We performed a comparison between CyberArk Privileged Access Manager and Delinea Secret Server based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Delinea Secret Server has an edge over CyberArk in this comparison. According to reviews, Secret Server is easier to set up, more reasonably priced, and more user friendly.
"Helped us meet our standards and requirements to help us comply with industry standards and banking regulations."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution include password management and Rest API retrieval of vaulted credentials."
"The combination of CPM and PSM resolves a lot of use cases."
"On the customer accounts side, our account managers are responsive. If you ask them, they will get you whomever you need."
"The users have the ability to rotate passwords on a daily basis with a Reconcile Account. Or, if they want to do one-time password checkouts, we can manage those, check in, check out. I like the flexibility of the changing of the password, specifically."
"The established sessions on the target systems are fully isolated and the privileged account credentials are never exposed to the end-users or their client applications and devices."
"The Vault offers great capabilities for structuring and accessing data."
"The flexibility of integrating with other technologies is important because of a lot of applications - a lot of COTS products - are not supported when we are bringing the application IDs. The CyberArk platform provides a lot of opportunities to do customization."
"What I like best about this product is the interface."
"It works for us."
"Its most valuable feature is its main purpose - the password changing and the Heartbeat so the user has access to only their SVN and does not have access to any other. Thycotic's access privileged management tool allows you to grant access to users for a specific period of time and with specific attributes and privileges."
"Support is helpful."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the random changing of passwords."
"I like the one-way hash, as well as the ability to store it in the cloud and access it from anywhere."
"I like that you can change the password remotely."
"The surveillance is most valuable."
"The solution could improve by adding more connectors."
"CyberArk PAM is a very broad product as everyone's requirements for implementation are different. In our particular case, the initial implementation was planned and developed by people who didn't know our specific network requirements, so the initial implementation needed to be tweaked over time. While this is normal, at the time all these "major" changes required CyberArk professional services to come in-plant and "assist" with the changes."
"I would love them to improve their UI customizing features."
"The Vault's disaster recovery features need improvement."
"Stability is a huge concern right now. We are on a version which is very unstable. We have to upgrade to stabilize it. It is fine, but the problem is we have to hire CyberArk to do the upgrade. This costs money, and it is their bug."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"They need to provide better training for the System Integrator."
"There is a lot of room for improvement in the report section. I also work on other tools, such as Thycotic, which allows you to create customized reports for your organization's needs. In CyberArk, there are limited reports, whereas in Thycotic or some of the other PAM tools, because the database is different, you can customize the report based on your needs through SQL queries."
"An area for improvement in Delinea Secret Server is its integration with ICAP servers."
"Support could be better. I have heard about a lot of problems in the Bangladesh market. People are saying that there are support issues. So, Delinea should focus on support and services."
"One thing that I wish they would do is to have a Kubernetes or container-based deployment supported, but they're not quite there yet. Containerization or support for containerization would be fantastic."
"Delinea Secret Server needs to improve its reporting."
"We could definitely use some help with API tokenization. If we had a way to store tokens that would be fabulous."
"The integration with the ticketing system ServiceNow is complex."
"Improvements are needed in session management, behavioral analytics, and the reporting segment."
"As I am partial to CyberArk, I rate Thycotic Password Reset Server as a nine out of ten, owing to the minor glitches I mentioned."
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CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is ranked 1st in Privileged Access Management (PAM) with 144 reviews while Delinea Secret Server is ranked 2nd in Privileged Access Management (PAM) with 47 reviews. CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is rated 8.8, while Delinea Secret Server is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of CyberArk Privileged Access Manager writes "Lets you ensure relevant, compliant access in good time and with an audit trail, yet lacks clarity on MITRE ATT&CK". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Delinea Secret Server writes "Effective for password rotation policies triggered by audit requirements, it helps maintain compliance standards and seamless integration with third-party tools ". CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Microsoft Entra ID, WALLIX Bastion, One Identity Safeguard and ManageEngine PAM360, whereas Delinea Secret Server is most compared with Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault, IBM Security Secret Server, ManageEngine PAM360 and WALLIX Bastion. See our CyberArk Privileged Access Manager vs. Delinea Secret Server report.
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Hello Avinash, it all depends on the timeline and urgency of the project. If you need to deploy a PAM tool that focuses on standing privileges, stopping lateral movement, and incorporating Zero Standing Privileges as part of Zero Trust, then please consider looking at Remediant. I've worked for BeyondTrust and have gone up against the other big players such as Delinea, Centrify, CyberArk, and HashiCorp. They more or less all offer similar solutions, but looking at your current requirements, Remediant really excels in delivering a simple, yet very effective tool in a matter of days and weeks, not months and years.