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Welcome to BeyondInsight

What is BeyondInsight?

BeyondInsight is a comprehensive security and IT asset management platform offered by BeyondTrust, designed to help organizations manage vulnerabilities, risks, and compliance requirements across their IT environments. BeyondInsight integrates various security capabilities, such as vulnerability management, patch management, privileged access management (PAM), and incident response, into a unified solution to provide visibility and control over your organization's IT assets.

How is it useful?

BeyondInsight enables IT and security professionals to collaboratively reduce user-based risks, mitigate threats to information assets, address security exposures across large, diverse IT environments, and comply with internal, industry, and government mandates.

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Note

When working in BeyondInsight, times and time zones match the web browser on the local computer unless stated otherwise.

How do I access BeyondInsight?

After accepting the email invite and activating your access to BeyondInsight, you can sign in using your credentials. The admin credentials used to log in for the first time are configured during the installation process and depend on the type of authentication configured in BeyondInsight.

Sign in with a username and password

  1. Open the URL provided in your email invitation in a chromium-based browser.
  2. Select Username and password from the Authentication Type drop-down list.
  3. Enter your credentials.
    The default username is Administrator and the password is the one you set from the initialization email.
  4. If applicable, select a domain or LDAP Server from the Log in to list.

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    Note

    The Log in to list displays on the Login page when there are either AD or LDAP user groups created in BeyondInsight.

    Administrators can enable or disable the display of this list to their users. See Show list of domains/LDAP servers for procedures.

You are automatically signed in, and the BeyondInsight Home page displays.

Sign in with passwordless FIDO2

  1. Open the URL provided in your email invitation in a chromium-based browser.
  2. Select Username and password from the Authentication Type drop-down list.
  3. Enter your username.
    The default username is Administrator.
  4. Click Log in.
  5. Follow the on-screen prompts.

Sign in using SAML authentication

  1. Open the URL provided in your email invitation in a chromium-based browser.
  2. Below the Log In button, click Use SAML Authentication link.
    The single sign-on access site for the default SAML identity provider configured by your administrator displays.

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Note

If your initial SAML login attempt fails, and two-factor authentication (2FA) is enabled, you are redirected to the 2FA page for security reasons.


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