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People mostly seem to pay for these products so that they can blame a third party if things go wrong.

• jay-barronville 4y ago
  Ding, ding, ding! A lot of security/compliance folks like to pay money for scapegoats. It certainly helps with job security. Worst case scenario? Find another vendor.
• api 4y ago
  You just described the reason a huge chunk of the enterprise security industry exists.
• wmf 4y ago
  Or because SaaS is easier to use and requires little or no maintenance.
  • trog 4y ago
    > Or because SaaS is easier to use and requires little or no maintenance. YUP We recently deployed Tailscale in our organisation; I had looked at Wireguard very closely but decided that the ease of use of Tailscale meant we could get up and running much more quickly and easily and at relatively low cost (small team). We'll re-evaluate as we move forward & probably need to deploy it to more users, but it was the difference between a few minutes setup to get all users into it versus several hours of figuring out the ins and outs of Wireguard & then getting the team onboarded. While any security incident is frustrating, they are inevitable, and the only way to really judge an organisation is by its response. Tailscale's response here gives me more confidence, not less.
    • rstupek 4y ago
      Which auth mechanism did you end up using?
      • trog 4y ago
        Just the default Google Workspace one for the moment. Only a small handful of users at the moment & didn't need anything fancy. We are probably going to be looking at a redo of our whole auth at some point in the next 6-12 months as we plan to grow in size & move a lot more people into Tailscale.
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