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Identity: The New Security Perimeter
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Where VPNs Fall Short
Perimeter Security Leaves you Exposed
VPNs create a single point of entry. Once inside, attackers can move laterally through your network, putting critical assets at risk. There's no true defense-in-depth.
Limited Visibility into User Activity
You can’t see who accessed what, when, or why, making it hard to detect or investigate suspicious behavior and impeding forensic investigation.
High Operational Burden
Managing VPNs means duplicated RBAC setups, forgotten credentials, and mounting IT support tickets. It’s a drain on time, resources, and budgets.
Weak Identity Verification
VPNs rely on static credentials, which are easy to share, lose, or steal. They don’t verify the user’s true identity, making them vulnerable to credential-based attacks.
The Infrastructure Identity Advantage
Infrastructure Identity shifts the security perimeter from the network to identity. Your infrastructure spans clouds, data centers, and edge locations. Zero trust, identity-based access controls follow your resources wherever they live.
VPNs
Infrastructure Identity
Security Model
Network Segmentation
Relies on implicit trust, assuming that anything inside the network is safe. This creates a broad attack surface, enabling lateral movement by threat actors.
Identity
Enforces precise access controls by verifying who or what is requesting access, regardless of their network location. This reduces the attack surface, and enables dynamic policy enforcement.
Operational Complexity
Fragmented Policy
Access controls duplicate RBAC logic and span firewalls, VPNs, and application-level permissions. This fragmentation increases complexity, risk of misconfiguration, and difficulty of audit.
Centralized Policy
Policy is centrally managed and enforced across all environments based on user roles and contextual factors, simplifying administration, improving auditability and scalability with growth.
Access
IP-based
Access is tied to IP addresses, which are static and easily spoofed or misused. This method lacks the ability to verify the actual identity behind a request, making it both inflexible and insecure in dynamic, cloud-native environments.
Resource-based, granular
Access can be defined with precision relative to specific resources, down to database tables, APIs, or service actions, ensuring that users and services only interact with what they need, with least-privilege permissions.
Audit
Limited
Tracks access by IP addresses or ports, not by user or service identity. This makes it difficult to attribute actions to specific individuals or workloads, hindering incident response and compliance efforts.
Granular
Delivers detailed audit logs and session recordings that link every action to a specific user or service, simplifying compliance reporting, and accelerating incident investigation and response.
Identity Security
Blind spots
Lack of granular, identity-aware enforcement creates blind spots and increases the risk of unauthorized access and lateral movement.
Enforcement + Observability
Enforces least-privilege, just-in-time access, and illuminates blind spots with detailed, user-centric audit trails that accelerate forensic investigation.
Audit and recorded sessions in Teleport give us an understanding of exactly what was happening at any given moment. This is incredibly critical from a security and compliance perspective.
Mario Loria, Senior Site Reliability Engineer II, Carta
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Key Benefits
Reduce Risk
- Prevent lateral movement
- Enforce strong identity
- Enforce least privileged access
Reduce Complexity
- Centralize access control
- Unify fleet management
- Eliminate credential handling
Reduce Audit Burden
- Generate granular audit trail
- Leverage session recording
- Centralize data
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Additional Resources
Blog
Four Ways Teleport Overcomes the Limitations of VPNs and Bastions
White Paper
Infrastructure Identity: A New Paradigm for Trustworthy Computing in a Zero Trust World
Webinar