BeyondTrust Expands Identity Security Insights to Australia to Address Rising AI and Non-Human Identity Risks

BeyondTrust extends regional availability to help organisations manage and secure human and non-human identities across hybrid, cloud, and SaaS environments | The expansion supports compliance with regional regulations, including Australia’s Security of Critical Infrastructure Act, while providing visibility into AI agents, machine identities, privileged access, and identity-related risk

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Posted: Monday, May 04

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BeyondTrust Expands Identity Security Insights to Australia to Address Rising AI and Non-Human Identity Risks

BeyondTrust Expands Identity Security Insights to Australia to Address Rising AI and Non-Human Identity Risks

Sydney – May 4, 2026 – BeyondTrust, the global leader in privilege-centric identity security protecting Paths to Privilege™, today announced the strategic geographical expansion of BeyondTrust Identity Security Insights® to Australia. This expansion delivers a locally hosted, secure, and compliant identity security solution designed to help organisations meet regional operational and regulatory requirements while also addressing growing risks driven by the rapid rise of non-human identities and agentic AI.

As non-human identities and AI-driven automation rapidly expand, organisations are facing increasing pressure to maintain visibility and enforce control—particularly in highly regulated environments like Australia’s critical infrastructure sectors.

“Australian enterprises are now running environments where machine identities, AI agents, and service accounts outnumber their human workforce and most have no real visibility over their access or capabilities. That is not a gap in their security strategy; it is a gap in their compliance posture,” said Roshi Balendran, Regional Director, ANZ, BeyondTrust. “Given recent action, including investigations and fines, by Australian regulators it is clear that they are no longer interested in intent, they want evidence of control. Organisations that can’t demonstrate governance over non-human identities may be one incident away from material penalties.”

Aligning to Regional Compliance Demands

The expansion enables organisations to align to specific, evolving regulatory standards that demand robust security safeguards for all identity types.

In Australia, this includes The Security of Critical Infrastructure (SOCI) Act of 2018, which requires critical sectors including energy, finance, telecom and more, to enforce least privilege access and enable risk management programs for cyber threats.

It also supports Australian organisations in reducing operational risk and maintaining compliance with legislation, including the SOCI Act, APRA CPS 234, and the ASD Essential Eight. BeyondTrust Identity Security Insights supports these by providing visibility into the identity layer, the primary vector for modern attacks on critical infrastructure.

The Identity Security Insights Advantage: Visibility and Intelligence

Identity Security Insights connects core Privileged Access Management (PAM) with emerging identity security use cases, offering outstanding visibility for human and non-human identities. Key capabilities include:

Discovery at Scale: Complete visibility into non-human identities, agents, and secrets sprawl across multi-cloud environments, effectively eliminating shadow access.
Autonomous Defense: Moving beyond static policies, Insights operationalizes risk detections and recommendations to prioritise threats and provide actionable intelligence, cutting through the noise to focus on critical Paths to Privilege™.
Agentic AI Security: Specialised monitoring of autonomous AI agents, ensuring they operate within safe boundaries without disrupting business innovation.

One Platform. Every Identity. Every Environment.

Identity Security Insights is part of the BeyondTrust Pathfinder Platform, which unifies identity discovery, intelligence, and control across hybrid, cloud, SaaS, and OT environments. This unified approach moves organisations beyond visibility alone, enabling security teams to enforce least privilege and actively control, remediate, and prevent identity risk across human, non-human, and AI identities from a single platform.

To help organisations identify and prioritize identity-related risks, BeyondTrust offers its free Identity Security Risk Assessment, now expanded to provide immediate visibility into agentic AI risks, available here: https://www.beyondtrust.com/products/identity-security-insights/assessment.

For more information about Identity Security Insights, please visit www.beyondtrust.com/identity-security-insights.

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 recognised as a multi-category leader by top industry analysts, BeyondTrust turns identity security from a management problem into a strategic advantage.

Learn more at www.beyondtrust.com.