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CyberArk Privileged Access Manager vs StrongDM comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 21, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Customer Service

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

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
6.7
Enhancements sought include user-friendliness, integration, automation, reporting, customization, API support, cost efficiency, deployment, documentation, and updates.
No sentiment score available
It would be beneficial to have better control and alignment between frequent updates and improved communication regarding possible negative effects on existing customer bases.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.1
CyberArk Privileged Access Manager offers seamless and flexible scalability for organizations, though licensing challenges may occur.
No sentiment score available
I believe it can scale both vertically and horizontally if needed.
 

Setup Cost

Sentiment score
5.0
CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is costly but offers high value and comprehensive security, with subscription models benefiting larger installations.
No sentiment score available
It was mentioned that while the product is rapidly gaining features, it might become cost-prohibitive for wider usage.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is stable, with occasional bugs, but upgrades and redundancy features improve reliability and performance.
No sentiment score available
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.5
CyberArk Privileged Access Manager enhances security with automatic password rotation, session monitoring, and supports large-scale, compliant deployments.
No sentiment score available
StrongDM facilitated secure access to these, helped with managing access securely via AWS Secrets Manager, and ensured no passwords were circulated within systems or documentation.
 

Categories and Ranking

CyberArk Privileged Access ...
Ranking in Privileged Access Management (PAM)
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
193
Ranking in other categories
User Activity Monitoring (1st), Enterprise Password Managers (2nd), Mainframe Security (3rd), Operational Technology (OT) Security (3rd)
StrongDM
Ranking in Privileged Access Management (PAM)
19th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Access Management (17th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Privileged Access Management (PAM) category, the mindshare of CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is 21.2%, down from 24.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of StrongDM is 0.7%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Privileged Access Management (PAM)
 

Featured Reviews

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.
PG
Easy to integrate, good documentation and automatically picks and provisions new resources based on tagrs
We've had a few issues in the past, but those have all been resolved based on interactions with StrongDM and the addition of some new features to the product. For example, the egress routing functionality solved a fair amount of our problems. So, I don't think there are any outstanding issues that we're aware of or have complained about. I would rate the stability a nine out of ten. The only reason it's not a ten is that there's some automated patching that happens in the background. This was years ago, but we had some issues where that were causing us problems, and we had no way of scheduling it at different times.
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Top Industries

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

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

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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.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for StrongDM?
The licensing is per user per month. It's pretty close to the same or in line with all of the other pricing for tools that do similar things.
What needs improvement with StrongDM?
We started to use it as a client-side or split tunnel VPN. We are unable to overwrite the endpoints and direct traffic that way, but that's a technical limitation, and I understand why it's there.
What is your primary use case for StrongDM?
We use it for zero-trust privileged access.
 

Also Known As

CyberArk Privileged Access Security, CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault
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