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Least Privilege Defense-in-Depth from BeyondTrust

  • Minimize your attack surface by enforcing least privilege everywhere
  • Harden your entire environment to improve security, operations, and auditability
  • Achieve rapid ROI and enhance productivity with an integrated approach

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Piecemeal Least Privilege Isn't Working

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Least privilege is a fundamental security principle, but enforcing it historically required many (even dozens of) disparate solutions, while problems persisted.

Security gaps
These gaps include entitlement creep, standing access, nested or hidden privileges, stealth admins, and attack pathways that cross domains.
Integration and compatibility issues
Issues that, unresolved, may result in intelligence gaps and hampered incident response.
Inflated costs to the enterprise
Overlapping and incompatible solutions can contribute to inflated costs, as well as impaired productivity.
Difficulty in meeting standards
These difficulties include proving compliance, addressing audits, and gaining / retaining quality cyber insurance coverage.

Unlock Multi-Layered Least Privilege with Our Comprehensive Solution

Endpoint Privilege Management

Remove admin rights and enforce least privilege across all endpoints and applications.

Password Safe

Uncover, onboard, and manage privileged accounts, credentials, and secrets.

Privileged Remote Access

Ensure granular least privilege access across every session--human, machine, employee, vendor.

Entitle

Eliminate standing access with a modern just-in-time access approach across clouds and SaaS.

Least Privilege Across Your Stack, from One Cohesive Platform

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BeyondTrust’s Least Privilege Defense-in-Depth solution, delivered via our integrated Pathfinder Platform, empowers organizations with the streamlined least privilege approach they need across their entire workforce and IT ecosystem.

Least Privilege Across Endpoints and Applications

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Without the right endpoint least privilege solution, organizations either over-permission users—expanding the attack surface—or lock down access so tightly that productivity suffers.

BeyondTrust removes endpoint admin rights and enforces least privilege across your estate (Windows, macOS, Unix, Linux, etc.), without hurting productivity. Our endpoint privilege management capabilities pair with pragmatic application control to condense the attack surface, while intelligently elevating just enough access to what is needed, only when needed.

Least Privilege Across Identities and Accounts

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The number and diversity of accounts (human / machine) and credentials has exploded. Yet, organizations typically manage their credential and account estate with a patchwork of tools that don't even provide full coverage. This creates fertile ground for attackers.

BeyondTrust streamlines your approach to managing and enforcing best practices for all types of privileged credentials, secrets, keys, etc. Eliminate hardcoded credentials, shared accounts, reused passwords, and other risky practices. Adaptive access controls and session management further ensure identities are robustly protected and audited.

Least Privilege Across Every Session

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Enterprise access pathways are proliferating. Many present hidden and dangerous privilege escalation pathways. For instance, remote and vendor access can introduce security blind spots, especially when VPNs, RDP, and other legacy tools expose broad access. Attackers target risky sessions to hijack access and launch further attacks.

BeyondTrust's Least Privilege solution implements zero trust network access (ZTNA) and granularly controls sessions. whether for humans, non-human identities, employees, or third-parties. Best-in-class PAM controls extend to every session, no matter where it originates or goes. Our solution also implements segmentation, microsegmentation, and privilege separation to ensure critical access is isolated and the blast radius of attacks is limited.

Least Privilege Across the Cloud

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Managing user entitlements—whether in cloud environments, SaaS apps, or hybrid IT infrastructures—is one of the most dangerously under-addressed security risks today. Excessive permissions, misconfigured roles, and unchecked privilege creep are rampant.

BeyondTrust right-sizes access across your multicloud estate. Seamlessly operationalize modern JIT access that supports self-service requests, permission bundling, and more to ensure users get the hassle-free access they need, but only for the finite moments required.

By eliminating standing (24/7) entitlements and continuously adjusting access based on policy and context, you can reduce security gaps, while enhancing operational efficiency.

Would you like an Identity Security Snapshot of your Organization?

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BeyondTrust's Identity Security Risk Assessment is a free service designed to illuminate identity attack surfaces, so organizations can better manage risk and reduce vulnerabilities. By providing this assessment at no cost, BeyondTrust aims to democratize access to critical security insights, fostering a more resilient cybersecurity landscape.

This assessment service supports your cybersecurity planning and strategy by providing an in-depth current state analysis of your identity environment and offering expert-level initial recommendations. We’ve made the power of our identity security research team available in Identity Security Insights®, and that’s now available to you, as part of this service.

Understand your True Privilege™ landscape to maximize the impact of your identity security controls, and boost cyber resilience.

"The interactions between the products in the [BeyondTrust] suite have been brilliantly and carefully orchestrated in a way that we are maximizing our chance of getting as far down the Zero Trust road as we possibly can given the state of the products in the security market."

—Brandon Haberfield, Global Head of Platform Security, Investec

"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

"For ServiceNow we have got a lot better control over the activities that are going on in the environment with the users."

—Chad Erbe, Sr. Systems Engineer, ServiceNow

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Continue on Your Journey to Least Privilege and Zero Trust

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