BeyondTrust has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Privileged Identity Management Solutions, Q3 2025 report.
The assessment, conducted by research and advisory firm Forrester, evaluated ten vendors across 22 criteria encompassing current offerings, strategy and customer feedback.
BeyondTrust received the second highest score in the Strategy category and secured the highest possible scores in 13 evaluation criteria.
Thirteen highest scores
The Forrester report highlighted BeyondTrust's "exceptional vision" and its focus on an identity-first security strategy.
According to Forrester, "BeyondTrust's exceptional vision centers on an identity-first security strategy that helps organisations predict, discover, prevent, detect, and respond to identity risks in real time."
BeyondTrust achieved the top possible score in the following 13 categories: Vision, Innovation, Partner Ecosystem, Privileged Identity Discovery, Privileged Identity Governance and Administration, Least Privilege Access Management, Just-In-Time Privilege, Endpoint Privilege Management, Cloud Entitlements Management, Secure Remote Access, Identity Threat Detection and Response, Reporting and Analytics, and Scalability.
According to the report, "Organisations seeking visibility and control over privileged identities, entitlements, and access - while emphasizing identity threat detection and remediation - should consider BeyondTrust."
Forrester's evaluation noted that BeyondTrust's capabilities enable organisations to address the evolving landscape of identity risks and privileged access management.
Companies are increasingly required to manage and secure multiple points of access as operational complexity grows and identity-based attacks become more frequent.
Company response
Sam Elliott, Senior Vice President of Products at BeyondTrust, addressed the significance of the recognition in light of customer challenges.
"Our customers are facing an unrelenting wave of identity-based attacks and operational complexity," Elliott said. "This recognition from Forrester reflects for us our strategy to unify privilege controls with real-time identity threat detection, helping organisations protect what matters most. Being the independent privileged identity security provider validates our focus on innovation, being relentlessly customer-driven, and building a platform that reduces risk while enabling business agility."
The Forrester report emphasised the need for advanced solutions that enable organisations to discover and govern privileged identities while also managing entitlements and least privilege access.
Solutions such as those offered by BeyondTrust also address secure remote access requirements, endpoint privilege management, cloud entitlements management, and reporting and analytics capabilities - criteria where BeyondTrust achieved the report's highest scores.
Context for the sector
Organisations globally are prioritising privileged identity management to help mitigate the risk of breaches and maintain regulatory compliance.
The Forrester Wave report serves as a resource for enterprises evaluating solutions in this domain, providing comparative insights on the maturity and breadth of each vendor's offering, as well as strategic outlook and customer perceptions.
Forrester does not endorse any specific company, product, or service in its research publications but notes that its opinions reflect judgement at the time and may change as the market evolves.
The analysis is based on available data and customer input, reflecting a cross-section of both market demand and vendor response.
BeyondTrust serves a customer base that includes a significant proportion of the Fortune 100, supported by a broad partner ecosystem.
The company's approach focuses on neutralising internal and external threats through a holistic view of the identity attack surface, underpinned by both technological innovation and operational integration with existing security infrastructure.
