Cloudflare acquires BastionZero to extend Zero Trust access to IT infrastructure

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This post announces the acquisition of BastionZero, a Zero Trust infrastructure access platform, and details how it will extend Cloudflare One's Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) capabilities to infrastructure like servers, Kubernetes clusters, and databases. It highlights the limitations of current infrastructure access methods (SSH, RDP, Kubernetes authentication) and how BastionZero's native integration with these protocols, coupled with its OpenPubkey-based SSO for infrastructure access, will provide a more secure and manageable solution. Key new capabilities include the elimination of long-lived keys/credentials via ephemeral PAM, a DevOps-based approach for securing SSH connections with session recording, and clientless RDP access.