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# BeyondInsight Cloud User Guide

## What is BeyondInsight?

BeyondInsight is a central management, policy, reporting, and analytics console for many products within the BeyondInsight portfolio.

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## 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.

## 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. Use a browser to sign in to your **BeyondInsight/Password Safe** URL.\
   This URL is provided in the BeyondTrust welcome email and includes your site URL followed by **/login**.
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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   > 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.

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

### Sign in with passwordless FIDO2

1. Use a browser to sign in to your **BeyondInsight/Password Safe** URL.\
   This URL is provided in the BeyondTrust welcome email and includes your site URL followed by **/login**.
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. Use a browser to sign in to your **BeyondInsight/Password Safe** URL.\
   This URL is provided in the BeyondTrust welcome email and includes your site URL followed by **/login**.
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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> If your initial SAML login attempt fails, and two-factor authentication (2FA) is enabled, you are redirected to the  2FA page for security reasons.