My main use case for Tailscale is encryption. I use Tailscale for encryption in my work to encrypt our connection when logging into customer environments.
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Secure remote access has improved encrypted logins to customer environments
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The best features Tailscale offers are encryption and logging into VPN.
What I appreciate about Tailscale's log in to VPN feature is that it is straightforward; you just log on and that is it.
Tailscale has positively impacted my organization by making things easier and improving security. It has made things easier and improved security by authenticating multiple users and making them use the VPN in our company.
What needs improvement?
Tailscale is a very good solution as is. I do not believe it needs improvement. I do not have anything to add about needed improvements, whether regarding documentation, support, or the interface, even small things. I do not have any improvements needed for Tailscale that I have not mentioned yet, even something minor.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Tailscale for one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Tailscale is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Tailscale's scalability is great.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support was good.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
How was the initial setup?
I purchased Tailscale through the AWS Marketplace.
What about the implementation team?
I have no experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing, as I was not in charge of that.
What was our ROI?
I have not seen a return on investment, and I cannot share relevant metrics like time saved or fewer employees needed.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I have no experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing, as I was not in charge of that.
What other advice do I have?
Tailscale does not seem much slower when using it, so I would not add anything else about the features, user interface, or performance. My advice for others looking into using Tailscale is that it is easy to use and easier to set up multiple users. I would rate this review an 8.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Secure and easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
Deploying and configuring tailscale on remote stations is quick and simple. The system is very reliable, works exactly as needed and the connection is quick and allows realtime data monitoring from remote sites.
What do you dislike about the product?
Convenience features like grouping systems and preventing certain specific stations from seeing eachother exist but are more complex than it should be to set up
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Access to remote equipment without having to install software at every site. This allows our company to monitor and troubleshoot control systems through the VPN connection without having to install software on the remote computer running Tailscale as it provides a tunnel through for us to directly connect from our office programming stations.
An essential app for anyone with more than one device
What do you like best about the product?
Tailscale provides a simple client that interlinks various devices together. This allows any devices on the Tailscale network to access each other regardless of any firewalls or network obstacles.
What do you dislike about the product?
Their Android client is lackluster, making it difficult to use an Android phone as a server for various purposes such as app testing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
University networks are often segmented for security reasons. Keeping staff, student, and IoT networks segregated prevents malicious devices from spreading over the network as easily. The segementation, however, can be cumbersome when devices need to talk to each other across these different networks. Tailscale allows for our gadgets to communicate in a safe manner regardless of which network they are in.
A business management essential
What do you like best about the product?
Tailscale makes it easy to interconnect all of our devices, from servers running in a rack to the laptops of each employee. The simple, yet secure mesh VPN Tailscale provides means we don't have to worry about managing complex VPN configurations, making things just work.
What do you dislike about the product?
The lack of an official self-hosted option means we must depened on the cloud for a production-ready solution. Our business takes data privacy seriously, and having to depend on the cloud means yet another provider. While solutions such as Headscale exist, they lack important business features like SSO.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Oftentimes our employees are not working on site. They may be on the go or at home. Before we had Tailscale, we had to manually configure a VPN profile for each employee and show the employee how to enable it on their laptop. The result was a lot of complaints to I.T. about the VPN not working. Tailscale simplified everything. Tailscale is able to run in the background without and hitch, and utilizes a myriad of technologies to ensure the connection succeeds. We now hardly ever get complaints about the VPN.
I've used Talescale for a long time and have seen many improvements. This is a great product!
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility, Security, and Ease of use make Talescale number one in its class. I've used this product in everything from access to nodes in my home lab to B2B solutions.
What do you dislike about the product?
There isn't much that I don't like. I feel this product should be baked into every OS from Desktops, Laptops, Servers, Kiosk, to Phones, Tablets, and POS solutions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Talescale has made Securely connecting to remote networks much easier than trying to setup and configure standard VPN connections. Talescale has literally saved me many hours and headaches.
Has been great as we build a new product.
What do you like best about the product?
We're a small startup and product development team (under 15). Because of our business, we do need some physical hardware in our office, but we also are taking advantage of the flexibility of the cloud.
On the infrastructure development side, Tailscale gives us flexibility to connect cloud and physical resources securely. It lets us design our network and security in the logical fashion we'd like without physical locality constraining us.
Our team is partially remote, and many of them _don't need_ to know whether the resources are local or in the cloud. They can work effectively from wherever they are.
Tailscale has been reliable for us and has allowed us to adapt quickly as the sands of startup life shift beneath our feet.
On the infrastructure development side, Tailscale gives us flexibility to connect cloud and physical resources securely. It lets us design our network and security in the logical fashion we'd like without physical locality constraining us.
Our team is partially remote, and many of them _don't need_ to know whether the resources are local or in the cloud. They can work effectively from wherever they are.
Tailscale has been reliable for us and has allowed us to adapt quickly as the sands of startup life shift beneath our feet.
What do you dislike about the product?
I didn't initially understand the differences between "teams" and "business" plans from their page because I didn't understand how their ACLs work. I think much use of ACLs will likely require a switch to the business plan.
I don't think there's anything terribly _wrong_ with this; it was just a surprise to me.
I don't think there's anything terribly _wrong_ with this; it was just a surprise to me.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Transparent use of devices in cloud and physical locations for team use, and product development.
- VPN-like remote access.
- Ability to switch on for full traffic protection when on sketchy networks such as coffee shops.
- VPN-like remote access.
- Ability to switch on for full traffic protection when on sketchy networks such as coffee shops.
VPNs reimagined with Tailscale
What do you like best about the product?
I love that Tailscale allows you to access devices / local network without having to open up a port (essentially a door) on your network. This limits the attack surface for potential security threats whilst still allowing you access to your devices remotely. They make it incredibly easy to get started with a VPN.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's no ability to share network subnets with other Tailscale members. This essentially restricts access to a local network to only one person without a paid plan. I hope that they'll add this in the future.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tailscale helps me and others to remotely access a device or network from anywhere within the world easily and without having to have an open door to the internet.
Wonderfully user-friendly - some rough edges - but great in terms of concept and stability
What do you like best about the product?
Tailscale is quite fast compared to our - already fast - legacy IKEv2 VPN. We used Tailscale for our remote workers, as well as for a couple of site2site VPNs, with great success. We also use it as a bridge to an IKEv2 exit node, which works like a charm. The onboarding of users is a no-brainer, and the cross-platform experience is just superb.
What do you dislike about the product?
The ACL configuration could be better, the syntax sometimes forces you to be repetitive, and it becomes a lot (and a mess) if you are not careful. We combine it with server-side firewall rules.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We got rid of a maintenance burden and won a lot of time in the on-boarding and off-boarding of employees and externals. The fact that everything works neatly on iOS and Linux helped us reduce the number of software tools we use to one, and close the gap with our cloud.
You run routers between sites? How quaint.
What do you like best about the product?
I love the simplicy of the product and the lightbulb moment when you realise where it's useful.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's a difficult sell in environments where they are dyed in the wool cisco
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I had two sites and needed to connect the machines between them and because of double NAT one end was having issues.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
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