Cloudbrink takes on Cisco, Zscaler by balancing network security, performance

Cloudbrink is taking a swing at rival networking vendors with customer trials and independent tests that show its connectivity service significantly outperforms Cisco, Zscaler and other leading vendors. Although substantial challenges exist when attempting to balance security and performance in hybrid work environments, Cloudbrink claims to eliminate that trade-off and insists other vendors fall short.

Following a Fortune 100 entertainment company’s benchmark of Cloudbrink’s service against VPN, zero-trust network access (ZTNA) and SD-WAN offerings from Cisco, Zscaler, Pulse Secure, Perimeter 81 and Tailscale, Cloudbrink commissioned network lab Broadband Testing to verify that customer’s benchmarking.

Broadband Testing found that Cloudbrink’s hybrid access-as-a-service solution improves the performance of applications using an unreliable internet connection by 30 times, even with full security measures in place.