Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

March 2020

Applying the Principles of Zero Trust to SSH

The Zero Trust approach to security is based not on where you are, but who you are. This model shifts the focus from network and perimeter-based security to identity-based access. In simple terms, this means: Zero Trust security provides a powerful approach to keeping an organization’s resources secure and usage auditable.

Deploying Applications to a Kubernetes Cluster to Which You Don't Have Access

For the impatient, in this blog post, we’ll look into the problem of preparing a Kubernetes application to be deployed into a large number of Kubernetes clusters, even if you, the developer, do not have direct access to them all. The tutorial parts of this post will utilize Gravity 7.0, which you can download here. This version is in beta at the time of publication, so be sure to select pre-releases in the dropdown on the download page to access it.

How Teleport Delivers Security Best Practices for Privileged Access Management of Cloud-Native Infrastructure

While SSH has always been a popular attack vector, the increased adoption of elastic, cloud infrastructure and dynamic, micro-service architecture using containerized application services (aka, "cloud-native" applications), has resulted in the additional complexity of having application services that can migrate across dynamic server infrastructure. This makes managing access to applications and their infrastructure through SSH more complicated and more prone to security threats.

Announcing Gravity 7.0

Today, we are excited to announce the release of Gravity 7.0! Gravity is a tool for developers to package multiple Kubernetes applications into an easily distributable .tar file called a “cluster image”. A cluster image contains everything an application needs and it can be used for quickly creating Kubernetes clusters pre-loaded with applications from scratch or loading applications contained within an image into an existing Kubernetes cluster like OpenShift or GKE.

Teleport vs AWS Session Manager

In this paper, we will provide a brief description of what SSM Session Manager is and how it compares to Gravitational's Teleport privileged access management solution. We'll compare the significant design and feature differences and the operational overhead of the solutions. Because Session Manager is limited to AWS, we'll limit the scope of the discussion to that cloud provider. Finally, we have provided a feature matrix of the two solutions.