Securing the Mission with BeyondTrust Identity Security for Government

The BeyondTrust Pathfinder Platform and Identity Security Insights® are now available on the FedRAMP® Marketplace under the designation BeyondTrust Identity Security for Government.

This milestone, which represents the latest expansion of BeyondTrust’s FedRAMP-authorized cloud portfolio, underscores BeyondTrust’s deep commitment to providing U.S. public sector and government-adjacent organizations with a comprehensive control plane for privileged access management so they can strengthen their identity security and zero trust initiatives with proven, enterprise-grade solutions.

Trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises, leading cybersecurity peers, and government agencies across all 50 states and all civilian federal agencies, as well as pioneers in identity security and privileged access management, BeyondTrust now extends unified identity and privilege protection to the agencies that defend our national interests from identity-based threats.

Read on to learn how this authorization reinforces government cybersecurity goals and advances zero trust by securing AI agents and managing privileged access across every identity.

FedRAMP Moderate authorization reflects the successful completion of 421 rigorous security controls defined by the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) and derived from NIST SP 800-53. These controls span 17 control families, covering access control, auditing, incident response, encryption, continuous monitoring, configuration management, and more.

The addition to the existing FedRAMP authorization to operate (ATO) confirms that the Pathfinder Platform and Identity Security Insights, along with the other solutions available under the BeyondTrust Identity Security for Government designation, meet the government’s most stringent cloud security standards for FedRAMP compliance. It also means BeyondTrust’s solutions uphold the highest standards for confidentiality, integrity, and availability. With pride and purpose, BeyondTrust stands alongside our government partners to defend complex supply chains from adversaries and nation-state threats—ensuring that identity, access, and privilege remain secure and addressing the unique and complex security requirements of government agencies.

By uniting Privileged Access Management (PAM) and Identity Security under a single framework, the BeyondTrust Pathfinder Platform creates a unified defense against identity-based threats across hybrid and cloud environments.

While leveraging FedRAMP-approved identity security solutions establishes a strong security foundation, understanding how privilege is gained, used, and potentially exploited within these environments is equally critical to protecting federal missions.

Every breach begins with infiltration, but a compromised privileged credential is one of the most sought-after targets for attackers because of the high-value access they provide.

In security, privilege is the right an identity holds to perform critical actions, like modifying configurations or accessing sensitive systems. When attackers compromise these rights, they can move laterally and gain control. Paths to Privilege™ is BeyondTrust’s framework for understanding how human, machine, and AI identities gain, use, and elevate access. This model exposes both visible privileges (the “known knowns”) and hidden exposures that attackers exploit (the “unknown unknowns”).

Through Identity Security Insights, agencies and organizations can map privilege relationships, uncover inherent privileges, visualize lateral movement paths, and eliminate excessive permissions. This process transforms hidden exposures into measurable resilience. Within 24 hours of deployment, 80% of agencies using Identity Security Insights identified escalation paths they didn’t know existed.

• Privilege Management: Eliminate dormant or excessive entitlements and prevent privilege creep.

• Zero Trust: Implement zero trust for federal agencies by continuously verifying and adapting access across hybrid and AI-driven systems.

• AI & Machine Governance: Secure non-human identities and service accounts that power automation and AI workflows. This includes robust AI agent security to detect shadow AI and bring unmanaged automation under control.

• MITRE ATT&CK Mapping: Interactively trace adversary behavior (from reconnaissance to impact) with full visibility, accelerating investigation and response.

• Compliance: Simplify reporting and audit preparation for FedRAMP, FISMA, and OMB requirements.

Our priority is fighting for our customers’ security. While AI is rewriting the future of work, it is also reshaping the future of risk. AI agents are introducing new identity escalation paths that attackers can exploit for unauthorized access. Furthermore, many of these agents operate with excessive privileges or access sensitive data, creating unseen vulnerabilities that must be urgently addressed.

This is why having effective AI agent security in place is important. BeyondTrust Identity Security Insights was purpose-built for the AI era, with new capabilities that illuminate and manage AI adoption—ensuring it remains secure, governed, and audit-ready. Insights now provides unified visibility across human, machine, and AI-driven identities, detecting anomalies, privilege misuse, and access drift in real time.

The OMB M-25-21 memorandum and the American AI Initiative call for agencies to accelerate AI adoption while ensuring governance, transparency, and trust. BeyondTrust’s approach aligns with this mandate through newly-added agentic AI security capabilities for government teams:

• Discovery and Risk Scoring: Scan and catalog AI agents across cloud and SaaS environments to expose shadow AI.

• Continuous Paths to Privilege Monitoring: Detect when AI or automation tools request access beyond their intended scope.

• Anomaly Detection for AI Identities: Identify drift or privilege misuse by AI assistants, bots, and orchestration platforms.

• Adaptive Response: Automatically revoke, tighten, or adjust privilege when conditions change—keeping agents under governance while preserving productivity and resilience.

The addition of the Pathfinder Platform and Identity Security Insights follows last year’s FedRAMP Moderate designation for Secure Remote Access—a key step in our comprehensive strategy to bring all major BeyondTrust cloud products into the FedRAMP framework and GovCloud.

With BeyondTrust Identity Security for Government, agencies are now armed with intelligent privilege management and continuous identity visibility across all human, machine, and AI-driven workflows—advancing security resilience, compliance confidence, and mission readiness.