We performed a comparison between CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault and Azure Key Vault based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure is the winner in this comparison. Reviewers are happier with its ease of deployment and with its price.
"All its features are really valuable. It's really well thought-out. It's a complete turnkey solution that has all the concerns taken care of, such as access control and management. You can use it in infrastructure as code to create key vaults, APIs, PowerShells, CLIs, even Terraform."
"The most valuable features are ease of use and enabling our clients to manage keys."
"There is advanced data protection available. We're working in a highly regulated environment, and this is essential to us."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is that you can retrieve user account details from the cloud."
"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."
"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."
"The solution's technical support is good. My company received support from Microsoft whenever we needed it."
"The privileged support manager is the most valuable feature of CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault."
"CyberArk's GUI is user friendly."
"CyberArk has a lot of modules."
"Password Vault's policy configuration is very good - when you receive an attack, you can segment the structure of the project in order to isolate parts or users."
"The most valuable feature is privileged session management."
"Service count rotation is probably one of my favorite features... The ability to automatically rotate any password I need to really helps with the entire enterprise strategy that we're pushing right now."
"CyberArk is a good and adaptive solution. It is easy to adopt and install. It is easy for every use case."
"PSM enables after-hours monitoring."
"The solution needs to improve its cost."
"The voucher access policy can be improved by configuring it based on groups, rather than just applications or users."
"I can see that other people are doing the infrastructure as code, they are able to easily manage and cycle their passwords as needed using their own interface they created. It would be nice if Microsoft provided more guidance in that area."
"The solution's usage can be a little better from the user interface point of view."
"Inability to access the solution on the phone."
"If I consider how some people complain that a solution to store information should be available at a low cost, I would say that Azure Key Vault's price should be made cheaper."
"The big problem with Azure Key Vault is key rotation. We haven't found a good way to synchronize the credentials between the databases and Key Vault."
"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."
"CyberArk's license is too expensive. I rate it seven out of 10 for affordability."
"The interface could be improved it is not user-friendly, but they have improved but it could still improve. In the policies configuration, it would be a benefit to have more details."
"The initial setup could be simplified. Right now, in comparison to its nearest competitors, it's quite complex."
"There was a situation when one of our presidents had an issue, but I can't recall the specifics."
"I would like to see a simplification of the product."
"The session monitoring and recording feature is also a good feature feature, but we're currently experiencing an issue with session monitoring not working correctly. We're working with CyberArk to resolve it. We aren't able to view active sessions or historical recordings of sessions."
"The only problem involves granting access to people who are authorized to view it."
"I would like to see more integration with more tools, for more APIs."
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Azure Key Vault is ranked 1st in Enterprise Password Managers with 46 reviews while CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault is ranked 4th in Enterprise Password Managers with 48 reviews. Azure Key Vault is rated 8.6, while CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault is rated 8.4. 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 CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault writes "Helps to store system accounts ". Azure Key Vault is most compared with AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, AWS Certificate Manager, Delinea Secret Server and 1Password, whereas CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault is most compared with HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Delinea Secret Server, BeyondTrust Password Safe and LastPass. See our Azure Key Vault vs. CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault report.
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