Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform

Teleport, developed by Gravitational Inc., describes itself as the AI infrastructure identity company. Ev Kontsevoy launched Teleport in 2015 and the company is headquartered in Oakland, California. It gives engineers, machines and AI agents secure access to infrastructure without passwords, static keys or standing privileges, and its open source project has about 20,000 GitHub stars.

The Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform provides zero trust access to SSH and RDP servers, Kubernetes clusters, databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB, AWS, GCP and Azure consoles, internal web apps, GitHub repositories and MCP servers. A built-in certificate authority issues short-lived X.509 and SSH certificates bound to hardware-backed device identities. Modules cover machine and workload identity, identity governance with access requests and dual authorization, session recording and moderation, identity security analytics and agentic AI access control. It deploys on-premises, in the cloud or hybrid.

• Zero trust access: Connects users to servers, Kubernetes, databases, cloud consoles and internal apps through one identity layer.
• Short-lived certificates: Issues X.509 and SSH certificates that expire automatically instead of static credentials.
• Device trust: Binds access to enrolled devices with TPM or YubiKey hardware identity.
• Access requests: Provides just-in-time access and dual authorization for privileged actions.
• Session recording: Records, replays, joins and moderates SSH and Kubernetes sessions.
• Agentic AI control: Extends identity and least-privilege access to AI agents and MCP tools.

A Vietnamese fintech can replace shared SSH keys with short-lived certificates and record every production session for audits. A software outsourcing company can give offshore engineers just-in-time access to client Kubernetes clusters with approvals. An e-commerce platform can control which AI agents may query production databases through MCP.

Short-lived certificates replace passwords, SSH keys and API tokens, removing long-lived secrets that attackers steal. Privileges expire automatically and highly privileged actions can require dual approval, reducing standing access. Identity-attributed audit events and session recordings support SOC 2, FedRAMP and PCI DSS 4.0 compliance. A customer case study reports access provisioning accelerated threefold.

Stolen credentials and long-lived keys remain the main path into cloud infrastructure, and the rise of AI agents and machine workloads multiplies non-human identities that need governance. Vietnamese fintechs, e-commerce platforms and software outsourcing firms running Kubernetes and multi-cloud environments increasingly need auditable, passwordless infrastructure access to meet customer and regulatory requirements.

Launched in 2015 by co-founder and CEO Ev Kontsevoy; legal entity Gravitational Inc., headquartered in Oakland, California. Strategic partnership with Cisco announced in August 2026, with Cisco as its largest strategic investor. AWS Partner of the Year 2025, Cybersecurity Stars Awards 2026 winner and SC Awards 2026 finalist. Open source project with about 20,000 GitHub stars and a 5,000+ member community.