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Unified Identity
for Your Payment Infrastructure
Audits get harder. Regulations multiply. AI agents need governing. Teleport's unified identity layer secures every engineer, machine, workload, and AI agent — so your team stays ahead of all of it.
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THE PROBLEM
Fragmented identity and static credentials leave you exposed
For banks, card networks, and payment processors, every engineer action touches a regulated environment — and auditors expect a complete, structured record of activity. Fragmented logs from bastion hosts, SIEM tools, and identity providers are rarely clean enough at audit time. Shared SSH keys, hardcoded tokens, and static database credentials that carry admin access and never expire create gaps that PCI DSS, SOC 2, GDPR, and DORA auditors specifically flag. The status quo produces a growing attack surface, credential sprawl, and standing privileges that are nearly impossible to govern.
Built for regulated infrastructure that can't go offline
When you're operating payment infrastructure across core banking systems, Kubernetes clusters, and distributed databases spanning multiple regions and regulatory jurisdictions, an over-privileged service account or a hard-coded credential can end up in a regulator's audit finding before your team finds it first. Teleport eliminates standing privilege, and credentials that can be shared, lost, hardcoded, or stolen.
Secretless authentication
Every engineer, service, workload, and AI agent authenticates without passwords, SSH keys, or API tokens — so there are no static credentials in your payment infrastructure to steal, share, or rotate.
JIT access that actually expires
Engineers request elevated access to production systems and it expires automatically when the task closes — eliminating standing access to cardholder data environments and the manual revocation burden that comes with it.
Full visibility, no anonymous actors
Every session is attributed to a cryptographic identity, eliminating anonymous actors across your payment infrastructure — giving you one complete record for audit preparation, compliance evidence, and forensic investigation.
For digital payments and banking infrastructure
CARD NETWORKS & PROCESSORS
Payment processors and card networks
Global engineering teams running card authorization infrastructure across multiple regions — where 99.999% availability, short-lived access to cardholder data, and a full record of every privileged session are requirements, not goals.
CORE BANKING & FINTECH
Banks, neobanks, and lending platforms
Platform and infrastructure teams managing on-premises core banking systems alongside cloud-native services on Kubernetes — where granular access beyond the admin/user binary is a PCI DSS and SOC 2 requirement, not a feature request.
DIGITAL WALLETS & EXCHANGES
Wallets, exchanges, and global transfers
Teams running distributed databases, Kubernetes clusters, and AI agents across dozens of regions — where shared credentials for every service account, bot, and agent are nearly impossible to discover or govern.
Easing audit, improving security, and accelerating engineers
INDUSTRY CHALLENGES
Static credentials with no expiry or owner
Production payment databases, core banking hosts, and service accounts authenticate with shared passwords and hardcoded tokens distributed across environment variables and config files. These credentials never expire, and often have unnecessarily high levels of privilege. A single compromised credential provides standing access — with no record of which engineer or service used it.
TELEPORT SOLUTION
SHORT-LIVED, TASK-BASED PRIVILEGESShort-lived certificates that expire automatically
Engineers and vendors get exactly the privileges the role requires, for the duration of the task. When someone leaves or a vendor relationship ends, there's nothing to revoke because nothing persists. Teleport eliminates the credential sprawl and standing privileges that put payment infrastructure at risk.
Manual approval workflows
Access to production card systems during incidents is manual and slow — often through ad-hoc email approvals or break-glass panic. Access is often left open after the incident closes — leaving standing privileges across cardholder data environments long after the task is complete.
Audit-ready approval workflows
Engineers request access through existing ITSM or collaboration tools — such as Slack or ServiceNow — with automated approvals when appropriate, and human approval in seconds, not hours. Every request, approval, and session is logged in one place, giving auditors a complete record from request to expiry without a manual evidence collection process.
PCI DSS Requirement 10: evidence of every access event, everywhere
PCI DSS Requirement 10 mandates a complete, attributable audit trail of all access to the cardholder data environment. Compliance teams piece together logs from Okta, CloudTrail, bastion hosts, and SIEM tools — and still can't answer who accessed what. Audit prep takes weeks, evidence is incomplete, and gaps are exactly what QSAs flag.
One audit trail across infrastructure
Teleport records every session, with command-level logging tied to a cryptographically verifiable identity. Auditors get a direct answer to "who accessed the cardholder data environment and what did they do" without a days-long evidence collection process. Teleport unifies the identity chain from IdP through cloud, code, and infrastructure access into one investigation view. AI-generated timelines reconstruct incidents in minutes — no stitching evidence from siloed logs.
AI agents and service accounts authenticating with untrackable API keys
Engineers and application teams deploy AI agents and internal automation that connect to applications inside and outside the organization — authenticating with shared API keys or hardcoded credentials embedded in YAML and container images. Rotating them is disruptive. Discovering them is nearly impossible. Compromise is invisible until a transaction anomaly surfaces it.
Cryptographic identity for every machine, workload, and AI agent
When an AI agent or pipeline touches a payment database, every access request is tied to a cryptographic identity — with a full audit trail of exactly who accessed what, when, and why. Every service, bot, and MCP server is treated as a first-class identity: each is distinct, traceable, and governed by a short-lived certificate limited to the task at hand, so your teams can provide detailed audit records across your infrastructure.
Your IdP, cloud IAM, and PAM don't cover Kubernetes, databases, or CI/CD
Identity providers authenticate humans at the front door. Cloud IAM governs cloud resources. Legacy PAM vaults passwords for a narrow set of Windows and Linux hosts. The result is fragmented coverage — with the Kubernetes clusters, cloud-native databases, and CI/CD pipelines where payment processing actually happens left outside any unified access or audit policy.
