Reduce cyber risks and achieve zero trust goals with BeyondTrust Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions.
BeyondTrust Identity Security and Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions help enable NIST's seven core tenets of zero trust by working relentlessly to identify and secure every privileged user (human, machine, AI agent, employee, vendor), asset, and session across your digital estate. Control the who, what, when, why, and where of access.
Implement zero trust security controls to reduce your attack surface, minimize threat windows, and improve protection against ransomware, malware, advanced persistent threats, insider threats, and more.
Enforce context-aware, least privilege control for all access
Implement continuous verification
Isolate, monitor, manage, and audit privileged sessions
Prevent lateral movement and privilege escalation attacks
Provides Visibility Across the Identity Estate | Inventory all privileged assets and escalation paths to eliminate blind spots, spotlight shadow IT / AI, and control access points for separation of control and data planes. |
Applies Least Privilege Everywhere | Apply least privilege controls for every identity, account, endpoint, and session across cloud and on-premises. |
Implements JIT Access | Eliminate standing privileges and enforce adaptive and just-in-time (JIT) access controls based on context in real-time. |
Enables Segmentation / Microsegmentation | Implement segmentation and microsegmentation to isolate assets, resources, and users to prevent lateral movement. |
Onboards and Manages Credentials | Apply credential security best practices for all privileged password types and secrets—whether for humans, machines, agentic AI, employees, or vendors. |
Implements Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) | Proxy access to control planes (cloud, virtual, DevOps) and critical applications by enforcing network segmentation. |
Provides Zero Trust Remote Access | Secure remote access with a robust security architecture and granular least privilege well beyond that of VPNs, RDP, SSH, HTTPS, and other commonly-used technologies. |
Provides Robust Session Management Monitoring | Monitor, manage, and audit every privileged session that touches the enterprise to ensure oversight of user behavior. |
Streamlines Access Control | Simplify secure management of identities and zero trust implementation enterprise-wide by extending Microsoft AD authentication, SSO, & Group Policy Configuration Management to Unix/Linux. |
BeyondTrust Identity Security Insights® offers a centralized view of access escalation pathways, revealing the True Privilege™ of every human and non-human identity. Organizations can better enforce zero trust practices by understanding how identities obtain and use privilege across the entire IT estate.
Provides a cross-domain view of your identities with the True Privilege graph, which visualizes hidden connections between accounts, privileges, and configurations and illuminates areas where attackers could take advantage of implicit trust relationships.
Reveals blind spots where zero trust is not enforced, such as shadow identities, excessive entitlements, and other unintended escalation paths.
Offers actionable remediations to harden identity security posture and better adhere to zero trust principles.
BeyondTrust Password Safe® is a privileged credential management solution that discovers, onboards, and manages all privileged accounts and credentials (human, application, and machine), consistently enforcing password security best practices.
Illuminates shadow IT and access blind spots. Discovers, intelligently groups, and onboards all privileged identities, accounts, and assets.
Enforces adaptive access controls, approving or disallowing access requests just-in-time based on context. Terminates or suspends sessions based on user behavior, inappropriate activity, or changes in context and risk.
Protects and manages all privileged credentials and secrets across on-premises and cloud resources.
Eliminates shared accounts to ensure clear oversight and auditability into user activities performed by each identity and their associated accounts.
Eradicates embedded passwords in IoT and other devices, applications, scripts, and DevOps tools. Instead, these are replaced with secure API calls or management for dynamic secrets.
BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management combines least privilege management and application control to minimize the endpoint attack surface and eliminate unwanted lateral movement. Protect Windows, macOS, and Linux systems, network devices, IoT, OT, ICS systems, and virtual machines from known and unknown threats.
Removes admin rights for all users, eliminating privileged accounts on managed systems.
Advances toward a zero-standing privilege (ZSP) state by dynamically elevating privileges just-in-time for processes and applications.
Enforces separation of duties and privilege separation to limit the privileges associated with any account or process.
