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Dragos vs Idira Privileged Access Manager comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 8, 2026

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

Categories and Ranking

Dragos
Ranking in Operational Technology (OT) Security
3rd
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
4.8
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Idira Privileged Access Man...
Ranking in Operational Technology (OT) Security
4th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
231
Ranking in other categories
User Activity Monitoring (2nd), Enterprise Password Managers (3rd), Privileged Access Management (PAM) (1st), Mainframe Security (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Operational Technology (OT) Security category, the mindshare of Dragos is 7.8%, down from 11.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Idira Privileged Access Manager is 1.8%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Operational Technology (OT) Security Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Dragos7.8%
Idira Privileged Access Manager1.8%
Other90.4%
Operational Technology (OT) Security
 

Featured Reviews

Rajesh Podishetty - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Mahmudul Hoque Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Engineer at intelQong Technology
Centralized access has improved privileged control and visibility yet still needs better integrations
While the access control capabilities are useful, streamlining some configuration and policy management workflows could enhance the user experience for administrators. A simpler interface for creating access policies and quickly identifying unusual activities would make day-to-day administration more efficient. Stronger integration with existing identity data and secret management could be a significant improvement for Idira Privileged Access Manager. Deeper integration with cloud solutions would make it easier to correlate privileged access activity with other security events. I would also appreciate more flexible reporting and dashboards so administrators can swiftly see access patterns and unusual privileged access from a single view.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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 is more expensive than other vendors, probably about fifteen to twenty percent more, but it is generally worth the investment."
"Dragos has positively impacted my organization by providing awareness of what exists, allowing us to obtain visibility in OT environments and giving us good information about the assets."
"Dragos has positively impacted my organization by aiding us to compensate our time."
"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."
"I have been working with Dragos almost since the time when they started the company."
"This product has placed a new culture in my company by making employees more aware of IT compliance and cyber security."
"I would recommend implementing CyberArk Privileged Access Manager as it is the best so far."
"CyberArk is one of the best PAM solutions and one of the most expensive, but it works better than the others, so the pricing is fair."
"Their legacy of more than 20 years is very valuable; it brings a lot of stability to the product and a wide variety of integration with the ecosystem, and because of these factors it has been very successful in deployment, making the PAM platform very stable and strong."
"On the customer accounts side, our account managers are responsive. If you ask them, they will get you whomever you need."
"The product is an important security measure against credential theft. It ensures session isolation and password rotation including pushing passwords to the endpoints."
"It is good, it fits our needs, and there is not anything else out in the market that can match it."
"Users were removed from local administrators group on all desktop endpoints providing a more secure computing environment, allowing only those programs approved to run securely."
 

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."
"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."
"Dragos could improve its asset visibility and discovery tools, as the competitor Claroty has better options in this area."
"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."
"From my point of view, Dragos cannot be improved at the moment, but having more user-friendly platforms would be good."
"We considered selecting based on pricing, so we are not choosing Dragos at this time but probably in the future."
"As we have not yet moved to the core licensing model, we don't have the benefit of PSM and a few other things that were not previously included."
"Make it easier to deploy."
"Technical support is average. They are not so great, because the first level support partner or distributor has to provide the support and customers cannot contact CyberArk support directly."
"Additionally, I think the user experience needs to improve."
"For least privilege management, we need a different level of certification from privileged management."
"Transitioning from a traditional on-premises deployment to the privileged cloud has resulted in losing access to many logs and administrative tools typically available on the back end."
"I would like to see is the policy export and import. When we expend, we do not want to just hand do a policy."
"The tool's UI has bugs and lags. It needs to be improved. The deployment process can be complex due to multiple components for various functionalities, each requiring separate infrastructure management. To simplify this process, consolidating all these components into a single platform could be beneficial. The product's pricing could be cheaper."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Its price can be reduced."
"CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault's pricing is reasonable."
"If you are looking at implementing this solution, buy the training and go to it."
"There are additional features added to our CyberArk Privileged Access Manager license. For example, features that allow us to integrate into various kinds of platforms."
"There are no additional costs other than the standard licensing fees."
"The pricing for CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is quite expensive, and the pricing varies from region to region. In APAC, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager can be obtained for less than in North America, according to my understanding."
"I haven't seen the numbers. I know it is not cheap, but I don't know what it is. I would rate it a six out of ten in terms of pricing. It is definitely more expensive than the other product, but it also provides more functionality, and it is modular too. So, we pay for the functionality we're actually going to use, and that's nice."
"CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault is a very expensive product."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Energy/Utilities Company
17%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Healthcare Company
6%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Large Enterprise4
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business59
Midsize Enterprise43
Large Enterprise175
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dragos?
It is amazing to see that Dragos is the only solution for OT environments that quotes based on bandwidth use and not asset number. So it was very nice to see that there is an option to reduce bandw...
What needs improvement with Dragos?
Dragos could probably improve in the way they present remediation information, which is called playbooks. I have seen other applications that provide a drawing of the attack path, which is very int...
What is your primary use case for Dragos?
My main use case for Dragos involves OT monitoring, vulnerability assessment in the OT environment, and automatic inventory. In my day-to-day use of Dragos, I gather information about OT assets, ch...
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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CyberArk Privileged Access Manager?
The pricing is reasonable compared to other software options we evaluated, and it is straightforward. However, overall costs depend on deployment size and licensing requirements.
What needs improvement with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager?
While the access control capabilities are useful, streamlining some configuration and policy management workflows could enhance the user experience for administrators. A simpler interface for creat...
 

Also Known As

Dragos Platform
CyberArk Privileged Access Security, CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault
 

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Sample Customers

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