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The Best CyberArk Alternative for Infrastructure Access
Teleport is the best CyberArk alternative because it is purpose-built to provide least privileged access for hybrid- and multi-cloud modern infrastructures.
Teleport Access Platform vs CyberArk PAM: Key Differences
Learn why organizations trust Teleport to provide modern access for today's infrastructure needs
Approach to Identity
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.
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.
Approach to Access
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.
Access
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.
Approach to Compliance
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.
Compliance
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.
Teleport's Key Features
Dual Authorisation
Workflows that requires the approval of multiple team members to perform some critical actions.
Kernel-level logging
By using eBPF, Teleport enhanced session recording doesn’t just record what happens in the terminal, which can be obfuscated, but what happens down the kernel level.
Per-session MFA
Teleport supports requiring additional multi-factor authentication checks when starting a new session to protect users against compromises of their on-disk Teleport certificates. One of many extra options as part of Teleport role-based access control system, along with Device Trust and IP Pinning.
Session Moderation
Requires one or more other users to be present in a session. Depending on the requirements, these users can observe the session in real-time, participate in the session and terminate the session at will.
Session Locking
System administrators can disable a compromised user or node — or prevent access during cluster maintenance — by placing a lock on a session, user or host identity using Teleport’s API.
Strict session recordings
Administrators can optionally elect to terminate ssh sessions if there is a problem with a recording, such as a full disk error.
Common Features
Device verification
Teleport Device Trust requires that only registered devices can be used to access infrastructure resources.
SSO Support
Teleport offers a range of support for SAML and OIDC SSO Providers. Including Okta, GitHub, Microsoft Azure AD and Google Workspace.
Full Identity-provider
Teleport can be used as a complete replacement for existing identity management tools. As an SSO SAML identity provider, Teleport can be used by teams as an identity provider to access internal and Saas apps.
Conclusion
Teleport is purpose-built for modern compute infrastructure that is growing exponentially in complexity and scale. Teleport supports on-demand, least privileged access on a foundation of cryptographic identity and zero trust, with built-in identity security and policy governance. Teleport supports more than 170 different types of infrastructure technologies, and interfaces with the preferred tooling and workflows of DevOps engineers, delivering a win/win for infrastructure security and infrastructure operations teams.
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