A Multicategory Identity Security Leader

In 2025, BeyondTrust was recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for PAM, for the seventh time in a row.

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• Why Gartner® named BeyondTrust a Leader in the 2025 Magic Quadrant™
  
• How 12 PAM vendors were evaluated on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute
• Strengths and Cautions of BeyondTrust

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GigaOm's 2026 Radar for Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) report recognized BeyondTrust Pathfinder as both a Leader and Outperformer in the Innovation / Platform Play quadrants.

This report evaluated the capabilities of 22 CIEM solutions, including:

• Key features such as cloud identity threat detection and response, AI-enabled anomaly detection, automated least privilege, just-in-time (JIT) access, lifecycle entitlements governance and compliance, and automated remediation and right-sizing.
• Emerging features such non-human identity (NHI) management, ITDR integration, zero trust architecture integration, predictive access analytics, self-service access management, serverless container security support, AI runtime policy enforcement, and data privacy and user consent management.
• Business criteria such as configurability, flexibility, interoperability, manageability, and more.

In the 2025 report, KuppingerCole recognizes BeyondTrust as an Enterprise Secrets Management Leader across all four categories: Overall, Product, Innovation, and Market.

This research report highlights:

• Key secrets management market drivers and trends
• Essential and emerging secrets management capabilities covering humans and machines
• The 22 secrets management solution vendors evaluated and ranked

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Paths to Privilege™ are today's critical risk exposure points, enabling attackers to evade defenses, escalate access, and execute lateral movement. These paths may be hidden, deeply nested, or indirect, and are often missed by traditional security toolsets.

BeyondTrust's unique identity-centric approach not only focuses on securing and controlling all privileged access, but also on identifying and addressing the Paths to Privilege. With BeyondTrust, you can proactively reduce your identity attack surface and neutralize attacks with velocity and precision.

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