We performed a comparison between AWS CloudTrail and CyberArk Privileged Access Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two User Activity Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."AWS CloudTrail integrates with AWS Config and provides custom event, security, and compliance auditing."
"AWS CloudTrail helps in accelerating incident investigation and response. It increases it because I pull out the logs to CloudTrail, and from CloudTrail watch, I'll send it to the Security Hub and do a visualization with Prometheus and Grafana."
"It is a stable solution. AWS handles it well."
"In one specific scenario, we encountered a situation where a terminated employee still had access to our environment without our knowledge. With AWS CloudTrail, we could track and monitor the employees' activities, revealing that they were downloading specific files from our customer's environment. Without it enabled, we wouldn't have been aware of this."
"The product’s most valuable feature is monitoring. It helps us audit the changes in AWS account at the application and resource level."
"What I found most valuable in AWS CloudTrail is that it provides a good context of what's happening in the environment, so it's an excellent way to baseline what's occurring. I also like that AWS CloudTrail helps with audits."
"The solution is good as a central logging platform for showing all cloud events."
"CyberArk has helped us to identify, store, protect, and monitor the usage of privileged accounts."
"CyberArk is a very stable product and it's a stable product because it has a simple design and a simple architecture that allows you to leverage the economies of scale across the base of your infrastructure that you already have implemented. It doesn't really introduce any new complex pieces of infrastructure that would make it that much more difficult to scale."
"It is very simple to use."
"The threat analytics is an important feature."
"It enables us to secure accounts and make sure they are compliant."
"It is a central repository. Therefore, if someone needs to access a server, then they go through CyberArk PAM. It provides a secure way to do this and CyberArk PAM records everything. For example, if you are connecting to a Linux server, then once you get into the Linux server and if it is integrated with CyberArk, it will automatically start recording everything that is being done. In most banks, seeing the recordings is very useful. If there are any gaps or something has happened which shouldn't have happened, then we can check the logs and videos. So, it gives security, in a robust manner, to the organization."
"Ensures accounts are managed according to corporate policies."
"Password rotation is the most valuable feature"
"Maybe if we could do direct queries on CloudTrail without needing to export it to Athena, that'd be great."
"Once the organization defines its policies, it must immediately enable AWS CloudTrail and integrate it with auto-remediation procedures using Lambda functions. This ensures that the main administrator can receive information quickly and on time without delay."
"The solution should incorporate visibility for CloudWatch events."
"Filtering multiple values within the console is a feature that has yet to exist in AWS CloudTrail. You can look up a user identity, service, or action, but you can't search for multiple dimensions."
"The platform’s reporting log sheet feature could be more user-friendly."
"The solution's operation visibility could be improved."
"The PTA could be improved. Currently, companies often have multiple domains and sometimes it's difficult to implement CyberArk in this kind of infrastructure. For example, you can add CPM (Central Policy Manager) and PSM (Privileged Session Manager and PVWA (Password Vault Web Access) for access, but if you want to add PTA (Privileged Threat Analysis) to scan Vault logs, it is difficult because this component may be adding multiple domain environments."
"The initial setup was somewhat complex."
"The Vault's disaster recovery features need improvement."
"They need to provide better training for the System Integrator."
"We found a lot of errors during the initial setup. They should work to improve the implementation experience and to remove errors from the process."
"Many of the infrastructure folks who use the product dislike it because it complicates their workflow. They get a little less control, and they have to go through a specific solution. It proactively logs in for them, which obfuscates some of the issues that they may be troubleshooting."
"The product is very vaulting-focused. I'd love to see it expanding its capabilities a bit further into areas like just-in-time elevation, and access with non-vaulted credentials."
"One thing that could be improved is to create of a better alternative for fixing group policy fees. We currently use Microsoft, but they have introduced new policies that may not be compatible."
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AWS CloudTrail is ranked 3rd in User Activity Monitoring with 8 reviews while CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is ranked 1st in User Activity Monitoring with 144 reviews. AWS CloudTrail is rated 8.8, while CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of AWS CloudTrail writes "Very comprehensive logs with good points of view for auditing and compliance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of CyberArk Privileged Access Manager writes "Lets you ensure relevant, compliant access in good time and with an audit trail, yet lacks clarity on MITRE ATT&CK". AWS CloudTrail is most compared with , whereas CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Microsoft Entra ID, Delinea Secret Server, WALLIX Bastion and One Identity Safeguard. See our AWS CloudTrail vs. CyberArk Privileged Access Manager report.
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