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BeyondTrust
Privileged access management, endpoint privilege management and secure remote access
As of 1 September 2026, BeyondTrust's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Privileged access management with an unusually strong remote support product attached. Softwr lists it under Cybersecurity. BeyondTrust is available on Windows, macOS, Linux, Web.
Overview
What BeyondTrust does
BeyondTrust sells three related product lines: Password Safe for privileged credential vaulting and session management, Endpoint Privilege Management for removing local administrator rights while allowing approved elevation, and Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access for controlled third-party and helpdesk connections. They are commonly bought separately and by different teams. The distinguishing capability is endpoint privilege management. Removing local administrator rights is one of the highest-value controls available and is mandated by frameworks including Cyber Essentials in the UK, but naive removal floods the service desk. BeyondTrust applies rules that elevate specific applications and actions rather than users, so the control lands without the support cost that usually kills the project. Its remote access products also serve a distinct buyer, vendor and contractor access, where the requirement is session recording and credential injection so the third party never sees a password. Buyers are mid-market and enterprise security teams, often in regulated sectors where privileged session recording is an audit requirement. The trade-off is portfolio coherence. The products came from different origins, the consoles differ, and buying two or three of them does not produce one unified system, which is a common source of disappointment after a bundled purchase.
What people use it for
- An organisation removing local administrator rights across thousands of Windows endpoints without swamping the service desk
- A utility required to record every privileged session on operational systems for regulatory audit
- A firm giving external maintenance vendors access to specific servers without handing over credentials
- A helpdesk consolidating remote support and privileged access onto one audited path rather than an unmanaged remote tool
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about BeyondTrust.
- The product lines came from separate origins and still have separate consoles, so buying the suite does not deliver the single pane of glass the bundle implies.
- Licensing metrics differ between products, per managed account, per endpoint, per concurrent session, which makes multi-product quotes hard to compare with competitors and hard to forecast as you grow.
- Self-hosted deployments carry real infrastructure and upgrade burden, and organisations without a dedicated PAM administrator find the system drifts out of maintenance.
- Endpoint privilege management requires sustained rule authoring as applications change, so the first-year saving in helpdesk tickets erodes if nobody owns the policy afterwards.
- Discovery finds far more privileged accounts than most organisations expect, which is valuable but converts a licence purchase into a longer remediation programme before the control is real.
Cross-shopped
What people choose instead of BeyondTrust
Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
- BeyondTrustvsHashiCorp Vault
HashiCorp Vault: Better fit when the priority is application and machine secrets rather than human privileged sessions
- BeyondTrustvsHashiCorp Boundary
HashiCorp Boundary: Lighter and cheaper for brokered infrastructure access without the full PAM apparatus
Pricing
What BeyondTrust costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
BeyondTrust Platform
On request
- Password Safe priced by managed asset or account
- Endpoint Privilege Management priced per endpoint
- Remote access products priced per concurrent licence or endpoint
- Cloud and self-hosted deployment, FedRAMP-authorised options available
Capabilities
Features
Password Safe
Vaulting, rotation and session recording for privileged accounts across servers and network devices
Endpoint Privilege Management
Removes local administrator rights while elevating approved applications by rule
Privileged Remote Access
Brokered vendor and contractor access with credential injection and full session recording
Remote Support
Attended and unattended helpdesk remote control with audit trails
Discovery
Scans the estate for unmanaged privileged accounts and local administrator group membership
Session recording
Keystroke and video recording of privileged sessions for audit and incident review
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Is endpoint privilege management sold separately from the vault?
Yes. They are distinct products with distinct licensing metrics, and many customers buy only one.
Can it record vendor sessions?
Yes, with credential injection so the third party never learns the password, and full video and keystroke recording for audit.
Is there a FedRAMP option?
BeyondTrust offers FedRAMP-authorised deployments for United States government buyers, which is often the deciding factor in that sector.
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