# 6 Ways Shadow Access Creates Risk in Your Infrastructure

DevFeed: [6 Ways Shadow Access Creates Risk in Your Infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/6-ways-shadow-access-creates-risk-in-your-infrastructure-29851.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://goteleport.com/blog/six-ways-shadow-access-creates-risk-in-your-infrastructure/>)

Author: jpitts@goteleport.com (Jack Pitts)

Published: 2025-02-28T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Teleport](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/teleport.md>)

Topics: [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [backdoor](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backdoor.md>), [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ssh.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Kubernetes clusters](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes-clusters.md>)

Tags: [backdoor](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backdoor.md>), [breach](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/breach.md>), [compliance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compliance.md>), [credentials](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/credentials.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssh.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains shadow access: unauthorized or unmonitored infrastructure and application access created by unmanaged credentials, shared SSH keys, hard-coded API tokens, and undocumented backdoors. It describes the resulting security, breach, and compliance risks and presents Teleport as a way to address their root causes.

## Source excerpt

Shadow access is one of the most dangerous threats to your infrastructure. Learn what it is, where it comes from, and how Teleport eliminates its root causes.