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Introduction to Faction Virtual Private Circuits

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Remember the T1? We do. #

There was a day when no organization would have ever considered connecting mission critical devices – such as smart manufacturing machinery, home and personal healthcare devices, charging stations and other decentralized infrastructure – directly to the Internet. It is simply too risky.

For 30 years, organizations leased T-1 lines, a secure but costly way to have a totally private network to connect critical machines and devices and the computers and servers that are needed to monitor and control them. But then, something happened: T-1 lines were phased out! One by one, these internal networks were moved onto the Internet and securing these connections become the job of VPNs, Firewalls and SDNs.

Unfortunately, the Internet is fundamentally compromised and more organizations are discovering every day that these tools simply cannot secure mission critical machines and devices.

That’s Why We Created the Faction Virtual Private Circuit #

The Faction Virtual Private Circuit (VPC) is a Business VPN replacement for small to midsized organizations or collaborative teams that need to secure distributed workplaces with lots of smart, dumb and legacy devices.

Faction VPCs:

  1. Eliminate the vulnerabilities of VPNs;
  2. Avoid the pain, complexity and costs of SDNs/ZTNA (but with true Zero Trust); and
  3. Help protect your organization – and customers / users – from catastrophic attack.

It’s a Simple but Powerful Idea #

We like the Internet. In fact, our Co-Founder, Dave Rand, was a very active contributor to its growth and definition as the Co-Founder of AboveNet, one of the last major Tier 1 Internet Service Providers. But we don’t trust – nor should you. Given that, the best thing to do is:

  • Get your critical users, devices and systems – including cloud servers – OFF of the Internet and into your secure, private network which only YOU – and the users and devices you authorize – can see or access.

That’s what a Faction Virtual Private Circuit does.

How we accomplish that is critical.

When We Say Zero Trust, We Mean Zero Trust #

Like any good VPN, our core network tunneling is built with WIreGuard, but the essential difference is HOW each WireGuard tunnel is created, and who can see and control lit. A Faction Network is created and propagated out from your personal device (laptop, PC, smartphone, etc.) and encrypted with a key that is generated on that device. You only have to trust yourself, and the users and devices personally known to you to which you distribute keys.