Zero Trust for Tailscale

Zero Trust for Tailscale

Make your tailnet device-aware: only endpoints that meet your live posture baseline can reach CI runners, secrets, and internal apps — even if they’re authenticated.

Identity

Verified Developer

SSO-bound, trusted user

Device

Secure Endpoint

Patches, EDR, encryption

Policy

EDAMAME Trust

Continuous access decisions

Platform

Tailscale

Tailnet, ACLs

Blocks rogue devices

Virtual air gap around crown jewels

Developer-friendly rollout

Built for security teams protecting CI runners and internal services over Tailscale.

The Risk

Your crown-jewel services are one device away from a breach.

Mesh VPNs make access easy — but a stolen or compromised laptop with valid identity can still reach your runner, secrets, and internal apps. Credentials prove who, not whether the endpoint is safe right now.

Authenticated devices can still be unsafe (posture drift).

Malware turns an enrolled laptop into an attacker workstation.

CI runners and internal services become pivot points.

Device trust often covers login, not tailnet access to internal IPs.

SECURITY GAP

The Device Trust Gap

VPN enrollment validates identity at join time. Access persists long after — even as endpoints drift out of posture.

Once an attacker is on an enrolled device, the mesh becomes their route to crown jewels. Continuous verification must happen in-network.

The Solution

Zero Trust, enforced at the mesh layer.

EDAMAME continuously verifies every connection — not just enrollment. For every session, we evaluate identity, device posture, and context before allowing access.

Identity: SSO-bound, verified developer accounts.

Device: OS patches, encryption, EDR, firewall, and integrity checks.

Context: IP, environment, CI runner state, and access patterns.

Only when all signals pass do we allow the connection. Everything else is blocked — authenticated devices alone are no longer enough.

ARCHITECTURE

EDAMAME orchestrates your mesh’s native controls (ACLs, tags, and allow rules) so that crown jewels are only reachable from verified users on secure devices.

Developer Device → EDAMAME Trust Engine → Tailscale

No inline proxies. No custom tunnels. Just native enforcement inside your mesh.

Core Capabilities

Everything you need to secure Tailscale without slowing developers.

EDAMAME brings Zero Trust to your tailnet — from laptops to CI runners — while keeping workflows fast and familiar.

Verified developer identity

Bind every device to a corporate identity via SSO/IdP. Tokens, SSH keys, and CLI access are always tied back to a real, verified person.

Verified developer identity

Bind every device to a corporate identity via SSO/IdP. Tokens, SSH keys, and CLI access are always tied back to a real, verified person.

Verified developer identity

Bind every device to a corporate identity via SSO/IdP. Tokens, SSH keys, and CLI access are always tied back to a real, verified person.

Continuous device posture

Enforce encryption, patches, EDR, firewall, and integrity. If a device drifts out of compliance, its tailnet access is revoked in real time.

Continuous device posture

Enforce encryption, patches, EDR, firewall, and integrity. If a device drifts out of compliance, its tailnet access is revoked in real time.

Continuous device posture

Enforce encryption, patches, EDR, firewall, and integrity. If a device drifts out of compliance, its tailnet access is revoked in real time.

Native Tailscale enforcement

Use your tailnet’s native ACLs and tags as the enforcement point. EDAMAME keeps them up to date based on live device posture.

Native Tailscale enforcement

Use your tailnet’s native ACLs and tags as the enforcement point. EDAMAME keeps them up to date based on live device posture.

Native Tailscale enforcement

Use your tailnet’s native ACLs and tags as the enforcement point. EDAMAME keeps them up to date based on live device posture.

Protect CI runners & internal services

Gate runner IPs, build agents, and admin surfaces behind posture-aware mesh access. Drift out of compliance and access is revoked in real time.

Protect CI runners & internal services

Gate runner IPs, build agents, and admin surfaces behind posture-aware mesh access. Drift out of compliance and access is revoked in real time.

Protect CI runners & internal services

Gate runner IPs, build agents, and admin surfaces behind posture-aware mesh access. Drift out of compliance and access is revoked in real time.

Developer-friendly experience

Lightweight agents and clear remediation guidance. Engineers keep their tools and workflows — security runs in the background.

Developer-friendly experience

Lightweight agents and clear remediation guidance. Engineers keep their tools and workflows — security runs in the background.

Developer-friendly experience

Lightweight agents and clear remediation guidance. Engineers keep their tools and workflows — security runs in the background.

Works with your stack

Integrates with your IdP, VPN, EDR, MDM/UEM, secrets managers, and CI tooling. No rip-and-replace.

Works with your stack

Integrates with your IdP, VPN, EDR, MDM/UEM, secrets managers, and CI tooling. No rip-and-replace.

Works with your stack

Integrates with your IdP, VPN, EDR, MDM/UEM, secrets managers, and CI tooling. No rip-and-replace.

Comparison

EDAMAME delivers the security guarantees of on-prem and air-gapped systems — with the speed and flexibility of modern cloud development.

