Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

“We need to get stuff done – but I’m not supposed to let you.” Shipping high priority code, meeting tight release deadlines, fighting incident fires —there are countless reasons why today's engineering teams need to move at lightspeed. This need for speed may put them at odds with security objectives.

One of the most dangerous threats to your infrastructure lurks unnoticed: shadow access. Shadow access can take many forms: privileged credentials left behind by former employees, shared keys embedded in code, or ad-hoc access granted outside of policy. These hidden risks can leave your organization vulnerable to breaches, compliance drift, and insider threats — all while remaining invisible to traditional security tools.

In our recent webinar, Simplifying Zero Trust Security for AWS with Teleport, experts from AWS and our team at Teleport explore some of the critical challenges in securing modern cloud infrastructure, and illustrating how they can be solved by adopting a zero trust strategy.

The role of trust for both employees and customers has come under increased scrutiny in the past decade. The rise of concepts such as zero trust for the workforce and the privacy/personalisation paradox for customers has moved trust from being an exercise in academic rigour, to one which has realigned enterprise security architecture choices.

Does your corporate network treat users on VPNs as trusted regardless of who they are? Does your web server connect to its database as a fictitious user with a password in a config file somewhere? Or perhaps the most frightening scenario: did your platform engineer log in as root to configure your CI/CD pipeline toolchain? These three situations are all examples of anonymous users – someone taking action somewhere on your network or in one of your cloud accounts without identifying themselves.

As the world of infrastructure security grows more complex, maintaining clarity and precision in how we present our solutions is critical. Teleport’s platform's capabilities have expanded significantly over time. To better align with our mission and help customers understand the full potential of our platform, we are introducing new names for our product suite.

Our journey with GitHub proxy support began with an internal challenge: securing our most critical repositories against unauthorized acess. As a company that manages infrastructure as code, including sensitive systems like Hardening Okta with Terraform, we needed an ironclad solution to lock down acess to our codebase. The problem was that traditional authentication methods like SSH keys and Personal Access Tokens (PATs) left our repositories vulnerable to unauthorized access.

In this day and age, establishing cryptographic trust and encryption between internal services is a must. Without this, attackers who gain access to your internal networks can easily impersonate services and intercept exchanged data. As time has gone on, the potential impact of compromise has only grown as machines are trusted with increasingly sensitive data and completing increasingly important tasks.

As organizations evolve to embrace cloud-native architectures and distributed teams, the limitations of legacy access solutions like virtual private networks (VPNs) and bastion hosts have become apparent. Once reliable for securing static, on-premises environments, these tools do not scale well for securing modern infrastructure, are expensive to maintain, increase security vulnerabilities, and can hinder regulatory compliance.

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) comes into full effect on January 17, 2025. This deadline marks a monumental shift in how financial institutions and their technology providers prioritize and maintain operational resilience and cybersecurity standards – and sets in stone real business and regulatory consequences to ensure resilience is achieved. And like any sweeping security regulation, organizations must embark on an uphill journey to earn full compliance.