BeyondTrust Identity Security Insights
BeyondTrust Identity Security Insights is a solution providing a way to gain a centralised view of identities, entitlements and privileged access across your IT estate and detect threats resulting from compromised identities and privileged access misuse.
https://www.beyondtrust.com/products/identity-security-insights
Features
- Detect identity-based anomalies and known attack techniques
- Visibility over each identity and associated risk factors "
- Discover and audit permissions across multicloud footprint "
- CIEM capabilities to easily adjust cloud entitlements
- Reducing attack surfaces and address identity hygiene issues "
- Unified view of identities across your entire IT estate "
- Leverage current technology stack and security investments
- Running in 30 minutes, actionable findings same-day
Benefits
- One holistic view of identities and access
- Detect identity-based anomalies and known attack techniques
- Leverage actionable recommendations, accelerate threat investigations
- Discover, visualize, audit entitlements across multicloud footprint
- Assess, adjust, prevent excessive permissions for identities
- Boost the capabilities and intelligence of connected solutions
Pricing
£19 to £45 a unit
- Education pricing available
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
7 9 2 9 9 7 1 2 6 5 7 2 7 6 6
Contact
Phoenix Software Ltd
Jonny Scott
Telephone: 01904 562200
Email: ccs@phoenixs.co.uk
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- Yes, but can also be used as a standalone service
- What software services is the service an extension to
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BeyondTrust Password Safe (On Premise)
BeyondTrust Password Safe Cloud
BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access Cloud
BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management Cloud
BeyondTrust Remote Support Cloud - Cloud deployment model
- Public cloud
- Service constraints
- Currently hosted in US region with further region planned for later in 2024
- System requirements
- No System Requirements
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
-
"The content of an Incident as supplied initially is used to identify the incident Severity Level using Table 1 below as a guide.
Severity Levels range from Severity Level 1 (Critical) to Severity Level 3 (Low Priority). In collaboration with you, we will make a
reasonable determination of the Severity Level of your incident and respond accordingly. The Severity Level may also be adjusted
as the Incident progresses towards resolution.
Severity 1 : First response within 30 minutes
Severity 2 : First response within 24 hours
Severity 3 : First response within 24 hours" - User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support
- Web chat
- Web chat support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support accessibility standard
- None or don’t know
- How the web chat support is accessible
- Web chat is accessible via our website https://www.beyondtrust.com/myportal
- Web chat accessibility testing
- N/A
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
-
"Standard : Included with the Cloud Service offering
Technical Account Manager (additional cost) : BeyondTrust Technical Account Managers (TAMs) help ensure you are receiving maximum value from your BeyondTrust investment. BeyondTrust TAMs are senior technical resources who will partner with you to gain an in-depth knowledge of your businesses privileged access needs and map them onto your Identity Security Insights platform. Your Beyond trust TAM will become your trusted advisor and your advocate within BeyondTrust and is uniquely positioned to provide a proactive approach to the support and ongoing operation of your BeyondTrust investment." - Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
- BeyondTrust Identity Security Insights Service enables customers to receive enablement training services as part of their acquisition. For self-service, beyondtrust.com/docs delivers a comprehensive archive of documentation.
- Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
-
- HTML
- End-of-contract data extraction
- Download option is available within the customer interface
- End-of-contract process
- Customer will see subscription expiration messages prior to contract enda date and an access disabled message on contract expiration. 7 days after contract expiration the customer will no longer have access to the service but access can be restored, along with the data for up to 37 days from contract end date. After 38 days from contract end date the customer environment and all dat a held within will be permanently deleted.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Supported browsers
-
- Microsoft Edge
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari
- Application to install
- No
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- No
- Service interface
- No
- User support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- API
- No
- Customisation available
- Yes
- Description of customisation
- Customers can choose how to authenticate to the service, how they want to logically separate the data as well as what data to injest and what events to send out from the service. They also have the option to create rules to handle certain detections or recommendations differently.
Scaling
- Independence of resources
- BeyondTrust's Cloud services team actively monitor customer's environments and provision resources as required.
