# Use Cases

## VPN Replacement

### Remote access to private resources and networks

Twingate lets employees remotely access the office network, cloud VPCs, and other private corporate resources from their computers and mobile devices.

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## Infrastructure Access

### Manage and automate access to technical infrastructure

Twingate enables engineers and DevOps to manage and automate secure access to technical infrastructure, both on-premises and in the cloud.

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## Device Security Controls

### Enforce device requirements for resource access

Twingate enables organizations to precisely control what types of devices are allowed to access protected corporate resources. With Twingate, fine-grained access policies can be established that screen users and devices against sets of permitted device characteristics, such as operating system type, whether screen lock is enabled, whether MDM or EDR is enabled, and more.

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## Application Gating

### Better security for third-party services that support IP address whitelisting

Twingate enables secure access to SaaS apps and private services where IP address-based access or whitelisting is required or supported. Common use cases include connecting to third-party services or apps that restrict access by IP address, securing staging servers, and deploying a lightweight cloud access security broker (CASB).

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## Homelab & Personal Use Cases

### Secure remote access to your home network

Twingate enables secure, remote access to your home network and services like Home Assistant, Plex, security cameras, and other self-hosted apps. Most users are up and running in under 15 minutes, skipping the hassle of configuring port forwarding, eliminating open inbound ports, and avoiding the headache of setting up a VPN server and managing dynamic IP addresses. Twingate Connectors run on a variety of platforms including Raspberry Pi and major NAS devices. We offer a free Starter plan for personal use.

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## Internet Security

### Secure public internet traffic with DNS filtering and more

Twingate secures public internet traffic on employee devices to protect your organization from a wide range of potential security threats. Twingate offers native DNS filtering to block access to undesirable and inappropriate domains, as well as blanket, device-level DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) to a configurable DNS resolver service. Popular DNS resolvers like Google, Cloudflare, OpenDNS are all supported.

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## Compliance

### Meet security compliance requirements

Twingate helps companies to implement security controls required by compliance programs and regulatory regimes such as CPRA, GDPR, PCI DSS, and SOC 2.

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