Teleport announces partnership with global IT firm TD Synnex

Secure infrastructure access provider Teleport has announced a new partnership with global IT channel partner TD Synnex. The collaboration aims to broaden and streamline buying options for customers wishing to protect themselves from increasing identity-centred cyberattacks.

"We are thrilled to partner with TD Synnex, a market leader in technology distribution and solutions," said Phil Simpson, VP of Alliances and Strategic Partnerships at Teleport. "By leveraging TD Synnex's extensive network and expertise, we can streamline business processes for our customers and provide greater agility in the adoption of solutions for protecting infrastructure from threat actors."

This partnership will enable Value-Added Resellers (VARs), Managed Service Providers (MSPs), integrators, and resellers to benefit from procuring from a single source. The integration is expected to make it easier for these partners to transact with their customers, providing an industry-leading, differentiated software solution on a global scale.

"TD Synnex is committed to uniting technology solutions that deliver business outcomes today and unlock growth for the future," said Cheryl Day, Senior Vice President, New Vendor Acquisition & Global Solutions at TD Synnex. "With Teleport added to our vast portfolio of vendor partners, we're able to enrich the breadth and depth of our offerings so customers can do great things with technology."

Teleport's solutions aim to streamline and harden secure access to computing infrastructure. The company focuses on ensuring that businesses can protect their most critical assets while improving engineer and workforce productivity. Teleport's solutions also aim to reduce operational overhead, improve resiliency to identity-based cyber attacks, enable organisations to streamline compliance, and pass audits efficiently.

Teleport continually improves its features and functionality. In March of this year, the company announced enhanced capabilities for securing access to Kubernetes resources in compute infrastructure. These features combine strong authentication, granular control, and identity and policy governance, hardening resiliency of infrastructure against identity-based attacks.

In its most recent version release, Teleport expanded the productivity and security features it delivers for engineers accessing Kubernetes resources. Enhancements include the ability to:

• Auto-discover and protect K8s clusters and applications running in them with strong authentication and authorization.
• Define more fine-grained access control on the pod and resource level.
• Replace static credentials with short-lived certificates backed by phish-resistant second factor authentication for critical sessions.
• Identify and remediate weak access patterns and reveal hidden access paths.

Teleport Ev Kontsevoy says, “Teleport governs privileged access to infrastructure, on a foundation of cryptographic identity and zero trust. This architecture eliminates credentials and standing privileges as attack vectors, while providing engineers with a streamlined access workflow. The enhancement of Kubernetes access controls provides infrastructure security leaders with the ability to configure and enforce security according to fine-grained policy.”