--- title: "Identity Everywhere: Bringing Infrastructure Identity to Agentic IT" url: https://daily.dev/posts/identity-everywhere-bringing-infrastructure-identity-to-agentic-it-5s4srpqx5 source_url: https://blogs.cisco.com/security/identity-everywhere-bringing-infrastructure-identity-to-agentic-it type: article source: "Cisco" published: 2026-08-25T13:05:17.376Z updated: 2026-08-25T13:06:24.385Z tags: ["ai-agents"] reading_time: 6 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Identity Everywhere: Bringing Infrastructure Identity to Agentic IT **[Cisco](https://daily.dev/sources/cisco)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cisco and Teleport are forming a strategic partnership, with Cisco becoming Teleport's largest strategic investor, to build 'Infrastructure Identity' - a cryptographic, identity-native access model meant to replace vaults and standing credentials. The approach ties short-lived, task-scoped privileges to every human and machine actor, including AI agents, aiming to eliminate anonymous computing and reduce blast radius during security incidents. The first use case targets privileged access for network and infrastructure administrators, with Cisco contributing network context and Teleport brokering and recording sessions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is the Cisco and Teleport partnership about? Cisco and Teleport announced a strategic partnership focused on deep technology integration, licensing, and investment, with Cisco becoming Teleport's largest strategic investor. The partnership introduces 'Infrastructure Identity,' a cryptographic model that replaces standing credentials and vaults with short-lived, identity-native access brokered and recorded by Teleport, starting with privileged access for network and infrastructure administrators. _daily.dev surfaces coverage like this for teams evaluating identity-native alternatives to vault-based access._ ### How does Infrastructure Identity differ from traditional privileged access management vaults? Traditional privileged access management vaults protect a standing secret that can be checked out and reused, creating a high-value target and encouraging workarounds when access is too slow. Infrastructure Identity instead evaluates whether a specific actor should be allowed to perform a specific action right now, issuing short-lived cryptographic access tied to the task rather than a durable, shareable credential. _Teams weighing vault replacements can track how identity-native access models evolve on daily.dev._ --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/identity-everywhere-bringing-infrastructure-identity-to-agentic-it-5s4srpqx5)