BeyondTrust

Last Updated: 20th April 2021
Analyst Coverage: Fran Howarth

Founded in 1985, BeyondTrust was acquired by Veritas Capital in September 2014 for an undisclosed sum. It was previously owned by Insight Venture Partners. BeyondTrust is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, and has additional offices in the US, the UK, Canada, Germany and Singapore.

BeyondTrust offers privileged account management and vulnerability management technologies, unified under one IT risk management platform.

BeyondTrust aims its services primarily at large enterprises, including large global players in the banking, aerospace and defence, and pharmaceutical sectors. It partners with some of the leading technology and security vendors, and has a Privilege Partner Programme for resellers.

BeyondInsight

Last Updated: 1st May 2016

What it does

BeyondTrust offers privileged account management and vulnerability management on one unified platform - BeyondInsight. PowerBroker is the privileged account management technology and Retina is the vulnerability management part. PowerBroker is used to enforce access rights to key systems, applications and data, ensuring that no person is given excessive privileges. Retina enables organisations to assess the likelihood and severity of risks in order to prioritise remediation activities. Customers can use each of its products in standalone mode, or in combination.

Together, they form a unified security software platform that shares common platform management tools to deliver centralised visibility over internal and external risk. The components of the platform share the use of BeyondInsight's Clarity advanced threat analytics capabilities, which collects and aggregates, correlates and analyses information related to potential threats, then reports on high-risk accounts and assets seen so that remediation action can be taken.

Markets and channels

With its headquarters in Arizona in the US, BeyondTrust operates worldwide, with offices in Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.

It has a range of partners worldwide, including resellers, solution providers, technology alliance partners and MSPs. Its partner programme offers four levels of partnership, ranging from fulfilment up to the platinum level.

Users

BeyondTrust claims to have more than 4,000 customers, including more than half of the Fortune 100. It targets customers in the communications, education, energy, financial services, government, healthcare, media and transport sectors, as well as having major customers in aerospace and defence, the pharmaceutical sector and all five branches of the US military.

Technology

BeyondTrust's technology is available in both software and hardware appliance formats.

Its technology is designed to cater for the following needs: enterprise password management, server privilege management, least privilege management, vulnerability management, threat analytics, privileged session management, asset discovery and management, SSH key management, application password management, Active Directory security and compliance reporting. It supports all major operating systems.

Services

BeyondTrust offers professional services, as well as 24x7 support to its customers who purchase extended support services. Support is provided on a local basis worldwide. It offers hands-on support for customers and partners, as well as an online portal for self-service support.

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