BeyondTrust Password Safe vs WALLIX Bastion comparison

BeyondTrust and WALLIX are both solutions in the Privileged Access Management (PAM) category. BeyondTrust is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.9, while WALLIX is ranked #4 with an average rating of 7.2. BeyondTrust holds a 3.4% mindshare in PAM, compared to WALLIX’s 7.2% mindshare. Additionally, 84% of BeyondTrust users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of WALLIX users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 6, 2024

BeyondTrust Password Safe and WALLIX Bastion compete in the access management category. BeyondTrust Password Safe has the upper hand in pricing and customer service satisfaction, whereas WALLIX Bastion stands out for its superior feature set.

Features: BeyondTrust Password Safe is known for efficient password management, robust security capabilities, and catering to diverse needs. WALLIX Bastion is recognized for strong session management, monitoring capabilities, and comprehensive access control, offering advanced session tracking options.

Room for Improvement: BeyondTrust Password Safe users desire better integration with tools, smoother updates, and enhanced scalability. WALLIX Bastion users seek improvements in reporting functionalities, scalability, and user interface clarity.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: BeyondTrust Password Safe is seen as easy to deploy with responsive customer service. WALLIX Bastion has a more complex deployment process, with customer support praised for its clarity and responsiveness.

Pricing and ROI: BeyondTrust Password Safe offers competitive pricing with favorable ROI and lower setup costs. WALLIX Bastion has a higher price but provides a strong ROI due to its advanced feature set, justifying the investment for many users.

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Categories and Ranking

BeyondTrust Password Safe

Ranking in Privileged Access Management (PAM)

9th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Password Managers (7th)

WALLIX Bastion

Ranking in Privileged Access Management (PAM)

4th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Privileged Access Management (PAM) category, the mindshare of BeyondTrust Password Safe is 3.4%, up from 2.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WALLIX Bastion is 7.2%, down from 8.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Privileged Access Management (PAM) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
WALLIX Bastion	7.2%
BeyondTrust Password Safe	3.4%
Other	89.4%

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Featured Reviews

IshtiaqKhalil

Information Security Engineer at BOK

Extensive experience with session management and quick technical support boost confidence

While generally a strong product, BeyondTrust Password Safe has a few areas that could use some polish. From an administrator's viewpoint, we sometimes see keystroke capturing fail. More significantly, RDP sessions occasionally disconnect without any error messages on the client side. This leaves us administrators in the dark, unable to identify the cause of the problem

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Herve Choupot

CyberSecurity Architect at Novacelis

Enhancing administration security with critical feature improvements needed

My primary use case is to make a training about Active Directory security. In my experience, I work with Bastion. I emphasize the importance of having a good knowledge of Bastion to avoid vulnerabilities It helps by providing some security features for administration, although it's crucial to be…

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."

"It is very easy to deploy. It's easy to use. That's the major thing I like about it."

"BeyondTrust Password Safe has good reporting and Smart Rules which makes it convenient. Though Smart Rules are convenient, those who do not have much experience with such things may find it difficult to understand how these things work. Otherwise, I find Smart Rules very convenient to work with."

"Session recording, password rotation, and password vaulting are the most valuable features."

"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."

"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."

"One of the most valuable features is that this is a product designed with enterprises in mind."

"BeyondTrust Password Safe is a good PAM tool."

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"Bastion provides a kind of isolation between the administration laptop and the server you want to administer."

"The support is great. They offer 24/7 support, but the specific level of support depends on your subscription. There's a weekday-only option, and a 24/7 option that covers all days of the week. They also have offices in different regions, including West Africa, so people there can easily get support. There's no need to worry about getting assistance."

"Bastion provides a kind of isolation between the administration laptop and the server you want to administer."

"We use WALLIX Bastion to provide access and to monitor sessions."

"The interface is very simple. It doesn't need any plug-ins, just browsers that are installed at the beginning."

"WALLIX Bastion's most valuable feature is the Access Manager because you can use it and access the data center without any client VPN."

"The setup process was simple, and the solution can be implemented within less than one day."

"The most valuable feature of WALLIX Bastion is its password management capability, which is central to safeguarding sensitive information."

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Cons

"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."

