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Use Cases

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Continuous Identity Assessment and Monitoring
Assess and monitor identity security posture, including human and non-human identities, privileges, configurations, and potential escalation paths.
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Identity Security Posture Hardening
Proactively enhance identity security posture by understanding and addressing risks with prescriptive recommendations and integrated PAM controls.
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Privilege Abuse & Threat Detection
Proactively detect anomalous activities such as privileged accounts under active attack, manipulation of IdP configuration, and privilege escalation.

Core Features

Think like an attacker, defend like a pro across your identity estate.

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Unified Identity Insights Dashboard

Gain a complete view of identity security posture—identities, accounts, effective privileges, escalation paths, and threats—from a single lens.

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True Privilege™ Graph

See the effective privileges of any identity, including how attackers can exploit obscure interconnections between accounts, privileges, and configurations to escalate privileges.

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AI/ML-based Detections & Recommendations

Proactively detect the abuse of privileges and identity infrastructure. Leverage context-rich recommendations to understand and remediate risks.

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Seamless Enterprise Security Integrations

Leverage out-of-the-box integrations with SIEM, SOAR, and ITSM for further correlation and response, or build custom integrations for extensibility.

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Pre-built Reports with Quick Insights

Further analyze non-human accounts, effective privileges, local accounts, endpoint access, risky SSH keys, policy deviations, and trends.

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Integrated PAM Controls

Use PAM controls like Just-in-Time access to proactively eliminate excessive privileges, block vendor and guest accounts, and enforce least privilege.

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Quick Deployment and Results

Get up and running in less than an hour with native connectors. Gain actionable findings paired with rich context, within a day.

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Intelligent, Cloud-Native Platform

Leverage a cloud-native, data-driven platform. Gain broad visibility, deep context, and advanced analysis to stop sophisticated identity threats.

“BeyondTrust Identity Security Insights has been a huge help for us in the SOC when it comes to consolidating all our different identity-based log sources into a single platform with prebuilt alerts and flags. Identity Security Insights has greatly helped us identify and prioritize what needs addressed first.”

—Security Operations Supervisor, Large State Agency

Product Highlights

Insights Cross Domain Visibility

Broad visibility—endpoints, servers, cloud services, IdPs, DevOps, PAM

Identity Security Insights® offers expansive, continuous assessment of your identity security posture—across endpoints, servers, cloud services, DevOps systems, IdPs, and more. The product analyzes vast amounts of identity data from diverse sources, including Active Directory, Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory), Ping, Okta, Atlassian, GitHub, AWS, GCP, and many others, along with BeyondTrust identity security products. This analysis goes far beyond surface-level permissions or relying on data from password vaults.

It's your first step towards a holistic understanding and prioritization of your greatest identity security risks. By constantly monitoring changes and activities across your evolving environments, it helps prevent the accumulation of risks and unintended privileges over time.

View your identity security posture from an attacker’s lens. Proactively uncover hidden risks and exploitable escalation paths to avoid incidents.

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Insights Paths to Privilege

Gain identity security intelligence like no other

The product’s groundbreaking True Privilege Graph illuminates all the entitlements and escalation pathways of human, workload, and machine identities across your organization. Benefit from a visual representation, paired with intelligence in context, showing how attackers might exploit hidden connections between accounts, privileges, and configurations to gain elevated access.

Our sophisticated AI/ML analysis connects identity data—like configurations, states, authentication methods, synchronization, and security controls—to offer a comprehensive view of interconnected risks. This uncovers effective privileges and accounts with direct and indirect privilege pathways, allowing for swift action.

BeyondTrust’s true privilege capability bridges a critical and widespread gap across identity security deployments. Now organizations can also expand PAM controls beyond just directly privileged accounts to also cover how human and non-human identities access privilege.

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Insights AI ML powered recommendations

Proactively reduce your attack surface

Gain deep visibility into both human and machine identities, including AI agents and automated workloads. Insights helps you discover, classify, and continuously monitor privileged access by AI entities, supporting AI Trust, Risk, and Security Management (TRiSM) best practices.

Quickly identify and address identity risks such as a service account in a Domain Administrator’s group, a dormant Admin account with a stale password, or a privileged account without MFA. Gain a clear understanding of both the risk and how to resolve it with clear contextualized guidance.

Identity Security Insights also proactively detects anomalous or excessive, True Privilege granted to AI agents and ensures every AI-driven action is aligned with your privileged access policies and intent. The product enables rapid remediation by providing deep context and integrating with PAM and other toolsets to apply effective controls.

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Insights Integrations

Enable a proactive, extensible identity security approach

Identity Security Insights integrates seamlessly with your enterprise security and incident response tools, streamlining processes for a more extensible, proactive approach to identity security. Your IT, security, and IAM teams can automatically receive real-time updates about critical findings, recommendations, and detections within their familiar tools. This enables faster response, improved productivity, and further data correlation for a deeper context.

