Teleport, recognized for its work in identity security for engineering and infrastructure teams, has achieved the distinction of being named an IDC Innovator in the IDC Innovators: Security for Agentic AI, 2025 report.
This accolade highlights Teleport’s innovative approach in embedding AI identity and access controls within its Infrastructure Identity Platform, which effectively secures AI agents by managing them similarly to human and machine identities.
AI-Specific Tools
In the report, it is noted that Teleport addresses identity security for AI without resorting to additional or separate solutions that could introduce vulnerabilities.
Ev Kontsevoy, CEO of Teleport, emphasized the need for a unified security system, warning that adding AI-specific tools could contribute to identity fragmentation. He stated that new technologies often require separate access management tools, perpetuating opportunities for exploitation by malicious entities.
Engineering and Security Teams
Kontsevoy further explained that being identified as an IDC Innovator validates Teleport's mission to transform identity security
Kontsevoy further explained that being identified as an IDC Innovator validates Teleport's mission to transform identity security by unifying various identity types under one infrastructure. This consolidation allows security teams to manage access efficiently across human, machine, and AI identities through one platform.
He elaborated that Teleport offers engineering and security teams critical tools, such as cryptographically-backed identities and session recording, to secure AI activities along with access and governance guardrails.
LLM and AI Interactions
Addressing a related concern, Frank Dickson, Group Vice President of Security & Trust at IDC, remarked on the challenges posed by the Model Context Protocol (MCP), which, despite becoming a standard for AI systems, was not initially developed with security considerations.
Teleport addresses this gap by integrating MCP support into its platform, which allows enterprises to monitor and authorize interactions between servers and large language models (LLMs). This integration provides organizations with a consistent set of identity and access controls across diverse environments, including databases, servers, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and various applications.
Teleport, a pioneering provider of identity security solutions for engineering and infrastructure teams, has been named an IDC Innovator in the IDC Innovators: Security for Agentic AI, 2025 (doc # US53737325, September 2025) report.
According to the report, “Teleport brings a pragmatic approach to securing agentic AI by embedding AI identity and access controls directly into its Infrastructure Identity Platform. For CISOs navigating the complexity of AI adoption, this means AI agents are governed with the same rigor as human and machine identities — no bolt-on solutions and no new silos.”
AI-specific tools
“Enterprise infrastructure already suffers from identity fragmentation, and this challenge will only intensify as AI adoption grows,” said Ev Kontsevoy, CEO of Teleport.
“Each new technology requires a different tool to manage access. Adding AI-specific tools that treat AI identities separately from human and machine identities will only create more blind spots for malicious actors to exploit.”
Engineering and security teams
Kontsevoy added, “We believe being named an IDC Innovator validates what we are doing at Teleport. Changing the way enterprises secure their identities by treating them all equally is making the industry more secure. By unifying human, machine, and AI identities into a single layer directly at the infrastructure level, security teams need only one system to manage access across all identity types."
Teleport's platform enables engineering and security teams to secure AI with cryptographically-backed identity, short-lived privileges, and audit-grade session recording. Teleport can further pair access and governance guardrails with observability, eliminating teams to identify and eliminate suspicious activity.
LLM and AI interactions
“Model Context Protocol is rapidly becoming the standard for connecting AI agents with the tools and data they need, but it was never designed with security in mind,” said Frank Dickson, Group Vice President, Security & Trust at IDC. “As enterprises adopt MCP to build AI systems, they need a way to ensure interactions between servers and LLMs are traceable and authorized. Teleport solves this need by integrating MCP support into its Infrastructure Identity Platform.”
Organizations can secure LLM and AI interactions with their databases, using the same platform that also secures servers, clouds, Kubernetes, Windows desktops, GitHub, and Web applications. This enables organizations to apply the same robust identity and access controls that govern human and machine identities to AI agents.
