BeyondTrust Password Safe Reviews

The use cases are essentially the same as those for any PAM solution. Like addressing security compliance, securing the network against threats, and protecting all identities with intelligence and minimal concerns.

It also includes cloud security management, handling different shifts, and addressing workforce access, passwords, and the likes of compiance. It simplifies analytics, reporting, and secret implementation.

Additionally, it reduces servers while increasing stability in privileged access. These are the general use cases that apply to all PAM solutions.

BeyondTrust Password Safe provides proper security for your network. Its primary feature is identity governance. It allows you to manage your users effectively and implement robust governance. The solution includes reporting, which aligns with the National Security standard and enhances cybersecurity resilience.

This protection safeguards against attacks. When discussing the management of essentials post-classification, BeyondTrust Password Safe also assists with this. It plays a critical role in preventing cyber identity theft. Without BeyondTrust Password Safe, your system is more susceptible to identity theft. It's an all-encompassing solution that significantly reduces such risks.

BeyondTrust Password Safe is specifically designed to limit cyber identity theft. It's highly effective in preventing incidents of identity theft.

It is very easy to deploy. It's easy to use. That's the major thing I like about it.

The pricing is not cheap, but it could be better.

I'm familiar with BeyondTrust. I have been with it for around a year.

The stability is perfect.

It is highly scalable.

The technical support is very good.

I'm familiar with both BeyondTrust and Password Safe. It's actually a Privileged Access Management (PAM) solution. It is a good competitor to Deliena, One Identity, and WALLIX.

It is very easy to set up. It is very easy to deploy. Depending on the environment, it can be deployed quickly. So it's very good. I like it.

The deployment model depends on the customers.

The pricing is nice. It is a yearly basis license. I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.

I would recommend using this solution. Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten.

We primarily use the solution to keep passwords.

The solution offers session monitoring and has a good connection profile. It directs users to specific commands that our organization needs.

The user interface is very nice.

The performance is good. It does depend on how much you are giving to the appliance, however, we've never had any issues.

It's quite interactive.

It's stable.

The solution can scale.

Technical support is helpful and responsive.

We'd like to have incremental backups to ensure the solution's information is protected regularly.

I've been using the solution for three and a half years. 

The solution is stable, and the performance is good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's a very mature solution. 

The solution scales well. I'd rate the ability to scale eight or nine out of ten. We've seen that customers have 120 or 130 users, and they are using it as active-passive. They can also convert it to active-active, and it's fine. It can support more users as well. They can go up the 150 or 155 with no issue. 

Depending on the use case and the willingness of the customer, it can work well for a wide variety of companies, from small to large, including enterprises that can easily buy and implement it. 

I've dealt with technical support in the past, and they are quite good. When I had a critical case, they were available within half an hour. 

I am working with another solution. I've found other options aren't as stable. 

The implementation process is quite simple. I'm using it on-premies, however, they also provide a cloud version.

Having the prerequisites ready in necessary as it does require those for the service account, and often customers don't have that ready. 

We can implement the solution for our clients. 

I'm not aware of the exact pricing.

I have not compared the solution to other options. This is quite an exceptional solution, and I've been happy with the products.

We are partners. 

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. 

On-premises

We use BeyondTrust Password Safe for server and database management of the accounts noted. We will be moving ahead with application management as well.

BeyondTrust Password Safe has good reporting and Smart Rules which makes it easy. Though Smart Rules are easy, those who do not have much experience with such things may find it difficult to understand how it works. Otherwise, I find Smart Rules very easy to work with.

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.

This is persistent for Password Safe used by administrators who require immediate access. If immediate access is not possible, then access should be made possible at least within one hour or so. This does not happen in our environment. The access takes more than three to six hours to happen.

Whenever a new end user is provisioned for access, it would take twelve hours to twenty-four hours. Since they are end users, the time taken is fine. However, when we consider administrators, they might need access at different times. The three-hour time frame for the administrators in our environment is a lot of time.

