Teleport's Best Practices for Secure Infrastructure Access

As compute resources change dynamically and communicate via public networks, the current implementation of access controls and policy enforcement is becoming an increasingly inexact science. This whitepaper takes a deep look at these trends, the challenges posed by relying on a purely networking-based security policy, and how to reframe this problem in a realistic light. Distilled into key principles used by engineers from small startups to Fortune 5 companies, these four practices provide a strong framework in reconsidering how companies authenticate and authorize users access to critical infrastructure.