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."Considering the features provided by the product, I would say that the solution is available at a good price point."
"The platform has a valuable feature for seamless integration."
"Among the features that have helped improve our security posture are storing secrets in a secure location to create a trusted situation, trusted resources, and incorporating identity access management so that we know who has access to what."
"The access policy feature helps secure content and resources."
"I find the simplicity of key management to be the most valuable feature. Key management has always been a difficult function to do, especially in the cloud premises. Azure Key Vault provides you with a mechanism for managing keys, without having to worry about protecting secrets is valuable."
"The solution does an excellent job of storing and retrieving our stored keys."
"It is a managed service in Azure, you do not have to worry about security other than managing your own identities."
"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 CI/CD and REST API are also satisfactory; the solution has a full PAM feature set and they all work well."
"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."
"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."
"BeyondTrust Password Safe is a good PAM tool."
"One of the most valuable features is that this is a product designed with enterprises in mind."
"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."
"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 performance is good."
"Azure needs to provide versions of Key Vault that are suitable for different sizes of companies."
"The integration with Thales HSM is complex and is not out-of-the-box. Uploading the keys was quite a tedious process."
"I can see that other people are doing the infrastructure as code, they are able to easily manage and cycle their passwords as needed using their own interface they created. It would be nice if Microsoft provided more guidance in that area."
"The solution needs to improve its cost."
"Azure Key Vault is only available for Microsoft services, and it should be exposed to non-Microsoft cloud services, like GCP and Amazon."
"The solution does not allow you to integrate with XML parties if it is not inside Azure itself."
"We encountered a few problems where Azure had infrastructure problems like the DMS."
"One area for improvement is the notification system for secret expiration. It would be beneficial if the service could handle this more autonomously, eliminating the need for additional integrations."
"The integration with Secure Remote Access must be improved."
"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."
"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'd like to have incremental backups to ensure the solution's information is protected regularly."
"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."
"Documentation is the primary area of improvement."
"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."
"The product needs to have better integration with SAP products."
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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