BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe vs BeyondTrust Password Safe comparison

BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe and BeyondTrust Password Safe are both solutions in the Enterprise Password Managers category. BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe is ranked #22, while BeyondTrust Password Safe is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.4. BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe holds a 0.5% mindshare in EPM, compared to BeyondTrust Password Safe’s 3.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 81% of BeyondTrust Password Safe users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 6, 2024

BeyondTrust Password Safe and BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe compete in password and secrets management. BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe has the upper hand with comprehensive capabilities, while Password Safe attracts users with competitive pricing and support satisfaction.

Features: BeyondTrust Password Safe offers robust password management, ideal for enterprise credential security, efficient integration with existing systems, and session management and recording. BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe provides dynamic secrets management, adaptability to CI/CD workflows, and seamless cloud platform integration, focusing on DevOps environments.

Room for Improvement: BeyondTrust Password Safe needs enhanced integration capabilities with various IT systems and could benefit from broader system integration. BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe could improve interface scalability and customization, requiring adjustments to better scale with growing environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: BeyondTrust Password Safe is straightforward to deploy, with effective customer service. BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe could improve initial setup complexity but is efficient once configured.

Pricing and ROI: BeyondTrust Password Safe is cost-effective with a positive return on investment, reflecting user satisfaction with the initial setup cost. BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe, though more expensive, offers long-term value due to its specialized features for DevOps environments.

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Categories and Ranking

BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets ...

Ranking in Enterprise Password Managers

22nd

Ranking in Privileged Access Management (PAM)

40th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

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BeyondTrust Password Safe

Ranking in Enterprise Password Managers

6th

Ranking in Privileged Access Management (PAM)

7th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

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Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Enterprise Password Managers category, the mindshare of BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe is 0.5%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of BeyondTrust Password Safe is 3.7%, up from 3.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Stephen Hui

Cybersecurity Architect at DataAssure

Has all necessary functionalities, is sophisticated and mature; still contains some bugs

There are still some bugs in the solution but a lot less than there used to be. Unfortunately, CyberArk and BeyondTrust are in fierce competition. Many customers have already adopted CyberArk, but they need a proven remote access solution and are likely to go with BeyondTrust. Both solutions can be used, it's just more work for IT to manage them. CyberArk is still leading the market share globally, and BeyondTrust is always classified second, followed by Delinea or Thycotic.

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Gary Jolley

PAM Architect at GCA

Their discovery engine is off the charts, and the ease of administration and implementation they talk about is for real

It starts with discovery. Its number one feature is discovery. The discovery engine in BeyondTrust is off the charts. When they perform a discovery, you know everything there is about a server, including what software is installed. For example, if you want to group all of your database servers together, you can do that by using discovery and Smart Rules. If a server has Microsoft SQL installed, it gets put into a group based on a Smart Rule. It makes it very easy to determine what is what in your environment. As organizations grow or acquire other companies and merge, they lose track of what they have. BeyondTrust can help you throw a rope around it very rapidly. Its user interface is really nice. It is very visual. When you first log in, based on your job role, you see what you have access to when you look at the screen. As an administrator, I see the configuration screen where I can go in and modify Active Directory and authentication connections. I can set up SAML, or I also have access to create Smart Rules. The access is based on the role that you have when you log in. I have six boxes or six categories of administration items, whereas when an admin user connects, he would only have one or two. So, based on your role, you see what you have access to. It is not like you click something and then it fails because you're not an administrator at that level. You actually see what you have access to, and BeyondTrust is very good at that. BeyondTrust provides the ability to connect by using not just the web interface but also the admin tools such as MobaXterm, PuTTY, or a lengthy list of other types of tools. You can use the connection string and connect through BeyondTrust, and it will be session recorded, keystroke logged, and highly available. When you bring up MobaXterm, you probably bring up one of the most complex ones because MobaXterm has the ability to have two, three, or four concurrent connections, which makes BeyondTrust Password Safe ideal. It is very easy to integrate session management into existing business processes. To make it easy for the engineers, we created templates of the connection strings and then used, believe it or not, Microsoft Excel to create custom strings for each of the engineers. We exported them to a text file that they could then import. In the case of PuTTY, because PuTTY stores the connections and the credentials in the registry, we had to do something different there, but the connection string is customizable enough to make the job fast and easily repeatable for all the other engineers. You don't have 20 or 30 engineers spending two or three days creating all these connection strings. I can create them in a matter of minutes with a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and then save them to a text file or a CSV file. It is awesome. We are able to integrate session management without disrupting business processes. One of the niceties about BeyondTrust is the ability to integrate it with ticketing systems. For example, as per Sarbanes-Oxley, we have to have a reason for why an administrator is performing something. The integration with a ticketing system is ideal rather than manually typing the reason in the reason field through the GUI where most engineers, after a while, end up just typing in Work. They don't put in enough data to make it clearly visible why they connected. The integration with the ticketing system is ideal for that. Ticket-driven access makes the work very quantifiable.

