We performed a comparison between Azure Key Vault 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."One of the most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Key Vault is its ease of use."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Key Vault is the secret storage of data."
"We use Azure Key Vault for securing secret connection streams, like API secrets, Azure services Secret Key, and AD Client Secret."
"All its features are really valuable. It's really well thought-out. It's a complete turnkey solution that has all the concerns taken care of, such as access control and management. You can use it in infrastructure as code to create key vaults, APIs, PowerShells, CLIs, even Terraform."
"The product’s advantageous feature is integration."
"With Azure Key Vault, we can generate our own keys and then import them inside the system, which provides a higher level of security than provider-managed keys."
"The platform has a valuable feature for seamless integration."
"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."
"Session recording, password rotation, and password vaulting are the most valuable features."
"The actual innovations offered by the vendor stand out to me. They are quick to respond to market demands and the changing environment of privileged access management."
"BeyondTrust Password Safe has good reporting and Smart Rules which makes it convenient. Though Smart Rules are convenient, those who do not have much experience with such things may find it difficult to understand how these things work. Otherwise, I find Smart Rules very convenient to work with."
"One of the most valuable features is that this is a product designed with enterprises in mind."
"The CI/CD and REST API are also satisfactory; the solution has a full PAM feature set and they all work well."
"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."
"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."
"Azure Key Vault is only available for Microsoft services, and it should be exposed to non-Microsoft cloud services, like GCP and Amazon."
"We encountered a few problems where Azure had infrastructure problems like the DMS."
"There's room for improvement in cross-platform compatibility."
"Many times, the first round of support itself will fail, and they will bring some more competent people in the subsequent support. So it gets into a hierarchical mode. By then, we will lose a good amount of time. The technical support needs improvement."
"The solution does not allow you to integrate with XML parties if it is not inside Azure itself."
"There are additional charges for data transfers. However, the pricing is mostly reasonable for the licensing overall."
"While it is reliable, enhancing security and protection should always be the priority."
"The solution needs to improve its cost."
"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."
"There is a limited capacity on the appliance, which I wasn't informed about when I purchased the product. I can have a maximum of 150 rules per appliance; any more than that and rule processing becomes very complex, especially regarding password revision. Hitting a capacity limit you don't know about can be problematic. Ideally, we would not have a limited capacity, allowing us to be in a completely managed state with password rotation for every service account, not just the highly privileged ones."
"The only feature they could improve is the banners because they aren't informative. For example, if something is not correct and I open the error notification, the dialogue box simply says, "This is an error." It would be great if they could provide some valuable comments about how to fix the errors."
"The pricing is not cheap, but it could be better."
"The integration with Secure Remote Access must be improved."
"The database instance onboarding should be simplified. The problem is that you can scan the assets and databases inside a server, but you cannot onboard them or manage them with the smart tools. It has to be done manually. I think they should try to include more custom platforms."
"Documentation is the primary area of improvement."
"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."
Azure Key Vault is ranked 1st in Enterprise Password Managers with 46 reviews while BeyondTrust Password Safe is ranked 5th in Enterprise Password Managers with 19 reviews. Azure Key Vault is rated 8.6, while BeyondTrust Password Safe is rated 7.6. 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 BeyondTrust Password Safe writes "Allows us to automatically rotate passwords, set the complexity, and enforce password policies on privileged accounts". Azure Key Vault is most compared with AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault, AWS Certificate Manager and Microsoft Entra ID, whereas BeyondTrust Password Safe is most compared with HashiCorp Vault, LastPass, BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access, CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault and Delinea Secret Server. See our Azure Key Vault vs. BeyondTrust Password Safe report.
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