We performed a comparison between Azure Key Vault 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 solution's technical support is good. My company received support from Microsoft whenever we needed it."
"Among the features that have helped improve our security posture are storing secrets in a secure location to create a trusted situation, trusted resources, and incorporating identity access management so that we know who has access to what."
"It stores sensitive information in an encrypted way. We don't have to worry about data loss or data theft because no one can see our information."
"It provides a secure and centralized location for managing and protecting sensitive information, making it an essential component for enhancing the security."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the search for secrets feature that we use to store our passwords and connection strings."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. It only took a few minutes."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Key Vault are the security and convenience of changing passwords in multiple places."
"The GUI was quite easy for me to use."
"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."
"The ability to manage privileged account passwords is the most valuable feature."
"The solution protects organizations from internal and external threats."
"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."
"The CI/CD and REST API are also satisfactory; the solution has a full PAM feature set and they all work well."
"It simplifies your compliance and tracking to benchmark other credentials and analytics."
"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."
"The solution needs to improve its cost."
"There's room for improvement in cross-platform compatibility."
"We've experienced issues with configuration."
"The solution does not allow you to integrate with XML parties if it is not inside Azure itself."
"Inability to access the solution on the phone."
"Currently, our company has to add the secrets manually, one by one, in Azure Key Vault, which is a tedious process."
"I would rate the stability of Microsoft Azure Key Vault an eight out of ten. We use the solution in the data science field. If there is some outage, we did not notice any prolonged outage which would affect our business significantly while working with it."
"Azure Key Vault takes time to fetch values while integrating it with the code written in .NET format."
"Named accounts don't work well in this solution. If you use named accounts for your administrative access, the way Smart Rules work is that it takes your SAM account name and matches it to the account name of your privileged ID, which creates limitations on size and how big those names can be because the directory has a 20-character limit."
"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."
"I think that BeyondTrust Password Safe could be improved with more testing. In the beginning, they were practically using customers as beta testers. Maybe the product has evolved since I last used it, but if you look at PAM, privileged access management, whatever's out there has already been done. I don't see there being any other enhancements that are being made regarding PAM, except to support more cloud-based applications."
"We face screensaver timeout issues and problems with the server. I would like the product to include a server visibility feature."
"Documentation is the primary area of improvement."
"It has crashed on us in the past."
"We weren't aware that the Password Safe virtual appliance runs on a Windows server. As part of our monthly patching process, we ran into an issue. BeyondTrust Password Safe wasn't compatible with the patching we used to put on our server."
"We don't have much control over the appliance. When anything happens in the backend, we have to depend on the support team. We need to raise a case so that they can update the appliance. If we have control over it, we would be able to troubleshoot easily."
Azure Key Vault is ranked 1st in Enterprise Password Managers with 46 reviews while BeyondTrust Password Safe is ranked 5th in Enterprise Password Managers with 19 reviews. Azure Key Vault is rated 8.6, while BeyondTrust Password Safe is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Azure Key Vault writes "Allows us to securely store our keys to prevent unauthorized access to unwanted users". 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". Azure Key Vault is most compared with AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault, AWS Certificate Manager and LastPass, whereas BeyondTrust Password Safe is most compared with HashiCorp Vault, LastPass, Delinea Secret Server, BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access and CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault. See our Azure Key Vault vs. BeyondTrust Password Safe report.
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