Applies advanced application control and enforces least privilege across all applications, web browsers, systems, and other resources.
A central component of zero trust involves segmenting access and isolating various assets, resources, and users to restrict lateral movement potential.
BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access:
Implements a secured jump server with multi-factor authentication, adaptive authorization, and session monitoring for administrator consoles. This also applies to access that crosses trusted network zones.
Enforces boundaries between development, test, and production systems for SecDevOps security best practices.
Provides access to web pages, such as the Azure, Microsoft 365, etc., through a locked-down and embedded Chromium browser.
Provides application-level microsegmentation that prevents users from executing applications and other resources they are not authorized to access.
Privileged Remote Access also extends PAM best practices to vendor and internal remote privileged access. The solution provides the granular, least privilege controls that are impractical with VPNs and many other commonly used remote access technologies.
Applies least privilege and robust audit controls to all remote access for employees, vendors, contractors, and service desk personnel.
Provides MFA, including per-session MFA, capabilities for the most sensitive sessions.
Manages and auto-injects credentials into remote sessions so the end user never sees or has knowledge of them for appropriate usage.
While VPNs have been the standard for remote access, they often lack the granularity and continuous verification needed to fulfill zero trust requirements.
"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 enables us to rise to the occasion, meet regulatory standards of our customers and work towards true Zero Trust.”
—Mahmood Haq, CISO, MyVest
"BeyondTrust’s Privileged Remote Access has significantly simplified our journey to achieving SOC 2 compliance. It ensures detailed and transparent zero trust security controls around access and monitoring, along with comprehensive auditing and evidence gathering capabilities."
—Shane Carden, CIO, Behavox
BeyondTrust Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions provide session monitoring and management over every privileged session: human, machine, employee, or vendor.
Documents all privileged actions performed via on-screen video recording and keystroke logging, and provides a searchable session replay option.
Triggers alerts and workflows based on anomalous behavior, including unusual access locations, inappropriate commands, or other attributes that could be indicators of compromise.
Applies file integrity monitoring and command filtering to further protect Unix and Linux systems against undesirable or unauthorized changes and commands.
Provides the ability to pause or terminate sessions via manual intervention or automation by using policies based on acceptable user behavior.
Zero trust solutions eliminate persistent trust, enforce least privilege access, and ensure continuous oversight. Some key zero trust tactics include:
Performing continuous authentication
Granularly restricting access to the minimum needed
Applying segmentation and microsegmentation strategies
Continuously auditing access
Revoking suspicious or risky access.
Zero trust operates with the working assumption that no identity (human or non-human), device, or application can be trusted by default, even within the network. Instead, it requires continuous verification, adheres to least privilege principles, and monitors activities in real-time.
Zero trust remote access leverages just-in-time, least-privilege access when users are leveraging remote access. This is a far more secure approach than simply granting users broad VPN or network-level access.
Zero trust benefits organizations by providing greater visibility across the enterprise into who (or what) has access to your network, when, and from where. It also streamlines processes to improve the efficiency of IT and security teams, improves data protection, establishes more secure access, and enhances logging and audit trails for continuous compliance. Altogether, zero trust leads to a significant reduction of overall risk and increases protection against common threats.
To implement zero trust, an organization must identify practical solutions and processes that help to meet zero trust requirements. Examples of practices to implement include endpoint protection with least privilege, monitoring and session control, and continuous authentication and access control. Today, solutions (like Privileged Access Management) exist that can help to address these requirements. Organizations like NIST and CISA have developed zero trust frameworks and maturity models that organizations can adopt, partially or fully, to help map their own zero trust journey.
Many of the core principles of zero trust, including least privilege and continuous monitoring, are required by compliance frameworks such as GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS. Adhering to zero trust can also improve auditability, making it easier to adhere to regulatory requirements.
Privileged Access Management (PAM) helps to enable zero trust by giving organizations the ability to discover and monitor all privileged identities, accounts, and assets. Zero trust PAM also enforces adaptive access and continuous authentication, reinforcing the principle of least privilege.
