We performed a comparison between AWS Secrets Manager and BeyondTrust Password Safe based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Password Managers solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of AWS Secrets Manager is the ability to keep data secret and assign access permissions to people to grant or restrict access."
"All our workloads are running on AWS, so integration with our workload is much easier on AWS Secrets Manager than going with another solution such as Thycotic."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Secrets Manager is its seamless integration with various AWS services."
"AWS Secrets Manager is used for storing secret information that has to be a secret from your customer and your employees."
"The most valuable feature is security."
"The solution is very scalable."
"The most valuable feature is usability, as it is quite user-friendly."
"The product is easy to use and is inexpensive."
"Session recording, password rotation, and password vaulting are the most valuable features."
"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."
"Its number one feature is discovery. The discovery engine in BeyondTrust is off the charts. When they perform a discovery, you know everything there is about a server, including what software is installed. For example, if you want to group all of your database servers together, you can do that by using discovery and Smart Rules. If a server has Microsoft SQL installed, it gets put into a group based on a Smart Rule. It makes it very easy to determine what is what in your environment. As organizations grow or acquire other companies and merge, they lose track of what they have. BeyondTrust can help you throw a rope around it very rapidly."
"It provides integrated password and session management in one solution, which is important for us because, from an auditing standpoint, we are accountable for the type of access being used. We need to ensure that accounts are securely stored and there is the right type of accountability around who is gaining the access. After gaining it, how they're using it, where they're using it, etc."
"The best aspect of the product is the ability to onboard devices. You can scan the IP subnets and onboard all the devices. You can then segregate them if it's a network device or a firewall. If it's a Windows server or a UNIX, you can basically scan your IT infrastructure and onboard the efforts, which should be managed. Once they have been onboarded, then the session management and password management are easy and nicely configurable."
"It is very easy to deploy. It's easy to use. That's the major thing I like about it."
"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."
"It simplifies your compliance and tracking to benchmark other credentials and analytics."
"If you add one more layer of security to AWS Secrets Manager, even the programmer will not be able to see the secrets."
"There is room for improvement in terms of integrating with certain other platforms."
"The sidecar feature has room for improvement."
"We occasionally have problems with rate limits, although that is a problem more generally with AWS."
"There is a need for better environmental implementation, such as having a security fund as a solution."
"An area for improvement in AWS Secrets Manager could be expanding integration options beyond AWS services."
"It would be good if the AWS Secrets Manager were more customizable."
"AWS Secrets Manager could support hybrid infrastructure."
"The product needs to have better integration with SAP products."
"The integration with Secure Remote Access must be improved."
"It has crashed on us in the past."
"Documentation is the primary area of improvement."
"Its documentation can be improved. Its documentation is currently complicated, and it is not good. It needs to be better. Their technical support can also be improved. It is not bad, but it can be better."
"If there was one thing, it would be having the documentation standardized. They should keep the documentation consistent. For example, when BeyondTrust updated one of their admin guides, they left out the information on the discovery account requirements, and then over a period of time, we ended up having to search multiple different documents to put together a string of information for a specific topic, which was problematic. It was minor, but it was problematic. Standardized documentation would be the one thing I would suggest."
"The database instance onboarding should be simplified. The problem is that you can scan the assets and databases inside a server, but you cannot onboard them or manage them with the smart tools. It has to be done manually. I think they should try to include more custom platforms."
"The only feature they could improve is the banners because they aren't informative. For example, if something is not correct and I open the error notification, the dialogue box simply says, "This is an error." It would be great if they could provide some valuable comments about how to fix the errors."
AWS Secrets Manager is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Password Managers with 12 reviews while BeyondTrust Password Safe is ranked 5th in Enterprise Password Managers with 19 reviews. AWS Secrets Manager is rated 8.8, while BeyondTrust Password Safe is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of AWS Secrets Manager writes "Seamlessly integrates with various AWS services while offering reasonable pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of BeyondTrust Password Safe writes "Allows us to automatically rotate passwords, set the complexity, and enforce password policies on privileged accounts". AWS Secrets Manager is most compared with Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault, 1Password, CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault and LastPass, whereas BeyondTrust Password Safe is most compared with HashiCorp Vault, Azure Key Vault, LastPass, Delinea Secret Server and Keeper. See our AWS Secrets Manager vs. BeyondTrust Password Safe report.
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