"The only improvement I could suggest would be standardizing documentation, but that's more the responsibility of the implementing engineer rather than BeyondTrust Password Trust itself. The documentation must be specific and narrow for implementation, not just broad guidelines."

"The effectiveness of BeyondTrust Password Safe's session management capabilities for SSH and RDP is pretty much robust, but it needs more improvement for other applications and web-based applications."

"It has crashed on us in the past."

"We face screensaver timeout issues and problems with the server. I would like the product to include a server visibility feature."

"Its documentation can be improved. Its documentation is currently complicated, and it is not good. It needs to be better. Their technical support can also be improved. It is not bad, but it can be better."

"When we deploy BeyondTrust, we have to deploy our own database on a SQL server. It doesn't deploy the database. I wish BeyondTrust packages the whole solution in one and includes the MySQL database so that when you deploy it, it deploys everything for you. BeyondTrust gives you the software, but you are in charge of setting up your own database. It is a single appliance just for the BeyondTrust portion but not the database. Unless that has changed in later releases, you have to set up your own database for BeyondTrust Password Safe. I find that part complex because we then need the expertise and help of the database team to set it up, which also increases the deployment time. If they can deploy the database, it will reduce the deployment time."

"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."

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"Based on my experience as a sales tech person, one area of improvement could be a more unified licensing model."

"The scalability of WALLIX Bastion is rated seven out of ten. While it meets our current needs, scaling up the solution is not as easy, and improvements could be made in this area."

"For me, the main issue has to do with the system performance itself."

"It would be better if I could manage multiple accounts in one place, like CyberArk. With WALLIX, you can only manage one account, and you are given a separate category. You have to click on each connection to do anything. For example, CyberArk might give three options for one connection if you want to have an interactive user-level experience. But with WALLIX, you have to click three times to get that access. Also, the biggest disadvantage of WALLIX is the reporting. I feel like it's very weak in reporting when compared to the other solutions. As a solution, they're good and stable. But they need to make their reports neater and better. Right now, we're going to the console and then pressing buttons every single time."

"The performance of WALLIX Bastion's password manager is very low."

"The product doesn't have behavior analytics. They promised to develop this, but only for the cloud, not for on-premise versions."

"Reporting requires improvement; it is basic, allowing only CSV file extraction with no analytics features."

"There could be more automation features for the solution."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"This solution is not cheap—it's a very expensive solution. Very, very expensive compared to the features and functions that they offer."

"The pricing structure is better than the competitors. It's much cheaper than CyberArk. They do the licensing on the basis of assets, not on the number of users. For CyberArk, they base the licensing on the number of users, and they have an expensive model of pricing. BeyondTrust has a cheaper model."

"It has subscription-based licensing. BeyondTrust is three times less expensive than CyberArk."

"The pricing of BeyondTrust is very good as compared to other products. That was the main reason we decided to go with BeyondTrust at first."

"The product is quite affordable."

"When you buy Password Safe and perform your initial Discovery, you have all these servers that are added to your assets in BeyondTrust, but you're not using a license until you actually start managing the systems. BeyondTrust's licensing is based on the systems when they're managed, which means when an administrator is able to connect to the server through BeyondTrust with a managed account. There would be a privileged account on the endpoint when the licensing starts. A significant advantage to that is that there are many organizations that want to evaluate their environment prior to automatic management."

"I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive."

"We just pay for Password Safe. Session management is included, but we don't use it. There aren't any additional costs besides the standard licensing fees. We pay for an annual license."

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"The solution's price is mid-ranged."

"Some extra price needs to be paid for license."

"The solution's pricing is comparable to that of other products."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

17%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Government

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	10

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	10
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	4

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BeyondTrust Password Safe?

My experience with BeyondTrust Password Safe's pricing, setup cost, and licensing has been positive, primarily due to its asset-based licensing model. This is a significant advantage for us because...

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What needs improvement with BeyondTrust Password Safe?

We do not utilize the dynamic privilege elevation and delegation feature yet, because the customer is not planning to use this feature. They want to control the manner of user creation processes in...

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What is your primary use case for BeyondTrust Password Safe?

Currently, we have one customer using BeyondTrust Password Safe. BeyondTrust Password Safe is usually used for two things: compliance and audit.

