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Top Use Cases & Trends in Machine & Workload Identity

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Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform

The easiest, most secure way to access and protect all your infrastructure

Teleport Zero Trust Access

Least privileged access based on tasks

Teleport Machine & Workload Identity

Access control for machines & workloads

Teleport Identity Governance

Harden and govern infrastructure identities

Teleport Identity Security

Identify and mitigate risk in your infrastructure

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Modern Infrastructure Demands a Modern Approach to Privileged Access

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Works with everything you have.

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Servers (SSH), Kubernetes, Databases, Web Apps, Windows, Cloud, GitHub, MCP Servers

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Access to your clouds, data centers, and everything in them. More than 170 integrations.

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2024 Secure Infrastructure Access Report

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Engineering Velocity

Improve Engineer Productivity

Access to the infrastructure engineers need, when they need it

Replace Legacy VPNs and Bastions

Eliminate overhead and unify access policy

Modernize Privileged Access Management (PAM)

Adopt cryptographic identity, zero trust, and ephemeral privileges

Accelerate Compliance

FedRAMP, SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS 4.0, ISO 27001, NIS2, DORA

Infrastructure Resiliency

Implement Just-In-Time Access Requests

Short-lived privileges reduce complexity and harden security

Protect Infrastructure from Identity-Based Attacks

Remove secrets and standing privileges as attack surfaces

Defend Against Identity Provider Compromise

Keep systems & data secure in the event of IdP compromise

Eliminate Risky Shadow Access

Identify and block ungoverned access paths

AI & Infrastructure Identity

Secure Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Securing how AI interacts with your data sources

Securing Agentic AI

Applying Workload Identity and Identity Security to Agentic AI Use Cases

Industries

Industries with infrastructure access complexity

E-Commerce & Entertainment

Securing access at scale

Financial Services

Preventing breaches and maintaining customer trust

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Providers

Access control for growth and governance

Healthcare

Secure access management for modern healthcare infrastructure

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Streamlining HIPAA Compliance for Modern IT Infrastructure

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Compliance

Meet regulatory requirements for access control

NIST 800-53

NIST 800-171

NIST CSF 2.0

FedRAMP

ISO 27001

NIS2

SOC 2

HIPAA

DORA

PCI DSS 4.0

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Achieving NIS2 Directive Compliance Requirements

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Strategic Partners

Strategic relationships that enhance customer value

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Control access to your critical AWS resources.

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Engineers

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How It Works

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Blog

Podcasts

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Developer Tools

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How to provision certificates for internal services with Teleport Workload Identity

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Resources

Company

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Events & Webinars

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