Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform

What it does

Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform is a Privileged Access Management (PAM) system for engineers, machines, workloads, and AI agents. It secures their access to servers, Kubernetes clusters, databases, cloud consoles, Windows and Linux desktops, Git repositories, internal applications, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Instead of vaulting passwords, SSH keys, or API tokens, its built-in certificate authority issues short-lived X.509 and SSH certificates bound to a verified identity and a hardware root of trust. Privileges expire with the task, so no standing access remains.

How it works

The platform runs as a cluster. An Auth Service acts as the certificate authority and audit log, a Proxy Service brokers every connection, and agents beside each resource speak its native protocol. Zero Trust Access issues per-session certificates, scopes each connection to one resource by role, and records and terminates sessions. Machine & Workload Identity issues short-lived credentials to CI/CD jobs, services, and AI agents through its tbot agent. Identity Governance runs just-in-time access requests and periodic access reviews. Identity Security's Access Graph maps identity-to-resource paths, finds unmanaged SSH keys, and locks compromised identities.

Credentials and traction

Teleport holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications and attests to HIPAA Security Rule compliance. KuppingerCole named it an Overall Leader in the 2026 Leadership Compass for Zero Trust Platforms. In 2026 Teleport was also named to the Fortune Cyber 60, won a Cybersecurity Stars Award from The Hacker News, and was an SC Awards finalist for Best Identity Management Solution. More than 600 companies use the platform, including Nasdaq, Carta, KnowBe4, Turo, dbt Labs, GoTo, and ECMWF.