I have been using the solution for more than one and a half years.

I would rate the stability of this tool as seven out of ten because of the immediate access.

The scalability is good and I would like to rate it eight out of ten. We have around 1200-1500 users.

The support that we have from BeyondTrust is good.

The setup for BeyondTrust Password Safe is not so easy and not complex as well. They have documentation available.

I had compared many vendors sometime back in 2019. The other vendors have either added new features or merged with others.

I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. I would recommend it for monitoring.

Hybrid Cloud

The use case was to integrate BeyondTrust with the organization and onboard servers and accounts. We created Smart Rules and used other features for automatic onboarding and integrating BeyondTrust with various components in the organization, such as SNMP, SIEM, and AD.

It reduces risks. Beyond Password Safe manages all privileged credentials. It takes care of the automatic rotation and connection to the target servers. It reduces a lot of risks of cyber attacks, malware, and ransomware.

It is very important to us that Password Safe provides integrated password and session management in one solution.

Its customization features help us to manage most assets, databases, and applications. With the plugins and customization features, we can connect to databases. We can also connect to Windows and Linux. When I worked with it in 2018, we also had to use one of the plugins to connect to a mainframe. It supports a lot of different platform connections.

The Direct Connect feature allows us to use existing tools such as MobaXterm, PuTTY, or SecureCRT. There is a feature that power users can use to connect to the log server every day. This way, they don't have to go through the web portal. They can just connect to their target server by using MobaXterm, PuTTY, or SecureCRT.

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.

In terms of the intuitiveness of the user interface, I find it to be pretty good as compared to the other products. It is user-friendly, and in terms of the looks and feel, it is one of the better ones.

I find it a little bit confusing because you have the management console, and then within the management console, you have access to different admin consoles. There are probably two or three different ones. I wish they would place all those different types of consoles into one main one so that we don't have to access two or three different consoles to do the work.

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.

Their documentation is not very detailed and thorough. In case of any issues, a lot of times, we have to go through their professional service. They need to update their documentation and create a good knowledge base for us so that when we run into problems, we can go there and search for common issues or problems.

I have been working with this solution for about three years. I have used it on and off depending on the companies I worked for.

It is average because we did have issues with some parts of the solution.

Its scalability is good. It is very scalable. We didn't have too many users because we switched over to CyberArk after two years, but the plan was for 500 end users.

We don't have plans to increase its usage because we switched over to Cyborg earlier this year.

Their documentation is not very detailed. A lot of time, we have to go through their professional service. We do get really good people, but they should provide more and better documentation and knowledge base so that we can solve a lot of issues on our own instead of going through their professional service.

Their professional service or technical support is very good. When we opened a case, sometimes, they answered within a day, and sometimes, it took five days before someone answered the ticket, but when we do get someone, in general, I found most of them to be very good. I would rate them an eight out of ten.

Positive

We didn't use any other solution before BeyondTrust, but we recently switched over to CyberArk.

The process of migrating end users to Password Safe varies from organization to organization, but overall, if you have all the proper workflows, it isn't difficult. With PAM, half of the work is related to processes and policies, and the other half is related to technology. In terms of the technology, I found it to be pretty straightforward, but you need to have all the policies defined in advance.

It wasn't too difficult for us to integrate Session Management into existing business processes. You have to provide the connection strings. The difficulty level was average.

I was the integrator for one of the projects. As a part of their purchase, they also got a certain amount of hours of professional services from BeyondTrust.

We had a team of about five people for its deployment and maintenance. There were two DevOps and two BeyondTrust admins.

We didn't see a return on our investment.

The pricing of BeyondTrust is very good as compared to other products. That was the main reason we decided to go with BeyondTrust at first.

I wasn't involved in its procurement. They had to go through their due diligence. They probably had four PAM vendors, and they went through their procurement process.

