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."I find the simplicity of key management to be the most valuable feature. Key management has always been a difficult function to do, especially in the cloud premises. Azure Key Vault provides you with a mechanism for managing keys, without having to worry about protecting secrets is valuable."
"The most valuable features are ease of use and enabling our clients to manage keys."
"It allows me to run applications using these certificates without directly installing them."
"The most valuable feature is that you can retrieve user account details from the cloud."
"I am satisfied with the product overall."
"There is advanced data protection available. We're working in a highly regulated environment, and this is essential to us."
"It is a managed service in Azure, you do not have to worry about security other than managing your own identities."
"The solution uses the encryption technique to store the secret information data that uses EPCE. There is also one feature that monitors Azure Key Vault."
"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 actual innovations offered by the vendor stand out to me. They are quick to respond to market demands and the changing environment of privileged access management."
"BeyondTrust Password Safe is a good PAM tool."
"It is very easy to deploy. It's easy to use. That's the major thing I like about it."
"The ability to manage privileged account passwords is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"I like the session recording feature. I also like the analytics and reports. You can pull up a report, and the UI is fantastic. The system is recording when nobody's there, so we have a record of what's happening."
"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."
"One of my previous clients was one of the big banks here in the Netherlands and the EU courts have stated that Microsoft Azure Key Vault is not, according to their perspective, secure due to the fact that Microsoft has access to Key Vault."
"The solution needs to improve reliability and protection."
"Azure Key Vault takes time to fetch values while integrating it with the code written in .NET format."
"Microsoft Azure Key Vault could improve by enhancing the security of credentials. Without the security or the use of key vaults, we would have to configure our credentials into the source code as plain text without the encryption or security."
"The integration with Thales HSM is complex and is not out-of-the-box. Uploading the keys was quite a tedious process."
"There are additional charges for data transfers. However, the pricing is mostly reasonable for the licensing overall."
"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."
"While it is reliable, enhancing security and protection should always be the priority."
"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 product needs to have better integration with SAP products."
"The pricing is not cheap, but it could be better."
"We face screensaver timeout issues and problems with the server. I would like the product to include a server visibility feature."
"There are multiple features that have issues, although they could be specific to our environment. What we have seen is that whenever a user gets added to the authentication store, the sync between Password Safe and the authentication store, which is generally easy, takes a lot of time. It does not occur immediately."
"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."
"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."
Azure Key Vault is ranked 1st in Enterprise Password Managers with 43 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 Keeper, whereas BeyondTrust Password Safe is most compared with HashiCorp Vault, BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access, LastPass, CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault and Delinea Secret Server. See our Azure Key Vault vs. BeyondTrust Password Safe report.
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