Azure Key Vault Room for Improvement

Prateek Agarwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam

Sometimes it takes too long to retrieve the keys. The authentication process takes time. It's also not fully compatible with Azure Databricks.

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Sweta Agarwal - PeerSpot reviewer
VP of Technology at IIFL

The slow response from the support team is one of the shortcomings of the solution that needs to be improved.

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Nagendra Nekkala - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager ICT & Innovations at Bangalore International Airport Limited

The users must be allowed to customize the tool. The internal and external passwords must be separate. Users should be able to segregate the passwords.

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Krishnanunni M - PeerSpot reviewer
Dev Ops Engineer at a wellness & fitness company with 201-500 employees

One of the drawbacks I think is the single-point failure of our products. If the region where the Azure Key Vault data center is hosted goes down, it would be a cumbersome task since our company will have to come up with a different Azure Key Vault and migrate all the secrets or keys into it. Basically, improvements are required in the product to deal with disaster scenarios. Maybe there are some ways to deal with the solution's issues about which our company might not have researched thoroughly.

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JA
IT Project Manager at Orange España

I want to see faster key retrieval, as it sometimes takes a while. 

Better integration with other third-party cloud providers, such as AWS and GCP, should be there. That's something I expect from a Microsoft-built product.  

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AS
System and network security engineer at Central Bank of Nigeria

There's room for improvement in cross-platform compatibility.

It would be helpful if Azure Key Vault could be used with other cloud platforms besides Azure.

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MICHEL RACT-MUGNEROT - PeerSpot reviewer
Personal business manager at La Mairic

While it is reliable, enhancing security and protection should always be the priority.

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RajGohel - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Microsoft Azure Key Vault could improve by enhancing the security of credentials. Without the security or the use of key vaults, we would have to configure our credentials into the source code as plain text without the encryption or security.

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SP
VP - Global Delivery Head at Enhops

Azure Key Vault is only available for Microsoft services, and it should be exposed to non-Microsoft cloud services, like GCP and Amazon.

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Piyush_Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Cosultant at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

It's currently very self-sufficient and doesn't need improvements. It's already a good service. 

We haven't faced any problems with the solution as such. The only issue we are facing is around the comparability with TerraForm, which we use to code the infrastructure. Sometimes there are issues there, even though it's not directly related to Microsoft. 

So far, it's served all of the client's purposes. We haven't come across a use case the solution could not handle. 

There are additional charges for data transfers. However, the pricing is mostly reasonable for the licensing overall. 

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ST
Senior Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I can't recall coming across any missing features or elements. 

The solution does not allow you to integrate with XML parties if it is not inside Azure itself.

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SreekanthaDevayya Nayak - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Lucid Spare

Many times, the first round of support itself will fail, and they will bring some more competent people in the subsequent support. By then, we will lose some good amount of time. The technical support needs improvement. 

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Oleksandr Tymoshyk - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT Security Division at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It is complicated to use different services and products along with Azure Key Vault. There should be a single vault for virtual servers, containers, and other services. It could be universal with the possibility to use all types of technologies. 

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Bijoyendra Roychowdhury - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

They should add a key vault feature for the databases temporarily integrated into hybrid clouds. Also, they should make the key accessible once the databases migrate to another environment.

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Erick Oliveira Da Silva - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Engineer at a tech company with 201-500 employees

We can currently configure RBAC, Azure role-based access control, or a voucher access policy. The voucher access policy can be improved by configuring it based on groups, rather than just applications or users.

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RB
Associate Vice President - Cloud Security at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The integration with Thales HSM is complex and is not out-of-the-box. Uploading the keys was quite a tedious process.

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Manish  Purohit - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Cloud Solution Architect at Green Point Technology Services (I) Pvt. Ltd

The solution needs to improve its cost. 

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GM
Senior Lead Software Engineer Individual Contributor at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees

I would like more code examples.

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Deepak Kumar Software - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Vice President at Rishabh Software

The solution needs to improve reliability and protection. 

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RV
Senior Software Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

One area for improvement is the notification system for secret expiration. It would be beneficial if the service could handle this more autonomously, eliminating the need for additional integrations.

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DineshKumar25 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution architect at Rackspace

Azure Key Vault is very affordable, with charges of less than a dollar for over ten thousand keys. Microsoft regularly updates and upgrades the service, offering a user-friendly interface and robust security features, including AES 256 encryption.

Overall, I haven't identified any significant areas for improvement as Azure Key Vault already offers comprehensive functionality and security.

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Veerender Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Owner at Software Technology

The solution could be cheaper.

