Why OpenVLAN

Why teams switch to OpenVLAN

Legacy VPN solved 2005's problem. Networks today need identity, not perimeters.

The case for change

VPNs grant too much, too blindly

Connect to the corporate VPN and you can usually reach everything. OpenVLAN grants each user exactly what their role requires — enforced by ACLs tied to identity.

Appliances don't fit cloud estates

Workloads now live across three clouds and a colo. Hardware concentrators can't follow; a mesh overlay spans all of them plus every laptop.

Ticket-driven IT doesn't scale

Onboarding a hire used to mean VPN accounts, group memberships, and client configs. SCIM provisioning and MagicDNS remove most of that ceremony.

Auditors ask better questions now

"Who could reach the production database in March?" should take minutes to answer, not a forensics project. Session logs answer it out of the box.

What changes after the switch

Hours → minutes

Rollout to an entire company happens in an afternoon, not a quarter.

Tickets → zero

Most connectivity tickets disappear with the appliance that caused them.

Flat access → least privilege

Default posture becomes deny; grants are explicit and reviewable.

IP rules → identity rules

Policies survive DHCP leases, hotel wifi, and cloud redeploys.

Shared creds → per-user auth

Every session ties to a person via SSO — MFA included.

Dark mesh → full audit

Every connection attempt is logged, exportable, and alertable.

Proof, not promises

Convinced? Start with the free plan

Migrate one team first. The mesh works alongside your existing VPN while you phase it out.