Modern teams need access solutions that are intuitive, scalable, and secure -- Border0 delivers Privileged Access Management that is both flexible and powerful. Getting started takes less than an hour!
At some point, every growing organization hits the same wall. The team scales, speed is the priority, and visibility into who has access to what starts to erode. More difficult questions follow: How quickly can we revoke access? What happens if a credential is compromised? What’s the blast radius?
Traditional Privileged Access Management (PAM) tools promise control — but often introduce heavy infrastructure, complex deployments, and high costs that slow teams down.
Border0 was built differently. It combines the simplicity of a modern VPN with identity-native, application-aware access control — designed to scale with growing teams without disrupting engineer workflows. Visibility and flexibility are built in from day one. Teams can deploy in under an hour and immediately begin creating granular access to servers, databases, Kubernetes clusters, and more, all wrapped in a strong, centralized security model.
Check out the video and learn how easy it is to get started and go from Zero to PAM in under an hour!
Establish a Secure Access Layer in Minutes
Getting started with Border0 is incredibly easy; the first step is deploying a lightweight connector inside your environment.
The Connector is really the heart of Border0 — it is the workhorse that makes secure, identity-aware access possible across your infrastructure. It’s the component you install inside your network so that Border0 can securely broker access to your private systems without exposing them to the public internet.
It should be deployed close to the resources it protects like inside a VPC, alongside Kubernetes workloads, within a private subnet, or in an on-prem environment — and multiple Connectors can be used to segment environments or provide high availability. Because traffic is initiated outbound, there’s no need for public IPs or opening inbound firewall rules, significantly reducing exposure. Connectors can also be deployed programmatically through Terraform or CloudFormation, making them easy to replicate across regions, accounts, or ephemeral environments as infrastructure scales.
So, that's step 1: deploying in minutes, with no complex configuration, no inbound firewall changes, and no multi-week implementation project to tackle.
Replace the Legacy VPN — Immediately
Once connected, you can securely expose private networks through an identity-based access layer — effectively replacing or modernizing your VPN.
Unlike traditional VPNs that rely on shared network credentials and broad lateral access, every connection is tied directly to an individual identity. That means instant clarity around who accessed what.
You can now configure:
• Subnet routers to securely connect teams to internal systems, similar to your split VPN setup.
• Exit nodes to route all your outbound internet traffic through a consistent, company-controlled gateway
That predictable point of egress is especially powerful for SaaS applications. IP allowlists become simple. Compliance requirements around data residency are easier to enforce. Security policies apply consistently — whether employees are in the office, at home, or working internationally.
For non-technical users, the experience is seamless. They simply connect and get to work. Behind the scenes, the organization gains centralized visibility and stronger governance. And as you'll see in the video above, creating your first VPN gateway will take you about 1 minute!
Eliminate Shared Credentials and Over-Permissioning
Even with a VPN, engineering teams still need SSH keys, database passwords, Kubernetes certificates, or vault lookups. Credentials are often shared and access easily sprawls. Audit trails are blurry and difficult to decipher. While traditional VPNs solve network connectivity, Border0 offers application and identity-aware, transparent Layer 7 proxies to the resources modern engineering teams rely on daily.
Users don’t just connect to resources — they interact with them securely using their single sign-on identity. Users no longer have to hunt for passwords, share database accounts, or remember to rotate SSH keys.
Policies should be thought of as Layer 7, identity-aware firewall rules, controlling not just who can connect, but what they can do. Examples include:
• Read-only vs write database access
• Schema-level database controls
• SSH shell vs file transfer
• Kubernetes namespace and action restrictions
• Geo, IP, and time-based constraints
The blast radius shrinks dramatically, with fewer secrets to manage, clear accountability, and practical least-privileged enforcement.
Continuous Authorization and Just-in-Time Access
Access shouldn’t be static.
Border0 integrates directly with your identity provider (Okta, Azure AD, Google Workspace, GitHub, and others) and synchronizes group-based access automatically via SCIM. If a user is removed from a group — or leaves the organization — access is revoked immediately through continuous authorization.
For sensitive environments such as production or break glass scenarios, teams can implement just in time access. Users request temporary access, approvals can flow through Slack or other workflows, permissions are time bound, and access automatically expires. Every session is fully logged and attributed. This enables a true zero standing privileges model without slowing down day to day operations.
Visibility That Surfaces What Matters
Logging everything is easy. Reviewing everything isn’t.
Border0 provides full session visibility across SSH, databases, and Kubernetes, fully tied to individual identity. Every query, command, and action is attributable, and all of the recordings and logs can be sent to an S3 bucket or SIEM.
But in the real world, who has time to review thousands of sessions a day? Beyond logging, Border0's Session Insights uses LLMs to analyze sessions, summarize activity, and flag anomalous or risky behavior so teams can focus on what matters most. Instead of time consuming manual review, security leaders can quickly determine what is a priority and what is just noise.
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Flexible, Frictionless Access — From Anywhere
Security tools often fail because they create friction. Users get frustrated and find work-arounds. Border0 was designed to feel simple for users while maintaining strong centralized control.
For contractors, auditors, and distributed teams, Border0 provides agentless, browser based access to SSH, Kubernetes, databases, and RDP with no VPN client required. Every session runs securely in the browser, fully logged and tied to user identity.
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Through the web client, engineers and non technical users can “talk” to databases in plain English, or any other language, and perform routine tasks in Kubernetes. Fine grained policies operate behind the scenes, enabling safe interaction without disrupting preferred tooling or workflows.
Users simply log in and work. The organization retains full visibility and control.
Automate Access as Infrastructure
Modern teams rely on Infrastructure-as-Code; Border0 includes a robust Terraform provider, allowing connectors, resources, and policies to be defined as code. Access controls flow through the same review and deployment pipelines as the rest of your infrastructure.
As you expand into new environments or launch new services, access policies scale predictably and consistently.
From Zero to Modern PAM — In Under an Hour
Modernizing access doesn’t need to be a multi-quarter initiative.
In less than an hour, organizations can:
• Deploy a connector
• Replace or modernize legacy VPN access
• Eliminate shared credentials
• Enforce least privilege at the application layer
• Implement just-in-time access
• Gain full session visibility
• Support contractors securely through browser-based access
• Automate policies with infrastructure-as-code
The outcome isn’t just stronger security, it’s faster onboarding and instant offboarding, audit-readiness, and increased engineering velocity. It's also just really pleasant to use, meaning high levels of adoption and compliance.
With Border0, access is not a bottleneck but an accelerator, empowering users while maintaining a strong, centralized security wrapper.
That’s what it means to go from Zero to PAM!
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