Company: Teleport
Founders: Ev Kontsevoy, CEO Taylor Wakefield, COO Aleksandr ‘Sasha’ Klizhentas, CTO
Website: https://goteleport.com/
About Teleport
Teleport is a platform for secure infrastructure access offering on-demand, least-privileged access to modern infrastructure such as data centers, cloud environments, and internal resources (e.g., servers, databases, Kubernetes clusters). Teleport manages access permissions, user and resource identities, and enforces access policies by assigning cryptographic identities, enforcing zero trust access, and eliminating static credentials and standing privileges (the leading cause of data breaches).
Teleport’s mission is to bring trust to computing. As an engineer, Ev Kontsevoy (CEO) saw many problems with the software he was using – crucially, an over-reliance on static credentials such as passwords and API keys, and also a concerning lack of centralized visibility over access permissions for resources across infrastructure. Both of these leave systems vulnerable to attack.
Teleport builds on Ev’s knowledge to streamline secure access to infrastructure for engineers, eliminating the human error and credential theft that can lead to security breaches. It unifies all access permissions, identities, and policies pertaining to all human users and machines across applications and workloads in clouds and data centers. By doing this, Teleport doesn’t just protect infrastructure from identity attacks, but also improves engineer and workforce productivity by eliminating access and identity silos, improving onboarding and offboarding, and more. Teleport also ensures compliance with government regulations on cybersecurity standards.
Teleport was founded in 2015 by Ev Kontsevoy (CEO), Taylor Wakefield (COO), and Aleksandr ‘Sasha’ Klizhentas (CTO), who leveraged their experience from hyperscalers like Google, Facebook, and Rackspace that manage access to millions of users. The solution launched in 2020 initially as an open-source project.
Teleport has seen significant support from investors in the last few years. In May 2022 it was announced Series C funding round of $110 million, with a total investment of $169 million. In an age of constant threat of cyber attacks, Teleport’s solution helps engineers to reduce attack surface area, making them less of a target. The result has been great success for Teleport on an international scale, gaining the trust of companies including IBM, Nasdaq, and Doordash among others.
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