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ARCON Privileged Access Management vs CyberArk Privileged Access Manager vs Delinea Secret Server comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Privileged Access Management (PAM) category, the mindshare of ARCON Privileged Access Management is 2.6%, down from 3.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is 11.2%, down from 19.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Delinea Secret Server is 5.0%, down from 10.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Privileged Access Management (PAM) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
CyberArk Privileged Access Manager11.2%
Delinea Secret Server5.0%
ARCON Privileged Access Management2.6%
Other81.2%
Privileged Access Management (PAM)
 

Featured Reviews

DS
System and DBA at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Enhanced security through session monitoring and activity recording
From an end-user point of view, it would be beneficial if the system could provide information about the last login. This would help identify if the server was accessed by me or if someone has potentially stolen my credentials. It would provide a clearer picture of whether ARCON Privileged Access Management is accessed by an authentic user.
Atul-Gujar - PeerSpot reviewer
CyberArk manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Secures critical infrastructures with essential user session audit records
A potential area for improvement is enhancing support for cluster environments and distributed Vaults. Clients in multiple countries that need central access have different challenges that require better solutions from CyberArk. For financial services, CyberArk can improve incident response by ensuring fast support for critical priority tickets to meet compliance requirements. Providing more documentation on CyberArk is recommended for new team members to enhance their troubleshooting capabilities. I understand it's up to the client, but 99% fail to change the demo key, so it's crucial for CyberArk to emphasize changing the key and documenting it as part of the installation process.
Reena Bhardwaj - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Quality Analyst at YASH Technologies
Has improved credential security with remote password change and role-based access
I have not faced any significant issues with Delinea Secret Server during this period of time, but we had a problem with a web password filler, which is a template used for accessing a web URL using Secret Server, where we faced some session management issues since session management is not applicable for the web password filler. This should be the improvement that we require from Delinea Secret Server. The session management is not applicable in this case; we can manage the session and have session management inside the remote systems within the organization. However, when it comes to web-related access, we can access directly through Delinea Secret Server. We can access any URL through Secret Server, but the problem is that the session cannot be managed on the web URL due to it having multiple systems. I do not have any other recommendations regarding the improvement of Delinea Secret Server at this time.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Session recording is the most valuable feature, as it covers compliance and it also covers our in-house applications."
"We use ARCON Privileged Access Management to monitor and record our admin users' activity."
"For compliance, each change I do, in each of the servers, is clearly recorded. We recently faced an audit and this was an awesome feature. Even our auditor had praise for it saying, "This is really a good feature.""
"The session management capabilities are helpful. The session recording feature for system handling is good. It also eliminates the need to open many ports for end-users, simplifying access."
"The video logs help us to identify any misuse of privileged accounts."
"100% compliant and you don't have to maintain ID management for each and every user."
"With this log available, we can drill down to the activities performed by the people within our kiosk. There is a great feature where in the case of Unix servers, we have our own text-based logs. In the case of Window's server, we cannot create a text-based log, so our kiosk takes the screenshot or picture of the screen when I am working. It does this every three seconds."
"Overall, I would rate ARCON Privileged Access Management nine out of ten."
"I love how easily we could operate within Password Vault and get things done. It was almost effortless."
"DVR like video recording and text-based recording for easier audits."
"The privileged support manager is the most valuable feature of CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault."
"The most valuable feature I find in CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is that we can record the sessions. It provides flexible workflows. I can change the workflow to specify if it needs one approval or two approvals, and I can approve my peer."
"Super stable and easy to scale"
"The password management feature is valuable."
"I would recommend CyberArk Privileged Access Manager because it is a leading solution for privileged access management."
"If any intruder gets inside, they would not be able to move around nor do lateral movements. It minimize any attack problems within our network."
"I like the one-way hash, as well as the ability to store it in the cloud and access it from anywhere."
"It is a stable solution."
"Its most valuable feature is its main purpose - the password changing and the Heartbeat so the user has access to only their SVN and does not have access to any other. Thycotic's access privileged management tool allows you to grant access to users for a specific period of time and with specific attributes and privileges."
"There has been no downtime this year."
"It works for us."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the random changing of passwords."
"The solution is good."
"Delinea Secret Server is a cost-effective solution."
 

