Today’s remote desktop protocol (RDP) clients don’t do enough to promote a strong security posture. They default to weak password-based authentication, leaving Windows infrastructure vulnerable to brute force attacks, and assume a direct connection to a well-known port is available. At Teleport we’re a bit bonkers about always trying to build the most secure solution, so we set out to do something different.

At Teleport we provide secure access to our customers’ infrastructure adding passwordless SSO, session recording and audit for every connection. Every day our customers login into their clusters and connect to their infrastructure. We weren’t happy with how long it took ssh to establish connections to target hosts when going through Teleport proxy.

Hello Teleport Community, Our team has just returned from Hacker Summer Camp (bSides Las Vegas, Blackhat and DEFCON). I met many customers, OSS users, hackers and security engineers at bSides. I had lots of great conversations at the bSides, and it was good to chat with both red and blue teams. This month’s newsletter is a review of some of my conversations from the week.

We're thrilled to announce that Teleport has recently achieved critical compliance milestones, marking another significant step forward in our commitment to providing highly secure and reliable cloud-based services. We are pleased to inform you that Teleport has successfully achieved ISO 27001 certification, is now HIPAA compliant, and has also expanded our SOC 2 report coverage with the addition of Confidentiality and Availability trust service criteria.

Imagine you've just deployed a working Teleport cluster and you're making changes to the Role Based Access Controls (RBAC) roles, fine-tuning all of your resource permissions, and making sure every role is following the principle of least privilege. You go for a week-long vacation, do some fishing and completely relax. Getting back you find that the DevOps intern you just hired made a bunch of changes to the roles screwing everything up.

The recent release of Teleport 13 brings a much-anticipated feature allowing Teleport agents and Teleport Kubernetes Agents to be updated automatically. In this blog post, we'll look at why that's so important as well as how automatic agent updates work.

In this blog post, we’ll cover how to transfer files from one server to another. At Teleport we’ve covered the progression of technology used to transfer files — from SCP - Familiar, Simple, Insecure, and Slow to using SFTP. In this blog post, we’ll show you how to transfer files using Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) in 2023, which under the hood is actually SFTP, OpenSSH & open-source Teleport changed the underlying technology in OpenSSH 9 and Teleport 11.

Teleport Team is the latest SaaS offering from Teleport. Teleport Team is designed to secure your infrastructure with safe, short-lived, and secretless access. It's an ideal solution for startups, rapidly expanding businesses, or even hobbyists who want to fortify their infrastructure without the hassle of deploying, updating, or maintaining a Teleport Cluster. Starting at just $15 per monthly active user with 50 included protected resources.

Once again it’s time for everyone’s favorite announcement: a brand new Teleport release! This release marks version 13 of Teleport and is packed with features, including a UI makeover. Let’s dive in!

Starting with Teleport 12.1, Teleport Enterprise teams can now use Teleport as a SAML SSO identity provider. This feature allows teams to use Teleport to authenticate to external services, thereby letting teams use SAML SSO to login to external SaaS apps and internal applications that support SAML. Let’s look at a few examples.