Genians ZTNA vs NetBird

Genians ZTNA combines network access control with zero-trust access for campus, remote, cloud, and hybrid environments. A central console provides visibility across office, remote-work, and cloud settings. The system checks security status in real time, applies user and context permissions, and monitors activity from connection through traffic. Deployment can be on premises or cloud managed, including cloud-managed gateways. Its REST API handles endpoint information, policy and object creation, and configuration changes using API keys or service accounts. Device Platform Intelligence identifies manufacturers, products, and models and can show CVE and end-of-life information. Enterprise Edition integrates with listed security, firewall, orchestration, and asset systems. The free edition covers up to 300 devices, and a 30-day trial requires no credit card. Supported access methods include SSL-VPN, IPsec, and GRE, with posture checks and SIEM log export.

NetBird connects users and machines through encrypted peer-to-peer networking based on WireGuard. It is offered as NetBird Cloud or can be self-hosted on an organization’s infrastructure. Its hybrid access model includes centralized controls for grouping, DNS, private nameservers and API-based configuration. Identity features include SSO, MFA, periodic re-authentication and identity-provider MFA settings. Teams can provision users and groups through an identity provider and organize them around teams and infrastructure. Device posture policies can check firewall, antivirus, geography and network location. Integrations include Okta, Microsoft, Google, MDM, EDR and SIEM platforms; logging covers network configuration changes and connection events, with SIEM streaming. NetBird supports Linux, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Android TV, tvOS, Docker and routers. Its BSD-3 license permits self-hosting. The free tier covers up to 5 users and 100 machines. Team costs €6/user/mo and Business costs €12/user/mo; billing counts users and machines that connect or log in at least once during the billing period. Team and Business plans offer a free trial.