Teleport Co-Founder and CEO Ev Kontsevoy discusses the security vs productivity trade-off that plagues growing companies and how Teleport's trusted computing model protects against the exponential growth of cybersecurity threats.
Topics Include:
- Teleport CEO explains how to make infrastructure "nearly unhackable" through trusted computing
- Traditional security vs productivity trade-off: high security kills team efficiency
- Companies buy every security solution but still get told they're at risk
- Why "crown jewels" thinking fails: computers should protect everything at scale
- Modern infrastructure has too many access paths to enumerate and secure
- Apple's PCC specification shows trusted computing working in real production environments
- AI revolutionizes both offensive and defensive cybersecurity capabilities for everyone
- 80% of companies can't guarantee they've removed all ex-employee access
- Identity fragmentation across systems creates anonymous relationships and security gaps
- Human error probability grows exponentially as companies scale in three dimensions
- Your laptop already demonstrates trusted computing: seamless access without constant logins
- Apple ecosystem shows device trust at scale through secure enclaves
- AI agents need trusted identities just like humans and machines
- AWS marketplace partnership accelerates deals and provides strategic account insights
- Hire someone who understands partnership dynamics before starting with AWS
- Generative AI will make identity attacks cheaper and faster than ever
- Security responsibility shifting from IT teams to platform engineering teams
- Teleport's "steady state invariant": infrastructure locked down except during authorized work
- Temporary access granted through tickets, then automatically revoked after completion
- Legacy systems and IoT devices require extending trust models beyond cloud-native
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