Evolution of Tailscale into a Mesh Overlay Network

Maya Kaczorowski, Chief Product Officer at Tailscale, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss what sets the Tailscale product approach apart, for users of their free tier all the way to enterprise. Maya shares insight on how she evaluates feature requests, and how Tailscale’s unique architecture sets them apart from competitors. Maya and Corey discuss the importance of transparency when building trust in security, as well as Tailscale’s approach to new feature roll-outs and change management.

About Maya

Maya is the Chief Product Officer at Tailscale, providing secure networking for the long tail. She was mostly recently at GitHub in software supply chain security, and previously at Google working on container security, encryption at rest and encryption key management. Prior to Google, she was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, working in IT security for large enterprises.

Maya completed her Master's in mathematics focusing on cryptography and game theory. She is bilingual in English and French.

Outside of work, Maya is passionate about ice cream, puzzling, running, and reading nonfiction.

Links Referenced:

• Tailscale: https://tailscale.com/
• Tailscale features:
  • VS Code extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tailscale.vscode-tailscale 
  • Tailscale SSH: https://tailscale.com/kb/1193/tailscale-ssh 
  • Tailnet lock: https://tailscale.com/kb/1226/tailnet-lock 
  • Auto updates: https://tailscale.com/kb/1067/update#auto-updates 
  • ACL tests: https://tailscale.com/kb/1018/acls#tests 
  • Kubernetes operator: https://tailscale.com/kb/1236/kubernetes-operator 
  • Log streaming: https://tailscale.com/kb/1255/log-streaming 
• Tailscale Security Bulletins: https://tailscale.com/security-bulletins 
• Blog post “How Our Free Plan Stays Free:” https://tailscale.com/blog/free-plan 
• Tailscale on AWS Marketplace: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-nd5zazsgvu6e6