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 #7 with an average rating of 8.0, while One Identity is ranked #6 with an average rating of 7.4. Gurucul holds a 4.0% mindshare in UBA, compared to One Identity’s 2.4% 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

One Identity Safeguard

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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)

7th

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)

6th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Privileged Access Management (PAM) (3rd), Non-Human Identity Management (NHIM) (4th)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) category, the mindshare of Gurucul UEBA is 4.0%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of One Identity Safeguard is 2.4%, up from 1.4% 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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Martin Ajayiobe

Senior Vice President (Infrastructure Systems/Information Security) at MAXUT

Th password vault feature has proven to be most effective for managing privileged access

One Identity Safeguard now prevents unauthorized access to servers by eliminating privileged passwords and requiring all connections to go through a PAM-authorized process. This means no one, including hackers, can access servers without explicit approval, significantly enhancing overall security. One Identity Safeguard is easy to use with a good partner to support you, and it can be up and running within a few days. We have successfully integrated One Identity Safeguard with cloud targets, and the process was straightforward. One Identity Safeguard has improved our incident response time by 300 percent.

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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."

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

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

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

"There is ease of implementation. Compared to other PAM solutions, it is easy to implement and use from an administrator's point of view."

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

"The transparent mode for privileged sessions is one of the best things for customers, because they don't see the system in-between."

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

"The scalability of One Identity Safeguard is perfect, scoring ten out of ten."

"We are able to log and get reporting on all privileged activity that is being performed. We like the fact that we can leverage the session recording feature, which is especially valuable when we're dealing with third-party vendors that have to remote into our our boxes and servers to do any work on behalf of the bank. Now, we can record everything they are doing to ensure that they're only doing the changes that were needed. In addition, we use it to leverage knowledge transfer with our internal staff."

"The initial setup is very easy."

"We use the solution’s “transparent mode” feature for privileged sessions. It is very easy because it is only a simple configuration for our users. We don't have to modify our network. We install it, configure it, and it works. So, it is super easy. The rollout for our users is seamless."

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Cons

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

"It could be more stable."

"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."

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

"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."

"For some users, the physical appliance has been a bit buggy."

"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."

"The product uses a lot of resources in current sessions."

"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."

"The multilanguage functionality does not support the Arabic language, even though this solution is deployed in an Arabic region."

"The GUI has room for improvement because it is confusing and cumbersome."

"Some of the out-of-the-box reporting isn't that rich. We spoke to our Safeguard reps who have acknowledged that some of the reporting features can certainly be improved and that we're not the only customer who has cited this. There are very little out-of-the-box reporting capabilities. You have to build the queries and the report. I believe in the next release they're going to be addressing this."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of Gurucul is competitive."

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

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

"They offer a fair price for a robust solution."

"Safeguard is cheaper than CyberArk."

"It is a bit on the pricey side, but you get what you pay for. You don't want to get anything too cheap because then you get cheap stuff and cheap support. That really never helps anybody."

"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."

"We bought their other products, so it was not that expensive. It is one of those where the more you buy, the cheaper it is."

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

"The pricing depends on our perspective, our budget, and, of course, the competitors we are taking into account."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Healthcare Company

Government

Computer Software Company

24%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Comms Service Provider

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

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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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