Teleport Launches Agentic Identity Framework to Secure AI Agents Across Enterprise Infrastructure

"Teleport recently unveiled the Teleport Agentic Identity Framework, a new AI-centered security model designed to help enterprises safely deploy autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents across cloud and on-premises environments. The framework provides organizations with a roadmap for treating AI agents as trusted identities, addressing growing risks around data exposure, compliance failures, and adversarial threats as agentic AI rapidly moves into production."

"The announcement comes as many infrastructure and security teams struggle to secure AI agents that operate continuously, invoke tools, and access sensitive systems without direct human oversight. Traditional identity and access models were not built for non-deterministic, always-on workloads. Teleport's framework is intended to close that gap by defining the policies, reference architecture, and developer tooling needed to run AI agents at scale securely."

"A recent Teleport survey of more than 200 infrastructure leaders highlights the urgency of the shift: 69% said widespread AI adoption will require major changes to identity management, while only 2% disagreed. Yet many organizations still rely on static secrets, hard-coded credentials, and custom integrations layered on legacy IAM and PAM systems, creating identity sprawl, limited visibility, and systemic risk."

"Teleport's Infrastructure Identity Platform underpins the framework with a unified, cryptographically secured identity layer backed by a hardware root of trust. It replaces static credentials with strong, ephemeral identities and enables zero-trust authentication, zero standing privileges, and real-time visibility into identity behavior across infrastructure. This approach is designed to reduce blast radius, prevent unauthorized access, and protect against identity-based attacks that often lead to data compromise."

Teleport unveiled the Teleport Agentic Identity Framework to enable safe deployment of autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents across cloud and on-premises environments. The framework treats AI agents as trusted identities and addresses risks including data exposure, compliance failures, and adversarial threats as agentic AI moves into production. The framework defines policies, reference architecture, and developer tooling for non-deterministic, always-on agent workloads. A Teleport survey found 69% of infrastructure leaders expect major identity management changes for widespread AI adoption. Teleport's Infrastructure Identity Platform provides a unified, cryptographically secured identity layer with ephemeral identities, zero-trust authentication, and real-time visibility to reduce blast radius and prevent identity-based attacks.

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