# Privileged Access for Modern Infrastructure: The Top Four Challenges

DevFeed: [Privileged Access for Modern Infrastructure: The Top Four Challenges](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/privileged-access-for-modern-infrastructure-the-top-four-challenges-29946.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://goteleport.com/blog/top-four-privileged-access-challenges-modern-infrastructure/>)

Author: info@goteleport.com (Eddie Glenn)

Published: 2024-11-22T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>), [MFA](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mfa.md>)

Tags: [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [cloud-native](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-native.md>), [credentials](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/credentials.md>), [cryptographic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cryptographic.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [mfa](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mfa.md>), [passwords](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/passwords.md>), [secrets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/secrets.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>)

## AI overview

The article examines four privileged-access challenges created by modern cloud-native infrastructure, focusing on credential and access sprawl, static secrets, rotation, storage, and management risks. It presents Teleport's approach of using cryptographic identity and per-session MFA instead of long-lived credentials.

## Source excerpt

Discover the top four challenges of legacy PAM tools in modern infrastructure environments and how to solve them.