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- No
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller (no extras)
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- BeyondTrust
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Staff screening not performed
- Government security clearance
- None
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
-
- United Kingdom
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- Other locations
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- No
- Datacentre security standards
- Managed by a third party
- Penetration testing frequency
- At least once a year
- Penetration testing approach
- Another external penetration testing organisation
- Protecting data at rest
- Other
- Other data at rest protection approach
- AES-256
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
- Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
- Equipment disposal approach
- Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
- Download option is available within the customer interface
- Data export formats
- CSV
- Data import formats
- CSV
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- Data protection within supplier network
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
- https://www.beyondtrust.com/cloud-service-level
- Approach to resilience
- Each AWS Region contains, on average, approximately three to six Availability Zones. All customer EC2 instances and their Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes are replicated and mirrored within the customer's availability zone to provide the customer with seamless disaster recovery options for the solution and stored data.
- Outage reporting
-
"Site24x7 is used to monitor the performance of Endpoint Privilege Management instances. During the build process, each hosted instance is linked to Site24x7 automatically. Regular health checks are conducted to guarantee every instance functions as expected. If a health check fails twice in a row, the instance is flagged as down and an alert is sent. Alerts come in the form of notifications on the Site24x7
dashboard and emails. Taking advantage of multiple geographical locations, global accessibility is ensured"
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
-
- 2-factor authentication
- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
- Access management is strictly governed and controlled using BeyondTrust's own high-security Privileged Remote Access technology alongside access management integrated into change management (ITSM) systems along with identity verification through corporate Single Sign-On
- Access restriction testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Management access authentication
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- 2-factor authentication
- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
- Username or password
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- No audit information available
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- No audit information available
- How long system logs are stored for
- At least 12 months
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- Aprio, LLP
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 24/08/2020
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
-
"Yes - https://www.beyondtrust.com/trust-center/industry-certifications
Out of the controls within ISO 27001 only two items were not applicable and those are:
A6.5 - Responsibilities after termination or change of employment; All responsibilities are discharged/reassigned following a Joiners, Movers, and Leavers procedure.
A8.30 – Outsourced Development; BeyondTrust does not outsource software development." - ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the PCI DSS certification
- Self-certified, Level 4 (SAQ A)
- PCI DSS accreditation date
- 27/02/2024
- What the PCI DSS doesn’t cover
- BeyondTrust's product portfolio/cloud environments.
- Cyber essentials
- No
- Cyber essentials plus
- No
- Other security certifications
- Yes
- Any other security certifications
- SOC 2 Type 1
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- Yes
- Security governance standards
- ISO/IEC 27001
- Information security policies and processes
-
"BeyondTrust has implemented and continuously maintains a robust security program and Information Security Management System (ISMS), containing appropriate security policies, practices, and procedures to protect our corporate and cloud environments to mitigate any unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure of our organization’s data, and more importantly, our customer’s data.
The ISMS is certified under the rigorous standards of ISO/IEC 27001 and a Privacy Information Management System (PIMS) that is certified under ISO/IEC 27701. In addition, numerous security and compliance audits are performed to assess our corporate practices, product portfolio, and cloud environments under the AICPA SOC 2 Type II requirements.
"
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Configuration and change management approach
- A change management process has been established, formalizing each Change Request, approval, implementation and pre- and post-implementation testing of the Information Systems affected. The policy is reviewed annually, and approved by the GRC Committee. The policy addresses all facets of change management for all critical business systems and processes and is submitted for review to the Change Advisory Board. All changes to a production environment or system are required to submit a change request per BeyondTrust policy. Requests must contain summaries of recommendations, risk assessments must be completed based on impact, test criteria, a back out plan, and management approval.
- Vulnerability management type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Vulnerability management approach
- BeyondTrust maintains a formal Vulnerability Management Plan that addresses vulnerabilities discovered through vulnerability scanning and penetration testing. This plan is approved by the GRC Committee and is reviewed annually or as needed. The plan sets forth specific timeframes for finding mitigations based upon criticality.
- Protective monitoring type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Protective monitoring approach
- BeyondTrust uses a vulnerability management solution in our cloud environment(s). The solution scans at least every 24 hours and submits its findings back to the main console as well as to our SIEM. This includes IAM misconfigurations, authentication, lateral movement, data at risk, neglected assets, network misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities. All of the items listed above are alerted to the BeyondTrust InfoSec team, analyzed, and acted on based on validity and criticality.
