We performed a comparison between AWS Secrets Manager and BeyondTrust Password Safe based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Password Managers solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is security."
"The product is easy to use and is inexpensive."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Secrets Manager is the ability to keep data secret and assign access permissions to people to grant or restrict access."
"The solution is very scalable."
"It's highly scalable, so I'd rate it a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature is the management of credentials."
"The most valuable feature is usability, as it is quite user-friendly."
"The API is fine and works well."
"The best aspect of the product is the ability to onboard devices. You can scan the IP subnets and onboard all the devices. You can then segregate them if it's a network device or a firewall. If it's a Windows server or a UNIX, you can basically scan your IT infrastructure and onboard the efforts, which should be managed. Once they have been onboarded, then the session management and password management are easy and nicely configurable."
"Smart Rules is a nice feature in BeyondTrust. It is a unique feature that BeyondTrust has as compared to other vendors such as CyberArk. With Smart Rules, you can do automatic onboarding of accounts. There are a lot of options and features. For example, you can do onboarding based on different AD attributes. It is a nice feature in BeyondTrust that some of the other PAM vendors don't have. With other vendors, we have to create our own scripts, whereas, with BeyondTrust, we can just use the in-built Smart Rules."
"Screen recording is valuable, and integration with applications is easy. We can customize whatever we want. We did a lot of application integration using scripting."
"The solution protects organizations from internal and external threats."
"The ability to manage privileged account passwords is the most valuable feature."
"One of the most valuable features is that this is a product designed with enterprises in mind."
"I like the session recording feature. I also like the analytics and reports. You can pull up a report, and the UI is fantastic. The system is recording when nobody's there, so we have a record of what's happening."
"The product has improved security and login due to the system recordings. In case, there is a doubt that someone has done something which they shouldn't have been doing, we can just go back and check what the user actually did."
"There is a need for better environmental implementation, such as having a security fund as a solution."
"AWS Secrets Manager could support hybrid infrastructure."
"The sidecar feature has room for improvement."
"There is room for improvement in terms of integrating with certain other platforms."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"An area for improvement in AWS Secrets Manager could be expanding integration options beyond AWS services."
"If you add one more layer of security to AWS Secrets Manager, even the programmer will not be able to see the secrets."
"When we deploy BeyondTrust, we have to deploy our own database on a SQL server. It doesn't deploy the database. I wish BeyondTrust packages the whole solution in one and includes the MySQL database so that when you deploy it, it deploys everything for you. BeyondTrust gives you the software, but you are in charge of setting up your own database. It is a single appliance just for the BeyondTrust portion but not the database. Unless that has changed in later releases, you have to set up your own database for BeyondTrust Password Safe. I find that part complex because we then need the expertise and help of the database team to set it up, which also increases the deployment time. If they can deploy the database, it will reduce the deployment time."
"We face screensaver timeout issues and problems with the server. I would like the product to include a server visibility feature."
"We weren't aware that the Password Safe virtual appliance runs on a Windows server. As part of our monthly patching process, we ran into an issue. BeyondTrust Password Safe wasn't compatible with the patching we used to put on our server."
"If there was one thing, it would be having the documentation standardized. They should keep the documentation consistent. For example, when BeyondTrust updated one of their admin guides, they left out the information on the discovery account requirements, and then over a period of time, we ended up having to search multiple different documents to put together a string of information for a specific topic, which was problematic. It was minor, but it was problematic. Standardized documentation would be the one thing I would suggest."
"I think that BeyondTrust Password Safe could be improved with more testing. In the beginning, they were practically using customers as beta testers. Maybe the product has evolved since I last used it, but if you look at PAM, privileged access management, whatever's out there has already been done. I don't see there being any other enhancements that are being made regarding PAM, except to support more cloud-based applications."
"There are multiple features that have issues, although they could be specific to our environment. What we have seen is that whenever a user gets added to the authentication store, the sync between Password Safe and the authentication store, which is generally easy, takes a lot of time. It does not occur immediately."
"Named accounts don't work well in this solution. If you use named accounts for your administrative access, the way Smart Rules work is that it takes your SAM account name and matches it to the account name of your privileged ID, which creates limitations on size and how big those names can be because the directory has a 20-character limit."
"It has crashed on us in the past."
AWS Secrets Manager is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Password Managers with 12 reviews while BeyondTrust Password Safe is ranked 5th in Enterprise Password Managers with 19 reviews. AWS Secrets Manager is rated 8.8, while BeyondTrust Password Safe is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of AWS Secrets Manager writes "Seamlessly integrates with various AWS services while offering reasonable pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of BeyondTrust Password Safe writes "Allows us to automatically rotate passwords, set the complexity, and enforce password policies on privileged accounts". AWS Secrets Manager is most compared with Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault, 1Password, CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault and Delinea Secret Server, whereas BeyondTrust Password Safe is most compared with HashiCorp Vault, Azure Key Vault, LastPass, BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access and ManageEngine Password Manager Pro. See our AWS Secrets Manager vs. BeyondTrust Password Safe report.
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