The 2026 Infrastructure Identity Survey: State of AI Adoption
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Infrastructure Identity for Agentic AI

Secure, Govern, and Operate AI at Scale

How Teleport Helps Your Customers Adopt Agentic AI Securely

Teleport enables organizations to deploy agentic AI in production by establishing a strong, unified identity layer where humans, machines, software, and AI agents are treated as first-class identities under a single model. This allows engineering teams to adopt agentic AI at scale and across their most critical infrastructure.

 

The Agentic AI Identity Crisis

AI is no longer just writing code, agents are deploying it, operating infrastructure, and remediating incidents in production. Organizations are granting autonomous agents real access to critical systems, often using identity solutions designed for humans.

What's Changing

Why This Creates Risk

What Customers Need

Systemic Risk

Once agent access patterns spread, retrofitting identity, policy, and auditability becomes expensive and disruptive.

A unified identity layer with strong identity implementation.

Exploding Surface Area

Agents introduce a new class of "actors" that don't fit neatly into human IAM or traditional IAM/PAM practices.

Strong identity cryptographically verifiable, backed by trusted hardware.

Demo → Production

Long-running agents now execute actions in production environments.

Identity Support for developer tooling for production operations.

Decentralized Control

MCP servers and agent workflows appear across teams without centralized governance.

Least-privileged, policy-governed access to tools, data, and infrastructure.

The Teleport Solution

Teleport secures agentic AI in production infrastructure

  • Establishes Strong Identities for every actor (humans, machines, AI agents): These identities are backed by a physical root of trust (HSM/TPM) and designed for safe delegation across services and automation
  • Unify identities: All identities are enrolled in Teleport, creating a unified identity layer for users, machines, devices, agents, and protected resources.
  • Runtime Authorization: Instead of "standing access" where an agent is always logged in, Teleport enforces access decisions at runtime. Agents are issued short-lived privileges only when they need to act, and access expires automatically when the task is done.
  • Visibility & Audit: Every infrastructure action—whether by a human or an autonomous agent—is tied to a specific identity. This provides complete audit and traceability of exactly who took an action, even when agents are operating at machine speed.
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1. Deploy agents safely across infrastructure
 

Problem:

Agents run migrations, remediation, and automation across infrastructure. Teams are unable to identify, scope, and control agent access leading to overprivileged and audit pain.

Teleport Solution:

Give each agent a strong identity, from ephemeral to long-standing workloads. Enforce least-privileged access to services, databases, and infrastructure. Maintain audit trails for agent actions

 

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2. Govern MCP-based access
 

Problem:

As teams adopt MCP to connect agents to internal tools, access becomes fragmented and inconsistent. MCP servers are deployed ad hoc, authorization varies by tool, and teams lack clear visibility into which agents can call which capabilities.

Teleport Solution:

Secure agent calls to tools via MCP proxy with authorization and visibility. Discover and track MCP servers to reduce drift and shadow deployments. Standardize how teams publish and consume MCP endpoints

 

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3. Detect shadow agents and misbehavior
 

Problem:

Agents are embedded in CI/CD pipelines and internal workflows without centralized visibility or control. These shadow agents can violate policy, go undetected when compromised, and increase risk over time

Teleport Solution:

Discover unmanaged agents and MCP servers. Detect compromised or policy-violating agents. Improve incident response with centralized visibility

 

Proof Points

Proven in Demanding Environments

Teleport is the default solution in environments operating at extreme scale and complexity, where legacy access models fail first.

Built for Systems That Change Constantly

Teleport was designed for ephemeral infrastructure, frequent change, and automation at scale—the same characteristics required for agentic AI.

Identity‑First Model by Design

Teleport does not rely on stored secrets, shared credentials, or standing access. Its identity‑first model has been battle‑tested across users, machines, and automation.

Adopted Where Legacy Models Break

Teleport is most often adopted when traditional PAM and IAM tools can no longer keep up. Agentic AI creates the same breaking points for a broader market.

Join the Teleport Partner Program

The Teleport Partner Program empowers technology and consulting partners to deliver secure infrastructure identity solutions to their customers. As enterprises accelerate their adoption of agentic AI, they need trusted advisors who can help them implement identity-first security architectures. Our partner program provides the technical enablement, co-marketing opportunities, and revenue sharing models you need to build a successful practice around Infrastructure Identity.