BeyondTrust Privileged Access Manager is a platform that discovers, manages, and secures privileged accounts, credentials, and SSH keys by storing them in an encrypted vault. It enforces role-based, least-privilege, and just-in-time access through policies that can require multi-factor authentication and approval workflows, while also evaluating contextual risk factors to apply stricter controls. The system brokers and records all privileged sessions, allowing for live monitoring and termination, and injects credentials directly into sessions so users do not see the passwords. It provides comprehensive audit logs, compliance reporting, and analytics on privileged behavior to detect threats, and automates password and SSH key rotation to maintain security. The platform also enables programmatic credential retrieval via APIs for applications and scripts.
