Item: Perimeter 81
Rating: 8
Author: Will Emmerson

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Perimeter81 provides us with a secure network to connect our team members to, primarily from remote based locations, allowing us to tunnel securely into other cloud services or lock down access to web services to a specific static IP (provided by Perimeter81). We use the Perimeter81 agent on a mixture of Windows, Mac and Linux endpoints, which then allows us to connect to one of the secure networks we've setup - it's easy to setup for new starters.

Pros and Cons

Administration of network / tunnels is straight forward
Easy to install for new starters
Support for a mixture of operating systems

Automatic agent upgrades - sometimes these fail and require a manual update

Most Important Features

Secure network / VPN
Support for linux (many providers only support Windows and OS X)
Simple agent deployment

Return on Investment

Decreased the amount of time spent on VPN maintenance
Sped up the onboarding of new starters

Key Insights

Do you think Perimeter 81 delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Perimeter 81's feature set?

Yes

Did Perimeter 81 live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Perimeter 81 go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Perimeter 81 again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

I'd suggest that Perimeter81 is recommended when you want something that is easy to administrate, with little maintenance, unlike a VPN/secure network that you host and manage internally. We've had incidents when there has been downtime at Perimeter81, which has effectively locked us out of some of our secure services (anything locked down via IP). They have made improvements to their infrastructure and it seems to have improved in recent months, but this is something to keep in mind for critical connections.

Secure network access for remote teams

Software Version

Overall Satisfaction with Perimeter 81