We performed a comparison between HashiCorp Vault and LastPass based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, HashiCorp, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Enterprise Password Managers."The solution is stable. It has been working perfectly without any problem."
"This solution is easy to use and to integrate."
"For me, the most valuable features include that it's easy to manage and maintain the password API for retrieving passwords and other things."
"We use the solution for secret management."
"The most valuable feature of HashiCorp Vault is the management of tickets in the pipeline."
"We were using it because we have compliance requirements around secret management. Having a secure vault and encrypting data was an additional requirement. When we looked at it first, we were just looking for a vault, like a lockbox. The greatest benefit of HashiCorp is its ability to manage encryption on the fly. It provides encryption of data at rest, in use, in transit, on the fly, and linked with applications, which was really attractive."
"It is an added value for our customers to have a Secrets Management workflow available that is PaaS/CaaS/KaaS Platform agnostic."
"The most valuable feature of HashiCorp Vault is that it's an open source solution. Second, it's cloud agnostic, so it's very easy to maintain and control, which is why we prefer HashiCorp."
"One feature that is really important to us is the ability to create secure notes."
"It is easy to use."
"Scalability is fine, no issues with that, especially now that they have added different user-level permissions. That has made it a lot easier to delegate out certain features to have other people do."
"It's improved security; we don't have to worry about people storing password loosely and secure them."
"Until now, I haven't found anything like the dashboard. It gives you a security score. I find that to be really great. The Sharing Center is really great as well. And the Security Challenge is really great too."
"The shared folders is an important feature. It's the primary feature we use. Also, the ability for LastPass to autofill and hide the passwords, so we don't have to keep changing passwords every time a person leaves, is valuable."
"The most valuable feature for me is being able to pair applications and user permissions."
"Off-boarding of people is easy without changing shared account passwords."
"The solution's initial setup process is complicated."
"I don't think there are any major improvements required—so far, so good. However, I think that having more training materials, such as videos, and documentation available would be helpful. I would prefer to have more videos available either on the official site or on YouTube."
"A drawback for some clients who have to be PCI compliant is that they still need to use and subscribe to an HSM (Hardware Security Module) solution."
"In terms of features, the only thing that I found a little bit hinky was that there was no revocation or deletion on the model we were using. Once in a financial year, a client interacts, and you pay for that client for the year. So, there are just little things like that in the pricing. There should be more clarity around the end of the key. I know there is no system like this. They all are the same. I tested Microsoft, Google, and some others, and none of them really want you to delete a key, which makes sense. You delete a key, and you lose everything that it has wrapped or encrypted, but it's actually just a language. Deletion isn't really deletion. It's really revocation, but overall, HashiCorp Vault ticked all the boxes for us, and I couldn't fault it."
"The onboarding is a challenge. It should be more self-service, but it involves reviews and approvals."
"We could use more documentation, primarily to do with integrations."
"It would be helpful to have more advanced features."
"The documentation is very general; it should have more examples and more use cases."
"I struggle a little bit with the mobile app. As a browser extension, it works really well, and we are able to get to what we need to. However, on the phone, it's not quite as easy to navigate."
"The ability to set up an account expiration limit/date would be very useful."
"Right now we have two products; there is the password manager and there is the authenticator app. Ideally, these should be fully integrated and support better handling of two-factor authentication or any other authenticator data."
"LastPass has a problem syncing the passwords to all of the users."
"Its user interface should be better, and there should probably be more information about scalability."
"I would like to be able to reduce the log out time of the session."
"I also don't like the add-in for Internet Explorer and Google Chrome, because when you do the add-in, you can actually save that to your credentials in your IE, and the problem is, if I left my screen open, or any of the IT people leave their screen open someone could come up and access all their credentials in LastPass without having to put a password in within your own network. I don't like that functionality. We've banned that from any of our staff adding that as an add-in because we see that as a security risk."
"The management through the plugin is poor. It consumes tons of client resources especially as an administrator."
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HashiCorp Vault is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Password Managers with 16 reviews while LastPass is ranked 17th in Enterprise Password Managers. HashiCorp Vault is rated 8.2, while LastPass is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of HashiCorp Vault writes "Useful for machine-to-machine communication and has secret engine feature ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of LastPass writes "Straightforward to set up, good support, intuitive to use, and offers good value for the cost". HashiCorp Vault is most compared with Azure Key Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault, Delinea Secret Server and 1Password, whereas LastPass is most compared with Azure Key Vault, BeyondTrust Password Safe, Keeper, CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault and Delinea Secret Server.
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