Beyond Identity

What Beyond Identity does

Beyond Identity is a private, US-based cybersecurity company founded in 2020 that sells a phishing-resistant, passwordless identity and access management platform to enterprise and mid-market customers. Its core technology combines FIDO2-certified multi-factor authentication with hardware-bound asymmetric cryptography: private keys are generated and stored in the device TPM or Secure Enclave, while Beyond Identity's cloud holds the corresponding public key and issues a fresh X.509 certificate per authentication. A continuous policy engine ingests device posture signals (disk encryption, EDR, firewall, OS version) and third-party risk telemetry from EDR, MDM, ZTNA, SSO, and SIEM platforms to make real-time, just-in-time access decisions.

The company's product portfolio is organized around a Secure Access Platform core (Phishing-Resistant MFA, Secure SSO, Device Trust), with three adjacencies: a consumer/developer-facing Secure Customers SDK; RealityCheck, a free add-on that uses deterministic device-bound signals to defeat deepfake and AI impersonation in video conferencing; and Ceros, a separate business unit launched in June 2026 that provides identity, observability, and governance for autonomous AI agents at the OS layer. Beyond Identity is monetized primarily through quote-based, annual enterprise SaaS subscriptions, supplemented by a Channel Partners program, a Security Accelerator free-plan motion for land-and-expand, and distribution through leading security-stack marketplaces. The company holds FIDO2 and CBPR Global certifications, aligns with NIST, CISA, and NYDFS Part 500 phishing-resistant mandates, and has raised more than $200 million in cumulative venture funding, including a $100 million Series C in February 2022 at a $1.1 billion valuation. Its customer base spans enterprise (Snowflake, SAP Taulia, Monolithic Power Systems), mid-market SaaS (FireHydrant, Teamtailor, RunBuggy), government, and IT services.

Name

Beyond Identity

Legal name

Beyond Identity, Inc.

Website

https://beyondidentity.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Beyond Identity provides a phishing-resistant, passwordless identity and access management platform that uses hardware-bound cryptography and continuous device posture to secure enterprise workforce, consumer, and AI agent identities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Identity and Access Management Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Computer Systems Design Services (541512)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Authentication (MFA/Passwordless/Biometrics) Platforms (BPAMAEAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Single Sign-On (SSO) & Federation (SAML/OIDC, Identity Providers) (HDAEAJAB), Secrets Management & Machine Identity (API keys, certificates, workload identity) (HDAEAJAJ)

Keywords

• Passwordless authentication
• Phishing-resistant MFA
• Device trust security
• Zero trust identity
• AI agent governance

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. Paid SaaS subscriptions (Secure Access Platform, Phishing-Resistant MFA, Device Trust, Secure SSO): Recurring subscription revenue from enterprise customers for the workforce identity platform. "Get Pricing" is gated behind a sales conversation, indicating enterprise contract pricing.
2. RealityCheck add-on (bundled with paid plans): RealityCheck is positioned as a free add-on with any of Beyond Identity's paid plans, functioning as a value-add to drive attach and upsell of the core subscription.
3. Free plan via the Security Accelerator program: Free access to Beyond Identity's solutions is offered to a select set of high-impact, security-mature teams in exchange for product feedback and joint storytelling — a land-and-expand model that converts design-partner cohorts into paying customers.
4. Enterprise implementation / professional services (implied): Enterprise deployments integrating with EDR/MDM/SSO stacks (Jamf, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Zscaler, Okta, Ping, etc.) typically require professional services for rollout, policy tuning, and JML automation. Not explicitly priced in source.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion5 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Beyond Identity provides a passwordless, phishing-resistant identity defense platform that combines FIDO2-certified multi-factor authentication, device trust, secure single sign-on, and continuous risk-based access control. It sells subscription-based software to enterprise security teams and, through its Ceros business unit, extends the same cryptographic identity model to govern autonomous AI agents.

