We performed a comparison between BeyondTrust Password Safe and CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault 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 solution protects organizations from internal and external threats."
"The performance is good."
"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."
"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."
"It simplifies your compliance and tracking to benchmark other credentials and analytics."
"It provides integrated password and session management in one solution, which is important for us because, from an auditing standpoint, we are accountable for the type of access being used. We need to ensure that accounts are securely stored and there is the right type of accountability around who is gaining the access. After gaining it, how they're using it, where they're using it, etc."
"Session recording, password rotation, and password vaulting are the most valuable features."
"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."
"Our privileged accounts are now stored in a more secure location and lateral movement within the network have been lessened."
"The most valuable feature is privileged session management."
"The password protection itself is the most important feature. It's something we didn't have before."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The most valuable feature is that it is flexible. It has many connectors. that have done well, the EPV and SSH sessions are all being recorded and everything works fine."
"CPM helps keep the password policy up to date."
"CyberArk is a good and adaptive solution. It is easy to adopt and install. It is easy for every use case."
"Our most valuable features would probably be key rotation, the SKM or SSH key manager, and account discovery."
"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."
"We don't have much control over the appliance. When anything happens in the backend, we have to depend on the support team. We need to raise a case so that they can update the appliance. If we have control over it, we would be able to troubleshoot easily."
"The integration with Secure Remote Access must be improved."
"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 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."
"It has crashed on us in the past."
"The product needs to have better integration with SAP products."
"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."
"CyberArk has two disadvantages; the first is that it's insanely expensive and the other is it's very complex."
"The initial setup could be simplified. Right now, in comparison to its nearest competitors, it's quite complex."
"Password Vault is much pricier than other solutions. A vendor team might struggle to explain why that price is justified. There are good alternatives that cost less."
"CyberArk's license is too expensive. I rate it seven out of 10 for affordability."
"The only problem involves granting access to people who are authorized to view it."
"The session monitoring and recording feature is also a good feature feature, but we're currently experiencing an issue with session monitoring not working correctly. We're working with CyberArk to resolve it. We aren't able to view active sessions or historical recordings of sessions."
"There was a situation when one of our presidents had an issue, but I can't recall the specifics."
"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."
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BeyondTrust Password Safe is ranked 5th in Enterprise Password Managers with 19 reviews while CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault is ranked 4th in Enterprise Password Managers with 48 reviews. BeyondTrust Password Safe is rated 7.6, while CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of BeyondTrust Password Safe writes "Allows us to automatically rotate passwords, set the complexity, and enforce password policies on privileged accounts". On the other hand, the top reviewer of CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault writes "Helps to store system accounts ". BeyondTrust Password Safe is most compared with HashiCorp Vault, Azure Key Vault, LastPass, BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access and Delinea Secret Server, whereas CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault is most compared with Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Delinea Secret Server and LastPass. See our BeyondTrust Password Safe vs. CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault report.
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