Cons

"The auto-password change feature which was recently added. It is supposed to change the password. However, in some cases, while changing the password, it has caused me to lose to connection due to network-related issues or something similar. What we need to have is a type of log for failure of password change."
"The usability should be expanded to other browsers like Chrome and Firefox."
"They they should focus on support. The support needs to be very strong. Since the product is becoming stronger, their support team also should be equally strong. They should respond to open queries within the time limit they have set. Their support team should be more technical, to understand the issue or the set up."
"One common problem I faced with ARCON PAM was compatibility issues with certain software versions."
"The solution lacks to offer a governance mechanism for operational technology assets."
"The solution needs more work on the password management side of things. Password management is a big challenge for us, and I would like to improve this aspect. We're finding that BeyondTrust is better in this regard, which is why we're probably going to migrate over. It will offer better security I think."
"A few areas for improvement in ARCON would be performance optimization, ensuring smoother management."
"Hazard flow could be improved, the data compliance portion."
"To get it to a ten it should give other possibilities to select if you could follow the keystrokes. It should have a flexibility with things where people can use it a lot faster."
"The solution is too complicated to use and should be simplified. It took me a long time to understand how to use it. There is a lot that the solution can improve for the future."
"Based on the user experience that I see on a day-to-day basis, some changes could be made to the Privileged Session Manager tool to make it more user-friendly. The user interface of that tool could be more advanced and understandable to laymen, rather than being more of a developer tool."
"Improvements in CyberArk Privileged Access Manager should focus on simplifying installation and upgrade times, and also consider making professional services training more accessible to implementers and partners."
"I think they can improve account onboarding. For instance, you have to use the Password Vault utility, whereas in Thycotic I think there is a feature in the user interface that allows you to upload your account with an Excel file. So I'd like to have a similar thing in CyberArk."
"Transitioning from a traditional on-premises deployment to the privileged cloud has resulted in losing access to many logs and administrative tools typically available on the back end."
"There is room for improvement in the availability of custom connectors on the marketplace for this solution. Additionally, their services for the CICD pipeline and ease of integration could be improved."
"Overall what I would really love to see is the third-party PAS reporter tool pulled more into the overall solution, ideally as its own deployable component service installation package."
"There are some things that I know are really important to include like A/B version features which are available in Windows. I would say that they should be included in the road map."
"In terms of what could be improved, the whole thing with distributed engines, et cetera, is a little bit tricky."
"The UI needs improvement because the interface is a little clumsy."
"They could improve the container platform and SPO."
"Whenever an update is applied to Secret Server, it requires downtime."
"We find the documentation hard to understand."
"It would be better if they had a Linux version of the secret server."
"The integration with the ticketing system ServiceNow is complex."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing and licensing are good, very aggressive."
"Product pricing is based on users and connections. We did not have to pay more for additional features."
"There are no major concerns with licensing because we can handle multiple servers in our kiosk system."
"The product's pricing is good value. Go for user-based licensing, without any limit on the target servers."
"The pricing and licensing model is very economical."
"Pricing is low and licensing is flexible."
"The product's pricing is a good value. It's appropriately priced. The product has all the required features. It doesn't work in some of the areas but, right now overall, it's pretty good."
"The cost of this product is very cheap, comparatively in the global market."
"Network and security licenses are currently being managed by other outsource vendors, so they are facing some type of problems in the digital aspect."
"This product is very expensive."
"I focus more on the technical side, but I hear customers say that if CyberArk was more affordable, they might have acquired more licenses. Some clients consider alternative solutions due to pricing concerns."
"I would rate the tool’s pricing a six out of ten."
"I have heard from my leaders that CyberArk is costlier in terms of licensing. The support and maintenance are also costly. We use their premium support, but for the price we pay, we do not get the value."
"It is in line with its competitors, but all such solutions cost too much money."
"This solution is expensive."
"The price of this solution is quite reasonable."
"There is an annual license fee per user and the price is fair."
"I would give the price a four on a scale from one to ten, with one being the cheapest and ten being the most expensive. We pay for the license on a yearly basis, and we paid for three years. It costs around 5000 a year."
"Its price is okay. We don't compete on pricing. We seldom use price to win over our competitors. We prefer it this way because if we can sustain the price, we make more margin as well. We don't want the price to go down to the bottom where despite the win, there's no margin at all."
"The solution is low-cost than other vendors."
"Secret Server is expensive when compared to the cost to some alternatives."
"There are different plans and additional licensing costs that can be instituted for add-ons."
"The pricing is standard in this business and we have no complaints about it."
"The price of this solution is good."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise17
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business59
Midsize Enterprise40
Large Enterprise173
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise25
 

Questions from the Community

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Also Known As

ARCON ARCOS, ARCON PAM
CyberArk Privileged Access Security, CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault
Thycotic Secret Server, Delinea Password Reset Server
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

RAK Bank, AXIS Bank, Reliance Capital, Kotak Life Insurance, MTS
Rockwell Automation
Secure-24, University of San Diego, International Rescue Committee, San Francisco Ballet, Perkins Coie, University of San Diego, D.S.S. Limited, Turbo's Hoet, Eclipse Computing, Cathay Bank, Stellarise, J&R Consulting
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