New integrations correlate identity and privilege exposure with threat telemetry, giving security teams greater context to uncover attack paths and accelerate investigations
BeyondTrust is extending its privilege-centric identity security capabilities into CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, aiming to close a persistent gap between identity-based risk prevention and threat detection.
The new integrations connect solutions from the BeyondTrust Pathfinder Platform with the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, allowing joint customers to correlate identity relationships and privilege exposure across human, non-human and AI agent identities with Falcon’s threat telemetry.
The move reflects a growing challenge for security teams: attackers increasingly use legitimate or compromised credentials to move through enterprise environments, making identity and privilege important signals alongside traditional endpoint and network telemetry. BeyondTrust’s Phantom Labs research cited in the announcement found that approximately 75% of modern attack paths exploit identity relationships rather than software vulnerabilities alone.
“By bringing BeyondTrust’s identity and privilege intelligence into CrowdStrike Falcon, joint customers can connect privilege risk with threat activity, bringing identity threat prevention and detection together to accelerate investigation and response,” said David Manks, Vice President, Strategic Alliances, BeyondTrust.
“Attackers increasingly exploit legitimate identities and privileges to move through enterprise environments, making identity context critical to understanding and responding to threats.” — David Manks, Vice President, Strategic Alliances, BeyondTrust
Turning privilege context into a detection signal
The integrations are designed to give security teams a more correlated view of privilege exposure and active threat activity within the Falcon console.
BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management brings policy changes, privilege elevation requests and blocked execution events into Falcon. Password Safe adds privileged credential context, while Privileged Remote Access contributes configuration changes, console authentication and session activity.
Together, these signals can help security teams investigate not only what an attacker is doing, but also which identities, credentials and privilege relationships could enable further movement.
The integration also extends BeyondTrust’s broader Pathfinder strategy, which focuses on discovering, prioritising and remediating privilege risk across human, machine, workload and AI identities.
As enterprises expand the number of machine and AI agent identities operating across cloud and hybrid environments, the security challenge is increasingly about understanding what those identities can access and how privilege can become an attack path.
The BeyondTrust-CrowdStrike integration therefore represents a shift toward bringing identity and privilege intelligence directly into security operations, rather than treating identity risk and threat detection as separate disciplines.