- Incident management type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Incident management approach
- BeyondTrust has a formal Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan (CIRP) that is reviewed/tested annually, and approved by the Executive Leadership Team. This plan addresses all facets of incident response within the organization for all critical business systems and processes which contains all the steps necessary for identification, containment, eradication, recovery, and incorporating lessons learned to overall plan improvement.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Independent review of processes (for example CESG CPA Build Standard, ISO/IEC 27034, ISO/IEC 27001 or CSA CCM v3.0)
Public sector networks
- Connection to public sector networks
- No
Social Value
- Social Value
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Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Covid-19 recovery
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
Fighting climate change
Effective stewardship of the environment with activities that deliver additional environmental benefits in the performance of the contract including working towards net zero greenhouse gas emissions.
We can support customers environmental goals by providing annual carbon emissions on contract and reduction plans.
We will run free of charge sustainability infrastructure reviews for customers to understand how they can reduce carbon emissions of their IT services.
We are working towards 2040 Net-Zero GreenHouseGas emissions.
Since 2021 we have been Carbon Neutral with Gold Standard Certified carbon credits - partner Ecologi.
By 2026 we aimed to reduce Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 50% from a 20/21 baseline year and which we have now achieved.
By 2030 we aim to reduce all of our emissions (including Scope 3) by 50% this is from a 22/23 baseline year.
Achievement of 2030 50% reduction targets (based on last FY) would mean a minimum carbon reduction of 142tCO2e per year for the public sector.
We record and monitor our usage/ conversion to carbon emissions monthly and progress is published annually on the website in accordance with PPN06/21 and SECR guidelines. We are ISO14001 certified, and our targets are currently being verified by SBTi.
Overall, the business:
-Generates solar energy (85%) with REGO renewable purchased energy.
-Zero waste to landfill waste management
-Minimises travel emissions by 60%
-Uses water wisely – reduced by 15%
Influence staff, suppliers, customers and communities through the delivery of the contract to support environmental protection and improvement.
We work hard to influence others and change behaviours to help fight climate change.
Workforce:
-Sustainability inductions
-Sustainability training
-Staff campaigns
-Volunteering opportunities
-Family woodland tree planting
Suppliers:
-Supply-chain reviews
-Sustainability training
-Blogs/ media content
-Sustainability training
Customers:
-Sustainability Infrastructure Review
-Hardware Carbon-Assessments
-Circular-Economy support
-Sustainability trainingCovid-19 recovery
COVID-19
Help local communities to manage and recover from the impact of COVID-19 with activities in the delivery of the contract which:
Create employment, re-training and other return to work opportunities for those left unemployed by COVID-19, particularly new opportunities in high growth sectors.
- Phoenix Employability Outreach Programme - Unique access to Microsoft Career Essentials programme
Support organisations and businesses to manage and recover from the impacts of COVID-19, including where new ways of working are needed to deliver services.
-Phoenix Small Business Digital Skills Outreach programme – webinars supporting cyber security, accessibility and licensing.
-Phoenix VCSE Digital Skills Outreach Programme – webinars supporting cyber security, accessibility and licensing.
Support the physical and mental health of people affected by COVID-19, including reducing the demand on health and care services.
-Phoenix Digital Skills Outreach Programme – Supporting people to access services services online e.g NHS app and Banking apps.
Examples of our working with London and Quadrant Housing Association to deliver befriending calls for tenants who were lonely and isolated as a result of Covid19.
We have also worked with Liverpool City Council to promote employability courses to those left unemployed by Covid-19 and who are now in employment.
We provided free of charge IT service desk to 15 charities during the pandemic and have worked closely with them to support them with returning to full operation again.Tackling economic inequality
Tackling economic inequality
Create new businesses, new jobs and new skills with activities that, in the delivery of the contract:
Create opportunities for entrepreneurship and help new, small organisations to grow, supporting economic growth and business creation.
-60% of our supply chain are SME’s
-We are signatories and adhere to the Prompt Payment Code
-Host Dragons Den SME supply chain sessions for new suppliers to showcase their services for our customers.
