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 most valuable feature of HashiCorp Vault is the management of tickets in the pipeline."
"We use the solution for secret management."
"It is an added value for our customers to have a Secrets Management workflow available that is PaaS/CaaS/KaaS Platform agnostic."
"For me, the most valuable features include that it's easy to manage and maintain the password API for retrieving passwords and other things."
"The tool's dynamic rotation of the password credentials is good."
"The product is free and easy to use. It is well documented with an easy implementation process."
"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."
"This solution is easy to use and to integrate."
"The most valuable feature is the liberty of keeping encrypted passwords and elevated information in a sealed vault."
"Reduction in number of sensitive passwords stored insecurely on local systems."
"The stability has been rock solid. A couple of years ago, they were breached. However, if you had two-factor authentication enabled, it didn't affect you. We did, so it has been good."
"Off-boarding of people is easy without changing shared account passwords."
"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."
"The most valuable feature for me is being able to pair applications and user permissions."
"This product helps keep us secure."
"The initial setup for this process is straightforward and extremely easy. It just works."
"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 solution's initial setup process is complicated."
"The onboarding is a challenge. It should be more self-service, but it involves reviews and approvals."
"There could be a plugin for the database to change the secret automatically. It would be an efficient feature for password security."
"It would be helpful to have more advanced features."
"The solution could be much easier to implement."
"The product needs to improve its customization. It should be also more like easy to plug and play."
"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."
"Our biggest issue over the years was around the stability of the LDAP sync to AD."
"One thing I wish LastPass had is an integration with Active Directory, not for synchronizing users but to actually manage, in some way, privileged accounts by replacing the password of LastPass itself."
"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."
"The management through the plugin is poor. It consumes tons of client resources especially as an administrator."
"I would like to be able to reduce the log out time of the session."
"The biggest thing is there is no good way to have LastPass rotate passwords without human intervention. Right now, we have to go into each folder, then rotate and manually update each password. It can be done it by loading a bunch of passwords into a spreadsheet, but this makes the whole process insecure because then the passwords have been noted into a spreadsheet which have to be upload. We have to go into 40 to 50 applications and manually update passwords, because we don't view their solution of writing a bunch of passwords on a spreadsheet, then uploading them as a secure solution. This should be done internally within LastPass."
"The ability to set up an account expiration limit/date would be very useful."
"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."
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HashiCorp Vault is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Password Managers with 15 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 "Easy to manage and maintain the password API but stability could be improved". 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 OneLogin by One Identity.
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