Dragos vs Idira Privileged Access Manager comparison

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Dragos and Idira by Palo Alto Networks are both solutions in the Operational Technology (OT) Security category. Dragos is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.0, while Idira by Palo Alto Networks is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.6. Dragos holds a 7.6% mindshare in OT, compared to Idira by Palo Alto Networks’s 1.6% mindshare. Additionally, 83% of Dragos users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Idira by Palo Alto Networks users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 2, 2026

Idira Privileged Access Manager and Dragos compete in the cybersecurity field. Dragos stands out with a superior feature set, justifying its higher cost compared to Idira, which offers better pricing and support.

Features: Idira provides advanced identity management, secure access control, and simplified credential management. Dragos offers comprehensive threat detection, robust response capabilities, and specialized protection for industrial control systems.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Idira offers straightforward deployment with strong support services ensuring seamless integration. Dragos requires more complex deployment focused on industrial security but benefits from highly responsive customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Idira is priced competitively, appealing to cost-conscious buyers seeking quick ROI for access management needs. Dragos, despite its higher cost, delivers significant ROI through enhanced industrial threat protection, attracting organizations prioritizing robust security.

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Categories and Ranking

Dragos

Ranking in Operational Technology (OT) Security

4th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

4.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Idira Privileged Access Man...

Ranking in Operational Technology (OT) Security

3rd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

231

Ranking in other categories

User Activity Monitoring (1st), Enterprise Password Managers (2nd), Privileged Access Management (PAM) (1st), Mainframe Security (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Operational Technology (OT) Security category, the mindshare of Dragos is 7.6%, down from 11.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Idira Privileged Access Manager is 1.6%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Operational Technology (OT) Security Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Idira Privileged Access Manager	1.6%
Dragos	7.6%
Other	90.8%

Operational Technology (OT) Security

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Rajesh Podishetty

Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Risk monitoring has improved and real-time fraud detection provides transparent banking control

Dragos should be improved in deployment complexity as it requires OT engineering coordination. One needs to have proper engineering coordination to understand the system, deploy it, integrate it, and make all the complex things into one system. This is very challenging, and one should be really skillful and have experience to accomplish this. Cost is another area for improvement. The cost is higher due to site-based licensing and expert services. The licensing is very heavy, and expert services are required for deployment. Cost-wise is also challenging and needs to be improved. Integration needs alignment with IT security systems and compliance frameworks. Controlling cybersecurity where any fraudulent person or third party should not access the system is controlled, and managing that level of complexity is quite challenging. Since there is continuous monitoring, it can reduce operational risk losses by 20% to 30% annually. Controlling that huge amount of data and transactions, especially regarding storage, requires a lot of database space. The space-wise storage should be reduced.

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Singaravelu C

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.

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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

"I have been working with Dragos almost since the time when they started the company."

"Dragos has positively impacted my organization by aiding us to compensate our time."

"Dragos especially ensures systems recover quickly, providing resilience, and it handles all the operational resilience in banking with metrics of 99.9% uptime, 30 minutes recovery time, and 99% transaction accuracy."

"Dragos' best features are that they are more focused towards Incident Response, so they have a dedicated playbook in their platform, making it easier for anyone investigating any incidents to investigate the alerts."

"Dragos is more expensive than other vendors, probably about fifteen to twenty percent more, but it is generally worth the investment."

"CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is the best solution for safeguarding sensitive patient data in healthcare, providing visibility and traceability that enhance compliance."

"It is a central repository. Therefore, if someone needs to access a server, then they go through CyberArk PAM. It provides a secure way to do this and CyberArk PAM records everything. For example, if you are connecting to a Linux server, then once you get into the Linux server and if it is integrated with CyberArk, it will automatically start recording everything that is being done. In most banks, seeing the recordings is very useful. If there are any gaps or something has happened which shouldn't have happened, then we can check the logs and videos. So, it gives security, in a robust manner, to the organization."

"Previously, we used to share passwords for service and normal admin accounts among team members. However, since we started managing it through the product, we've transitioned to individual admin accounts or implemented dual control for shared accounts. With dual control, exclusive checking and checkout options are available, and passwords are not stored in clear text anywhere in the credentials."

"We also use CyberArk’s Secrets Manager. Because AWS is the biggest area for us, we have accounts in AWS that are being rotated by CyberArk. We also have a manual process for the most sensitive of our AWS accounts, like root accounts. We've used Secrets Manager on those and that has resulted in a significant risk reduction, as well."

"The Password Upload Utility tool makes it easier when setting up a Safe that contains multiple accounts and has cut down the amount of time that it takes to complete the task."

"The solution is stable and reliable."

"This product is helpful for financial auditing needs, as well."

"All access to our servers by both staff and vendors is monitored and recorded."

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Cons

"Dragos should be improved in deployment complexity as it requires OT engineering coordination."

"I think Dragos can offer more flexibility similar to Nozomi and more visibility into the assets, nodes, and links, which would make it more competitive in the future."

"From my point of view, Dragos cannot be improved at the moment, but having more user-friendly platforms would be good."

"Dragos is very expensive, charging more than the OEMs. For example, if a PLC costs ten thousand dollars, a customer pays Dragos almost one to ten price in relation to what they would have spent building their plant."

"Dragos could improve its asset visibility and discovery tools, as the competitor Claroty has better options in this area."

"Dragos basically helped us get to know the entire infrastructure because there were many devices that not even the client themselves knew existed or that were still active, making it a very good tool; however, it requires a lot of hardware and knowledge, especially expertise from people who have worked in the industry and know security, which was lacking in the company where it was implemented, leading to lucky hits but ultimately prompting my decision to change companies."

