[alexmensch]

These are all valid points, and we’re keenly aware that trust is central to our offering. On the subject of trust, I’d love to get your take on my response to hlieberman’s comment as I agree that it’s very important.

On the pricing front, our goal is to make the service cost-competitive when you take into account the positive security externalities, but in particular the huge time sink that teams and companies put into deploying, distributing and managing a typical VPN solution. This is a big reason why we’re so focused on ease of use.

Re:BeyondCorp, I brought it up as a comparison point in my blog post, but I don’t want to appear to be making claims that our product is currently a 1:1 BeyondCorp replacement. One of the next things on our roadmap is to start exposing device inventory and posture checks as management options in the product to start getting closer to a full BeyondCorp-like offering.

However, a key insight we had in working with early beta customers is that there is significant pain to address even without getting all the way to a full zero trust / BeyondCorp state. That’s a big reason we decided to launch our product now, even before we’ve had the opportunity to add functionality we know will need to be added in the future.