Teleport launches new machine & workload identity solution

Teleport has announced a new solution titled Machine & Workload Identity Solution aimed at unifying identity management across human and machine entities.

The Machine & Workload Identity Solution is designed to integrate all human, machine, and infrastructure asset identities into a single cohesive identity layer without separating human and machine identities. The company believes that this approach is crucial for addressing challenges associated with managing infrastructure identities, such as those involving distributed systems, cloud services, servers, Kubernetes, microservices, remote desktops, databases, and more.

This release underscores Teleport's dedication to a new field known as infrastructure identity, recognising that traditional Identity Access Management (IAM) and Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions cannot adequately handle the complexities associated with modern infrastructure. Teleport's plan allows organisations to expand their engineering teams, server fleets, and workloads while maintaining security.

Various analysts have shown support for this infrastructure identity category, including those from Bloomberg Intelligence and TAG Cybers. Jack Poller, Principal Analyst at Paradigm Technica, highlights the growing demand for such solutions. Teleport cites impressive growth, reporting a revenue increase of approximately 50% per year and over 500 companies using its service, half of which have more than 1,000 employees. Noteworthy clients include three out of the top five financial services firms and 30% of the top ten software firms.

Ev Kontsevoy, CEO and Co-founder of Teleport, stated, "With AI-driven automation, microservices, and cloud-native applications growing rapidly, workload identities have become the largest and most unprotected attack surface. Teleport Machine & Workload Identity eliminates this risk by ensuring that every machine and workload is trusted, authorized, and audited—without the use of long-lived credentials."

The Machine & Workload Identity Solution incorporates several key functionalities tailored to improve infrastructure security and durability. These features include service discovery, secretless authentication through short-lived X.509 certificates, ephemeral authorization using Attribute-Based and Role-Based Access Control (ABAC/RBAC), and enhanced auditability for compliance with standards like HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2, and FedRAMP.

Teleport's solution is designed to enforce zero trust security models by verifying each entity, whether human or machine, before allowing access. It provides security for inter-service communications and eliminates static credentials within CI/CD pipelines, all while meeting compliance requirements through integrated auditability.

Specifically beneficial for companies handling large, distributed infrastructure environments or operating in regulated industries, the Machine & Workload Identity Solution can manage up to 140,000 connected resources with options for multi-region high availability, spanning nine availability zones, and a service level agreement of 99.99% uptime.

Teleport's Machine & Workload Identity is available and forms part of the Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform, catering to both existing and new clients seeking comprehensive identity management solutions for modern infrastructure environments.