SailPoint vs BeyondTrust
Quick answer
SailPoint is identity governance and BeyondTrust is privileged access management, so they answer different audit questions. SailPoint models roles, runs access requests and certifies entitlements across the whole population. BeyondTrust removes local administrator rights, brokers and records privileged sessions, and secures vendor remote access. They integrate so that privileged entitlements are requested, approved and certified in SailPoint and enforced in BeyondTrust.
SailPoint vs BeyondTrust
SailPoint is identity governance and BeyondTrust is privileged access management, so they answer different audit questions. SailPoint models roles, runs access requests and certifies entitlements across the whole population. BeyondTrust removes local administrator rights, brokers and records privileged sessions, and secures vendor remote access. They integrate so that privileged entitlements are requested, approved and certified in SailPoint and enforced in BeyondTrust.
SailPoint vs BeyondTrust at a glance
| Dimension | SailPoint | BeyondTrust |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | All identities and application entitlements | Privileged sessions, endpoint privilege, vendor remote access |
| Signature capability | Certification campaigns and role modelling | Endpoint Privilege Management: least privilege on Windows, macOS and Linux |
| Remote access | Not in scope | Privileged Remote Access for vendors and third parties |
| Credential vault | No | Password Safe with rotation and check-out |
| Joiner-mover-leaver | Native, policy-driven | Consumes identity events, does not own the process |
| Certification of privileged rights | Yes, when BeyondTrust entitlements are aggregated | No review engine |
| Deployment | IdentityIQ on-premise or Identity Security Cloud SaaS | On-premise, cloud or appliance |
| Buying centre | IAM governance and audit | Endpoint security and infrastructure teams |
The overlap is narrow and specific
Both products can tell you that a person holds a privileged right. Only SailPoint can run a defensible campaign asking a business owner to confirm it, and only BeyondTrust can stop that right being used without brokering and recording the session.
BeyondTrust also covers a problem SailPoint does not touch at all: standing local administrator rights on endpoints. Removing those is an endpoint privilege project, not a governance project.
How the integration works in practice
SailPoint aggregates BeyondTrust groups and Password Safe entitlements as it would any other target system. Access to them is requested through the SailPoint catalogue, approved by the owning manager and provisioned automatically. The same entitlements then appear in quarterly certifications.
When someone leaves, the SailPoint leaver process revokes the BeyondTrust entitlement along with everything else, which closes the gap where a departing administrator keeps privileged access because PAM was managed separately.
Sequencing an identity programme
Most organisations do endpoint privilege removal first because it reduces ransomware blast radius quickly and cheaply. Governance follows, because certification only makes sense once entitlements are clean enough to review.
Frequently asked questions
Do SailPoint and BeyondTrust compete?
No. They are frequently sold into the same identity programme and there is a supported integration. The competitive decision is BeyondTrust against CyberArk or Delinea for PAM, and SailPoint against Saviynt for governance.
Can BeyondTrust replace SailPoint for a small organisation?
Not for governance. It has no role model, no certification engine and no joiner-mover-leaver process. A small organisation without regulatory pressure may not need governance tooling at all, but if it does, BeyondTrust is not the substitute.
What does the integration require?
A service account with read access for aggregation, and provisioning rights on the groups or safes you intend to manage. The rest is standard connector configuration and an entitlement catalogue exercise to decide which privileged rights belong in the request catalogue.
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Aggregation is the process of?
- A. Reading data into IdentityIQ. Aggregation reads accounts and entitlements in; provisioning writes out.
- B. Group aggregation. Group (entitlement) aggregation loads Managed Attributes.
- C. Delta aggregation. Delta (incremental) aggregation reads only changed accounts for speed.
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A. Reading data into IdentityIQ. Aggregation reads accounts and entitlements in; provisioning writes out.
Reading data into IdentityIQ. Aggregation reads accounts and entitlements in; provisioning writes out.
Groups and permissions are loaded by?
- A. Delta aggregation. Delta (incremental) aggregation reads only changed accounts for speed.
- B. Reading data into IdentityIQ. Aggregation reads accounts and entitlements in; provisioning writes out.
- C. Group aggregation. Group (entitlement) aggregation loads Managed Attributes.
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C. Group aggregation. Group (entitlement) aggregation loads Managed Attributes.
Group aggregation. Group (entitlement) aggregation loads Managed Attributes.
Reading only what changed since last run is?
- A. Group aggregation. Group (entitlement) aggregation loads Managed Attributes.
- B. Reading data into IdentityIQ. Aggregation reads accounts and entitlements in; provisioning writes out.
- C. Delta aggregation. Delta (incremental) aggregation reads only changed accounts for speed.
Show answer
C. Delta aggregation. Delta (incremental) aggregation reads only changed accounts for speed.
Delta aggregation. Delta (incremental) aggregation reads only changed accounts for speed.