Teleport Named Most Innovative Identity and Access Management Platform in 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards
OAKLAND, CA - June 12, 2026 - Teleport, the AI Infrastructure Identity Company, today announced it has been recognized by Hacker News as a winner of the Most Innovative Identity and Access Management Platform category in this year’s 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards. The Cybersecurity Stars Awards recognize companies delivering meaningful advances in security technology. Teleport was selected for its approach to infrastructure identity, establishing a unified identity layer for humans, machines, and agents that is secured cryptographically and that operates with short-lived privileges that expire, which significantly accelerates engineering teams while simultaneously improving infrastructure resiliency.
“We congratulate Teleport on winning the Identity and Access Management Platform award in the 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards. Teleport has built a unified identity system that treats humans, machines, workloads, and AI agents with the same cryptographic verification and short-lived access model, moving away from the fragmented credential management that has defined the industry for years. It is refreshing to see a company rethink identity from the ground up for the infrastructure environments that power today’s digital services.” — The Hacker News, 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards
“Companies that operate at scale and that are beginning to introduce agentic workloads into production infrastructure must have an identity foundation that treats humans, machines, and agents all as first-class actors, where there is no anonymity, and where identity is bound to a hardware root of trust,” said Ev Kontsevoy, CEO of Teleport. “Traditional approaches to identity that are designed for humans and are based on credentials are inevitably vulnerable and fall short when applied to agentic behavior.”
Teleport is a thought leader in Infrastructure Identity, a modern approach that establishes a unified identity layer as the control plane for trust across modern infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters, cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, Git repositories, and the databases and automation tooling that underpin them. In doing so, it enables companies to eliminate legacy VPNs, SSH keys, and standing privileges, and lays a secure foundation for deployment of agentic workloads. Traditional IAM tools were built for a credential-based era, managing identities in silos and relying on static secrets that amplify the blast radius as organizations scale.
Most recently, Teleport introduced Beams, its answer to a critical gap in how organizations are currently deploying AI agents, which is often with broad permissions and with absence of audit. Beams delivers an isolated, ephemeral runtime that operates each agent in an isolated Firecracker VM with built-in identity and is wired into the same identity and zero trust plane that governs permissions and infrastructure resources. This enforcement layer enables companies to deploy agents with unique cryptographic identity, just-in-time permissions, least privileged access, in an isolated, ephemeral environment that reduces blast radius.
Teleport’s winner profile is available at: https://awards.thehackernews.com/winners/2026/teleport-infrastructure-identity/
About Teleport
Teleport, the AI Infrastructure Identity Company, establishes a unified identity layer for infrastructure — humans, machines, workloads, and AI agents — secured cryptographically. By replacing fragmented identity and access management systems with Infrastructure Identity, Teleport scales zero trust across cloud and on-premise environments, preventing identity attacks, accelerating engineering, and enabling secure AI adoption. For more information, visit goteleport.com or follow @goteleport.
About The Hacker News Cybersecurity Stars Awards
The Cybersecurity Stars Awards are presented by The Hacker News, the cybersecurity industry’s leading independent publication. For 15 years, The Hacker News has delivered breaking news, threat insights, and practical solutions to over 50 million security professionals each year, reaching more decision-makers than any other security publication. The Cybersecurity Stars Awards recognize companies and products making a measurable impact on the security industry, with winners selected by a panel of judges evaluating innovation, real-world effectiveness, and category leadership.