Case Study: Federal Government achieves tighter security and compliance with BeyondTrust PowerBroker for Windows

Federal Government - Customer Case Study

A U.S. federal government agency turned to BeyondTrust to reduce risk from security breaches, meet compliance requirements (SOX, HIPAA, FISMA), tighten operational practices, and secure access to sensitive data. The agency needed to stop password sharing, remove local admin rights, automate privileged password cycling, and gain comprehensive logging, auditing and Active Directory change alerts.

The agency deployed PowerBroker for Windows to secure and automate privileged password management, eliminate sharing, enforce just‑in‑time privilege elevation, and provide logging, reporting and AD alerts. After evaluating CyberArk, Oracle and Centrify, they rated BeyondTrust’s privileged account capabilities, reporting/analytics, security context and flexible deployment as highly differentiated, and plan additional Privileged Account Management projects such as gaining control over privileged passwords.