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AWS CloudTrail vs CyberArk Privileged Access Manager comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

Scalability Issues

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Sentiment score
7.1
CyberArk Privileged Access Manager offers seamless and flexible scalability for organizations, though licensing challenges may occur.
 

Valuable Features

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Sentiment score
8.5
CyberArk Privileged Access Manager enhances security with automatic password rotation, session monitoring, and supports large-scale, compliant deployments.
 

Room For Improvement

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Sentiment score
6.7
Enhancements sought include user-friendliness, integration, automation, reporting, customization, API support, cost efficiency, deployment, documentation, and updates.
 

Stability Issues

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Sentiment score
7.8
CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is stable, with occasional bugs, but upgrades and redundancy features improve reliability and performance.
 

Customer Service

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Sentiment score
6.8
CyberArk Privileged Access Manager's support is efficient and knowledgeable, but response times and communication can vary, especially with outsourcing.
 

Setup Cost

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5.0
CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is costly but offers high value and comprehensive security, with subscription models benefiting larger installations.
 

Categories and Ranking

AWS CloudTrail
Ranking in User Activity Monitoring
2nd
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
CyberArk Privileged Access ...
Ranking in User Activity Monitoring
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
193
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Password Managers (2nd), Privileged Access Management (PAM) (1st), Mainframe Security (3rd), Operational Technology (OT) Security (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the User Activity Monitoring category, the mindshare of AWS CloudTrail is 10.3%, down from 11.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is 23.6%, up from 20.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
User Activity Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

Bireshwar Adhikary - PeerSpot reviewer
Very comprehensive logs with good points of view for auditing and compliance
The solution is good as a central logging platform for showing all cloud events. For example, it records new users and their activities or events. When you open the solution, you get good details about what has been going on for the entire day. The auditing and compliance points of view are good.
SatishIyer - PeerSpot reviewer
Lets you ensure relevant, compliant access in good time and with an audit trail, yet lacks clarity on MITRE ATT&CK
When I was a component owner for PAM's Privileged Threat Analytics (PTA) component, what I wanted was a clear mapping to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, a framework which has a comprehensive list of use cases. We reached out to the vendor and asked them how much coverage they have of the uses cases found on MITRE, which would have given us a better view of things while I was the product owner. Unfortunately they did not have the capability of mapping onto MITRE's framework at that time. PTA is essentially the monitoring interface of the broker (e.g. Privileged Access Management, the Vault, CPM, PSM, etc.), and it's where you can capture your broker bypass and perform related actions. For this reason, we thought that this kind of mapping would be required, but CyberArk informed us that they did not have the capability we had in mind with regard to MITRE ATT&CK. I am not sure what the situation is now, but it would definitely help to have that kind of alignment with one of the more well-known frameworks like MITRE. For CyberArk as a vendor, it would also help them to clearly spell out in which areas they have full functionality and in which ares they have partial or none. Of course, it also greatly benefits the customers when they're evaluating the product.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Educational Organization
31%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AWS CloudTrail?
In one specific scenario, we encountered a situation where a terminated employee still had access to our environment without our knowledge. With AWS CloudTrail, we could track and monitor the emplo...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS CloudTrail?
CloudTrail is a very cost-effective solution. It can be rated three or four on a scale where ten is the most expensive price.
What needs improvement with AWS CloudTrail?
More controls should be introduced in CloudTrail, especially to see the logs in CloudTrail itself without saving them in S3, as S3 starts to incur charges. Real-time log submission could be improve...
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 do you like most about CyberArk Privileged Access Manager?
The most valuable features of the solution are control and analytics.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CyberArk Privileged Access Manager?
CyberArk Privileged Access Manager comes at a high cost. But the solution is worth its price.
 

Also Known As

CloudTrail
CyberArk Privileged Access Security, CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

HTC, British Gas, Solinor, 2C2P
Rockwell Automation
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