service has access to all public and private resources. It grants access to those resources based on role, and abstracts network routing and other network related complexities from the policies which grant access to those resources. It uses an Identity Provider, or IdP, to determine who the user is and which groups the user belongs to in order to provide access. For example, if the user is part of the manager’s group, they may have access to private resources only available to managers.

The iboss cloud platform provides access to any resource, treating the user and device as the new network perimeter. With private access, this includes easily bridging users to private resources that typically would involve placing remote users on private networks which introduces major risk given those users are remote. The iboss cloud platform provides service-based access to any resource easily and transparently and is designed for the cloud-first borderless future.