Gurucul UEBA vs One Identity Safeguard comparison

Gurucul and One Identity are both solutions in the User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) category. Gurucul is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.0, while One Identity is ranked #7 with an average rating of 7.2. Gurucul holds a 4.0% mindshare in UBA, compared to One Identity’s 2.6% mindshare. Additionally, 75% of Gurucul users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of One Identity users who would recommend it.

Gurucul UEBA

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75% willing to recommend

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93% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 4, 2025

Gurucul UEBA and One Identity Safeguard compete in cybersecurity focused on user and entity behavior analytics and privileged access management. Gurucul UEBA is favored for its advanced analytics, while One Identity Safeguard has an advantage with its comprehensive access management.

Features: Gurucul UEBA emphasizes predictive security analytics, risk scoring, and anomaly detection with robust machine learning models. One Identity Safeguard offers privileged account management, password vaulting, and session management, focusing on securing privileged access.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Gurucul UEBA provides a flexible deployment model supporting both cloud and on-premises setups with responsive customer support. One Identity Safeguard has a more complex setup process but offers strong customer service and detailed documentation.

Pricing and ROI: Gurucul UEBA has a competitive setup cost with fast ROI due to its extensive analytics capabilities. One Identity Safeguard may involve a higher upfront cost but offers significant ROI through effective management of privileged access, minimizing security breaches.

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Categories and Ranking

Gurucul UEBA

Ranking in User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)

6th

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

One Identity Safeguard

Ranking in User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)

7th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Privileged Access Management (PAM) (4th), Non-Human Identity Management (NHIM) (6th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) category, the mindshare of Gurucul UEBA is 4.0%, up from 2.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of One Identity Safeguard is 2.6%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)

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Ravi Shekharan

Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Helped reduce our operational costs and increase our efficiency, but it can be more user-friendly

Regarding the prioritization of threats, Gurucul UEBA needs to enhance its alert severity assignment process within the system. This is one area where Gurucul UEBA could improve. Additionally, it would be beneficial if the tool itself could provide or assign user-based or asset-based CI ratings to allow for a more accurate assessment of alert severity. In our environment, we forward these logs, events, and alerts to SIM, where the CI rating is already present. Therefore, if we need to closely investigate a UEBA case directly, it becomes problematic. Gurucul UEBA should proactively incorporate asset-based or user-based CI severity into its design. Gurucul UEBA needs to be more user-friendly. I would like Gurucul UEBA to be able to integrate with legacy-based identity systems and systems that are performing network-based access control. This would require additional integration and playbook models.

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Tor Nordhagen

Executive Director at Semaphore

Transparent mode for privileged sessions will greatly simplify our client's administrative situation

We're introducing the solution's transparent mode for privileged sessions. This is part of what the client hasn't used before. It will simplify their administrative situation greatly. So far, the rollout of this feature has been a seamless process, but we're still in the midst of rolling it out. The benefits will be on the risk side. Right now, the way accounts are managed, you don't necessarily know who is using an account. There's a shared admin account, and that's not a good thing. And those accounts are shared in wallets by several people. One of the real benefits of safeguarding here is that the client will have an absolute audit of who is using an administrative interface, whether it's server or network.

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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 reporting feature was the key differentiator. I also liked the ability to create dynamic rules in the environment."

"If you are genuinely looking for a UEBA solution, you should choose Gurucul confidently if your need is strictly UEBA."

"I appreciate the comprehensive categorization of devices based on their intended use, such as those for DNS."

"The most valuable feature of Gurucul is the ability to customize and it is on the Hadoop platform that has a lot of flexibility."

"It has greatly helped improve our security posture. Safeguard has an option where it will reset passwords on service accounts, then go out to those servers where that service account is running as a service and update the password on it. That makes password changes very easy. We can regularly change passwords now and are planning on making it an annual activity, where all the people who own service accounts will go in and make sure all their passwords get changed, updated, and reset."

"We don't need to use VPN for remote access."

"The solution transparently integrates into the infrastructure and users do not notice it. I would give this feature the highest rating."

"It is easy to manage. There is a very logical, clear user interface. Also, the integration of scripts is thoughtfully implemented. Overall, it's a nice product to manage."

"The solution's most valuable features are the efficiency and the quality of the recording."

