OAKLAND, Calif. – Nov. 19, 2020 — Gravitational, a pioneer in environment-free computing, announced today that the company has changed its name to Teleport, effective immediately.

Today, we are announcing the availability of Teleport 5.0. This is a major release for the project with numerous improvements and new features, but the hallmark capability of this version is the Unified Access Plane and Application Access for Developers. For those unfamiliar with Teleport, it is an open source project for giving developers secure remote access to everything they need.

Cyber threats are a feature of our everyday digital life. Most of us have been the victim of one of these attacks, even if we are unaware. The larger hacks make it into the public consciousness, like Equifax, Ashley Madison, Capital One, and more, but we rarely hear from Silicon Valley tech companies. While not infallible, companies like Twitter or Facebook are still not held to strict standards for customer safety.

About a year ago, a friend of mine decided to build an EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) assembler in Rust. After some prodding from him, I began to help by writing unit tests. At the time, I knew very little about operating systems and started to read about lexical and symbolical analyzers. I was quickly in way over my head. What I did retain, however, was a newfound appreciation for the OS as a whole. So, when he started raving about eBPF, I knew I was in for a treat.