Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0, or more commonly known as SAML in the industry, is one of the most used protocols for single-sign-on on the modern web. It allows an application like Teleport to communicate with an upstream identity provider like Okta or Google Workspace to securely get trusted information about users when they log in, removing the need for sign-ups, log-ins and tying identities to people inside the application.

With Teleport, Gluu can provide its clients with near-instantaneous access to its open-source software, allowing them to get up and running in minutes. This is a huge benefit for organizations who need to quickly provision their tools in order to start using them. In the past, Gluu has documented many ways that it uses Teleport to provide Gluu clients a gateway for their tools.

Teleport 10.3 was released on September 30, 2022 along with a lot of new features, bug fixes and improvements. This blog post will focus on one new feature that deserves a deeper dive.

JSON web tokens (JWTs) are an open standard for securely transmitting data as a JSON object between parties in a compact and self-contained format. Knowledge of JWTs is important because most modern systems and tools use them for secure, efficient and scalable authorization. Knowing about JWTs will also help you understand how third-party integrations with other software work.

Support for Microsoft SQL Server was added in our Teleport 9 release, along with support for Redis and MariaDB. In this post, we'll specifically be looking at Microsoft SQL Server and will cover how to connect to it remotely using Teleport. Before we get into the steps of accessing SQL Server with Teleport, let's briefly go over a few recommended security postures with SQL Server and how Teleport actually helps to implement them.

Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a protocol developed by Microsoft which at its core is designed to give users a graphical interface to a remote Windows computer over a network connection. The remote Windows machine runs an RDP server, while the local computer accessing it runs an RDP client. Windows comes bundled with Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection to easily access Windows hosts over RDP.

According to a recent Gartner study, the fast pace of change across technologies, organizational priorities, business opportunities and risks requires identity and access management architectures to be more flexible. As digital business relies on digital trust, security and identity are — more than ever — an essential foundation of an organization’s business ecosystem.

Teleport 10.2 was released on September 6th along with a lot of new features, bug fixes and improvements. This blog post will focus on two new features that deserve a deeper dive.

Whether it's password or passwordless authentication, multi-factor authentication, or any of the other identity verification shenanigans, in the end, our identity is deduced to a single session cookie! We can't deny the security importance of session cookies in web application access control.

None of us want to look into a production audit system, as this most likely happens after a security breach or a security incident. Over the years, people have come up with many ideas to see what applications are doing. Almost all databases keep event logs to prevent data loss. Systems such as Kubernetes generate events for every action, and applications that probably run in your production also implement some structured logging for the same reason. But what can we do if all of that is not enough?