Our growing range of integrations includes:

  • SIEM, ITSM, and SOC tools like Splunk, ServiceNow, and JIRA

  • Collaboration tools like Slack and Teams

  • Automation and orchestration platforms like Ping DaVinci and AWS

  • Identity governance tools like SailPoint.

You can also build custom integrations using Webhooks to meet your unique needs.

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Insights out of the box

Easily uncover key identity issues and trends with pre-configured reports

Uncover critical identity trends and issues with our intuitive, ready-to-use reporting—no setup required. These reports offer deep insights into your potential vulnerabilities and escalation paths.

  • Uncover non-human accounts, including service accounts, Entra ID service principals, domain accounts, and the entities using them.

  • View directory and local accounts running services, scheduled tasks, and IIS application pools, including privilege and compensating controls.

  • Gain visibility into risky SSH keys and unmanaged users with excessive privileges.

  • Get a summary of your identity security posture, including identities, accounts, and entitlements.

  • Monitor detections and recommendations to track trends over time and spot emerging threats.

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A one-platform approach to Identity Security

The BeyondTrust Pathfinder Platform unites our best of breed security solutions (including Identity Security Insights) under a single login, delivering a streamlined experience that enhances operational agility, while also bringing shared, intelligent context across all our products to unlock powerful synergies. With our integrated Pathfinder platform, customers can benefit from the broad and deep capabilities reflected in our multicategory identity security leadership, and leverage the fastest time-to-value via a unified approach to manage their entire identity attack surface.

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"We hooked up Insights, got all of our connectors in and it was up and running in 30 minutes. Within two hours, we had recommendations and detections in our environment that were actionable, and not only that, we saw a significant reduction in false positives."

—Anna Essex, Sr. Security Analyst, Polsinelli

"The biggest thing that I’ve been excited about with Identity Security Insights is that you’re looking at my Okta. [BeyondTrust] is also the only one that has access to this kind of information across all my servers and my employees. I don’t have a tool collecting that local information other than BeyondTrust's solutions. There’s a lot that [BeyondTrust] can show me that no one else can.”

—Manager of Information Security, Leading American Paint Manufacturer

“We are leveraging BeyondTrust Identity Security Insights to enhance our other security products through BeyondTrust webhooks. These webhooks automate actions, allowing us to quickly respond if a user account is flagged for potential compromise. We can shut down sessions, rotate passwords, and more."

—Anna Essex, Sr. Security Analyst, Polsinelli

Ready for the Next Step?

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Request our free Identity Security Risk Assessment

See True Privileges for the first time, and gain a thorough understanding of your identity security posture.

  • Get Identity Security Insights connected to your identity landscape in under an hour—IdPs, cloud platforms, on-premises Active Directory, Entra ID, SaaS

  • Uncover your entire identity attack surface from the lens of an attacker—within 24 hours

  • Get continuous monitoring of your environment against threats, including abuse of privileges and indirect escalation paths, for 30 days

Enhance Your Results

See beyond what’s protected. Stop the abuse of hidden privileges and potential escalation paths with Password Safe.
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Extend privileged access management best practices for remote access to vendors, internal remote workers, and infrastructure.
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FAQs

Sign up to request our complimentary Identity Security Risk Assessment to understand and improve your identity security posture.

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True Privilege™ encompasses all the entitlements and escalation pathways of an identity / identities. It reveals the actual, effective access an identity (human, machine, or workload) holds within an IT environment.

Paths to Privilege™ are ways an identity or account can gain elevated access. These pathways could be hidden or indirect, and can arise from identity misconfigurations, entitlement sprawl, and more.

True Privilege and Paths to Privilege are important modern identity security concepts, as organizations need to think beyond direct (traditional) privilege to understand and address all the pathways that could lead to elevated access, even across domains.

By understanding True Privilege and seeing Paths to Privilege, organizations can extend PAM and use other mitigations to prevent or stop unwanted privilege escalation that threat actors exploit outside the purview of traditional identity security tools.

EDR tools are effective at catching malware on endpoints, but they leave a crucial door unguarded: identity! This is where Identity Security Insights steps in, complimenting your existing EDR strategy by filling the identity gap.

Identity Security Insight goes beyond endpoints to provide a comprehensive view of your entire identity landscape. This includes on-premises systems, cloud platforms, SaaS applications, BeyondTrust products, and identity providers.

Our purpose-built data lake ingests and analyzes vast amounts of identity data from a growing range of sources. This enables our AI and machine learning models to uncover hidden connections between accounts, entitlements, privileges, configurations, and potential privilege escalation paths that attackers can exploit.

With accurate recommendations, detections, and deep context, you can proactively harden your security posture, mitigate risks, and stop attackers in their tracks.

Identity Security Insights compliments your existing SIEM and other security solutions, enriching SIEM/SOC functions with rich context around identities and privileges and potential escalation paths. While our solution integrates seamlessly with your SIEM, SOAR, and other SOC solutions, it transcends simple augmentation. It marks a paradigm shift: true identity-centric security that overcomes the data deluge to deliver granular visibility and proactive defense.

