Case Study: Yelp achieves secure, easy VPN and SSH access with Duo Security

How the Business Search and Review Website Protected Their VPNs and SSH Connections

Yelp, a global business review platform operating in 24 countries, needed to prevent unauthorized access to its corporate network — protecting VPN and SSH connections used by engineers, executives and remote teams. The security team wanted a low-cost, reliable two‑factor solution that would integrate with third‑party services and work for employees with limited or international connectivity.

Yelp selected Duo’s cloud-based two‑factor authentication because it supported Juniper and OpenVPN as well as SSH, provided worldwide push notifications, and eliminated on‑premise hardware costs. A phased rollout with batch enrollment took less than a day of engineering work, drove higher-than-expected adoption, and delivered a fast, easy, and versatile way to secure Yelp’s networks while improving admin and user experience.

Yelp

Ivan Leichtling

Security Manager