More than VPNs, mesh ACLs, or IP allowlists.

Alternative
Tailscale (default posture)

Once a device connects, it’s often trusted for too much. Posture is coarse, and internal services stay reachable even as endpoints drift.

With EDAMAME

Every connection to crown-jewel IPs is gated by live device posture. Drift out of compliance and access is revoked instantly.

Alternative
Tailscale (default posture)

Once a device connects, it’s often trusted for too much. Posture is coarse, and internal services stay reachable even as endpoints drift.

With EDAMAME

Every connection to crown-jewel IPs is gated by live device posture. Drift out of compliance and access is revoked instantly.

Alternative
Tailscale (default posture)

Once a device connects, it’s often trusted for too much. Posture is coarse, and internal services stay reachable even as endpoints drift.

With EDAMAME

Every connection to crown-jewel IPs is gated by live device posture. Drift out of compliance and access is revoked instantly.

Alternative
Network segmentation / bastions

Segmentation controls where, not whether an endpoint is safe right now. A compromised laptop inside the mesh can still pivot to runners and secrets.

With EDAMAME

Per-device, per-session enforcement inside the mesh. Access is continuously verified and revoked on drift.

Alternative
Network segmentation / bastions

Segmentation controls where, not whether an endpoint is safe right now. A compromised laptop inside the mesh can still pivot to runners and secrets.

With EDAMAME

Per-device, per-session enforcement inside the mesh. Access is continuously verified and revoked on drift.

Alternative
Network segmentation / bastions

Segmentation controls where, not whether an endpoint is safe right now. A compromised laptop inside the mesh can still pivot to runners and secrets.

With EDAMAME

Per-device, per-session enforcement inside the mesh. Access is continuously verified and revoked on drift.

Alternative
Static allowlists

Hard to maintain. Developer IPs change. No visibility into which device is behind an IP.

With EDAMAME

Dynamic, per-device allow rules. Crown jewels are only reachable from currently trusted endpoints.

Alternative
Static allowlists

Hard to maintain. Developer IPs change. No visibility into which device is behind an IP.

With EDAMAME

Dynamic, per-device allow rules. Crown jewels are only reachable from currently trusted endpoints.

Alternative
Static allowlists

Hard to maintain. Developer IPs change. No visibility into which device is behind an IP.

With EDAMAME

Dynamic, per-device allow rules. Crown jewels are only reachable from currently trusted endpoints.

Rollout

Five-minute rollout.

Enroll endpoints, connect Tailscale, set your posture policy, and protect CI runners and internal apps — without redesigning networks.

Step 01

Install EDAMAME

Enroll developer laptops and workstations. Establish a baseline posture score.

Step 02

Connect your tailnet

Paste a Tailscale API token into EDAMAME Hub. Peers are mapped automatically.

Step 03

Define posture policy

Set rules like score ≥ 4 and disk encryption enabled. Violations revoke access instantly.

Step 04

Protect crown jewels

Gate CI runners, secrets, and internal apps behind posture-aware mesh ACLs.

Step 05

Expand coverage

Reuse the same posture policy across mesh access and SaaS (Entra / Google) for one control plane.

Threat Scenarios

Real attacks, blocked by design.

EDAMAME neutralizes the most common SDLC attack paths — before they reach your code.

Scenario

Stolen personal access token

Without EDAMAME

Attacker uses the token from any device to clone private repos.

With EDAMAME

Device not verified or out of posture → GitHub rejects all requests using that token.

Scenario

Compromised developer laptop

Without EDAMAME

Malware pushes or exfiltrates code using existing GitHub credentials.

With EDAMAME

Posture deteriorates → device automatically removed from allowlist → GitHub access revoked.

Scenario

Rogue CI/CD runner

Without EDAMAME

Malicious runner pulls secrets and injects backdoors into builds.

With EDAMAME

Runner fails posture or integrity checks → denied before accessing repos or secrets.

Trust & Impact

Security leaders choose EDAMAME to harden their SDLC.

Combine the assurance of air-gapped systems with the agility of GitHub Cloud. EDAMAME lets you enforce Zero Trust without sacrificing developer velocity.

Stop supply-chain attacks at the source — your repos.

Strengthen compliance for SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIS2, DORA, and more.

Win developer trust by making security feel invisible.

EDAMAME gave us the confidence to move to GitHub Enterprise Cloud with the security guarantees we used to get from air-gapped infrastructure — without slowing our teams down.

Platform Security Lead

Global SaaS Company

Ready to secure your tailnet with Zero Trust?

Make mesh access device-aware: block compromised endpoints, protect CI runners and internal apps, and keep workflows fast for developers.

Ready to secure your tailnet with Zero Trust?

Make mesh access device-aware: block compromised endpoints, protect CI runners and internal apps, and keep workflows fast for developers.

Ready to secure your tailnet with Zero Trust?

Make mesh access device-aware: block compromised endpoints, protect CI runners and internal apps, and keep workflows fast for developers.