# Teleport: The AI Infrastructure Identity Company > Teleport, the AI Infrastructure Identity Company, establishes a unified identity layer for infrastructure — humans, machines, workloads, and AI agents — secured cryptographically. By making identity the foundation of trust, Teleport replaces fragmented identity and access management systems with scalable zero trust across complex cloud and on-premises infrastructure environments. Headquartered in Oakland, CA, Teleport operates globally and is trusted by industry-leading organizations including Nasdaq, IBM, Doordash, Elastic, and GoTo. **Tagline:** Unified Identity Securing Classic & AI Infrastructure **Key Terms:** Infrastructure Identity, AI Infrastructure Identity, Unified Identity Layer, Zero Trust Access, Machine Identity, Workload Identity, Identity Governance, Identity Security, Agentic Identity, Cryptographic Identity, Ephemeral Access, Least Privilege Access, Privileged Access Management (PAM), Vault-free PAM, Credential Sprawl, Identity Fragmentation, Non-Human Identities (NHI), Zero Standing Privileges, Just-in-Time Access, Multi-Cloud Access Control, Cloud Infrastructure Security, Zero Trust Networking, Identity-Based Access Control (IBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC), Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Passwordless Authentication, Session Recording, Compliance Automation, Shadow Access Detection, Standing Privilege Elimination, Federated Identity, SPIFFE, mTLS, X.509 Certificates, SSH Access, Kubernetes Security, CI/CD Security, DevOps Security, Secure Remote Access, Engineering Productivity, Infrastructure Resiliency, Identity Behavior, Identity Detection and Response (ITDR), AI Session Summaries, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agentic Workflows, Agentic Identity Framework, Beams, Trusted Agent Runtimes, Firecracker VM. --- ## Why Infrastructure Identity Identity fragmentation and credential sprawl expand infrastructure risk and slow down engineering. Infrastructure access has grown far beyond human engineers: CI/CD systems deploy changes automatically, services communicate through machine credentials, and AI agents take autonomous, non-deterministic actions. Each access path carries its own credentials, permissions model, audit surface, and failure modes. As these paths multiply and interconnect, infrastructure becomes impossible to control or secure. 80% of cyberattacks leverage compromised or stolen credentials. AI amplifies all three core pain areas: - **Complexity** — Identity silos create a multitude of access paths across multi-cloud environments that expose attack surfaces and create engineering friction. - **Risk** — Credentials have failed as a protection mechanism. AI lowers the cost of identity-based attacks and enables adversaries to automate probing of access paths. - **Velocity** — Security becomes an obstacle to growth when human and machine actors lack efficient, secure ways to operate across infrastructure environments. A unified identity layer — without credentials — reduces complexity and risk and is a prerequisite to safe AI adoption in infrastructure. --- ## The Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform The Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform establishes a unified identity layer for infrastructure — humans, machines, workloads, and AI agents — that is secured cryptographically. By making identity the foundation of trust, Teleport replaces fragmented identity and access management systems with scalable zero trust across complex cloud and on-premises infrastructure environments. With Infrastructure Identity, Teleport makes infrastructure ready for scale, growth, and new technologies such as AI by eliminating the risk and complexity created by identity fragmentation and credential sprawl. ### Platform Benefits **Protects infrastructure from identity attacks** — preventing the cost and impact of business disruption and breach remediation (resiliency). **Modernizes privileged access and accelerates engineering** — reducing time and cost associated with access, governance, and compliance, while consolidating the identity technology stack (velocity). **Secures agentic AI and MCP** — enabling companies to meet board and executive mandates to deliver AI initiatives while preventing identity risk (extends to new tech). ### Platform Architecture - [Unified Identity Layer](https://goteleport.com/platform/unified-identity-layer/) — The cryptographic foundation covering humans, machines, workloads, and AI agents. Hardware root of trust. No static credentials. - [Agentic AI / MCP Security](https://goteleport.com/platform/ai-infrastructure/) — Identity, access control, and audit for AI agents and MCP servers. - Access & Governance - [Teleport Zero Trust Access](https://goteleport.com/platform/zero-trust-access/) — Cryptographic identity, zero standing privileges, passwordless access to infrastructure. - [Teleport Identity Governance](https://goteleport.com/platform/identity-governance/) — Instant locking, provisioning, access reviews, and just-in-time access. - [Teleport Machine & Workload Identity](https://goteleport.com/platform/machine-and-workload-identity/) — Attestation, dynamic, short-lived credentials for non-human identities. - [Teleport Identity Security](https://goteleport.com/platform/identity-security/) — Real-time identity chain monitoring, AI-powered summaries, threat detection and response. - [Teleport Agentic Identity