Cloud infrastructure access management startup Teleport today launched Teleport 13, a new version of its platform designed to bolster security and minimize operational tasks for DevOps teams managing cloud infrastructure.

With the release, Teleport is seeking to address the issue where the increasing complexity of cloud environments and their resulting larger attack surface is prompting cybercriminals to focus more on targeting user credentials and other secrets. Teleport argues that with the pressure to expedite software delivery, organizations struggle to balance speed and security.

Teleport 13 addresses these issues by eliminating the need for manual vulnerability patching and the ability to create a single entry point acting as a proxy for all network protocols. The company says that reduces the attack surface and simplifies remote access management.

The new release introduces automatic updates, transport layer security routing and new integrations. The automatic updates feature conducts regular vulnerability testing, self-updating and patching across the entire infrastructure, removing the need for security teams to track and patch vulnerabilities manually.

TLS routing in Teleport 13 now provides users with multiprotocol access via a single network address, a claimed first in the market in terms of application to infrastructure access. New integrations enable the import of applications and groups from Okta Inc. to Application Access, with Amazon Web Services Inc. OpenSearch support for database access.

Teleport 13 also includes the launch of the Teleport Team plan, a cost-effective solution that increases access management capabilities while reducing overhead. The plan has been designed for users who prefer the Teleport Open Source edition but prefer not to host it themselves.

“With Teleport 13, we are providing organizations with a fully managed system hosted by us, significantly improving DevOps productivity and eliminating unnecessary overhead of managing infrastructure access,” Ev Kontsevoy, co-founder and chief executive officer of Teleport, said ahead of the announcement. “Now, DevOps teams have a more affordable option that allows them to focus on higher-priority activities instead of being bogged down with manual work such as patching vulnerabilities themselves.”

Michael Ferranti, chief marketing officer of Teleport, spoke with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media Inc.’s livestreaming studio, in March, when he discussed that with the many tools developers need to do their job, managing things the likes of login access and identity consolidation is still quite cumbersome:

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