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Migrating from Cyral? Here’s What to Expect with Teleport

A modern approach to securing infrastructure and data access—without tradeoffs.

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Why Teams Choose Teleport

Teleport offers a seamless path forward, built for platform and security teams who want to modernize access controls across infrastructure, data, and applications—without vendor lock-in, sidecar complexity, or inconsistent visibility.

Unified Access for All Infrastructure

Teleport replaces fragmented tools with a single identity-first platform for databases, Kubernetes, SSH, internal web apps, and more.

Ephemeral, Certificate-Based Access

No more static credentials or lingering tokens. Every session is governed by short-lived, cryptographically-signed certificates.

Developer-Native Workflow Support

Works natively with your team’s tools—kubectl, psql, mysql, mongo, and more. No wrappers or proxies required.

Built-In Audit and Compliance

Teleport provides full-session recordings, real-time event logging, and tamper-proof audit trails across all protocols.

Open Source, Transparent, and Flexible

Use Teleport Cloud or deploy it yourself. With open documentation and open standards, you stay in control.

Audit and recorded sessions in Teleport give us an understanding of exactly what was happening at any given moment. This is incredibly critical from a security and compliance perspective.

Mario Loria, Senior Site Reliability Engineer II, Carta

No Sidecars. No Wrappers. No Workarounds.

Where some platforms rely on CLI wrappers, long-lived tokens, or manual cleanup of shared credentials, Teleport delivers a true zero trust approach: secure by default, with no compromises on usability or auditability.

Capabilities	Teleport
Access control for databases (Postgres, MySQL, etc.)
Query-level visibility & auditing	Via session logs + DB protocol-level inspection
Access policies tied to user and service identity
Ephemeral, just-in-time access
Use Cases Beyond Data Access		Use Cases Beyond Data Access
Support for Native CLI Tools
Access control for Kubernetes clusters	First-class support
Access control for SSH	Certs+session recording
Access control for internal web apps
Infrastructure-wide audit trail	Unified logs for DBs, SSH, K8s, apps
Identity & Authentication		Identity & Authentication
Authentication method	Ephemeral certificates via unified identity (SSO, SCIM, service accounts)
Unified identity across protocols
Support for non-human identities (CI/CD, AI agents)
Access & Encryption		Access & Encryption
Session-level encryption	Mutual TLS with short-lived certs
Direct-to-resource access (no middlebox)	Agent-based or proxy with mutual TLS
No shared credentials / key rotation required	Certificates only
Authorization & Policy Enforcement		Authorization & Policy Enforcement
Secretless authentication to all resources
Attribute-based access control (ABAC)	Via RBAC + labels + device trust
Ephemeral authorization grants	Auto-expiring certs
Session Recording & Governance		Session Recording & Governance
Full session recording (replayable)	SSH, DBs, K8s, web
Tamper-proof audit logs	Cluster-signed + optional cloud storage
Policy governance with code (GitOps, automation)	YAML, Terraform, API