Functionality-wise, it works. Everything works well, especially with using Smart Rules. There is a big learning curve to deploying and maintaining it because when you buy this solution, it doesn't come with a Password Safe database. You have to deploy that yourself. If they can package a database with Password Safe, it would be better and more user-friendly. It will cut down the deployment time. They should also improve their documentation, knowledge base, and support on their website. There is not a lot of good information.

I would rate it a six out of ten.

We deploy in client environments. It's not deployed in our environment. Generally, its deployment depends upon a client's environment. Sometimes, it's hybrid. Sometimes, it's on-prem, and sometimes, it's on a virtual hypervisor or VMware.

We are currently deploying it for one of our Indian clients. For this client, we are deploying SaaS-based Password Safe, which is purely on the cloud. They also have BeyondTrust Remote Support. We are integrating both of them. BeyondTrust Remote Support is for tech support for their teams, and Password Safe is for password rotation, screen recording, and monitoring of their employees.

It helps to automate password rotations and manage privileged accounts. If your employees are supposed to rotate passwords for some period of time but they are not doing that, you can automate that.

It provides ultimate security through automation and Smart Rules. You can enforce password policies and access policies. For example, you have local administrator accounts on local systems. If you didn't write any Smart Rules for the local administrators, any employee with administrator privilege can make an administrator account, but that account will not get detected in our system. With Smart Rules, Password Safe can detect that administrator account and onboard and manage that account through an automated process.

The database team of a client had scripted or hard-coded passwords for databases. We were able to use the API scripts provided with the BeyondTrust Password Safe to retrieve the passwords. The database team had already written a script for database login. So, anytime the database team wanted to log in using that script, the password was retrieved from BeyondTrust Password Safe vault.

They offer a jump server or terminal server where we can configure the databases or other applications. A lot of customers have in-house applications, and even products such as CyberArk or Saviynt CPAM do not provide connectors to those because they are not common. BeyondTrust provides some flexibility there for application integration. We can write our own scripts. We can do scripting in our way and integrate it with any application.

Its user interface is easy to use. I also work with other non-PAM solutions, such as SailPoint and Oracle, and as compared to those solutions, BeyondTrust has a very user-friendly interface, and everything is also very well documented.

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.

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. 

They can improve application integration. They can provide out-of-the-box connectors for common applications so that we don't need to do the customization and write scripts from scratch for lots of applications. They can provide an application catalog with pre-configured connectors.

It has been two and a half years.

It's pretty stable. From version 21 onward, it has been more stable.

It's scalable. We can add as many active-active appliances. If the number of users of a client increases, we can increase the active-active appliances anytime.

One of our clients from the Middle East has a big environment with almost 55,000 users. That's our biggest client. There are also small-sized and medium-sized clients.

Their support is pretty good. They are available for any issues. I would rate them an eight out of ten.

Positive

I used CyberArk and Saviynt CPAM, but BeyondTrust Password Safe is better than both of them. CyberArk is the leader, but BeyondTrust Password Safe can easily take the position of CyberArk.

BeyondTrust Password Safe provides flexibility for customized application integration. BeyondTrust also provides lots of other solutions for remote support and privilege management for Windows, Unix, and Linux. We can also manage Linux servers in the Active Directory domain by using BeyondTrust AD Bridge.

Saviynt also has good capabilities. They don't have a very mature product for privileged access management, but with IGA, they're providing privileged access management, which is a plus point for them. 

BeyondTrust provides a single appliance with everything we need to deploy in the cloud. Nowadays, they're providing UVM appliances, UVM20 and UVM50, which are user license-based. We just need to do network configuration and minimal appliance configuration, such as default settings, threshold settings, etc. Deployment is very quick and easy nowadays.

Generally, the deployment takes a week, but it also depends on a customer's requirements and environment, such as whether they have a high availability environment with two or three appliances, whether we need to open certain ports, and whether we need to integrate with a database for session recording storage. Configuration of a single appliance only takes one or two hours, but there could be some delay from the client side in taking care of all the dependencies, such as opening required ports. That's why we keep one week for deployment in our plan.

