BeyondTrust Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Privileged Identity Management Solutions, Q3 2025

The Forrester Wave™: Privileged Identity Management (PIM) Solutions, Q3 2025 report was just released—and we're excited to announce BeyondTrust was named a Leader!

In their 2025 PIM Wave report, Forrester emphasized a few key identity security market trends, including “Privileged identity management (PIM) solutions are undergoing a transformation as vendors move beyond traditional privileged access controls to providing more holistic identity security spanning human, machine, and AI agent identities.”

According to Forrester, today’s PIM vendors are increasingly focusing on proactive risk mitigation and operational efficiency through innovations, such as AI-driven threat detection, dynamic just-in-time (JIT) access, and privileged task automation—all while keeping essential capabilities around IT administrative access and audit compliance in mind.

Aside from receiving the highest score possible in 13 criteria in the report, we believe the following themes underscore why BeyondTrust was recognized by Forrester as a PIM Leader:

• Strong strategy and vision: Forrester cited our roadmap that features simplified privileged identity governance and AI-assisted intelligent access. They also recognized the strategic importance we place on partnerships and integrations.

• Cross-disciplinary identity security capabilities: We were also recognized for our wide range of capabilities, including privileged identity discovery, endpoint privilege management, cloud entitlement management, identity threat detection, and reporting and analytics . Our 2024 acquisition of Entitle for just-in-time access was also noted.

• Positive customer feedback: In addition, Forrester cited BeyondTrust customers’ firsthand experience with our solutions and services, noting our team’s identity security practitioner experience and level of responsiveness and transparency.

This year’s Forrester Wave for PIM report also recommended which capabilities prospective customers should consider when making a privileged identity management purchase decision. The report calls out three key ingredients of an effective PIM solution: just-in-time privileged access, unification, and integration to streamline operations, and features that enable audit compliance. We believe BeyondTrust’s offerings demonstrate each of their recommendations in the following ways:

Elimination of Standing Privileges

In their report, Forrester recommends PIM buyers prioritize finding a solution with just-in-time privileged access capabilities, stating that, “privilege is best when fleeting.”

A JIT access model is imperative today, as cloud and SaaS adoption inadvertently drive privileged identity sprawl. When excessive permissions and overprivileged standing access remain unchecked, they can quickly become pathways exploited by attackers to escalate privileges and move laterally.

BeyondTrust Entitle makes granular, just-in-time access easy across the cloud. Our solution provides controls for enabling self-serve privileged access and ensuring auto-revocation after a set duration or event (e.g., ticket resolution, on-call rotation, etc.).

Additionally, our Identity Security Insights® platform shines a light on direct and indirect pathways, such as always-on privileges or shadow permissions, that could become privilege escalation paths for attackers. By better understanding each identity’s True Privilege™ via graph visualizations, teams can see standing privileges, along with other potential areas of identity abuse, and remediate these risks.

Unification and Integration for Operational Efficiency.

According to the Forrester report, enterprises should aim to leverage identity security solutions that unify and integrate privileged identity discovery, governance, administration, and privileged task automations for a more comprehensive approach. Strong partnerships and integrations are also key ingredients here.

BeyondTrust facilitates this level of cross-disciplinary unification and integration with a suite of solutions that represent key identity security pillars, including modern privileged access management (PAM) capabilities, cloud entitlement and infrastructure management (CIEM), identity threat and detection response (ITDR), secrets management, and cloud identity management. The Pathfinder Platform combines all these capabilities within one cohesive console.

Additionally, Forrester noted in their report that “a robust partner ecosystem reflects the strategic importance that BeyondTrust places on partnerships and integrations.”

Comprehensive Audit Trail for Simplified Compliance.

The Forrester report noted that customers should look for PIM vendors that maintain compliance as a core competency, alongside introducing emerging capabilities. Organizations must have ways to prove compliance efforts and easily track incident investigations. A few examples of these foundational, audit-related functions include session management and monitoring, credential management, and endpoint privilege management.

BeyondTrust’s PIM offerings focused around privileged password management and endpoint privilege management empower organizations to comprehensively track and monitor activities across privileged endpoints, accounts, entitlements, passwords, and sessions. These insights from our Password Safe and Endpoint Privilege Management solutions also roll up into our Pathfinder platform, enabling teams to rapidly find and mitigate potential privilege pathways as early as possible.

As BeyondTrust looks to the future and keeps innovating on the breadth and depth of our solutions, our continued goals are clear: empowering organizations to protect the Paths to Privilege™ across their entire identity estate, while also creating a superior customer experience and enabling operational efficiencies.

Learn more about our recognition in this year’s Forrester Wave report.

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