Teleport announced the
availability of Teleport Identity Governance and Security, an industry-first
product that secures and governs services, and user identities across multiple
clouds, environments and SaaS applications. Unveiled at Teleport's user
conference, Teleport
Connect,
this new product reduces attack response times by providing customers with a
control plane that maps each and every access point and identity in an
organization's entire infrastructure.
The
launch of Teleport Identity Governance and Security comes as cloud cyber attack
patterns are in a state of flux. Today, most detected cloud cyber attacks
target privileged access identities, such as IT administrators, site
reliability engineering (SRE) teams, developers and continuous integration and
continuous deployment (CI/CD) system credentials, as opposed to using
traditional malware. In fact, attacks targeting identity have doubled since
2018, according to Crowdstrike's
2023 Global Threat Report. This shift to exploiting cloud users and service credentials has
left organizations of all sizes without a unified solution that controls and
manages identities across all users, services and protocols.
Until
now, global visibility and control was inconceivable due to the disjointed
nature of existing solutions that focus solely on protecting specific segments
of infrastructure, ranging from firewalls, privileged access management (PAM)
tools and credential vaults. When a cyber attack hits, security teams have only
minutes to respond before lateral movement occurs. By implementing Teleport
Identity Governance and Security, organizations can gain the necessary
visibility and control into all the access points of their entire
infrastructure, making it possible to reduce the attack surface area, identify
weak access patterns and quickly mitigate identity threats.
"The
story of Teleport Identity Governance and Security is one of simple economics.
Protecting modern infrastructure with outdated solutions, not designed for the
cloud, brings with it a high cost of management, security threats and a
reduction in engineering velocity," said Ev Kontsevoy, co-founder and CEO,
Teleport. "Today, Teleport becomes the first company to solve these challenges
by providing users with a unified control plane to secure and defend an
organization's entire infrastructure."
The
benefits to deploying the Teleport Identity Governance and Security Platform
include:
- Reduced attack surface area: Teams can grant, review and
auto-provision access on demand. Access then automatically expires after a
predetermined period of time, reducing the risk of a breach;
- Identifying weak access patterns: Access monitoring provides
visibility into privileged access points for critical data and
infrastructure, allowing teams to chart and address potential weak points;
and,
- Responding to identity threats: Teams can take immediate action by
locking suspicious or compromised identities and stop them in their
tracks, across the entire organizational infrastructure.
"Teleport
Access Requests changed the game in simplifying our infrastructure access for
various compliances. It's led to more freedom and innovation by allowing us to
move away from pre-defined root accounts. We have been extremely happy with the
product." said Erik Redding, Director, Site Reliability Engineering at Elastic.