"We use the solution’s Approval Anywhere feature which enables us to add an extra layer of security for critical passwords without adding time-consuming approval processes. By using this platform, if someone goes on a vacation, out of office, or needs urgent/planned leave, then our setup will select the functions tied to that person and automatically delegate them to the next person. That person can start performing that duty based on their access. No sharing of passwords is required."

"There are numerous valuable data protection features, including the content and information that offer us more scalable protection as needed."

"The most unique and valuable features are the upstream and downstream throughput capacities; the Safeguard platform provides agile integration. In actuality, all the features are valuable. They're good, user-friendly."

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Cons

"Regarding the prioritization of threats, Gurucul UEBA needs to enhance its alert severity assignment process within the system."

"Technical support is good but can improve. I would rate it six to seven out of ten. The main issue is response time, which can take three to four hours even for simple queries."

"It could be more stable."

"Gurucul can improve on the online documentation. They should educate the end users more to allow them to do everything themselves."

"When we compare One Identity Safeguard with Cyberark, we know CyberArk has other tools or other features that are more complex and more useful for the customers. For example, I have one customer that wants to elevate the permission that is available in CyberArk."

"The interface is better now, but it still could be improved a lot. It needs more organization, menus, automatic refresh of information, and Web 2.0."

"I would like to see support for RDP over HTTPS so this product can be used in conjunction with the Microsoft terminal."

"We can't review or audit HTTP and HTTPS. This functionality should be added so that we can review and audit HTTP and HTTPS."

"From a usability perspective, what we are finding out is that our privileged domain admin users, in particular, want functionality for extending a checkout session. So we are working with One Identity support to see if there's an enhancement that can be made to the product."

"On a scale of one to ten, the stability is an eight."

"The automated change of the passwords, which is now integrated, could be improved to be more flexible regarding different systems."

"From a management point of view, it would be beneficial if One Identity Safeguard Privilege Password and One Identity Safeguard Privilege Session had a more similar interface."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is fair. In fact, I believe it was on the cheaper side when compared to the competition."

"The price of Gurucul is competitive."

"Its subscription cost is too much, and sometimes, it is very difficult to pitch the solution to the management for cost approval. If the cost is reduced a little bit, it would be easier. If its cost was less, many other organizations that currently cannot afford it would be able to use this technology. I'm sure many organizations around the globe are having issues with identity management, and it is a very difficult task for IT to manage privileged accounts."

"The license is around $3,000 per month."

"It was definitely cheaper than the other two products that we evaluated."

"They have comparable pricing. All identity products are essentially priced in a similar way. It's a per-user base."

"It is cheaper than CyberArk. Its price is fair."

"Our licensing costs are on a yearly basis."

"Safeguard is cheaper than CyberArk."

"The pricing is about $80,000 per 100 servers. There are few elective costs."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Healthcare Company

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

22%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Gurucul?

I appreciate the comprehensive categorization of devices based on their intended use, such as those for DNS.

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What needs improvement with Gurucul?

For improvement, I have requested three enhancement tickets, which are already lodged with the Gurucul support team. The first request is to add a visualization option in reports for charts or grap...

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What is your primary use case for Gurucul?

Regarding the use cases, I have created many use cases in Gurucul UEBA. It's easy to create use cases based on behaviors.

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What do you like most about One Identity Safeguard?

The identity discovery is good, and the performance is pretty good value.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for One Identity Safeguard?

The pricing of One Identity Safeguard is fairly priced and cheaper than other solutions of the same enterprise level. It provides a good cost-benefit ratio.

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What needs improvement with One Identity Safeguard?

There is room for improvement in integration between modules. The native integration between SPP and SPS, which is currently based on a plugin, could be enhanced. Customization for lookup passwords...

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Overview

Threats are a moving target. Determined and persistent threat actors purposely stretch out their activity across weeks or even months, especially when most SIEM and XDR solutions are incapable of piecing together events across time. Even worse, is that these solutions primarily use rule-based Machine Learning, which is essentially pattern matching. This makes them especially ineffective in detecting new attacks and/or variants, which are highly successful in breaching organizations. Discover how Gurucul UEBA security can help your enterprise.

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One Identity Safeguard manages and monitors privileged access, enhancing security with features like automatic session recording, real-time monitoring, and credential rotation. It integrates seamlessly, supports compliance with audit trails, and improves operational efficiency across organizations. This robust platform significantly bolsters security protocols while controlling sensitive operations.

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Sample Customers

Global semi-conductor company

Cavium

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