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Pros

"DevOps Secrets Safe allows you to customize a lot of rules."

"A sophisticated and mature solution."

"The local administrator can manage all the user's logins in one, simple, straight-away account access. Additionally, the solution is user-friendly."

"The most valuable features of BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe are the ease of use and the API is very nice. Additionally, the interface is very good between AD and Unix."

"The most valuable feature is the architecture capabilities, which allow designated server components for high availability and failover. It works well with identity and access management solutions, allowing users to be automatically onboarded and offboarded. The account mapping feature makes rollout seamless. The session monitoring capabilities are excellent, with keystroke and graphical monitoring. This enhanced our security posture by providing detailed accounts of user actions. It helped us pass our SOX audits."

"BeyondTrust Password Safe has good reporting and Smart Rules which makes it convenient. Though Smart Rules are convenient, those who do not have much experience with such things may find it difficult to understand how these things work. Otherwise, I find Smart Rules very convenient to work with."

"The technical support and customer services are phenomenal."

"The best aspect of the product is the ability to onboard devices. You can scan the IP subnets and onboard all the devices. You can then segregate them if it's a network device or a firewall. If it's a Windows server or a UNIX, you can basically scan your IT infrastructure and onboard the efforts, which should be managed. Once they have been onboarded, then the session management and password management are easy and nicely configurable."

"It simplifies your compliance and tracking to benchmark other credentials and analytics."

"I like the session recording feature. I also like the analytics and reports. You can pull up a report, and the UI is fantastic. The system is recording when nobody's there, so we have a record of what's happening."

"The ability to manage privileged account passwords is the most valuable feature."

"The CI/CD and REST API are also satisfactory; the solution has a full PAM feature set and they all work well."

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Cons

"We had some issues with the solution and once we contacted support they eventually solved the problem. They could improve their response time."

"You need to improvise many of the customized rules, which can lead to some errors. BeyondTrust should reduce the error rate."

"The product contains some bugs."

"The support for the solution is not very good, they could improve by being quicker."

"There are multiple features that have issues, although they could be specific to our environment. What we have seen is that whenever a user gets added to the authentication store, the sync between Password Safe and the authentication store, which is generally easy, takes a lot of time. It does not occur immediately."

"When we deploy BeyondTrust, we have to deploy our own database on a SQL server. It doesn't deploy the database. I wish BeyondTrust packages the whole solution in one and includes the MySQL database so that when you deploy it, it deploys everything for you. BeyondTrust gives you the software, but you are in charge of setting up your own database. It is a single appliance just for the BeyondTrust portion but not the database. Unless that has changed in later releases, you have to set up your own database for BeyondTrust Password Safe. I find that part complex because we then need the expertise and help of the database team to set it up, which also increases the deployment time. If they can deploy the database, it will reduce the deployment time."

"Documentation is the primary area of improvement."

"The only feature they could improve is the banners because they aren't informative. For example, if something is not correct and I open the error notification, the dialogue box simply says, "This is an error." It would be great if they could provide some valuable comments about how to fix the errors."

"Its documentation can be improved. Its documentation is currently complicated, and it is not good. It needs to be better. Their technical support can also be improved. It is not bad, but it can be better."

"We don't have much control over the appliance. When anything happens in the backend, we have to depend on the support team. We need to raise a case so that they can update the appliance. If we have control over it, we would be able to troubleshoot easily."

"Adding user behavior analysis to the server or messaging would be beneficial."

"Named accounts don't work well in this solution. If you use named accounts for your administrative access, the way Smart Rules work is that it takes your SAM account name and matches it to the account name of your privileged ID, which creates limitations on size and how big those names can be because the directory has a 20-character limit."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is an annual license required to use BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe."

"The pricing structure is better than the competitors. It's much cheaper than CyberArk. They do the licensing on the basis of assets, not on the number of users. For CyberArk, they base the licensing on the number of users, and they have an expensive model of pricing. BeyondTrust has a cheaper model."

"The product is quite affordable."

"I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive."

"At the time, BeyondTrust was significantly cheaper than CyberArk. Pricing-wise, if I remember correctly, it goes by assets. The pricing was negotiated for our instances based on the number of assets that we onboard into the system. It is a little different from CyberArk, where the pricing is by users. So, it depends. If you have a lot of assets, it can get very expensive."

"It has subscription-based licensing. BeyondTrust is three times less expensive than CyberArk."

