Delinea Secret Server Reviews

This solution provides us with increased security when working with privileged accounts. It has well-arranged and detailed logging of privileged accounts. It offers the possibility of secure administration of hardware devices, as well as Linux systems administration from a Windows environment.

This solution has increased security when working with privileged accounts and automates changes to their passwords.

Detailed logging of privileged account activity.

The features that we have found the most valuable are:

• Automatic password rotation to manage the security keys.
• Alerting of abnormal use of credentials.
• Dramatically improving our security posture.
• Facilitating compliance with our safety standards.
• Multiple layers of security and access management for IT admins, robust segregation of role-based duties, and military-grade AES 256 bit encryption.
• Database clustering, load balancing, and unlimited admin mode.
• Out-of-the-box & custom reports.

I would like to see the shadowing of ongoing terminal sessions (Remote Desktop Mirroring).

Recording of keyboards in the current Remote Desktop session would be a helpful feature.

It's a password vault.

We use it to search for service accounts across the network. It has significantly helped with staff productivity because it's a less manual process now.

Our security program is about two years old so we're relatively immature, but this was a tremendous step towards being able to securely store passwords.

The most valuable feature of this solution is the random changing of passwords.

We could definitely use some help with API tokenization. If we had a way to store tokens that would be fabulous.

The stability is pretty good, we like it.

The scalability is pretty good.

We haven't used technical support.

We didn't use anything previously, we just knew we needed a vault. We went with Thycotic based on ease of use and we thought their feature set was a little more robust.

I don't remember the initial setup being very complex.

We used a consultant for the deployment, Alcom. Our experience with them was positive.

It isn't terribly expensive.

CyberArk was on our shortlist.

Just get it. It works well.

I would rate this solution at nine out of ten. It does everything we knew it would, but it would be nice if they added some additional features.

We use it for managing secrets and distributing them to our users.

It reduces the risk of secrets being stored in insecure locations, and enables us to share, control, and rotate the secrets. It has also helped to increase staff productivity. It has saved a few man-hours per employee per month.

In terms of security maturity for our organization, it definitely helps with the overall secrets-management aspect. Before, the secrets were not managed online or in a central place. Governance was hard. It has matured the security program in that way.

• The overall secrets management 
• The ability to control access by groups
• Sharing secrets

One of the things that we want is to be able to do some of the management of it using APIs.

Also, their release schedule is slower than I would like. A better release cadence, more frequent releases, would be better, even if they were smaller. 

It's been pretty stable. It has never failed.

The scalability is okay, for what the solution does.

I have only used technical support once and it wasn't bad. It was slower than I wanted, but I don't think it was bad.

We used a version that was offline but we wanted something that is centrally managed. That was the reason for the switch, if I remember correctly. There is a need, in general, for organizations to have a solution like this and we chose this vendor.

I don't know how much it costs but, generally, there has been good return on what we wanted to do.

I don't remember specific ones off top of my head, but there were definitely other vendors on the shortlist.

The biggest challenge with this solution is the usability. You should have your end customers try out different things, find out which product they prefer, and pick that.

I would rate the product at seven out of ten. The usability is very bad which makes it difficult for end-users to use. They complain about putting secrets in it.

Our primary use case is for password management. 

Before this solution, people had their own passwords stored in different areas and when something was needed we could not find the right person that had the right password, which meant quite a lot in migrations scenarios. With this solution, everyone knew what tools to use and where to put the password and who gives access to that password and then we could have reports on who has access to different passwords so that we could do audits. 

The ability to give some groups access to different kinds of databases with the storage of a password is the most valuable feature. 

I don't know what kind of a cryptographic it uses to encrypt the password but it should be one of the stronger ones. Some of the cryptos have been accessed by hackers. The encryption algorithm that they use is weak and could be hacked.

The scalability is pretty good. It was always accessible. 

It was pretty scalable.

I would rate it a nine out of ten. It provides most of the features we need. I like the way that you could easily administer who would get access to what kind of a database.

• Heart beats – it tells me when passwords on file are no longer working. This could be an oversight, but could also be a sign of hacker activity.
• Secret Expiry – reports on passwords that haven’t been changed and may be out of policy.
• Remote Password Changing – along with Secret Expiry, this enables me to stay compliant with password change policies.
• Network Discovery – scans networked machines for accounts, bringing machines in to password policy compliance, and uncovering unknown or backdoor accounts. It also enables the discovery of the total reach of an account, i.e. a service account for which you dare not change the password as you don’t fully know the implications of missing an instance of the account that could fail critical operations.

