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EJBCA Enterprise vs IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management comparison

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Categories and Ranking

EJBCA Enterprise
Ranking in Certificate Management Software
6th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.5
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM HashiCorp Security Life...
Ranking in Certificate Management Software
7th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.5
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) (15th), Secrets Management Tools (7th)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2920977 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Centralized certificate management has reduced costs and supports open-source goals
EJBCA Enterprise is performing very well overall. However, one area for improvement could be the addition of a native dashboard capability within EJBCA Enterprise to facilitate reporting. Currently, I rely on Venafi for reporting or have created a custom dashboard by establishing a read replica from the actual database, which requires running ETL jobs to pull new data every day for analytics, causing some headaches. Having native dashboard features directly in EJBCA Enterprise would be beneficial. I think EJBCA Enterprise is good as it currently stands. They are doing very well, but perhaps future improvements related to AI could be beneficial, although I'm unsure of specifics at this moment.
Mritunjay-Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Principle Architect at Ford Motor Company
Centralized secrets have cut cutover time to hours and now need smarter AI-driven guidance
I would appreciate some AI intelligence features in IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management for real-time alerting regarding configuration issues or indentations when integrating with cloud-native applications. Having this intelligence integrated with monitoring tools like GCP Monitoring or Grafana would be beneficial. For improvements, I would suggest integrating IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management with popular LLM technologies, whether it's from AWS, GCP, or Azure, while introducing AI and ML for AIOps to enhance preemptive and proactive alerting and monitoring during the application lifecycle or continuous deployment stages. From a user experience perspective, having interactive dashboards that provide application-specific suggestions to improve quality and configurations would be helpful. If IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management could offer auto-suggestions on improving secrets and application configurations through its UI dashboards, it would greatly benefit users. Regarding the accuracy and reliability of outputs from IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management, it has not been consistent, indicating a need for better harnessing of inputs and outputs to optimize AI capabilities.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"EJBCA Enterprise scales very well; autoscaling is part of the cloud EC2 setup without vendor reliance."
"EJBCA Enterprise has positively impacted my organization by providing ease of use, saving my team time, reducing errors, and improving security in a noticeable way."
"EJBCA Enterprise has positively impacted my organization by improving security, reducing operational risk, and enhancing production reliability."
"A notable feature is the extensive configuration possibilities regarding certificate templates and profiles, offering unparalleled flexibility compared to other PKI solutions on the market."
"The best features EJBCA Enterprise offers, in my opinion, are its superior security compared to some other MFAs which are not anti-phishing."
"The automation and scalability of EJBCA Enterprise is definitely one of the biggest standout features."
"EJBCA Enterprise stands out in terms of flexibility and scalability."
"The best features EJBCA Enterprise offers are that it is very easy to install, especially with the appliance or OVA version we are using, it integrates easily with HSM, it is easy to monitor because it has a good GUI and website interface, and it is more secure than other competitors."
"IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management has positively impacted our organization by reducing the amount of sensitive credentials being stored directly in the application code and configuration files."
"IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management has been useful in my main use case."
"CI/CD integration is the most valuable feature for my team because it helps me manage sensitive credentials securely throughout the deployment process."
"After integration, we onboard all those secrets that need to be managed through CyberArk, and after onboarding, we can configure the frequency for rotation of those secrets."
"Externalizing all these application configurations using IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management services greatly aided us, allowing us to manage centralized configuration, thus reducing the environment provisioning time from a couple of days to just a few hours."
"My main use case for IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management is service discovery."
 

Cons

"The customer support for EJBCA Enterprise is good, and the overall turnaround time is fast."
"Customer support is good for regular questions, but when I require expert advice on high-skill questions, it can be challenging."
"The user interface looked quite orthodox and could be improved a little bit."
"I assigned a three rating because EJBCA Enterprise is a high-resource system, and there are instances where the CPU peaks for no apparent reason, making it difficult to investigate."
"I choose a rating of eight because EJBCA Enterprise console takes a lot of time to load and keeps buffering when I click on a certain link."
"EJBCA Enterprise could be improved in terms of certificate lifecycle management and error handling in Keyfactor jobs, which sometimes throw unclear error codes."
"Customer support has been good; it's a mixed experience. For critical incidents, knowledgeable experts provide support, but for minor issues, my experience has been that inexperienced support agents may struggle."
"I chose a seven or eight for my rating because, as I mentioned, the integrations should be much easier and the troubleshooting for certificate management needs improvement."
"Regarding the accuracy and reliability of outputs from IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management, it has not been consistent, indicating a need for better harnessing of inputs and outputs to optimize AI capabilities."
"One area for improvement for IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management would be a more intuitive dashboard that provides a clear overview of secret usage, access activity, rotation status, and upcoming expirations across all environments."
"Token-based is risky because if somebody is able to grab that token, the token can be misused, which is a point of risk."
"IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management can be improved in that initial setup and policy configuration can take some time, especially for teams that are new to Vault and its concepts."
"The reason for my eight rating is that there are areas IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management can improve, particularly regarding integration capabilities and customer support."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Outsourcing Company
15%
Comms Service Provider
13%
Manufacturing Company
12%
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Company Size

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Small Business
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Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise4
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for EJBCA Enterprise?
My experience with pricing shows that it is very high and expensive. The setup cost is manageable, but licensing is expensive each year.
What needs improvement with EJBCA Enterprise?
EJBCA Enterprise can be improved once we start the digital signature business and after our business makes a decision to use EJBCA Enterprise at scale. I chose a rating of seven based on my seven y...
What is your primary use case for EJBCA Enterprise?
My main use case for EJBCA Enterprise is for certificate issuance for users and in the digital signature company. A specific example of how I use EJBCA Enterprise for certificate issuance and digit...
What is your primary use case for IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management?
Our main use case for IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management is centralized secret management for applications and automation workflows. For example, we use it to securely store database crede...
What advice do you have for others considering IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management?
Integrating IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management with our CI/CD pipelines or other automation tools has improved the way my team manages secrets and machine identities by making our CI/CD pr...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management?
The pricing felt reasonable for an enterprise security platform, although the licensing can become significant as usage and the number of workloads grow.
 

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