• Positioned highest for Ability to Execute for the second consecutive report; and based on its Completeness of Vision, this contributed to BeyondTrust’s position as a Leader in this year’s report
  • Recognition reflects, in BeyondTrust’s view, its 20 years of expertise securing privilege and reinforces its privilege-centric approach to securing a new generation of privileged actors, from human and machine identities to autonomous AI agents

ATLANTA, Oct. 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — BeyondTrust, the global leader in privilege-centric identity security protecting Paths to Privilege™ for human, machine, and agentic identities, today announced it has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Privileged Access Management for the eighth consecutive edition of the report. BeyondTrust is positioned highest of all vendors in its Ability to Execute

Extending Privilege-Centric Identity Security to a New Generation of Privileged Actors

BeyondTrust continues to expand the BeyondTrust Pathfinder Platform to secure the next generation of identities and privileged actors. Most recently, the company announced new native capabilities for AI Agent Security, Non-Human Identity Governance, and Workload Credentials , alongside the release of PathfinderAI and its MCP Server. Building on more than two decades of innovation in privileged access management and BeyondTrust’s established privileged access capabilities, these innovations extend the company’s ability to discover, govern, and secure human and non-human identities, as well as control the access and authority they can exercise.

“For more than 20 years, BeyondTrust has focused on one of the most consequential challenges in cybersecurity: controlling privilege and the access and authority that come with it,” said Janine Seebeck, CEO at BeyondTrust. “Today, human users are joined by non-human identities and autonomous AI agents that can access systems, exercise privilege, and take action at machine speed. We believe being named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for PAM for the eighth consecutive report, and positioned highest for Ability to Execute for the second consecutive report, reflects the strength of the foundation we’ve built. As the identities exercising privilege evolve, controlling that privilege becomes even more critical, but the fundamentals of securing privilege remain the same. That is why we believe a privilege-centric approach to identity security is essential for what comes next.”

What Customers Are Saying

Customers around the globe have, in our view, praised BeyondTrust’s solutions through verified ratings and reviews on the Gartner® Peer Insights™ platform, including:

  • “Beyondtrust has strengthened our control over privileged access by improving visibility, governance, and risk reduction across critical systems.” Manager, IT Security and Risk Management (Industry: Banking)
  • “This product has excelled in helping us fix security vulnerabilities with how we handled local admin permissions for tasks such as installing and updating applications, and reducing our overall ticketing volume. Rather than having admin permissions/access assigned locally based on user role within the organization, we were able to overhaul the previous structure and manage admin permissions based on specific applications and processes […].” — IT Associate (Industry: Manufacturing) 
  • “Our use of BeyondTrust for privileged access management has been seamless. The product is intuitive, easy to deploy, and works great to give third parties audited access to internal resources.” — Chief Information Officer (Industry: Government)

Access the Full Report

For complimentary access to the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for PAM, please visit: https://www.beyondtrust.com/resources/gartner-magic-quadrant-for-pam.

Gartner Attribution & Disclaimers

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management, Paul Mezzera, Shubham Gera, Scott Brinker, and Tarun Rohilla, etc., 21 October 2026.

Gartner, Voice of the Customer for Privileged Access Management, Peer Community Contributor, 15 April 2026

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About BeyondTrust 

BeyondTrust is the global leader in privilege-centric identity security protecting Paths to Privilege™. Identity alone doesn’t create risk. Privilege does. As human, non-human, and AI agent identities explode across every environment, BeyondTrust is the only company built to discover, control, and secure privilege across all of them from a single platform. Trusted by 20,000+ customers, including 75 of the Fortune 100, and recognized as a multi-category leader by top industry analysts, BeyondTrust reframes identity security from a management problem into a strategic advantage. 

Learn more at www.beyondtrust.com. 

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