Create employment opportunities particularly for those who face barriers to employment and/or who are located in deprived areas.
- The Phoenix Employability Outreach Programme provide unique access to Microsoft Career Essentials digital literacy programme, career talks and employability advice.
Create employment and training opportunities, particularly for people in industries with known skills shortages or in high growth sectors.
-Graduate work placements
-Phoenix Employability Outreach Programme - Unique access to Microsoft Career Essentials programme for certifications to skill up for roles in the IT sector.
-We work with our supply-chain to create job roles with shared apprenticeship heads and promotion to permanent employment.
Support educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications.
-Apprenticeships whereby we aim for c.10 graduating apprentices and all are moved into permanent employment with Phoenix.
-Skills City Bootcamp where we deliver career talks and provide projects to 19+ year olds seeking to upskill for employment in the technology sector.
Influence staff, suppliers, customers and communities through the delivery of the contract to support employment and skills opportunities in high growth sectors.
-Our programmes are delivered in partnership with our customers, supply chain and workforce, including Career talks, mentoring and IT challenge activities.Equal opportunity
Equal opportunity
Reduce the disability employment gap with activities that:
Demonstrate action to increase the representation of disabled people in the contract workforce.
-We are certified Disability Confident Employers (level 2).
-We provide Digital Accessibility training for all staff so we can communicate with each other and our customers in an inclusive manner.
-We are exploring the use of the Voluntary Reporting Framework for understanding the disability makeup of the workforce.
Tackling workforce inequalities with activities that demonstrate action to identify and tackle inequality in employment, skills and pay in the contract workforce.
- We focus on ensuring an inclusive and unbiased recruitment strategy, with unconscious-bias training, blind recruitment processes, and reviewing language and placement of advertisements.
-All staff trained receive mandatory EDI training annually.
Various initiatives include
-Signatories of the Race at Work Charter,
-Disability Confident Committed Employer
-Signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant
-Gender-Neutral toilets
-Prayer room
-Milk-pumping room
-Sponsor York Pride
-We have specific policies for Menopause, and LGBTQ+.
-We have established an Accessibility-Centre-of-Excellence to display the latest technology
-We monitor our workforce statistics and report on them:
Gender 65% male /35% female (industry-average 20%)
Ethnicity 5.6% (local-area 3.9%)
Staff turnover 12.3% (industry-average 13.2%)
Using the Voluntary Reporting Framework, we are working on what and how we can report metrics around disabled people in the workforce, including those with hidden disabilities.
We have been recertified as a Great Place to Work™ and UK's Best Workplaces™ for Women.Wellbeing
Wellbeing
The mental health and well-being (MHWB) of our staff is of the utmost importance to us and our MHWB Policy aims to provide a working environment that promotes and supports the MHWB of all employees.
Activities that demonstrate action to support the health and wellbeing, including physical and mental health, in the contract workforce at Phoenix include:
-We utilise different resources not least those from Mental Health at Work Commitment, NHS Every Mind Matters, and the MIND employer toolkit to improve our employee MHWB programme.
-All our staff heavily discounted private health insurance includes mental wellness. Plan members access a range of health treatments including face to face counselling and cognitive behaviour therapy.
-Phoenix invests in the St Johns Ambulance Mental Health First Aid training course to ensure we have MH first aiders in the business and the skills to address MH in the workplace.
-The new challenges the pandemic has raised, on our employee’s MHWB, has led to the creation of a staff network group who meet monthly, to ensure that all we do and say truly covers all aspects of MHWB.
-All employees are given a monthly wellbeing hour to take for their own personal time and are also supported with monthly tea and toast sessions discussing and normalising MHWB topics.
We influence staff, suppliers, customers and communities through the delivery of the contract to support health and wellbeing, including physical and mental health.
-We provide Digital Accessibility training for all staff so we can communicate with each other and our customers in an inclusive manner.
-We have established an Accessibility-Centre-of-Excellence to display the latest technology to the workforce, supply chain and our customers
-We deliver digital accessibility training to customers
-We are sponsors of the Neurodiversity Awards
Pricing
- Price
- £19 to £45 a unit
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
- Free trial available
- No