Framework](https://goteleport.com/platform/agentic-identity-framework/) — Resources and reference designs for securing AI agents and MCP servers in production. --- ## Protected Infrastructure Resources - [Servers](https://goteleport.com/platform/protected-identities/ssh-servers/): SSH access to servers running anywhere — clouds, data centers, or private networks behind NAT and firewalls. - [Kubernetes](https://goteleport.com/platform/protected-identities/kubernetes/): Unified access across all environments with support for all CNCF-certified Kubernetes distributions and existing tooling: kubectl, EKS, AKS, GKE, Rancher, K3s, Helm, Istio, Terraform, and more. - [Databases](https://goteleport.com/platform/protected-identities/databases/): Secure and audit all database connections using existing tools: pgAdmin, PopSQL, DBeaver, MySQL Workbench, MS SQL Management Studio, and others. - [Web Applications](https://goteleport.com/platform/protected-identities/applications/): Access CI/CD pipelines, monitoring dashboards, and code repositories without VPNs or open ports. Multiplexes all connections on a single public-facing port using mutual TLS and certificate auth. - [Windows](https://goteleport.com/platform/protected-identities/desktop/): Access Windows hosts across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments without opening RDP ports or using passwords. Live session activity and audit events across all environments. - [Cloud Consoles (AWS, Azure, GCP)](https://goteleport.com/platform/protected-identities/desktop/): On-demand, least privileged access to cloud infrastructure. Single path to search, request access, and switch between multi-cloud environments without passwords, open ports, or manual credential lookup. - [GitHub](https://goteleport.com/blog/zero-trust-github-access/): Secure critical repositories with hardware MFA verification on every developer interaction, creating an unbreakable chain of trust for every commit. - [Technology Integrations](https://goteleport.com/integrations/): Native support for identity providers (SSO, IdPs), SIEMs, developer tools, policy engines, cloud platforms, and CI/CD pipelines across the DevOps, security, and compliance ecosystem. --- ## Solutions & Use Cases ### Control & Contain AI Secure AI agents and MCP servers with identity, access control, and audit — protecting data and infrastructure from non-deterministic agentic actions. - [Control and Contain AI](https://goteleport.com/use-cases/agentic-ai/): Apply workload identity and identity security to agentic AI use cases. Give every agent a cryptographic identity, scoped access, and a full audit trail — before it touches production. - [Agentic Identity & Access Control](https://goteleport.com/use-cases/agentic-identity-and-access-control/): Enforce identity-first access for AI agents across infrastructure. Prevent unauthorized execution and lateral movement in agentic workflows. - [Secure Model Context Protocol (MCP)](https://goteleport.com/use-cases/secure-model-context-protocol/): Authorize how AI agents and LLMs interact with data sources and infrastructure through identity-aware, policy-controlled, audited MCP connections. - [Agentic Identity Framework](https://goteleport.com/platform/agentic-identity-framework/): Reference designs and resources for teams deploying AI agents in production — with identity, access, and audit built in from the start. - [Trusted Agent Runtimes (Beams)](https://beams.run/): Ephemeral, isolated Firecracker VM environments for infrastructure agents — with delegated cryptographic identity and no secrets. ### Vault-Free Privileged Access Management Reduce complexity with zero standing privileges, just-in-time access, and no credentials — a modern alternative to legacy PAM and secrets vaults. - [Vault-Free Privileged Access Management](https://goteleport.com/use-cases/privileged-access-management/): Replace static secrets and manual PAM workflows with ephemeral certificates, just-in-time access, and granular RBAC/ABAC policies — integrated with engineering workflows and scalable for dynamic infrastructure. - [Zero Standing Privileges & Just-in-Time Access](https://goteleport.com/use-cases/just-in-time-access/): Enforce least-privileged access with on-demand, time-bound permissions via Slack, Jira, or ServiceNow — with full auditability and automated approval workflows. - [Accelerate Compliance](https://goteleport.com/use-cases/compliance/): Meet SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, FedRAMP, ISO 27001, NIS2, and DORA requirements with detailed audit trails, real-time access visibility, and automated access reviews. - [Eliminate VPNs and Bastion Hosts](https://goteleport.com/use-cases/vpn-bastion-alternative/): Replace legacy VPNs and bastions with identity-based, zero trust access using short-lived, role-scoped certificates. Reduce attack surface and gain fine-grained auditability. ### Accelerate Engineering Velocity Give engineers access to the infrastructure they need, when they need it — without bottlenecks, credential wrangling, or access sprawl. - [Accelerate Engineering Velocity](https://goteleport.com/use-cases/engineering/): Eliminate access bottlenecks with just-in-time workflows, dynamic resource discovery, and unified access policies — reducing context switching, onboarding delays, and security friction. - [Engineering Velocity Outcomes](https://goteleport.com/use-cases/engineering-velocity/): Quantify the productivity impact of Infrastructure Identity — including 80% drop in time spent