We performed a comparison between CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault and Azure Key Vault based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure is the winner in this comparison. Reviewers are happier with its ease of deployment and with its price.
"The most valuable features are ease of use and enabling our clients to manage keys."
"The solution's technical support is good. My company received support from Microsoft whenever we needed it."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to store secrets securely and encrypt them. It is pretty easy and straightforward to use."
"We use Azure Key Vault to store secrets."
"We only use the basic features and those are the ones that have the ability to tie into the app, the secrets, and the passwords and encrypt them."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the search for secrets feature that we use to store our passwords and connection strings."
"The security on offer seems to be quite good."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Key Vault are the security and convenience of changing passwords in multiple places."
"Super stable and easy to scale"
"The tool has safe vaults. We keep our passwords in the Vault. The tool’s recording feature is also valuable for us."
"The password protection itself is the most important feature. It's something we didn't have before."
"CyberArk's GUI is user friendly."
"Password Vault's main advantage is its scalability. We constantly see huge enterprises implementing something like this, and the privileged session management is an excellent piece. You can kind of watch videos of whatever an admin has done."
"It's a good solution, it works, and the bank is happy with it."
"Service count rotation is probably one of my favorite features... The ability to automatically rotate any password I need to really helps with the entire enterprise strategy that we're pushing right now."
"Every aspect of the solution is very well integrated, and even that gives comfort. It is a fail-safe kind of environment."
"While the solution already does a great job of managing keys, the solution could probably look at maybe expanding more into mobile devices and endpoints."
"The integration with Thales HSM is complex and is not out-of-the-box. Uploading the keys was quite a tedious process."
"While it is reliable, enhancing security and protection should always be the priority."
"The platform's configuration process could be easier."
"Microsoft Azure Key Vault could improve by enhancing the security of credentials. Without the security or the use of key vaults, we would have to configure our credentials into the source code as plain text without the encryption or security."
"To make it a ten the setup should be more streamlined."
"One of my previous clients was one of the big banks here in the Netherlands and the EU courts have stated that Microsoft Azure Key Vault is not, according to their perspective, secure due to the fact that Microsoft has access to Key Vault."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"There are upwards of six components you need to set it up. And you might need anywhere from two to five servers. It takes some work to set that up, especially in a larger environment."
"CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault's deployment is complex for resources with little experience. Tech support needs to be improved as well based on quality and knowledge."
"CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault can improve the distributive vault feature. Distributing the vault in multiple areas and multiple data centers should improve."
"There was a situation when one of our presidents had an issue, but I can't recall the specifics."
"I would prefer that this is a fully-managed service, rather than have to manage the software ourselves and keep it up to date."
"Enhanced PSM support for Java based applications."
"The interface could be improved it is not user-friendly, but they have improved but it could still improve. In the policies configuration, it would be a benefit to have more details."
"We require IAM (identify and access management) capability at the administrator level because we need more identification."
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Azure Key Vault is ranked 1st in Enterprise Password Managers with 46 reviews while CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault is ranked 4th in Enterprise Password Managers with 48 reviews. Azure Key Vault is rated 8.6, while CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Azure Key Vault writes "Allows us to securely store our keys to prevent unauthorized access to unwanted users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault writes "Helps to store system accounts ". Azure Key Vault is most compared with AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, AWS Certificate Manager, Delinea Secret Server and 1Password, whereas CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault is most compared with HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Delinea Secret Server, BeyondTrust Password Safe and LastPass. See our Azure Key Vault vs. CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault report.
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