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What do you like most about WALLIX Bastion?

The support is great. They offer 24/7 support, but the specific level of support depends on your subscription. There's a weekday-only option, and a 24/7 option that covers all days of the week. The...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for WALLIX Bastion?

The price of WALLIX Bastion is rated five out of ten, positioning it in the middle. The cost is justified by the features and capabilities we receive.

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What needs improvement with WALLIX Bastion?

The auditing and reporting features of WALLIX Bastion could be improved. Customizable reports could be introduced to generate dynamic reports based on our requirements. Adding flowcharts for the re...

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Also Known As

BeyondTrust PowerBroker Password Safe

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Overview

Beyond Trust Password Safe is an automated solution that combines password and privileged session management into a single platform. Password Safe delivers secure access control, auditing, alerting, recording, and monitoring.

This free and open-source password manager supports Windows and Linux, and some ports are available for other platforms as well. Their proprietary algorithm, Twofish, is considered highly secure, with the advantage that it is not affiliated with NIST. The Twofish algorithm secures the data while keys are delivered using SHA-256 authentication.

The application is easy to use, and you can download the Windows app from several sites. Additionally, the application is available in 14 languages.

Beyond Trust Password Safe Key Features

Continuous automated account discovery: Scan, identify and profile assets with the discovery engine. The solution has dynamic categorization that enables the automated onboarding of assets into groups.
Application-to-application password management: Password Safe offers an adaptable API interface including an unlimited number of password caches, therefore providing scalability and redundancy.
Secure SSH key management: The system automatically rotates SSH keys to enforce granular access control and workflow. Private keys securely log users onto systems without exposing them.
Adaptive access control: Evaluates context and provides access requests by considering factors such as time of access and location to determine the user’s authorization level.
Enhanced privileged session management: Admins can record, lock, and document suspicious behavior without disrupting productivity by managing sessions live.
Advanced privileged threat analytics: Password Safe monitors assets and user behavior every day, analyzing what are normal patterns and detecting deviations.
Multi-factor authentication: Password Safe supports 2FA (two-factor authentication) using Yubikey 4, Nano, or Neo.

What can you do with Password Safe?

Cross-device and cross-platform syncing: You can safely store encrypted password files online, where you can access them via Password Safe-compatible apps.
Drag and drop password: Password Safe has a “Dragbar,” which you can use to complete forms by dragging and dropping icons over the form - for example, passwords, usernames, design tiles, and emails.
Autotype: With Password Safe, when you click on a web page or login box, the autotype feature will try to fill in your credentials automatically for you.
Import and export: You can import passwords from text, XML, or CSV fails. You can also export passwords in text, XML, and the PSAFE format.
Password generator: Generate secure passwords by using the algorithm. You can also define your password rules.

Beyond Trust Password Safe Benefits

Controls third-party access: Password Safe secures the connection and automatically checks privileged credentials. The solution records all sessions.
Uses context to determine access: Password Safe considers risk factors like location, day, or time of access and uses them to adjust the permissions and privileges of each user.
Manages access for privileged and non-privileged accounts: By integrating with SailPoint IdentityIQ, Password Safe effectively manages user access for privileged as well as non-privileged accounts.
Reduces cloud risk: Password Safe simplifies secure storage and session management. It supports major cloud providers such as Azure, Amazon, Google, Rackspace, and GoGrid. It also supports social networks - Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
Integrates password and privilege management: Integrates with Endpoint Privilege Management to control the resources users can access and the actions they are allowed to take

Reviews from Real Users

A PAM Architect at a tech services company says, "BeyondTrust Password Safe's features that I have found most valuable are really those that are knitted in. That is their Smart Rules and Smart Groups, where you design your administration model so you create your AD groups and your asset groups, and configure Password Safe."

An I.S. Architect at a insurance company mentions that "Session recording, password rotation, and password vaulting are the most valuable features."

"One of the most valuable features is that this is a product designed with enterprises in mind," adds a Cybersecurity Architect at a tech vendor.

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WALLIX offers cybersecurity and privileged access management solutions that secure and protect your most critical IT assets.

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Aera Energy LLC, Care New England, James Madison University

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