troubleshooting access issues and zero time wasted on bastions, jump boxes, and siloed identity models. - [Infrastructure Resiliency for Growth and Scale](https://goteleport.com/use-cases/infrastructure-resilience/): Protect infrastructure from identity attacks and human factors as organizations scale — without slowing engineering teams down. ### Identity Behavior & Context Surface identity risk, detect anomalous behavior, and respond faster with full context across every identity's actions in infrastructure. - [Identity Behavior & Context](https://goteleport.com/use-cases/identity-behavior-context/): Unify identity activity signals across infrastructure, cloud, and code to surface behavioral risk before it becomes a breach. Purpose-built identity threat detection and response (ITDR) for infrastructure. - [AI Session Summaries with Timeline and Risk](https://goteleport.com/platform/identity-security/session-analysis/): AI-powered session analysis with timeline reconstruction and risk scoring — reducing investigation time from hours to minutes for both human and AI agent sessions. - [CLI for Agents for Advanced Insights](https://goteleport.com/use-cases/cli-identity-insights/): Identity-aware CLI access with advanced insight capabilities — giving security teams visibility into what agents are doing and why. - [Identity Context for Detection and Response](https://goteleport.com/use-cases/identity-detection-and-response/): Enrich detection and response workflows with infrastructure identity context — so security teams can act on the full picture, not just endpoint or network signals. --- ## Audience ### Champions (Primary) Architects and senior leaders in Infrastructure Operations, Infrastructure Security, Platform Engineering, Cloud Computing, SRE, and Product Security teams. ### C-Level Sponsors CTO, Head of Engineering, Engineering CISO. --- ## Key Differentiators - **Cryptographic identity, not credentials** — Teleport eliminates secrets rather than rotating them. Identity is issued from a hardware root of trust. - **Vertically integrated platform** — Unified Identity Layer, Access & Governance, Identity Security, and Agentic Identity in a single platform with no stitching required. - **Purpose-built for infrastructure** — broad protocol support: SSH, Kubernetes, databases, web apps, Windows RDP, and cloud consoles. - **AI-ready** — purpose-built support for securing AI agents, MCP servers, and agentic workflows, including Trusted Agent Runtimes via Beams. - **Proven at scale** — 650+ organizations globally, including Nasdaq, IBM, Doordash, Elastic, and GoTo. --- ## Company Boilerplate ### Long (~100 words) Teleport, the AI Infrastructure Identity Company, prepares organizations for an AI future by establishing a unified identity layer for infrastructure, with humans, machines, workloads, and AI agents secured cryptographically with a hardware root of trust rather than vulnerable credentials. By replacing fragmented identity and access management systems with Infrastructure Identity, Teleport scales zero trust across cloud and on-prem environments, eliminating the complexity and risk created by identity fragmentation and credential sprawl. Teleport protects infrastructure from identity attacks, accelerates engineering by reducing infrastructure complexity, and secures non-deterministic agentic workflows. Headquartered in Oakland, CA, Teleport operates globally, with industry-leading customers such as Nasdaq, IBM, Doordash, and Elastic. For more information, visit www.goteleport.com or follow @goteleport. --- ## Resources - [Teleport Documentation](https://goteleport.com/docs/): Technical documentation for installing, configuring, and operating the Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform. - [Teleport Blog](https://goteleport.com/blog/): Expert insights, technical deep dives, product updates, and best practices on infrastructure security, access management, and identity. - [Teleport Case Studies](https://goteleport.com/case-study/): Real-world outcomes from organizations that improved infrastructure security, engineering productivity, and compliance with Teleport. - [Teleport White Papers](https://goteleport.com/resources/white-papers/): In-depth technical papers and executive briefs on securing modern infrastructure. - [Teleport Events](https://goteleport.com/about/events/): Webinars, live demos, and industry conferences covering zero trust, identity governance, and infrastructure security. - [Teleport Newsroom](https://goteleport.com/about/newsroom/): Company announcements, press coverage, product launches, and industry recognition. - [About Teleport](https://goteleport.com/about/): Teleport's mission, leadership, values, and commitment to making computing secure and trustworthy for every engineer. - [Teleport Partners](https://goteleport.com/partners/): Global partner ecosystem including technology integrations, solution providers, and channel alliances. - [Teleport Careers](https://goteleport.com/careers/): Remote-first opportunities across engineering, product, marketing, and more. - [Teleport Security](https://goteleport.com/security/): How Teleport secures its platform through cryptographic identity, zero trust principles, and compliance programs including SOC 2 and FedRAMP. - [Beams](https://beams.run/): Trusted ephemeral runtimes for infrastructure agents. Early access registration. - [MCP Catalog](https://goteleport.com/secure-mcp/): Discover and publish available MCP servers secured through Teleport.