Unlike SIEMs that rely on noisy event logs and require experts to interpret complex data, Identity Security Insights leverages a modern cloud-native platform and AI/ML engine to automatically analyze a wider range of identity data across all your environments. Deep analysis enables prescriptive recommendations to harden your security posture, as well as provide rich detections to identify potential privilege abuse and threats to your identity fabric.

Identity Security Insights goes beyond traditional Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) capabilities to offer a broader and more holistic approach to securing your entire identity landscape.

Traditional (CIEM) solutions primarily target cloud platforms, leaving blind spots in your SaaS and on-premises environments, and modern application environments. For example, implementing least privilege access across AWS alone is insufficient, when a misconfigured AD can allow hackers to escalate privileges across domains to breach your entire environment.

Identity Security Insights offers a comprehensive view across your entire identity fabric—multiple clouds (AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure), on-premises (Microsoft Active Directory), IdPs (Okta, Ping, Entra ID) and SaaS applications. This approach enables you to understand where privileges exist, how they are connected, where controls are lacking, and where they may be abused across the organization.

With deep context, you can easily identify and address privilege risks: unusual and sweeping privileges, unused app assignments, and risky or suspicious manipulation of privileges across all environments, not just clouds. This rich and unique data is not simply collected for customers to report and browse on, but also serves as the backbone of our deep ability to detect and prevent the misuse of identities and privileges.

KuppingerCole has recognized BeyondTrust as an ITDR Leader across all categories—Innovation, Product, Market, and an Overall Leader—through our platform and Identity Security Insights. In their report, KuppingerCole noted that "BeyondTrust’s approach to ITDR is uniquely platform agnostic".

Identity Security Insights solves for ITDR by taking a proactive and holistic approach to prevent, detect, and respond to identity-driven threats.

Prevent Attacks on Identity Systems

Identity Security Insights helps you improve your identity hygiene and harden your security posture with prescriptive recommendations that not only pinpoint the risks across your environment, but also explain the “why” behind them.

Detect Identity-Driven Threats & Active Attacks

Prevention is a must, but prevention controls alone are insufficient to stop a cyberattack. Identity threats can bypass preventative controls to damage the identity infrastructure.

Identity Security Insights continuously analyzes and monitors vast amounts of data about user behavior, access patterns, common attacker tactics and techniques, indicators of compromise, and anomalies to automatically detect threats driven by the abuse of identities, privileges, and identity infrastructures. When new attack methods emerge, Identity Security Insights' AI/ML models automatically adapt to detect modern attacks.

Respond to Identity-Driven Risks & Threats

Compared to other types of threat response approaches, ITDR requires much more interoperability with IAM tools. Identity Security Insights plugs and plays with your existing ecosystem like SIEM, SOAR, ticketing, and collaboration tools via direct integrations and webhooks for streamlined incident response and faster resolution. BeyondTrust customers can also leverage integrated PAM controls from Identity Security Insights to take swift and effective actions to contain and remediate identity and privilege-driven threats.

Learn how Identity Security Insights and BeyondTrust Password Safe integrate to detect and respond to threats. Watch the video now.

October 2, 2023, Identity Security Insights detected an attacker trying to access an internal Okta admin account with a valid session cookie stolen from Okta support. We then alerted Okta to the breach nearly three weeks before their public acknowledgment.

What did Identity Security Insights detect and alert on during the attack?

  • Okta session hijacking

  • Okta user performed administrative action using a proxy

  • Okta admin privileges were granted to a user

  • Okta password health report generated

  • Okta user with some level of admin access uses MFA vulnerable to SIM swapping


How did BeyondTrust successfully defend against the attack?

The Okta administrator’s account was protected with FIDO2 authentication, and policies within BeyondTrust’s Okta only allowed access to the admin console from managed devices with Okta Verify installed.

Our own instance of BeyondTrust’s Identity Security Insights, and tailored detections from our security teams, alerted us to several aspects of the intrusion. We immediately disabled the backdoor user account, revoked the attacker’s access before the account could be used, and prevented any further actions.



Timeline of the attack and response

  • October 2, 2023 – BeyondTrust detected and remediated an identity-centric attack on an in-house Okta administrator account and alerted Okta

  • October 3, 2023 – Asked Okta support to escalate to Okta security team given initial forensics pointing to a compromise within the Okta support organization

  • October 11, 2023 and October 13, 2023 – Held Zoom sessions with Okta security team to explain why we believed they might be compromised

  • October 19, 2023 – Okta security leadership confirmed they had an internal breach

  • November, 29, 2023 – Okta published an updated disclosure revealing the attacker had impacted all Okta customer support system users

Learn more about the attack and how to improve your Okta security:

Webinar: A Post Breach Analysis: Okta Support Unit, with BeyondTrust's Marc Maiffret, Chief Technology Officer; James Maude, Director of Research

Blog: Okta Support Unit Breach Update & Security Implications

Blog: BeyondTrust Discovers Breach of Okta Support Unit