Product overview

Beyond Identity offers a platform-plus-modules architecture anchored by the Secure Access Platform (its core phishing-resistant MFA, device-trust, and Secure SSO offering). On top of the core platform, Beyond Identity layers several focused modules: Secure SSO for workforce passwordless single sign-on; Phishing-Resistant MFA as the foundational device-bound authentication layer; Device Trust for continuous device posture validation; Secure Customers for consumer-facing authentication and identity verification; RealityCheck as a deepfake/AI-impersonation defense add-on for video conferencing; and the Ceros AI Trust Layer (operated as a separate business unit) that extends identity, observability, and governance to autonomous AI agents. The Platform Authenticator / Web Authenticator client apps form the user-facing cryptographic layer behind every Beyond Identity product.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Ceros: Agentic AI trust layer business unit of Beyond Identity providing unified identity, observability, and governance for autonomous AI agents; presented at Identiverse 2026.
• RealityCheck

Products and services

• Secure Access Platform The core identity defense platform from Beyond Identity, combining phishing-resistant MFA, device trust, continuous access control, and Secure SSO. It is sold to enterprise security and IT teams and can be deployed as a standalone secure access layer or as a hardening layer on top of existing identity management systems such as Okta.
• Phishing-Resistant MFA Passwordless, device-bound multi-factor authentication that cryptographically ties every login to a specific device, blocking phishing, AI-powered credential theft, and MFA bypass attacks via biometrics and hardware-protected keys stored in TPM or Secure Enclave.
• Device Trust Continuous device-posture validation across managed and unmanaged devices, checking disk encryption, EDR presence, firewall state, and OS version, and bi-directionally sharing signals with EDR, MDM, and ZTNA tools to block access or revoke sessions when risk changes.
• Secure SSO Passwordless single sign-on that authenticates both users and devices continuously, applying per-app policies, device-posture checks, and just-in-time access for the most critical workforce applications.
• Secure Customers Consumer-facing authentication and identity verification offering, including deepfake and AI-impersonation defense at onboarding and high-risk interactions, designed for app developers and product teams embedding passwordless login into consumer applications.
• RealityCheck Zero-trust video-conferencing add-on that uses deterministic device-bound signals to prevent deepfake and AI impersonation by certifying participant authenticity and removing unauthorized users from high-risk conference calls, with initial support for Zoom.
• Ceros (Agentic AI Trust Layer) Agentic AI trust layer providing unified identity, observability, and governance for autonomous AI agents, with OS-layer policy enforcement, AI discovery and inventory, runtime governance, AI provenance and audit, runtime orchestration and resilience, and protection against prompt injection and API-key exposure using device-bound passkeys.
• Platform Authenticator and Web Authenticator User-facing authentication client apps, including the Web Authenticator for browsers, the Platform Authenticator for Windows Desktop Login, and the Android Product Authenticator, that store device-bound private keys in hardware (TPM or Secure Enclave) and perform cryptographic authentication on behalf of the user.

Quantifiable outcome

• Secured 100% of employee devices (FireHydrant)
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration13 records

