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Teleport

About Teleport

Teleport provides a unified identity platform for securing infrastructure access involving humans, machines, and AI. The platform establishes a cryptographically secured identity layer rather than relying on shared credentials. It issues ephemeral, time-limited privileges instead of standing access. It extends identity and access control to AI agents and tooling. Teleport functions as a single binary enabling secure access to various infrastructure resources behind NAT.

Products

  • Teleport Zero Trust Access: Secures access to infrastructure with passwordless authentication and ephemeral, least-privileged access.
  • Teleport Machine & Workload Identity: Secures system and data access between workloads.
  • Teleport Identity Governance: Hardens and governs human and non-human identities.
  • Teleport Identity Security: Identifies and mitigates risks in access paths.
  • Teleport Connect: Offers enhanced user experience and identity-based access for engineers working in the cloud.
  • Machine ID: Issues, renews and manages X.509 and SSH certificates for services.

Used for

  • Containing and controlling agentic AI by securing identities for agents, LLMs, and MCP tools.
  • Eliminating secrets and VPN complexity to accelerate engineering tasks.
  • Managing privileged access without a vault using zero trust and zero standing privileges.
  • Implementing compliance standards such as SOC 2 or FedRAMP for SSH and Kubernetes access.

Who it is for

  • Used by engineering teams needing secure access to infrastructure.
  • Used by organizations pursuing FedRAMP-Moderate authorization.
  • Used by managed service providers and contract-based DevOps teams to manage client servers.

From Teleport's own website, read 2026-10-24. How we build listings.

How to evaluate Cloud Security & CSPM

This is how the CIOPages Research Team evaluates this category. It is not an assessment of Teleport. It comes from our Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) buyer guide.

25%
Risk Prioritization & Attack-Path Analysis
Context graph that correlates misconfiguration, internet reachability, identity/permissions, vulnerabilities, secrets, and data sensitivity into ranked attack paths to crown-jewel assets; toxic-combination detection; quality of the “fix these 10” output versus raw finding volume; false-positive rate in your own accounts
20%
Coverage Model: Agentless Breadth vs. Runtime Depth
Agentless snapshot/API scanning for fast 100%-estate visibility versus agent/eBPF runtime for in-production threat detection (CDR); container, serverless, and Kubernetes (KSPM) coverage; how the two models combine without double-counting; performance impact and deployment friction
20%
Multi-Cloud & Platform Consolidation (CNAPP)
Depth and parity across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and Kubernetes from one console; how many of CSPM, CIEM, CWPP, DSPM, KSPM, and code/IaC security are genuinely unified on one data model versus bolted-on acquisitions; single policy and one risk score across domains
15%
Identity & Entitlements (CIEM)
Effective-permission analysis across human and machine identities, cross-account and federated role mapping, detection of unused and over-privileged entitlements, least-privilege right-sizing recommendations, and privilege escalation / lateral-movement path discovery
10%
Remediation, Automation & Developer Workflow
Guided and auto-remediation, IaC and pull-request fixes (shift-left to code), guardrails that prevent drift, ticketing/SOAR integration, ownership routing to the right team, and API/Terraform coverage for security-as-code
10%
Compliance, Reporting & SOC Integration
Out-of-the-box frameworks (CIS, PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, FedRAMP, NIST) with custom policy authoring, audit-ready evidence and drift history, RBAC/SSO on the console, and clean export of correlated cloud risk into the SIEM/SOC rather than a siloed dashboard

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Quick Facts

goteleport.com Pricing page
CategoryCybersecurity
SubcategoryCloud Security & CSPM
DeploymentOn-premises, Cloud, Hybrid
PricingUsage-based

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