PRIVILEGED ACCESS MANAGEMENT (PAM)
Unified Identity and Access
for Humans, Machines & AI
Eliminate vulnerable access patterns from your cloud-native, on-premises, and AI infrastructure. Unify human, machine, and AI identities with strong identity to accelerate engineering work and improve resiliency against identity-based attacks.
TRUSTED BY GLOBAL LEADERS
Break free from vaults and secrets.
Build faster — with greater resiliency.
Teleport unifies trusted identities based on real-world physical attributes, issuing ephemeral privileges based on task and context. Shed the operational burden of secrets and vaults, simplify engineering work, and become immune to common attack vectors.
LEGACY PAM
Endless credential rotation, vaulting, and checkout responsibilities
LEGACY PAM
VPNs, bastions, and manual approvals slow engineers down
LEGACY PAM
Identity and infrastructure silos result in policy drift and inconsistent enforcement
LEGACY PAM
Manual compliance and audit tasks steal time from your engineering MVPs
LEGACY PAM
Isolated identities obscure accountability and forensics
TELEPORT VAULT-FREE PAM
0 credentials
to manage or vaults to maintain
TELEPORT VAULT-FREE PAM
10x faster provisioning
with Just-in-Time (JIT) access
TELEPORT VAULT-FREE PAM
0 policy violations
via unified identity control and continuous authorization
TELEPORT VAULT-FREE PAM
80% less
audit work with session logs tied directly to verified identity
TELEPORT VAULT-FREE PAM
98% faster
investigations with real-time, cross-system traceability
PAM features that reduce infrastructure complexity
Unblock and destress engineers
Eliminate the need for different access paths, passwords, shared secrets, vaults, or VPNs. Break access silos with a unified inventory of all infrastructure resources.
Grant ephemeral privileges and just-in-time (JIT) access using real-time context like role, device, and/or task through the tools your developers trust: CLI, Slack, JIRA, CI/CD, and more.
Reduce operational and automation overhead
Streamline the management of your infrastructure with centralized access control across database, server, application, Kubernetes, MCP, RDP, cloud, and GitHub environments.
Remove the need for VPNs and bastion hosts. Deploy automation and new technologies without secrets rotation hurdles.
Adopt new technologies
Embrace AI, automation, and infrastructure expansion without policy drift or silos.
Gain unified control over every identity — human, machine, and AI — for consistent authorization, traceability, and Zero Trust as identities and infrastructure expands.
Simplify compliance
Unlock continuous compliance readiness and full identity visibility to simplify audit prep, accelerate incident forensics, and satisfy controls for SOC 2, PCI, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, and more.
Record every privileged session initiated by humans, services, or AI agents for a tamper-proof, searchable log of each command, identity, and action with full context across systems.
Discover how GoTo, Indonesia’s largest digital platform, uses Teleport to modernize privileged access for faster engineering and reduced complexity across multi-cloud environments.
Unify identity across infrastructure, cloud, code, and AI
Teleport vs. legacy PAM
Teleport replaces the complexity of vaults and shared secrets with a unified platform that engineers love and security teams trust.
Features | Legacy PAM Software |  |
|---|---|---|
Credential Handling & Vaulting Manual rotation, storage, and checkout processes | ||
Secretless Authentication Identity-based access without shared secrets | ||
Unified Human, Machine & AI Identity One identity layer for consistent control | ||
Just-in-Time (JIT) Access Everywhere Cloud, Kubernetes, databases, servers, and more | ||
Direct Resource Access No proxies, vaults, or middle layers | ||
Identity-Aware Session Visibility All sessions and activity are tied to real identity | ||
AI Session Insights Summaries and analysis of session logs | ||
Simple Deployment Single binary, cloud-native, agentless setup | ||
Scalable to Everywhere Cloud-native, on-prem, Kubernetes; even air-gapped | ||
Future-Ready for AI Ready to secure agentic and autonomous systems |
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Accelerate compliance
Collect events generated by humans, machines, and AI identities in one place to breeze through audits.
Just-in-time (JIT) access
Use task-based, short-lived privileges to reduce operational complexity and harden security.
Replace legacy VPNs and bastions
Secure your identity perimeter to eliminate the risk, operational complexity, and audit confusion of VPNs and bastions.
Ready to simplify privileged access?
Accelerate engineers. Eliminate secrets. Improve resilience.
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GoTo Secures & Simplifies Cloud Access with Teleport
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Teleport an open-source PAM solution?
Teleport is open-source with transparent, community-accessible components while offering enterprise features for advanced identity security needs.
Is Teleport a free PAM solution?
Teleport includes a free and open-source edition with a paid tier for enterprise requirements, which is available as a free trial.
Is Teleport a Zero Trust PAM solution?
Yes. Teleport aligns with Zero Trust principles by enforcing strong identity verification, continuous authorization, and direct, least-privilege access to resources.
Does Teleport PAM support machines and AI agents?
Yes. Teleport natively supports human users, machine identities, and AI agents through unified, identity-based authentication and authorization.
Does Teleport replace my existing PAM tool?
Teleport can fully replace traditional PAM systems or run alongside them to modernize access workflows and strengthen identity controls without disruption.
Can I adopt Teleport if I have existing technical debt?
Yes. Teleport is designed to layer cleanly into complex environments, allowing gradual adoption even in infrastructures with significant legacy systems or technical debt.