We previously had a very lax password policy, and passwords were stored in Excel spreadsheets. Passwords were often not documented, or the documented password was not updated if changed. We now have a much stricter, safer password policy. Secret Server has improved security, productivity and helped achieve a much higher state of compliance.

Session recording could offer more control and block certain actions or commands.

I have experience of other products that focus on session recording, so I’m aware of what advanced functionality can be achieved.
Specifically, I’m referring to:

* blacklisting and/or whitelisting certain commands
* OCR capabilities

Now I know these aren’t currently supported, but they may be available in future releases.

We have used this solution for more than three years.

Very occasionally indexes won’t contain all the search results expected.

We have not encountered any scalability issues as this is a highly scalable product.

Technical support is good. Online and offline documentation is clear and well written. Support technicians are punctual and friendly.

I have worked with customers of other solutions. They found it hard to separate accounts assigned to the same asset for different teams. For example, a server has SQL and database accounts. These credentials would all be visible to anyone with access to the server asset which isn’t a desirable situation. DBA has access to a local administrator account. Server admin has access to the payroll DB account!

Based entirely on the Microsoft stack (IIS, MS-SQL), installation is quick and easy.

Pricing is very flexible. Download the free trial version. You can downgrade to the free version (it’s free for life!) or pay for the exact feature set you require.

We evaluated LastPass Enterprise, RoboForm, Password Manager Pro, Kaspersky Password Manager and CyberArk.

I’d recommend you engage a reseller to discuss your requirements, and download the free trial version.

Password checkout and the ability to change a password after checkin are the most valuable features.

• Removes the risk of passwords sitting in files on admins' desktops
• Also provides a secure portal to share passwords with the team

I would like to be able to create service accounts and set generated AD passwords from the web interface.

I have used it for 3+ years.

I have not encountered any deployment issues.

I have not encountered any stability issues.

I have not encountered any scalability issues. I was able to deploy over multiple domains.

Customer service is 10/10.

Technical support is 10/10.

We did not previously use a different solution.

The more features you add, the more complicated you can make it. Basic password storage deployment is straightforward.

It was an in-house implementation.

Before choosing this product, we did not evaluate other options.

• Ease of installation
• Folders
• Secret attachments
• Custom templates and password policies
• Custom reporting and scheduling
• Discovery service
• Too many great features to list here

• Better adoption of PAM

Referring to Secret Server v10, we want the ability to add subfolders to the "\Personal Folders" container. We had to rename it to "\Personal Secrets" to avoid confusion. Otherwise, you can create as many top-level folders and subfolders as you like. A minor annoyance for an otherwise awesome product.

I have used it for 2+ years.

No issues during deployment: Get your SQL cluster deployed, check your prerequisites, run the installer. Log in and start configuring. That was really it.

We have not encountered any stability issues; been rock solid since production deployment.

We have not encountered any scalability issues. Performance issues with a few hundred users and thousands of secrets has been negligible; running on hardware.

Customer service is excellent. Customer relations and tech support have both been quick to respond and knowledgeable.

I rate technical support 8/10. There's always room for improvement when it comes to tech support, but compared to other big name companies, Thycotic tech support stands out among the top.

We had another product before switching. Secret Server crushed the old solution.

Initial setup was very straightforward compared to the competition.

We implemented it ourselves; it was pretty straightforward.

Look at their edition/feature comparison chart and decide which version suits you best. Note that clustering requires the Enterprise Plus edition. You're also allowed to install a lab and QA environment with your license which will help with pre-prod testing.

Before choosing, we looked at other vendors such as LastPass, 1Password, CyberArk, PasswordManager, PasswordState, BeyondTrust, Quest, CA, etc. In the end, the cost, features, and ease of deployment simply beat the competition.

An enterprise-class PAM system will always have complexities to deal with. However, some competitive products literally require a professional services engineer to come onsite if you want it done properly. Secret Server was comparatively easy to setup and get running on our own.

Thycotic Secret Server is an excellent product; we're very happy with it!