BeyondTrust Bomgar PRA/PAM/SRA Competitors Comparison

Conclusion

In evaluating secure user access solutions for OT/CI, it’s important that the solution be flexible enough to address the operational needs and constraints of the environment into which it will be deployed, supports a zero-trust authentication and authorization model, and brings a high degree of security to the OT environment into which it needs to connect.

BeyondTrust Bomgar describes its solution as simple to deploy, manage, and use. However, their administration and remote access manuals illustrate that it’s significantly more complex, and one that is designed for an IT (Enterprise) versus OT environment. BeyondTrust requires the use of Jump Clients (agents), Jumpoints, Jump Hosts, and desktop software such as BeyondTrust Access Console for remote access. BeyondTrust puts a heavy burden on users, operations, and other teams to support from initial deployment to ongoing maintenance and use.

In contrast, the XONA Critical System Gateway (CSG) enables frictionless employee, contractor, and/or vendor access that’s purpose-built for operational technology (OT) and critical infrastructure (CI).

The CSG is the definition of simplicity and can be deployed in less than an hour. It’s approach to data stream protection and protocol isolation mitigates the risk of connecting to a protected OT network, and eliminates common attack vectors, while reducing the overall attack surface. It also enables compliance with OT-specific regulations such as ISA99/IEC 62443, NERC-CIP, NIST SP 800-207, NIST 800-53, and TSA SD02C.

XONA CSG is your secure portal into the cyber-physical world that enables critical operations to happen from anywhere with total confidence and trust.

¹ https://www.cisa.gov/critical-infrastructure-sectors

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