Today we are happy to announce that Teleport has been included as a Cool Vendor in Gartner Cool Vendors in Identity-First Security report. “We believe Teleport’s inclusion in the Identity-First Security Report by Gartner is confirmation that Teleport solves a huge problem of accessing cloud-native resources that traditional PAM tools did not,” said Ev Kontsevoy, co-founder and CEO of Teleport.

We talked about IAM in the past 3 posts, identities in IAM, manage users privilege as an IT person and control privilege boundaries. We also talked about how applications use AWS Cognito Identity Pool to get AWS temporary credentials to access AWS resources in early posts of “What I wish I could have learned before starting using AWS Cognito” and “Authentication and authorization with AWS Amplify under the hood”.

We alluded in one of our previous posts that the development team will own a lot of responsibility defining application related resource access control, simply because the dev team owns the infrastructure as code (IaC) responsibility themselves. No matter how security-savvy and security-educated a development team is, the central security team still needs some control, some kind of “trust but verify”.

The team recently released Teleport 6.2. This post will walk you through some of the new features and additions included in this release. This release has a few breaking changes. If you’re currently running Teleport on AWS using DynamoDB, we would advise waiting for 6.2.1 before upgrading.

Open Source software provides the community source code that anyone can inspect, modify, and enhance. OSS is so ubiquitous that it’s even on other planets. This post is for the people who run these projects.