We performed a comparison between AWS CloudTrail and CyberArk Privileged Access Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two User Activity Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."AWS CloudTrail helps in accelerating incident investigation and response. It increases it because I pull out the logs to CloudTrail, and from CloudTrail watch, I'll send it to the Security Hub and do a visualization with Prometheus and Grafana."
"The solution is good as a central logging platform for showing all cloud events."
"In one specific scenario, we encountered a situation where a terminated employee still had access to our environment without our knowledge. With AWS CloudTrail, we could track and monitor the employees' activities, revealing that they were downloading specific files from our customer's environment. Without it enabled, we wouldn't have been aware of this."
"The product’s most valuable feature is monitoring. It helps us audit the changes in AWS account at the application and resource level."
"AWS CloudTrail integrates with AWS Config and provides custom event, security, and compliance auditing."
"It is a stable solution. AWS handles it well."
"What I found most valuable in AWS CloudTrail is that it provides a good context of what's happening in the environment, so it's an excellent way to baseline what's occurring. I also like that AWS CloudTrail helps with audits."
"Enterprise Password Vault, Privilege Session Manager, and Application Identity Management have been very useful for our client environment."
"Automates password management to remove the human chain weakness."
"This solution is quite stable."
"Increased our insight into how privileged accounts are being used and distributed within our footprint."
"CyberArk has resulted in a massive increase in our security footprint."
"We are maintaining compliance in PCI, SOX and HIPPA, which is a big thing. Auditors really like it, and it has made us stay compliant."
"CyberArk has been easy for us to implement and the adoption has been good. We've been able to standardize a bunch of things. We've been able to standardize relatively easily with the use of the platforms and managing the policies."
"Technical support has been very responsive in navigating challenges. It is very easy to open a ticket."
"The platform’s reporting log sheet feature could be more user-friendly."
"The solution should incorporate visibility for CloudWatch events."
"Once the organization defines its policies, it must immediately enable AWS CloudTrail and integrate it with auto-remediation procedures using Lambda functions. This ensures that the main administrator can receive information quickly and on time without delay."
"Maybe if we could do direct queries on CloudTrail without needing to export it to Athena, that'd be great."
"Filtering multiple values within the console is a feature that has yet to exist in AWS CloudTrail. You can look up a user identity, service, or action, but you can't search for multiple dimensions."
"The solution's operation visibility could be improved."
"It is very complex and difficult to set up the solution."
"I think having a distributed architecture would certainly help this solution."
"Online help needs to be looked into with live agent support."
"I would love them to improve their UI customizing features."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"The current user interface is a little dated. However, I hear there are changes coming in the next version."
"The product could be easier to use. More work needs to be done on this aspect; it is not good enough yet. It also takes up a lot of server space. Sometimes we need to use up to seven servers."
"Report creation could be improved. The policies could be more customized."
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AWS CloudTrail is ranked 3rd in User Activity Monitoring with 8 reviews while CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is ranked 1st in User Activity Monitoring with 144 reviews. AWS CloudTrail is rated 8.8, while CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of AWS CloudTrail writes "Very comprehensive logs with good points of view for auditing and compliance". On the other hand, 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". AWS CloudTrail is most compared with Ekran System, whereas CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Microsoft Entra ID, Delinea Secret Server, WALLIX Bastion and One Identity Safeguard. See our AWS CloudTrail vs. CyberArk Privileged Access Manager report.
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