Our implementation strategy depends on the client's environment. It depends on how the client wants the environment and whether they want high availability.

I have not handled the process of migrating end-users to Password Safe, but a colleague of mine has handled migration from CyberArk to BeyondTrust Password Safe. It was not very difficult. They could easily do it.

One person can do the deployment and administration of basic things for a mid-scale or small-scale client. It also depends on a client's requirements. If a client wants it done in a short time, we would need another consultant, but generally, one person can easily do these tasks.

You can follow its documentation for implementation. BeyondTrust has documented everything very well. They have clearly mentioned the port requirements and system requirements. They have good training resources on their website. You can easily follow them.

I would rate BeyondTrust Password Safe a seven out of ten.

BeyondTrust replaced the leading password management solution, offered vulnerability management and gave me a third-party patch management that integrates with Microsoft. To me, that was a win-win. 

It improved our overall return on investment by at least two-fold and gave us more intelligence on our assets than we expected.  

The sharing of intelligence gathered by scanning, and data warehouse cubes on the backend that gives us the ultimate visibility into our assets. 

I would love if they integrated Bomgar's SSO with BeyondTrust for the session recording that we use for vendors. 

Less than one year.

It has no problems. It's very flexible.

It will scale and has a built-in capability to augment expansion via external databases. 

Support has been very very good. 

We used CyberArk, and we found for an SMB that the product required more FTEs than we could handle. CyberArk is really meant for 100K FTE enterprises and requires a serious.

It is a complex product that has a lot of capabilities and does take some learning. They recommend taking their foundations class to understand and get the most out of the product. 

Very good.  (A-, or B++).

Good

Talk to references, look at Gartner and the positive and negative comments. BeyondTrust has the least negative comments of all the products and ties vulnerability management, scanning, password management, session recording, inventory management, intelligence gathering on attached assets. And when you look at all this together and price out separate options, the TCO is easy to justify. 

CyberArk's password safe.

It is a steep learning curve, but once automated, it makes your life a lot easier. 

Private Cloud

We use the solution to login through remote application solutions. 

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 am impressed with the product's session-logging features. We can also do multi-factor authentication with the product. 

We face screensaver timeout issues and problems with the server. I would like the product to include a server visibility feature. 

I have been using the solution for a year. 

I would rate the tool's stability a seven out of ten.

I would rate the tool's scalability a seven out of ten. If we need to add more users, then we need to add more servers to the environment. Around 500-600 users use the tool on a daily basis in my company. 

The technical support is through our vendor.

Neutral

The solution is difficult to setup due to settings. You need a specialist to configure the product. I would rate the solution's setup a five out of ten. We have two people involved in the tool's maintenance. 

I would rate the product a seven out of ten. 

On-premises

The solution is used for password management. We can manage access to applications and systems in the organization.

The solution protects organizations from internal and external threats. Everything's up to date. Whenever we need information, we find it.

The integration with Secure Remote Access must be improved. It is in the process of being discontinued.

I have been working with the product for one year.

I rate the tool’s stability a ten out of ten. The tool is rock solid.

We have less than 50 users. We provide support to our customers. We have about 10 to 20 engineers in our support team. I rate the tool’s scalability a ten out of ten.

Whenever we log a support ticket, the support persons respond very promptly. They are very quick.

Positive

The installation is straightforward. The deployment takes three to six hours. It depends on the requirements. Some customers do not have high-quality systems. Their systems and internet connections are slow. If everything is in place and the systems are good, the deployment is very quick.

We have seen benefits from the solution. Security is the most important thing. Once we have it deployed, we can rest assured that our organization is protected from insider and external threats.

The product is quite affordable. Considering the quality of the product, the pricing is pretty good. I rate the pricing an eight out of ten.

I recommend the solution to other users. I am happy with it. Overall, I rate the product a ten out of ten.

On-premises