Privileged Access Management

Teleport replaces static credentials with short-lived, identity-bound X.509 certificates issued per session, enforcing identity verification, authorization, and least privilege on every connection with zero standing access by default. Just-in-time access requests, device trust, and role-based access controls ensure that access is both temporary and traceable.

Teleport is designed to eliminate the use for credential vaulting, password rotation, or secrets management tools and processes. Instead, Teleport authenticates users, machines, and agents using short-lived X.509 certificates that are tied to hardware-backed cryptographic identities. This eliminates the overhead and vulnerabilities associated with large amounts of stored passwords, tokens, SSH or API keys, and database credentials.

Teleport replaces passwords, SSH keys, API tokens, and database credentials with short-lived X.509 certificates bound to verified human, machine, and agent identity. Certificates are issued per session and automatically expire when the task is complete. The tbot agent extends this to machines, CI/CD pipelines, and AI agents, eliminating secrets rotation and vault dependencies.

Teleport's access request system allows users to request access to a role or resource on demand, with a configurable number of approvers required to grant or deny the request and a defined expiration for elevated privileges. Access request plugins integrate with Slack, PagerDuty, Jira, ServiceNow, and other platforms so reviewers can approve or deny requests from existing workflows.

Teleport removes the secret vaults, key rotation, VPN configuration, and bastion upkeep that pile up as access tools accumulate, replacing them with one identity layer that issues short-lived certificates and needs no secrets to rotate. Access rules ship as infrastructure-as-code and apply across every resource, so teams cut the maintenance that legacy privileged access management carries while gaining a single audit trail.

Yes. Teleport brings acquired teams and external sellers onto one identity layer, granting each human and workload short-lived, least-privileged access to only the resources they should reach, with full audit. That gives a marketplace or an acquiring company consistent access and evidence across newly combined infrastructure instead of stitching together each party's separate access tools.

An identity provider authenticates people to applications and legacy privileged access management guards a set of servers, and neither reaches modern Kubernetes and database access cleanly, which is where access and audit blind spots appear. Teleport extends one cryptographic identity to those resources with short-lived, least-privileged access and records every session, so a payment platform covers Kubernetes and databases under the same identity and audit as everything else.

Yes. Teleport grants vendors and partners just-in-time, least-privileged access to only the resources a support or diagnostics task needs, with a short-lived certificate that expires automatically. Every third-party session is recorded and attributable, so an external party never holds a standing account and the team keeps a full record of what was accessed.

Yes. Teleport governs both human and non-human identities under one least-privileged policy, issuing short-lived cryptographic identity to engineers, services, workloads, and agents alike. Teleport Identity Governance handles provisioning, approvals, and access reviews, and access expires automatically, so every identity holds only what it needs for as long as it needs it.