"I would like to see improvement in the custom connector for integration with different devices."

"Authentication to the PVWA utilises integration to IIS. Therefore, it is not as strong as desired."

"My impression of their technical support team is that it is very bad. The support team's response time is quick, however, the resolution process takes too long."

"I think having a distributed architecture would certainly help this solution."

"Maintaining the product is challenging. Upgrades require a lot of resources, as it impacts the entire organization. For example, upgrading components like the Privileged Session Manager (PSM) and the vault is time-consuming and difficult. In the long term, I would like to see these processes simplified, especially for on-premise installations."

"From what I can see, the Systems Integrator is useless. When I ask for the information, nothing is given to me."

"The initial setup could be simpler but it may not be as effective."

"Privileged Threat Analytics (PTA) that can function in more that one AD domain at a time."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Its price is high. I have also worked with Delinea. CyberArk is comparatively expensive compared to other PAM solutions, such as Delinea, especially during renewal."

"CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is perceived to be somewhat overpriced compared to similar market products. It is a little bit overvalued. It could come down a little bit for my liking. However, the industry-leading reputation and the quality of service justify the high price point to some extent."

"It's an affordable platform."

"It's expensive, certainly. But CyberArk is the leader in the market with regards to privileged access management. You pay a lot, but you are paying for the value that is being delivered."

"The solution is available at a high price"

"If you are looking at implementing this solution, buy the training and go to it."

"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."

"It is in line with its competitors, but all such solutions cost too much money."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Energy/Utilities Company

17%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

Outsourcing Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Large Enterprise	4

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	59
Midsize Enterprise	43
Large Enterprise	175

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dragos?

Pricing-wise, I am not certain because there is a third party who handles the pricing in my company. The setup cost and licensing is quite critical. Licensing is always handled for access users, an...

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What needs improvement with Dragos?

Being able to do more tuning and investigation in the dashboard to search for interesting things, along with some threat hunting, would help identify something beyond what is already there. Dragos ...

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What is your primary use case for Dragos?

The main use case I had for Dragos during that period was for infrastructure monitoring and to begin detecting any incidents or problems that could arise, especially configuration failures, such as...

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How does Sailpoint IdentityIQ compare with CyberArk PAM?

We evaluated Sailpoint IdentityIQ before ultimately choosing CyberArk. Sailpoint Identity Platform is a solution to manage risks in cloud enterprise environments. It automates and streamlines the m...

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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...

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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...

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Also Known As

Dragos Platform

CyberArk Privileged Access Security, CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault

Overview

Dragos offers a comprehensive cybersecurity platform specializing in industrial control systems. It provides advanced threat detection and response capabilities tailored for sectors like energy, manufacturing, and water.

Dragos enhances security by providing specialized solutions that address the unique vulnerabilities present in industrial environments. With a robust framework, it monitors networks for threats, offers advanced analytics, and delivers actionable insights. This makes it essential for maintaining operational integrity and ensuring system protection against cyber threats.

What are the valuable features of Dragos?

Threat Detection: Identifies risks specific to industrial control systems.
Incident Response: Facilitates quick and effective handling of security breaches.
Network Monitoring: Provides continuous oversight of industrial networks for threats.
Intelligent Analytics: Offers insights through advanced data analysis.
Threat Intelligence: Delivers focused, up-to-date information on security threats.

What benefits or ROI can be expected from Dragos?

Enhanced Security: Protects critical infrastructure from cyber threats.
Operational Efficiency: Reduces downtime through rapid threat detection and response.
Cost-effective Protection: Minimizes financial impact of breaches through effective defense mechanisms.
Strategic Insights: Boosts decision-making with comprehensive analytics and reporting.

Dragos is implemented across industries such as energy, manufacturing, and water to offer tailored solutions that improve cyber resilience. By integrating industry-specific knowledge and cybersecurity practices, it supports safeguarding critical infrastructure assets effectively.

Dragos

CyberArk Privileged Access Manager safeguards privileged accounts through password management, credential rotation, and session recording. With seamless integration and real-time monitoring, it ensures robust security across platforms.

CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is recognized for its extensive capabilities in managing and securing privileged accounts. It offers vital functionalities such as automatic password rotation, real-time session monitoring, and cross-platform integration through APIs and custom connectors. Users find the flexibility in workflows and granular access controls beneficial, particularly in protecting access across cloud and on-prem infrastructures. However, improvements in its interface, installation process, plugin support, and integration with third-party tools are often suggested. Pricing is a concern for many, along with the need for better dashboard reporting, user provisioning, and enhanced documentation. Organizations leverage this tool for encrypting and monitoring critical account activities and automating password management to bolster security.

What are the key features of CyberArk Privileged Access Manager?

Enterprise Password Vault: Provides secure storage and management of enterprise credentials.
Privilege Session Manager: Offers comprehensive session recording and monitoring.
Privileged Threat Analytics: Detects and alerts on potential credential threats.
Integration Capabilities: Easily integrates with multiple systems using APIs and custom connectors.

What benefits or ROI should users expect?

Enhanced Security: Automates and centralizes password management, reducing risk of account misuse.
Compliance Support: Ensures alignment with compliance policies through automated processes.
Operational Efficiency: Streamlines security operations with real-time monitoring and integration.
Adaptability: Protects privileged access across diverse infrastructure setups including cloud and on-prem.

CyberArk Privileged Access Manager finds substantial use in industries such as finance, healthcare, and technology, where the protection of privileged accounts is critical. These sectors rely on its capabilities to manage application credentials securely and provide safe access for developers, administrators, and vendors across various infrastructures.

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