BeyondTrust Wins Top Identity Security Honors at 2025 InfoSec Innovator Awards with Groundbreaking Identity Security Risk Assessment Offering

Atlanta, GA – October 28, 2025 — BeyondTrust, the global leader in identity security protecting Paths to Privilege™, today announced it has been named a winner in Cyber Defense Magazine’s (CDM) 13th Annual Top InfoSec Innovators 2025 awards in the Identity Security category for its AI-powered Identity Security Risk Assessment.

“After being named among the finalists for this award earlier this year, we are honored to have now been named a winner by Cyber Defense Magazine,” said Sam Elliott, Senior Vice President of Products at BeyondTrust. “This award validates our vision that identity security must advance from theoretical talk to actionable, precise insight. As threat actors increasingly weaponize AI and pivot attacks through compromised accounts, our goal is to empower defenders with clarity, identifying real risk paths, prioritizing fixes, and closing gaps before they can be exploited.”

Finalists for this prestigious recognition were presented during Black Hat USA 2025, placing BeyondTrust alongside other top cybersecurity innovators. Now, this top distinction, announced during CyberDefenseCon 2025, not only reinforces BeyondTrust’s position as a clear industry leader, but also validates the capability of their advanced identity security innovations to help organizations identify and remediate hidden identity and privilege risks across complex environments before attackers exploit them.

BeyondTrust’s Identity Security Risk Assessment is delivered as a free, cloud-native, zero-installation service. Within 24 hours, organizations receive a prioritized, adversary-modeled view of their identity attack surface across on-premises and cloud domains (e.g. Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta, Ping). The assessment has been expanded to provide immediate visibility into agentic AI risks, helping organizations understand how shadow AI activity impacts their identity security posture. Built on the BeyondTrust Identity Security Insights® platform, the service now delivers a holistic view of identity and AI-related threats, with 30 days of continuous monitoring to surface new risks as they emerge.

According to industry research, compromised credentials have surged 160% in 2025 alone. Today, more than ever, adversaries focus on identity, making identity security a critical battleground for defenders. And with the rise of agentic AI, the stakes have never been higher.

“Cyber Defense Magazine is proud to name BeyondTrust among the Top InfoSec Innovators of 2025 in the Identity Security category,” said Gary S. Miliefsky, Publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine. “Their AI-powered Identity Security Risk Assessment exemplifies the type of breakthrough we seek: a solution that spots real threats before they manifest, is cost-effective and scalable, and gives security teams the power to act rather than just observe. BeyondTrust’s innovation sets a new standard for identity defense.”

By lowering barriers to entry (no agents, no long deployments, no cost), BeyondTrust aims to make advanced identity risk discovery and remediation available to organizations of all sizes, especially for organizations that might lack resources to adopt expensive identity security solutions upfront.

To access a complimentary Identity Security Risk Assessment, visit: https://www.beyondtrust.com/resources/research/identity-security-risk-assessment

The full list of the Top InfoSec Innovators for 2025 is available on the Cyber Defense Awards site: https://cyberdefenseawards.com/top-infosec-innovator-awards-2025-categories