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Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform vs CyberArk PAM: Key Differences
Learn why organizations trust Teleport to provide modern access for today's infrastructure needs.
Approach to Identity
Legacy PAM solutions haven't kept pace with the rapid changes in application development. Engineers and security teams grapple with the complexity and vulnerabilities of access silos, shared credentials, long-standing privileges, and insecure protocols. Static credentials are prime targets for threat actors, making them a significant security risk.
In contrast, phishing-resistant, cryptographic identities are not only far more secure but also easier to manage, offering a robust solution to these challenges.
Cryptographic Identity
Teleport generates cryptographic identity for all users, devices, machines, and application resources (like databases), with secretless authentication. It embeds a certificate authority with KMS and HSM as a foundational part of the product architecture.
Credentials
CyberArk relies on static passwords and secrets. These shared credentials are persistent, even if access to them is temporary, making them a valuable target for cybercriminals.
Approach to Access
Developers often need quick and frequent access to various systems and resources during development and testing. Legacy check-in/check-out approaches introduce delays and reduce productivity.
In contrast, Developers only need to authenticate to Teleport to access the infrastructure resources that they are authorized for.
Short-lived Certificates and Automated Workflows
Teleport dynamically refreshes all resources within a unified dashboard, accessed with biometric authentication, eliminating the need to remember disparate access paths and credentials.
Access requests can be readily made and authorized through workflow automation. And, engineering managers can onboard and off board users with ease, protecting path to productivity and streamlining revocation.
Manual Elevation Processes
CyberArk enables the elevation of privileged access through manual access request workflows. Elevated privileges are governed by credentials, and access can be manually approved and revoked.
Approach to Compliance
Legacy solutions impose cumbersome manual access processes and credential handling workflows that disrupt developer activity. This can lead to "workarounds" that compromise security.
In contrast, Teleport integrates with developer workflows and DevOps tools eliminating the need for separate access paths and credential management.
Improves Engineering Productivity
Teleport integrates seamlessly with developer workflows and DevOps tools and eliminates the need to monitor different access paths and credentials, improving productivity and ensuring the adoption of security best practices.
This streamlines your compliance needs and audit burden by providing recorded logs of every infrastructure event, with the ability to download audit records to your preferred SIEM for further analytics.
Impedes Access and Creates Friction
With CyberArk, manual access request processes and credential handling interfere with preferred developer workflows. As a result, engineers “find ways to work around” CyberArk which harms the overall security posture of the organization and slows down engineering time-to-market.
Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform
Zero Trust Access
On-demand, least-privileged access built on a foundation of cryptographic identity and enforced through zero trust policies
Machine & Workload Identity
Improve infrastructure resiliency by securing machine and workload access without static credentials
Identity Governance
Harden your infrastructure with policy-driven access controls for human and machine identities, just-in-time permissions, and session-level audit
Identity Security
Identify & mitigate risk by monitoring critical infrastructure access in order to protect your most sensitive assets
Works with everything you have
AWS
GCP
Azure
Prometheus
Entra
Puppet
Okta
Buildkite
Windows
Active Directory
Helm
Chef
Ansible
Travis CL
OneLogin
Backstage
...and many more
