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.
"We use Azure Key Vault for securing secret connection streams, like API secrets, Azure services Secret Key, and AD Client Secret."
"One of the most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Key Vault is its ease of use."
"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."
"We only use the basic features and those are the ones that have the ability to tie into the app, the secrets, and the passwords and encrypt them."
"The centralized storage and secure storage are features we like."
"The integration with other Azure services is one of the standout features for me. It allows us to use secrets from the Azure Key Vault seamlessly without direct interaction.Additionally, the ability to easily mark secrets for expiration and receive notifications is invaluable."
"We use Azure Key Vault to store secrets."
"The best feature is the integrity of the .NET applications in our company."
"Thus far I can say technical support is excellent. We haven't had any issues or difficulties."
"The most valuable feature is the special management. It records the activity and the actions that we use for auditing."
"The most valuable feature is privileged session management."
"Super stable and easy to scale"
"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 PSM is excellent and the ability to write your own connectors and plugins is invaluable as far as flexibility goes."
"CyberArk probably has probably the best vault on the market because of the multiple layered security and each password getting its own encryption."
"We use the solution for password vaulting, password rotation, session management, and secret management."
"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."
"Azure needs to provide versions of Key Vault that are suitable for different sizes of companies."
"They should add a key vault feature for the databases temporarily integrated into hybrid clouds."
"Currently, our company has to add the secrets manually, one by one, in Azure Key Vault, which is a tedious process."
"Inability to access the solution on the phone."
"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 slow response from the support team is one of the shortcomings of the solution that needs to be improved."
"CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault's GUI has certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"Having a cloud version would be very helpful. You have to invest a lot of money for the infrastructure hardware so the cloud version would help."
"I would like to see more integration with more tools, for more APIs."
"We should be able to join small components."
"There are upwards of six components you need to set it up. And you might need anywhere from two to five servers. It takes some work to set that up, especially in a larger environment."
"Password Vault is much pricier than other solutions. A vendor team might struggle to explain why that price is justified. There are good alternatives that cost less."
"The initial setup can get complex."
"It is complicated to deploy for Windows servers compared to other vendors."
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Azure Key Vault is ranked 1st in Enterprise Password Managers with 43 reviews while CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault is ranked 4th in Enterprise Password Managers with 47 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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