Overview

Teleport Machine & Workload Identity is a solution designed to secure access to systems and data between machines and workloads. It leverages short-lived cryptographic identities to eliminate static credentials and establish zero trust throughout the infrastructure stack. This approach reduces the risk of breaches and enhances the security of inter-service communication, CI/CD pipelines, and data protection.

Features

• Eliminate Static Credentials: Lock down attack surfaces by eliminating the need for API keys and overprivileged accounts.
• Secure Inter-Service Communication: Enable mutual TLS (mTLS) connections with fine-grained access policies between microservices and service meshes.
• Fortify CI/CD Pipelines: Securely push artifacts and deploy code without hard-coding credentials, authorizing access only during the period of work.
• Protect Data & Achieve Compliance: Ensure only authorized services can access protected data stores and APIs, with data exportable to SIEMs for compliance reporting and review.
• Go Secretless: Adopt fine-grained access policies and ephemeral privileges based on short-lived certificates.
• Implement mTLS: Use mTLS authentication based on X.509 certificates to build trusted communication in your infrastructure.
• Authenticate Services: Authenticate to third-party APIs on AWS, GCP, and Azure, or between services in your infrastructure.
• Reduce Friction for Engineers: Eliminate the risk of human error, misconfiguration, and shadow access by removing the task of secrets administration.
• Unify Human and Non-Human Access Policies: Manage non-human identities with the same tools and processes as human identities, eliminating access silos.
• Automate Access: Build consistency in infrastructure security with unified access control and policies.
• Support for Open Standards: Compatible with open-source Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone (SPIFFE) standards, JWT, and X.509 certificates.

Benefits

• Enhanced Security: Reduces the risk of data breaches by eliminating static credentials and enforcing zero trust principles.
• Improved Productivity: Engineers can focus on development without the overhead of managing credentials.
• Operational Efficiency: Simplifies identity governance and security across heterogeneous environments.
• 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.