"We just pay for Password Safe. Session management is included, but we don't use it. There aren't any additional costs besides the standard licensing fees. We pay for an annual license."

"The pricing of BeyondTrust is very good as compared to other products. That was the main reason we decided to go with BeyondTrust at first."

"This solution is not cheap—it's a very expensive solution. Very, very expensive compared to the features and functions that they offer."

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BeyondTrust Password Safe?

The pricing model is more affordable with the option of going for either unlimited devices or users. It is cost-effective compared to other solutions.

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What needs improvement with BeyondTrust Password Safe?

As of today, I haven't found any issues. Adding user behavior analysis to the server or messaging would be beneficial. This would help in identifying suspicious activities immediately when users lo...

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What is your primary use case for BeyondTrust Password Safe?

Our customers are looking for a product that offers provisioning in their network, and for that reason, they choose BeyondTrust Password Safe.

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Overview

DevOps Secrets Safe is a highly scalable solution that adapts to the speed and agility required in dynamic DevOps workflows. It will help organizations limit the risk associated with substantial unmanaged privileged credentials and secrets without causing friction in highly dynamic environments such as DevOps.

Beyond Trust Password Safe is an automated solution that combines password and privileged session management into a single platform. Password Safe delivers secure access control, auditing, alerting, recording, and monitoring.

This free and open-source password manager supports Windows and Linux, and some ports are available for other platforms as well. Their proprietary algorithm, Twofish, is considered highly secure, with the advantage that it is not affiliated with NIST. The Twofish algorithm secures the data while keys are delivered using SHA-256 authentication.

The application is easy to use, and you can download the Windows app from several sites. Additionally, the application is available in 14 languages.

Beyond Trust Password Safe Key Features

Continuous automated account discovery: Scan, identify and profile assets with the discovery engine. The solution has dynamic categorization that enables the automated onboarding of assets into groups.
Application-to-application password management: Password Safe offers an adaptable API interface including an unlimited number of password caches, therefore providing scalability and redundancy.
Secure SSH key management: The system automatically rotates SSH keys to enforce granular access control and workflow. Private keys securely log users onto systems without exposing them.
Adaptive access control: Evaluates context and provides access requests by considering factors such as time of access and location to determine the user’s authorization level.
Enhanced privileged session management: Admins can record, lock, and document suspicious behavior without disrupting productivity by managing sessions live.
Advanced privileged threat analytics: Password Safe monitors assets and user behavior every day, analyzing what are normal patterns and detecting deviations.
Multi-factor authentication: Password Safe supports 2FA (two-factor authentication) using Yubikey 4, Nano, or Neo.

What can you do with Password Safe?

Cross-device and cross-platform syncing: You can safely store encrypted password files online, where you can access them via Password Safe-compatible apps.
Drag and drop password: Password Safe has a “Dragbar,” which you can use to complete forms by dragging and dropping icons over the form - for example, passwords, usernames, design tiles, and emails.
Autotype: With Password Safe, when you click on a web page or login box, the autotype feature will try to fill in your credentials automatically for you.
Import and export: You can import passwords from text, XML, or CSV fails. You can also export passwords in text, XML, and the PSAFE format.
Password generator: Generate secure passwords by using the algorithm. You can also define your password rules.

Beyond Trust Password Safe Benefits

Controls third-party access: Password Safe secures the connection and automatically checks privileged credentials. The solution records all sessions.
Uses context to determine access: Password Safe considers risk factors like location, day, or time of access and uses them to adjust the permissions and privileges of each user.
Manages access for privileged and non-privileged accounts: By integrating with SailPoint IdentityIQ, Password Safe effectively manages user access for privileged as well as non-privileged accounts.
Reduces cloud risk: Password Safe simplifies secure storage and session management. It supports major cloud providers such as Azure, Amazon, Google, Rackspace, and GoGrid. It also supports social networks - Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
Integrates password and privilege management: Integrates with Endpoint Privilege Management to control the resources users can access and the actions they are allowed to take

Reviews from Real Users

A PAM Architect at a tech services company says, "BeyondTrust Password Safe's features that I have found most valuable are really those that are knitted in. That is their Smart Rules and Smart Groups, where you design your administration model so you create your AD groups and your asset groups, and configure Password Safe."

An I.S. Architect at a insurance company mentions that "Session recording, password rotation, and password vaulting are the most valuable features."

"One of the most valuable features is that this is a product designed with enterprises in mind," adds a Cybersecurity Architect at a tech vendor.

Sample Customers

Starbucks, Ebay, CSC, RBC, Williams-Sonoma, Carbonite

Aera Energy LLC, Care New England, James Madison University

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