Back in the early 2010s, a Forrester researcher, John Kindervag, noticed that corporations had a binary view of trust and privilege. Once new employees have completed training, they are given full access to all the tools and VPNs needed to get their job done. Once they are logged on, they are trusted completely. Kindervag noticed that “trust” is a vulnerability that can be exploited. Since then, awareness of Zero Trust implementations has grown, in particular Google’s BeyondCorp.

It is likely that at some point in the span of your software engineering career, you will run into an issue that requires poring over audit logs to figure out what went wrong and who did it. This could be to troubleshoot a variety of issues ranging from an unauthorized change that a consultant or vendor made, to bad actors that have gained access to your system.

2019 has been a year of metamorphosis for Gravitational. We started over four years ago as a group of infrastructure engineers who were frustrated with the complexity of cloud application delivery. We wanted cloud apps to be as easy to distribute as desktop software is. It was a big year for our team.

Teleport 4.2 delivers a strong foundation of new features. We have a full list of improvements and fixes attached to our Teleport 4.2.0 GitHub release. Below are a couple of the highlights. Teleport now provides greater visibility into what’s happening during a Teleport session with our Enhanced Session Recording. We’ve also laid the groundwork for a world of possibilities with our enterprise-only Role Escalation via a Workflows API.