Teleport Unveils Machine & Workload Identity Solution to Secure Modern Infrastructure

Eliminates Static Credentials, Strengthens Zero Trust Security, and Simplifies Compliance for Workload Interactions

OAKLAND, CA, February 25, 2025 – Teleport, the Infrastructure Identity Company, today announced the introduction of Teleport Machine & Workload Identity, a breakthrough solution that provides seamless authentication, authorization, and access control for non-human identities across modern infrastructure environments. With this release, Teleport extends its unified identity approach beyond human users to secure machines, workloads, and microservices interactions—eliminating static credentials, enforcing zero trust principles, and simplifying compliance for enterprises.

Addressing the Growing Challenge of Machine & Workload Identity Management

As organizations increasingly adopt multi-cloud, hybrid, and containerized environments, the number of machine identities—such as service accounts, API credentials, and application identities—now surpasses human users. Traditional security models relying on static credentials are not suited to meet the scale, complexity, and security demands of modern infrastructure.

“With AI-driven automation, microservices, and cloud-native applications growing rapidly, workload identities have become the largest and most unprotected attack surface,” said Ev Kontsevoy, CEO and co-founder at Teleport. “Teleport Machine & Workload Identity eliminates this risk by ensuring that every machine and workload is trusted, authorized, and audited—without the use of long-lived credentials.”

Key Capabilities of Teleport Machine & Workload Identity

Teleport Machine & Workload Identity is designed to help organizations improve infrastructure resiliency and security with the following core capabilities:

• Service Discovery – Inventories machine and workload identities across diverse environments.
• Secretless Authentication – Replaces API keys and long-term secrets with short-lived X.509 certificates, eliminating the risks of overprivileged, anonymous accounts.
• Ephemeral Authorization – Supports fine-grained Attribute-Based and Role-Based Access Control (ABAC/RBAC) for workload interactions, ensuring the right workloads access only what they need.
• Auditability & Compliance – Provides detailed logging and exportable audit trails for compliance frameworks such as HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2, and FedRAMP.
• Seamless Integration – Works with open-source policy agents, developer APIs, JWT and SPIFFE standards, and bootstrapping trust, enabling interoperability across infrastructure.

Driving Zero Trust Security and Compliance

Teleport Machine & Workload Identity plays a critical role in enforcing zero trust security models by verifying every entity—human or machine—before granting access. It helps organizations secure inter-service communication, eliminate static credentials in CI/CD pipelines, and achieve compliance mandates with embedded auditability features.

Companies operating in regulated industries, as well as those managing large-scale distributed infrastructure across clouds and datacenters, can now deploy machine and workload identity management without adding operational overhead. Teleport Machine & Workload Identity can be paired with a multi-region high availability option to scale up to 140,000 connected resources, high availability across nine availability zones, and a 99.99% SLA.

Availability

Teleport Machine & Workload Identity is available now as part of the Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform. To learn more, visit goteleport.com.
 

About Teleport

Teleport is the Infrastructure Identity Company, modernizing identity, access, and policy for infrastructure, improving engineering velocity and infrastructure resiliency against human factors and compromise. The Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform implements trusted computing at scale, with unified cryptographic identities for humans, machines and workloads, endpoints, infrastructure assets, and AI agents. Our identity-everywhere approach vertically integrates access management, zero trust networking, identity governance, and identity security into a single platform, eliminating overhead and operational silos. Headquartered in Oakland, CA, Teleport operates globally, with industry-leading customers such as Nasdaq, Moody’s, Adobe, and Elastic. For more information, visit www.goteleport.com or follow @goteleport.