BeyondTrust - Secure Remote Access and Privileged Access Management

Address Top OT Security Threats

Cyberattacks on operational technology (OT), including critical infrastructure, are increasing as systems become more interconnected. For instance, a 2025 OT / ICS report found ransomware attacks surged 87% over the previous year. Such threats underscore the need for modern OT security that defends key systems, but without slowing down operations.

Common OT security risks include:

Environments

Convergence of IT and OT

As workers and third-party vendors increasingly use their own devices to connect remotely to OT, risk also increases. VPNs often can't provide the granular protection needed for this 'BYOD' remote access.
Credentials

Poor password security

Lax password practices contributed to many high-profile OT breaches in recent years. Often, credentials get shared with employees and vendors, and default and embedded passwords are left exposed.
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Unsegmented networks

Many industrial organizations lack granular network segmentation at the application and system layers. Overly-permissive network access heightens the risk of lateral movement and unauthorized activities.
Visibility

Security blind spots

As IT-OT integrations increase, organizations struggle to gain a full view of connected systems and their different connectivity methods. This increases the likelihood of attacks or anomalies occurring unseen.

Balance OT Security and Productivity

BeyondTrust's OT security solutions enable organizations to secure operational technology, including industrial networks and critical infrastructure, without disrupting productivity, compromising safety, or risking non-compliance.

  • Gain visibility and control over OT remote access, including vendor access

  • Onboard and manage all privileged identities, accounts, and credentials (passwords, SSH keys, secrets, etc.) for humans and machines

  • Enforce least privilege over access, endpoints, and sessions, including supporting a just-in-time (JIT) access model across cyber-physical systems

  • Enable network segmentation and micro segmentation to limit lateral movement risk

  • Implement OT-specific security best practices for vendor access, including credential management, least privilege, and session management

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Apply Zero Trust Remote Access for OT

BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access enables organizations to secure industrial networks, while allowing the use of local tools to maintain user workflows. Our solution provides identity-secure, least-privilege remote access to simplify deployments, ensure maximum scalability, and empower remote operators and vendors to be productive. Connect to any device via the GUI or protocol—from anywhere.

The BeyondTrust product is purpose-built to secure OT environments, and provides flexible protocol / UDP tunneling support and enables peer path optimization. It secures access to custom, non-routable, and legacy systems without requiring broad network exposure.

Privileged Remote Access secures OT systems by:

  • Enforcing the principle of least privilege for remote access sessions

  • Implementing a JIT access model to drastically limit access and threat windows

  • Treating managed devices with the same level of trust as an unmanaged device – which is zero

  • Providing application access independent of network access

  • Recording all activities performed using remote access and disabling functionality such as copy/paste

  • Enabling API security to protect the integrity of data being sent from IoT devices to back-end systems

  • Encrypting all communications between the user and the remote systems using TLS 1.3.

Applying the granularity of Privileged Remote Access to achieve Zero Trust objectives ensures all access is appropriate, managed, and documented, regardless of how the perimeter has been redefined.

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"Our use case (with BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access) only touches the tip of the iceberg of what we can be doing…We've been searching for a long time for a partner that could help us with different types of issues we have in the OT environment, and BeyondTrust is it for us."

—VP of Industrial Cyber and Digital Security, Global Industrial Automation Company

“BeyondTrust was among those topping the Gartner rankings and validated all of our use cases. While other PAM vendors could also check some boxes, BeyondTrust’s Privileged Remote Access solution also offers the benefit of being extremely simple to use and deploy.”

—Benjamin Serre, Global CTO, MANE

VPN vs. Privileged Remote Access for Operational Technology

Replacing your corporate VPN with Privileged Remote Access enables operators, suppliers, or third-party vendors to securely access OT environments, eliminate remote access blind spots, and reduce the attack surface, while driving productivity gains. Privileged Remote Access Network Tunnels can also be leveraged as a Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solution to secure OT environments.

Segregate IT and OT Networks

With Privileged Remote Access, maintain logical and physical network separation for OT remote access, in compliance with the Purdue Model.

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Onboard and Secure All Human & Non-Human / Machine Identities

BeyondTrust Password Safe® is the most comprehensive enterprise password management solution and can ensure all accounts and credentials associated with any privileged access are onboarded and secured. The product's comprehensive API unlocks high levels of automation and efficiency, while helping reduce OT risks. With Password Safe, benefit from:

  • Continuous discovery, onboarding, and management of passwords, secrets, and SSH keys

  • Credential injection into sessions, masking them from end users

  • Credential vaulting and rotating for OT devices

  • Removal of standing privileges

  • Support extended to legacy platforms and non-human accounts (app2app, services, databases etc.)

  • Break-glass access to credentials in case of unexpected solution downtime

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“[Password Safe] now provides comprehensive identity security capabilities across the company. Security has been further strengthened by bifurcating user access rights. This means that if access to one application is compromised, it does not allow an attacker to gain access to other applications. The result is higher resilience and greater protection of assets.”

—Mateen Sayyed, Regional Head of Identity & Access Management, Ninja Van Group

Enforce Least Privilege Across Every OT User, Device, & System

BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management helps you quickly harden OT security, while maintaining user productivity and operations uptime. Protect endpoints across Windows, macOS, Unix, and Linux systems, as well as non-traditional endpoints, such as network devices, IoT / IIoT, ICS systems, virtual machines, and other OT systems and devices.

  • Lock down your environment by removing admin rights across workstations and servers and enforcing a strict allow list for supported terminals

  • Eliminate standing privileges and implement the principle of least privilege and a just-in-time access model across cyber-physical systems

  • Prevent accidental misconfigurations and other errors

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"BeyondTrust provides a powerful platform that allows us to streamline and standardize application control and privileged management across our entire organization. Our people are smarter and better protected, and that's great news for our business."

—Dan Bartlett, Senior Consultant, Ramboll

Take the Free OT Cybersecurity Assessment

Use this assessment to identify potential security risks across your OT environment, and the appropriate security controls you should have in place to protect ICS / SCADA / OT systems and enable compliance.

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Powerful OT Security Partner Integrations

Least Privilege slate
Tenable.ot and BeyondTrust
Enables organizations to implement least privilege access across their OT environment, allowing users – including vendors – only the access appropriate to do their jobs.
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BeyondTrust, Tenable.ot, and Ping Identity
Enables organizations to block access to OT devices from all assets (Windows, Linux, Mac), and to enable a just-in-time model to enable legitimate access.
Collaboration slate
ServiceNow and BeyondTrust
Allows organizations to create a single system of record and action for their OT environment, improving security, uptime and driving outcomes across your manufacturing operations.
Threat slate
BeyondTrust, SailPoint, and Tenable.ot
Combines to provide immediate insight into all accounts, entitlements, policies, and actions across all of your entire enterprise OT environment to ensure access always adheres to security and compliance protocols.

Talk to an OT Security Expert

Contact us to learn more improving security for access, sessions, and identities across your IT/OT environment.
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