Teleport Named Winner of Three Cyber Defense Magazine InfoSec Awards for 2026

Teleport was named a winner of three Cyber Defense Magazine awards for 2026: Transformational Agentic Trust, Trailblazing Cybersecurity Identity Governance, and The Most Promising Identity Security. The Oakland-based infrastructure identity company announced the recognition on October 20, 2026, according to GlobeNewswire.

Teleport's Three Cyber Defense Magazine Awards

Teleport said the awards came in the 14th year of the Cyber Defense Awards, presented during CyberDefenseCon 2026. "We're thrilled to be a member of this coveted group of winners in the 14th year of Cyber Defense Awards, during CyberDefenseCon 2026," said Ev Kontesevy, CEO and co-founder of Teleport. "We knew the competition would be tough and with top judges who are leading infosec experts from around the globe, we couldn't be more pleased."

Gary S. Miliefsky, publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine, said Teleport "embodies three major features we judges look for: understanding tomorrow's threats, today, providing a cost-effective solution and innovating in unexpected ways that can help mitigate cyber risk and get one step ahead of the next breach." Cyber Defense Magazine announced the winners of its 14th annual Top Global CISOs, Top InfoSec Innovators, and Black Unicorn Awards at CyberDefenseCon 2026, according to PR Newswire.

Teleport said the recognition reflects accelerating enterprise demand for infrastructure identity. As AI agents join humans, machines, and workloads in production infrastructure, the number of identities is growing exponentially, the company said. Teleport establishes a unified identity layer in which every actor receives a cryptographic identity anchored to a hardware root of trust, with short-lived privileges that expire on task completion.

Teleport's Funding and Prior Recognition

Teleport, founded in 2015 and headquartered in Oakland, provides a unified infrastructure identity platform that uses short-lived cryptographic certificates and zero-trust access to replace VPNs, SSH keys, and static secrets for humans, machines, and AI agents, according to akta.pro company records. The same records show the company serves more than 120 enterprise customers across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments, with total funding of $169.2 million and a last round in May 2022. Teleport won the Most Innovative Identity and Access Management Platform category at The Hacker News 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards in June 2026, the same records show.

Teleport's Recent Product and Partnership Moves

In August 2026, Cisco partnered with Teleport to embed identity-based infrastructure access management across its product portfolio, with Matt Caulfield, Cisco's vice president of product and identity, saying the investment amount was not disclosed, Network World reported. Teleport also expanded its Infrastructure Identity Platform to include Linux Desktop as a protected resource, applying cryptographic identity and least-privilege access controls, according to SiliconANGLE. In July 2026, Teleport expanded its Identity Security platform with three new capabilities, Beams Session Summaries, Agentic Classifiers, and Risk Scoring, designed to monitor and prevent misalignment in autonomous AI agents, Help Net Security reported.

What Comes Next for Teleport

Teleport said the full list of the Top InfoSec Innovators for 2026 is published on the Cyber Defense Awards platform. The company's website is goteleport.com.