# Consolidating Identity-Based Access

DevFeed: [Consolidating Identity-Based Access](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/consolidating-identity-based-access-29704.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://goteleport.com/blog/identity-based-management/>)

Author: info@goteleport.com (Virag Mody)

Published: 2020-12-10T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

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

Topics: [Authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authorization.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Single sign-on (SSO)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sso.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dashboards.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>)

Tags: [authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authorization.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dashboards.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [identity-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/identity-management.md>), [jenkins](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jenkins.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [s3](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/s3.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [slack](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack.md>), [sso](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sso.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues for identity-based management that unifies access controls across cloud infrastructure. It describes the challenge of tracking users, secrets, sessions, and activity across servers, containers, databases, Kubernetes environments, and other resources, and highlights secret sprawl as a security risk.

## Source excerpt

Unify identity access controls across the entire stack with a single place to define, enforce, view, and manage global authorization.