AI capability11 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

15 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• JamfcoreTechnology or IntegrationBeyond Identity lists Jamf among its flagship integration partners on the homepage and runs a dedicated Jamf integration page. The integration enables device-posture signals from Jamf to feed Beyond Identity's continuous authentication, and Beyond Identity's status page documents live operational coordination with Jamf (e.g., "Jamf Partial API Outage" incident on Sep 20, 2025).
• CrowdStrikecoreTechnology or IntegrationBeyond Identity integrates with CrowdStrike to consume EDR signals for continuous device-posture evaluation and to block access when CrowdStrike flags risk. Highlighted in the homepage integrations row.
• SentinelOnecoreTechnology or IntegrationSentinelOne appears among the named EDR/ZTNA integrations on the homepage, with a dedicated integration logo. Beyond Identity ingests SentinelOne risk telemetry to enforce access decisions.
• ZscalercoreTechnology or IntegrationZscaler is listed as a ZTNA integration on the homepage; Beyond Identity can block access at the ZTNA layer based on posture and revoke sessions in real time.
• GitHubcoreTechnology or IntegrationGitHub is featured as a named integration on the homepage with a dedicated integration page. Relevant to Beyond Identity's positioning around secure code commits and the Ceros platform's coverage of AI coding agents.
• Ping IdentitycoreTechnology or IntegrationPing Identity is featured as a named SSO integration on the homepage, enabling Beyond Identity to slot in as a phishing-resistant authentication layer in front of existing Ping deployments.
• SilverfortcoreTechnology or IntegrationSilverfort is listed among Beyond Identity's named technology integrations on the homepage, with a dedicated integration page covering unified identity threat detection.
• NVIDIA (Inception Program)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBeyond Identity joined the NVIDIA Inception Program (announced January 5, 2026) to advance hardware-enforced security for the AI era, with a dedicated blog post framing the relationship around AI-era identity and device trust.
• NametagcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNametag's Deepfake Defense engine (backed by U.S. patents 12,561,418 and 12,562,904) has been integrated into Beyond Identity's products to defend against deepfake and synthetic identity fraud in enterprise identity verification workflows. Joint blog and case study on identity fraud at onboarding and recovery (Nov 19, 2025).
• SplunkcoreTechnology or IntegrationBeyond Identity launched a dedicated app in the Splunk ecosystem ("Unlock High-Fidelity Security with the New Beyond Identity App for Splunk", Jan 16, 2026) to surface authentication and device-posture events as SIEM telemetry.
• Yubico (YubiKey)coreTechnology or IntegrationBeyond Identity and Yubico jointly enable "Secure Desktop Access with Beyond Identity and YubiKeys" — combining Beyond Identity's device-bound platform authenticator with Yubico hardware security keys for Windows Desktop Login and other use cases.
• GuidePoint SecurityminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorGuidePoint Security is a recurring event co-marketing partner with Beyond Identity (Public Sector Vendor Fair, Houston Golf Outing, Pinehurst Golf Outing, Movie Premiere of Wicked). Public sector and federal alignment.
• Myriad360minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorMyriad360 co-hosted a client appreciation celebration with Beyond Identity (Nov 20, 2025) — a channel/partner event signaling a reseller or systems-integrator relationship.
• MightyID and TevoraminorGTM or Marketing PartnerJointly hosted a CISO networking dinner (Dec 9, 2025) — a co-marketing/GTM partnership for engaging senior security buyers.
• AlphiniaminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCo-hosted the Alphinia CISO Mastermind Dinner (Dec 1, 2025) — joint GTM/marketing for CISO engagement.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• HYPR: HYPR is the closest direct competitor to Beyond Identity: both sell FIDO2-certified, phishing-resistant passwordless MFA built on device-bound asymmetric cryptography and target enterprise CISOs. They are routinely compared head-to-head in analyst rankings (e.g., GBHackers 2026) and compete for the same zero-trust and NYDFS/NIST-driven budgets.
• Yubico: Yubico is a direct FIDO2/hardware authentication peer and a Beyond Identity integration partner ("Secure Desktop Access with Beyond Identity and YubiKeys"). Both sell phishing-resistant authentication, but Yubico anchors in physical security keys while Beyond Identity anchors in software-bound device credentials — making them complementary in some accounts and competitive in others.
• Trusona: Trusona is a direct passwordless MFA competitor, also ranked alongside Beyond Identity in independent buyer guides. Both target phishing-resistant enterprise authentication with a focus on eliminating shared secrets, though they take different architectural approaches.
• Auth0 (Okta): Auth0, now part of Okta, is a leading authentication platform for customer-facing applications and a peer to Beyond Identity's Secure Customers line. It competes for developer mindshare and CIAM budgets with broader identity/SSO functionality.

Broad incumbents

• Okta: Okta is the dominant cloud identity incumbent and Beyond Identity is explicitly positioned to either replace or harden Okta deployments. Beyond Identity integrates with Okta for federation but competes with Workforce Identity and Okta's own passwordless/Adaptive MFA offerings for the phishing-resistant budget.
• Microsoft Entra ID: Microsoft Entra ID ships passkey and phishing-resistant MFA as part of the broader Microsoft 365 / Azure stack, making it the default baseline competitor for any enterprise evaluating Beyond Identity. Entra's bundled pricing and OS-level passkey support define the floor against which Beyond Identity must justify premium pricing.
• Ping Identity: Ping Identity is a named integration partner but also a broader incumbent in enterprise SSO and identity federation. Beyond Identity slots in front of Ping deployments, while Ping competes for the same workforce identity wallet share with its own passwordless and adaptive authentication features.
• Duo Security (Cisco): Duo Security, owned by Cisco, is a broad MFA incumbent that Beyond Identity is explicitly positioned against. Duo sells push-based MFA and passwordless options as part of Cisco's broader security portfolio, competing for the same CISO budget Beyond Identity targets with a stronger phishing-resistant value proposition.

Emerging players

• Silverfort: Silverfort is both a named Beyond Identity integration partner and an emerging identity threat detection platform that competes for adjacent budget around identity attack paths. They overlap on unified identity security positioning and increasingly on agent/NHI security narratives.
• Transmit Security: Transmit Security is an emerging player in passwordless authentication, CIAM, and identity fraud prevention. It competes with Beyond Identity on enterprise passwordless MFA and with Secure Customers on consumer-facing identity verification workflows.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• GitHubgithub.com/gobeyondidentity
• Xx.com/beyondidentity
• Facebookfacebook.com/BeyondIdentityCom
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/beyond-identity-inc

Compliance6 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles13 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors6 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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