Teleport, a company specialising in AI Infrastructure Identity, has been recognised by Hacker News as the winner in the Most Innovative Identity and Access Management Platform category in the 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards.
This accolade celebrates organisations that have made significant strides in security technology advancements. Teleport was commended for its comprehensive approach to infrastructure identity, implementing a unified identity layer that integrates humans, machines, and agents, all secured through cryptographic means with temporary permissions, thereby enhancing the efficiency of engineering teams and bolstering infrastructure resilience.
Advancing infrastructure resilience
The Hacker News praised Teleport for its innovative identity system designed for modern digital infrastructure environments.
"We congratulate Teleport on winning the Identity and Access Management Platform award in the 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards. Teleport has built a unified identity system that treats humans, machines, workloads, and AI agents with the same cryptographic verification and short-lived access model, moving away from the fragmented credential management that has defined the industry for years. It is refreshing to see a company rethink identity from the ground up for the infrastructure environments that power today’s digital services." - Hacker News, 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards.
Identity foundation for agentic workloads
CEO Ev Kontsevoy highlighted the necessity for a robust identity foundation
CEO Ev Kontsevoy highlighted the necessity for a robust identity foundation, especially for companies scaling operations and incorporating agentic workloads.
"Companies that operate at scale and that are beginning to introduce agentic workloads into production infrastructure must have an identity foundation that treats humans, machines, and agents all as first-class actors, where there is no anonymity, and where identity is bound to a hardware root of trust," said Kontsevoy. He emphasised that traditional identity approaches, centred on human credentials, lack effectiveness in agentic contexts.
Deploying agentic workloads securely
Teleport is a forerunner in Infrastructure Identity, championing a modernised identity layer as a trust control plane across diverse infrastructure, like Kubernetes clusters, cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, Git repositories, and underlying databases and automation tools.
This enables the phasing out of outdated VPNs, SSH keys, and static privileges, creating a secure environment for deploying agentic workloads. Traditional IAM tools, largely built in a credential-driven era, often exacerbate security risks as organisations expand.
Introducing beams for AI agents
Addressing gaps in AI agent deployment, Teleport has launched Beams—an innovative solution designed to manage AI agents with restricted permissions within a secure, isolated environment.
Beams operates agents in isolated Firecracker VMs with integrated identity, benefiting from the existing zero-trust and permission governance framework. This setup ensures agents are deployed with distinct cryptographic identities and minimal necessary access, thus reducing potential security vulnerabilities.
