Ep132: Security vs Productivity – Winning the AI Arms-Race with Teleport and AWS

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

Participants:

• Ev Kontsevoy – Co-Founder and CEO, Teleport

Further Links:

• Teleport Website
• Teleport AWS Marketplace

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