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Atos DirX Directory vs Idira Privileged Access Manager comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Atos DirX Directory
Average Rating
6.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Application Infrastructure (23rd)
Idira Privileged Access Man...
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
230
Ranking in other categories
User Activity Monitoring (1st), Enterprise Password Managers (2nd), Privileged Access Management (PAM) (1st), Mainframe Security (1st), Operational Technology (OT) Security (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

Atos DirX Directory and Idira Privileged Access Manager aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Atos DirX Directory is designed for Application Infrastructure and holds a mindshare of 1.4%, up 0.7% compared to last year.
Idira Privileged Access Manager, on the other hand, focuses on Privileged Access Management (PAM), holds 8.6% mindshare, down 16.5% since last year.
Application Infrastructure Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Atos DirX Directory1.4%
NGINX Plus7.9%
Apache Web Server7.0%
Other83.7%
Application Infrastructure
Privileged Access Management (PAM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Idira Privileged Access Manager8.6%
Safeguard by One Identity4.3%
Teleport3.7%
Other83.4%
Privileged Access Management (PAM)
 

Featured Reviews

EH
Head of Sales and Business Development at Axalon GmbH
Flexible with high performance and good reliability
The solution scales well. As an example, there has been an American telecom service provider that had 20 million users, and the data of those user profiles had been stored on Dirx Directory, and they don't have any issues in retrieving the data and using it for any kind of services. Regarding our clients, the amount of users depends on if you have end users that don't really use this Directory or not. They are stored in this Directory and make use of the services that are administered via this Directory. There we are talking about millions. Then, you have administrators who configure the Directory and there we're talking about, let's say, hundreds of users.
Singaravelu C - PeerSpot reviewer
CyberArk Engineer at Tata Consultancy
Provides full visibility into user activity and ensures secure end-to-end access across critical systems
In CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, I see room for improvement as I am working in the on-premises networks, and now we are also having the cloud-based PAM. So there, everything is maintained by the CyberArk Privileged Access Manager team, and we are only maintaining the PSM servers. So it is already upgraded from the on-premises network to the cloud network. If you ask me what we can implement beyond that, I just need a few minutes to think about what new things, because it is already an end-to-end security on-premises itself. Now, when it comes to PCloud, Privileged Cloud, it is more secure than the on-premises networks because most of the things are handled using the cloud itself. So it is an already upgraded version; we do not need to implement something new. But if you think in that way, we can have a chance to implement our things. If anything could be improved in CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, I think we could build a small agent AI in my team, we could give access to these logs—the Vault logs, PSM logs, and CPM logs. Whenever the system is going down, the AI will automatically check. If we actually implement agent AI in CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, it will check the logs, and if any errors are coming, it automatically triggers alerts and gives the solution. That is the best improvement I can think of because these days, most things are done by agent AI. So if we also implement this agent AI in CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, we can add more features.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"DirX Directory is the best feature of the product: a very fast, stable LDAP directory."
"The solution is extremely stable; typically if you don't change the setup, the configuration, or anything, it will be running for decades and nothing will happen as an issue."
"The flexibility of the product."
"The most valuable feature is its knowledge."
"The role and attribute-based access control has been greatly improved."
"The solution offers high performance."
"The flexibility of integrating with other technologies is important because of a lot of applications - a lot of COTS products - are not supported when we are bringing the application IDs. The CyberArk platform provides a lot of opportunities to do customization."
"The voice technology is very good."
"CyberArk probably has probably the best vault on the market because of the multiple layered security and each password getting its own encryption."
"It is one of the best solutions in the market, and ever since I started using this solution, there has not been any compromise when it comes to our lab."
"It takes people out of the machine work of ensuring credentials remain up-to-date, and handles connection brokering such that human usage and credential management remain independent."
"The product is for hardening access and making the organization more secure, therefore reducing chances of a breach."
"DVR like video recording and text-based recording for easier audits."
"Because we now have the ability to grant access to management utilities like DNS Manager, Sequel Studio, and MMC, in a secure fashion, without system admins being required to continually reenter various passwords that are stored who knows where, it has really made the system admin's job much easier. It has made the PSM's job much easier. It has made the auditor's job and the security team's job and the access manager's job significantly easier, because we're able to move much more quickly toward a role-based access management system, and that is really streamlining the whole onboarding/offboarding management process."
 

Cons

"The product provides an excellent framework but could use some polish on the front end to reduce the amount of configuration required for basic tasks."
"An overall modernization of the product is required in order to keep up with newer products."
"The price could be better. It would be better if they developed a better endpoint solution in the next release."
"Needs more available consultants and implementation partners."
"The user interface could be more convenient for people that don't know the tool too intensively."
"The Self-Service Portal is old school and it lacks easy accessibility for users."
"I would like to see more integration with more tools, for more APIs."
"The initial setup was a bit complex."
"One area for improvement is the plug-in development challenge. Although CyberArk provides a plug-in generator utility, it does not fully meet our needs, particularly for web-based applications. The plug-in generator currently works only for Telnet and SSH connections. We cannot generate a plug-in for web-based applications."
"CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is more expensive than its competitors, such as BeyondTrust, Delinea, and ManageEngine PAM360."
"The initial setup is pretty difficult and it takes a while to put into place."
"There is room for improvement, particularly with Vendor PAM."
"Although it's highly configurable, the user interface could use a do-over."
"In complex network infrastructure environments, sporadic network disruptions could create issues accessing the various CyberArk network devices."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price could be better."
"I hope to learn how the pricing works so that I can understand it better, but I am certain it is not inexpensive."
"I'm aware that the organization had purchased licensing for almost all of CyberArk's solutions including licensing for PTA, EPM, and the Application Identity Manager. But when it comes to PSM, this is one of the components where there's an additional charge for any extra PSMs that you want to deploy. I believe that there's some rider where the vendor has a bit of leeway to, at times, charge a premium on whatever additional services you may require above the board."
"Cost efficiency is the number one thing that can be improved in my mind. This would change lots of companies minds on purchasing the product."
"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."
"No, I do not have any advice on the price of the product."
"It is in line with its competitors, but all such solutions cost too much money."
"It can be an expensive product."
"There are no additional costs other than the standard licensing fees."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
21%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business59
Midsize Enterprise42
Large Enterprise175
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CyberArk Privileged Access Manager?
My thoughts on the pricing of CyberArk Privileged Access Manager depend entirely on the vendors' requirements. If they want their things to be secure, they have to spend accordingly. We have four t...
What needs improvement with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager?
I believe account discovery and rolling support need to be improved. Account discovery is important when integrating with other systems, as other PAM solutions can perform account discovery and onb...
 

Also Known As

DirX Directory
CyberArk Privileged Access Security, CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault
 

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