Beyond Identity vs Tailscale

Replace SMS MFA with device-bound credentials across 1,000 employees, reducing phishing risk to near zero

Meet MFA requirements demanded by cyber insurance carriers with documented FIDO2-based authentication evidence

Achieve NIST SP 800-63B AAL3 compliance required for federal system access without password resets

Block access automatically when a device loses compliance (disk encryption off, EDR not running) during active sessions

Tailscale meshes devices using WireGuard via DERP relays, enabling SSH access to on-prem servers from anywhere without opening firewall ports or maintaining a VPN gateway.

Tailscale ACLs define which devices and users can reach which services using tag-based policy, replacing complex AWS security group rules with human-readable access policy files checked into git.

Tailscale subnet routers expose CIDR ranges of on-prem networks to the tailnet, giving WireGuard-encrypted access to devices that cannot run the Tailscale client directly.