Overview

Teleport Identity Governance is designed to harden infrastructure by implementing robust identity governance and security measures. It addresses the increasing incidents of cloud cybersecurity breaches involving identity and human factors. Teleport Identity Governance eliminates weak access patterns and enforces the principle of least privilege, ensuring that only necessary privileges are granted to complete tasks.

Features

• Access Monitoring & Response: Detect overly broad privileges and inspect sessions that lack strong protection, such as multi-factor authentication or device trust. Automated access rules alert on violations and purge unused permissions.
• Just-in-Time Access: Enforce least privilege by granting only necessary privileges for task completion, removing the need for super-privileged accounts.
• Access Requests: Engineers can use preferred tools like kubectl, ssh, ansible, and postgresql. Access requests can be reviewed using Slack, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams, Jira, and ServiceNow.
• Identity Locking: Take immediate action on suspicious or compromised identities, locking access instantly across the entire infrastructure.
• Access Management: Provision or deprovision access for all users and machines across the infrastructure.
• Device Trust: Require users and services to access infrastructure only from current, registered devices. Teleport uses TPMs and secure enclaves to give every device a cryptographic identity.

Benefits

• Enhanced Security: Reduces the risk of data breaches by eliminating weak access patterns and enforcing least privileged access.
• Improved Productivity: Streamlines access requests and onboarding/offboarding processes, enhancing engineer productivity.
• Operational Efficiency: Simplifies infrastructure operations by unifying access control and eliminating the need for VPNs and bastion hosts.
• Regulatory Compliance: Helps organizations meet compliance requirements with detailed audit logs and policy enforcement.
• Scalability: Supports multi-cloud environments and scales with the growth of infrastructure resources.