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Srinivas Reddy Katta - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at IdeaBytes

The solution's usage can be a little better from the user interface point of view. Azure Key Vault is a little complex from the usage point of view, and users should be able to use it in a much simpler way.

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Marios Christodoulou - PeerSpot reviewer
DB and Systems Engineer at JCC Payment Systems Ltd

If multiple clouds are to be used it can be difficult and a third party should assist in the implementation.

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RB
Founder & Principal Architect at NCompas Business Solutions Inc.

Azure has great documentation, but I would like to see more use cases pertaining to specific industries. For example, case studies on how to use HIPAA compliant solutions in the healthcare industry or how to use PCI compliant data analytics solutions in the financial technology industry would be helpful.

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Jawed Iqbal - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Systems at Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology

The product must provide AI features.

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SB
Owner at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

The rotation of key needs improvement. It needs to offer dynamic secrets management.

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RL
Managing Director Cybersecurity Architecture at a computer software company with 1-10 employees

I don't have any thoughts on areas for improvement at this time.

While the solution already does a great job of managing keys, the solution could probably look at maybe expanding more into mobile devices and endpoints.

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SR
Co Founder & CTO at a manufacturing company with 1-10 employees

Azure needs to provide versions of Key Vault that are suitable for different sizes of companies. For example, we are not a big corporation that can afford corporate-level pricing. We have to strike a balance between the number of users and the volume of keys that are being used.

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SK
Cloud Architect at a marketing services firm with 11-50 employees

If you check the capabilities of other key management services across Amazon, HashiCorp, and Google, there are features that Key Vault doesn't have. It could be the case that when you use Key Vault, you might be forced to use a third-party solution to get certain services. If those services could be included in Key Vault, there would be diminished reasons to go for a third-party key management system.

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PS
DevOps Lead at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Azure Key Vault takes time to fetch values while integrating it with the code written in .NET format.

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BH
Infrastructure Manager\Enterprise Architect - Cloud at Red Wing Shoes

So far we've had good luck with it. We haven't had any bad experiences. Once we got it set up and we got it injected into our code, we've had pretty good success.

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CA
Information System Security Engineer at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees

The big problem with Azure Key Vault is key rotation. We haven't found a good way to synchronize the credentials between the databases and Key Vault.

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AT
System Administrator at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's too early for me to say with certainty, but what I'm seeing thus far is that Key Vault at face value is more of a secure store than it is a password manager. I suspect that we may be able to use logic apps to perform some actions that a password manager would, but a little more focus in this area would be beneficial.   

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Prince Verma - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Infrastructure consultant at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

They should improve its policies, which sometimes reapplied but don't sync properly between the Key vault and the role-based access. When I put some roles on the user side, it sometimes misses the end data to secure.

One feature that could be added is the transparency of Key stored. There could be a feature to monitor the Key Vault because we can't monitor the Key Vault with a third party. We can't configure the automation or sync the key vault. We store passwords and all those things.

The user intervention also needs to be implemented there. This allows the user to automatically change the password, ensuring that it synchronizes and updates across all stored keys.

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RC
CyberSecurity Director of Intelligence at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

One of my previous clients was one of the big banks here in the Netherlands and the EU courts have stated that Microsoft Azure Key Vault is not, according to their perspective, secure due to the fact that Microsoft has access to Key Vault. If you cannot demonstrate that only you, as an organization, have access to your secrets, then you are not in control of your secrets. That is a concern.

Also, a big issue is the configuration. It could be that the people working on the solution, the system engineers, might lack knowledge and not incorporate all the best practices from Microsoft. The way they've implemented it might not be the way Microsoft envisioned it. It's always back to who's implementing what for you as a solution.

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Karim Zaki - PeerSpot reviewer
Microsoft Cybersecurity specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The platform's configuration process could be easier. Most of the new technologies involve certain prerequisites and complex setup processes.

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SP
Director of Business Intelligence at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The initial setup could be less complex for first-time users.

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SS
Associate Consultant at VXXIV Corp

The solution could be improved by making it accessible to more people. 
The most significant additional feature I'd like to see would be the ability to access the system on the phone via my Microsoft login and to be able to manage the desktop file folders that way. That's something I look forward to. 

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Mayur B N - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at Blueocean

Currently, our company has to add the secrets manually, one by one, in Azure Key Vault, which is a tedious process. If the tool can provide a bulk option where we can have a CSV file and upload it, after which it switches all the keys and values from the CSV file and creates the secrets all at once, it would be helpful.

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Buyer's Guide
Azure Key Vault
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Azure Key Vault. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.