Closes the gap your IdP and PAM leave open
Teleport integrates with your existing identity providers — Okta, Entra ID, AWS IAM, and others — covering the Kubernetes clusters, databases, and CI/CD pipelines they were never built to reach. Nothing in your payment infrastructure operates anonymously — every human, machine, workload, and AI agent has a cryptographic identity your teams can govern.
How Teleport secures payment infrastructure at scale
When an engineer needs access to a production payment database, Teleport authenticates them via their identity provider, issues a short-lived X.509 certificate limited to the minimum required role, and logs the full session at the command level. The certificate expires automatically when the task is complete. No credentials are stored, rotated, or shared — and every action is traceable to a cryptographic identity. Teams report up to 80% less time spent on access troubleshooting and audit preparation.
Unified access everywhere
Unify access across card processing hosts, core banking systems, Kubernetes clusters, databases, and cloud consoles — through a single proxy with one audit trail.
Unified access everywhere
Unify access across card processing hosts, core banking systems, Kubernetes clusters, databases, and cloud consoles — through a single proxy with one audit trail.
Zero standing privileges
Just-in-time access with auto-expiring privileges. Approvals via existing ITSM or collaboration tools. No engineer retains access to cardholder data environments after the task window closes.
Zero standing privileges
Just-in-time access with auto-expiring privileges. Approvals via existing ITSM or collaboration tools. No engineer retains access to cardholder data environments after the task window closes.
Cryptographic identity
Short-lived certificates for engineers, machines, and AI agents. No passwords, SSH keys, or API tokens that can leak, be shared, or be phished — for any identity type.
Cryptographic identity
Short-lived certificates for engineers, machines, and AI agents. No passwords, SSH keys, or API tokens that can leak, be shared, or be phished — for any identity type.
Complete audit trail
Session recording with AI-generated summaries. Every action, every resource, every identity — stored for compliance evidence, PCI DSS audit preparation, and forensic investigation.
Complete audit trail
Session recording with AI-generated summaries. Every action, every resource, every identity — stored for compliance evidence, PCI DSS audit preparation, and forensic investigation.
Regulatory requirements
Simplify compliance with PCI DSS, SOC 2, GDPR, and DORA
PCI DSS · SOC 2
Structured audit logs for every session
Every session is cryptographically attributed to a human or machine identity. Structured audit logs across SSH, Kubernetes, databases, and cloud consoles reduce audit prep time by up to 80% and eliminate the need to stitch together evidence from separate tools.
ISO 27001 · INTERNAL CONTROLS
Least privileged access, always current
No engineer, service, or agent carries any level of privilege to any resource outside of a task-based, time-limited session. Every session is independently authenticated, authorized based on task, and automatically expired when completed. There are no more standing privileges, accumulated over years of incidents, role changes, and vendor relationships.
GDPR · DORA · DATA RESIDENCY
Session data stays in your environment
For institutions operating under GDPR, DORA, and regional data residency requirements, Teleport supports fully self-hosted deployment inside your own VPC or data center — including air-gapped environments — with no SaaS dependency.
Teleport allows us to comply with the regulatory hurdles that come with running an international stock exchange. The use of bastion hosts, integration with our identity service and auditing capabilities give us a compliant way to access our internal infrastructure.
Brendan Germain
Systems Reliability Engineer
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DOCS, GUIDES & DEEP DIVES
Common questions about infrastructure identity for payment firms
Does Teleport secure access to payment infrastructure?
Yes. Teleport secures access to payment infrastructure with cryptographic identity and just-in-time privileges for every engineer, machine, workload, and AI agent. Engineers connect to SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, databases, and cloud consoles through one access path — with a unified view of how identities move across infrastructure, cloud, and code.
How does Teleport help banks and payment processors meet PCI DSS, SOC 2, GDPR, and DORA?
Teleport supports PCI DSS 4.0 controls across access management, audit logging, data protection, and change controls — including Requirements 7 (least privileged access), 8 (authentication), 10 (audit logging and monitoring), and 4 (cryptographic data protection). It also supports SOC 2, GDPR, DORA, ISO 27001, and FedRAMP.
Does Teleport replace CyberArk, BeyondTrust, or other legacy PAM tools?
Teleport modernizes privileged access management for cloud-native payment infrastructure. Where legacy PAM relies on credential vaulting and session brokering for Windows and Linux hosts, Teleport establishes a unified identity layer secured cryptographically — providing identities for humans, machines, workloads, and AI agents from one control plane, eliminating identity fragmentation and credential sprawl. This covers Kubernetes, cloud-native databases, and CI/CD pipelines that legacy PAM doesn't reach. Teleport can also operate alongside existing PAM tools where they're already in place.
How does Teleport work alongside Okta, Entra ID, and AWS IAM?
Teleport integrates with major identity providers and cloud IAM systems — including Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, AWS IAM Identity Center, and others to create resources such as roles and Access Lists. Teleport applies that authenticated identity to access policy across Kubernetes clusters, databases, CI/CD pipelines, and AI agents.
How does Teleport secure AI agents and machine workloads in payment environments?
Teleport Machine & Workload Identity treats every machine and workload as a first-class identity governed by policy and issued dynamically. Payment microservices, CI/CD pipelines, AI agents, and MCP servers authenticate using short-lived X.509 certificates or JWTs compatible with the SPIFFE/SPIRE standard. Identities are renewed and rotated automatically — eliminating static credentials, shared API keys, and unrotated tokens.
Can Teleport be deployed fully self-hosted or in air-gapped environments?
Yes. Teleport supports self-hosted deployment within your own infrastructure, including air-gapped environments. The self-hosted path supports FedRAMP-compliant deployments with FIPS 140-validated cryptographic modules. Session recordings, audit logs, and authentication data remain entirely inside your infrastructure — meeting data residency requirements for GDPR, DORA, and regional banking regulations.