This month’s CloudConnexa update is about giving your security tools more of the data they expect, and giving your users a smoother path through the tunnel.
You’ll find expanded OCSF support in Log Streaming for DNS and Access Visibility events, the launch of Tunnel Bypass for secure-by-default routing without the performance trade-off, a new e-book on scaling hybrid work, and a short ZTNA survey.
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Skip the Custom Parsers: OCSF Now Covers DNS Log and Access Visibility Events |
In March, we shared that CloudConnexa Log Streaming added support for the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF), letting you stream connection and Cyber Shield events into your SIEM or security data lake in a standardized format, no custom parsers required.
This month, DNS Log and Access Visibility events can now also be streamed in OCSF format, giving you broader coverage of your log data in a consistent, tool-ready schema.
If you’re sending data into a SIEM or security data lake, for example, Amazon Security Lake, you no longer need to build custom parsers or normalize fields by hand. With OCSF:
- Events are instantly understood by modern SIEMs and security lakes.
- Correlation is easier across VPN tunnels, network activity, and other OCSF-based signals.
- Investigations are faster because connection activity is already in the language your tools expect.
Enable it from API & Logs > Log Streaming in the Administration Portal. Toggle on DNS Logs or Access Visibility, then select OCSF as your format. |
Tunnel Bypass in CloudConnexa: Stay Secure Without Sacrificing Performance |
You should never have to choose between security and performance, and with the addition of Tunnel Bypass, you won’t have to.
Routing all traffic through CloudConnexa is the gold standard for security, but in practice, it can create friction: backhauling traffic through centralized gateways adds latency to conferencing and streaming apps, intranet resources become unreliable, and hybrid workers end up toggling secure access on and off
Tunnel Bypass lets administrators keep Split Tunnel Off as the default while selectively allowing traffic to specific destinations to bypass the CloudConnexa tunnel and route directly. Sensitive traffic stays protected. Performance-sensitive traffic stays fast. Neither has to give ground.
It also works at the User Group level, so your finance team can stay fully locked down while your sales team gets direct access to the tools they rely on.
- Eliminate backhaul-induced latency for conferencing and streaming applications.
- Restore reliable access to on-premises systems and intranet resources.
Want a deeper look at split tunneling approaches and where Tunnel Bypass fits in? Our new blog post breaks down split-include, split-exclude, and how to choose between them. |
New E-Book — The Hybrid Revolution: How to Help Your Team Go Remote in the New World of Work |
Remote and hybrid work is the baseline now, but the access patterns it creates still pressure security teams: unmanaged devices, shifting identity boundaries, and workloads spread across on-prem and cloud.
Our new e-book walks through what a modern remote work security program looks like and how CloudConnexa fits into it. Inside, you’ll find:
- A practical framework for evaluating your current remote access posture.
- Guidance on aligning secure access policies with Zero Trust principles.
- Real-world examples of teams scaling secure remote access without adding complexity.
Whether you’re standardizing remote access for the first time or rethinking an existing deployment, it’s a starting point grounded in how IT teams actually work. |
Your Take on Zero Trust — Take Our Short Survey |
Zero Trust has moved from buzzword to baseline, but how it shows up in day-to-day access decisions varies widely from one organization to the next.
We’re running a short survey to hear from IT and security teams about where you are on your Zero Trust journey: what’s working, what’s stuck, and which controls are most (or least) useful in practice. It takes about five minutes, and we’ll share the aggregated findings with the community once the survey closes. |
FORBES: How To Integrate AI Into Your Business, According To Size
In his latest Forbes piece, OpenVPN CEO Francis Dinha argues that there’s no one-size-fits-all path to AI adoption, and the playbook that works for a Fortune 500 will sink a 30-person team.
Francis breaks down what AI integration actually looks like at different company sizes, where the security trade-offs hide, and how leaders should sequence investments so AI lifts the business instead of outrunning it.
If you’re sizing up where AI fits in your stack, this one’s for you. |
Good to know: OpenVPN shares a weekly cybersecurity news roundup to keep our readers informed. Check out our most recent This Week in Cybersecurity posts for the latest industry headlines. |
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