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IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management vs Idira Secrets Management comparison

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

Categories and Ranking

IBM HashiCorp Security Life...
Ranking in Secrets Management Tools
7th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.5
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) (15th), Certificate Management Software (7th)
Idira Secrets Management
Ranking in Secrets Management Tools
8th
Average Rating
7.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Password Managers (17th)
 

Featured Reviews

Mritunjay-Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Principle Architect at Ford Motor Company
Centralized secrets have cut cutover time to hours and now need smarter AI-driven guidance
I would appreciate some AI intelligence features in IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management for real-time alerting regarding configuration issues or indentations when integrating with cloud-native applications. Having this intelligence integrated with monitoring tools like GCP Monitoring or Grafana would be beneficial. For improvements, I would suggest integrating IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management with popular LLM technologies, whether it's from AWS, GCP, or Azure, while introducing AI and ML for AIOps to enhance preemptive and proactive alerting and monitoring during the application lifecycle or continuous deployment stages. From a user experience perspective, having interactive dashboards that provide application-specific suggestions to improve quality and configurations would be helpful. If IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management could offer auto-suggestions on improving secrets and application configurations through its UI dashboards, it would greatly benefit users. Regarding the accuracy and reliability of outputs from IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management, it has not been consistent, indicating a need for better harnessing of inputs and outputs to optimize AI capabilities.
RJ
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Helps with compliance and improves operational flexibility
We have had both on-premises and SaaS models. The on-premise setup was a little difficult, but now that it has been moved to the SaaS model, everything is controlled by CyberArk. We just go and do our work. The initial on-premises setup took two weeks because it was an integrated effort. I had to spin up the servers and bring in the CyberArk Secrets Management resource to deploy the scripts. I then had to open networks and firewalls between CyberArk Secrets Management's on-premise servers and the application server. In the initial phase, it took two to three weeks, but it became easier when moving to the SaaS model. In terms of maintenance, it requires patching or upgrades, which happens one day in a month. If there is a failure, we have to roll back and try once again, which takes more time, but if everything goes smoothly, there is three to five hours of downtime.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management has been useful in my main use case."
"CI/CD integration is the most valuable feature for my team because it helps me manage sensitive credentials securely throughout the deployment process."
"Externalizing all these application configurations using IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management services greatly aided us, allowing us to manage centralized configuration, thus reducing the environment provisioning time from a couple of days to just a few hours."
"IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management has positively impacted our organization by reducing the amount of sensitive credentials being stored directly in the application code and configuration files."
"My main use case for IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management is service discovery."
"After integration, we onboard all those secrets that need to be managed through CyberArk, and after onboarding, we can configure the frequency for rotation of those secrets."
"One of the most important features for us is the system's performance, particularly its speed of retrieving secrets."
"The automatic rotation of the password is the top feature."
"It's vital for effectively managing and securing my credentials."
"The granular controls of CyberArk Secrets Management are very niche in their development and very secure from the overall secret management perspective, offering high-level functionalities where we have control over user access, which can be tracked and monitored."
"CyberArk's support team is knowledgeable and helpful, consistently responding on time."
"With CyberArk Secrets Management, we were able to resolve the automatic change of the passwords based on timelines. We were also able to retrieve the passwords in an encrypted format by utilizing the CyberArk platform, which was not provided to us by UiPath."
"CyberArk Secrets Management is a critical solution for strengthening our security posture."
"The audit trails have been extremely important for us in helping our organization meet regulatory requirements."
 

Cons

"IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management can be improved in that initial setup and policy configuration can take some time, especially for teams that are new to Vault and its concepts."
"The reason for my eight rating is that there are areas IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management can improve, particularly regarding integration capabilities and customer support."
"Token-based is risky because if somebody is able to grab that token, the token can be misused, which is a point of risk."
"Regarding the accuracy and reliability of outputs from IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management, it has not been consistent, indicating a need for better harnessing of inputs and outputs to optimize AI capabilities."
"One area for improvement for IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management would be a more intuitive dashboard that provides a clear overview of secret usage, access activity, rotation status, and upcoming expirations across all environments."
"There is room for improvement with better documentation and less need for CyberArk Secrets Management personnel to assist us with their presence."
"Improvements for CyberArk Secrets Management include enhanced documentation with more use cases and step-by-step integration guides."
"The password search feature and integration between different vaults could be enhanced. For instance, when updating passwords in both lower and higher environment vaults, improvement is required in search and upgrade functions."
"We did not have a good experience with technical support because their numerous processes caused delays in engaging, leading to project delays or issues with production."
"Implementing it and ensuring seamless password rotations present challenges."
"We occasionally experience incidents that delay password injection back into the script."
"The tool is very good, but the commercialized training, which is paid, could be improved."
"Implementation was complex and required professional services."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It is in the middle. It is neither very cheap nor very expensive, so I would place it in the middle."
"CyberArk Secrets Management has a moderate pricing structure based on a per-tenant licensing model rather than a per-user account model like their PAM solution."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
18%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Insurance Company
7%
Legal Firm
7%
 

Company Size

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Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise4
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Small Business1
Large Enterprise6
 

Questions from the Community

What is your primary use case for IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management?
Our main use case for IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management is centralized secret management for applications and automation workflows. For example, we use it to securely store database crede...
What advice do you have for others considering IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management?
Integrating IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management with our CI/CD pipelines or other automation tools has improved the way my team manages secrets and machine identities by making our CI/CD pr...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management?
The pricing felt reasonable for an enterprise security platform, although the licensing can become significant as usage and the number of workloads grow.
What needs improvement with CyberArk Secrets Management?
The tool is very good, but the commercialized training, which is paid, could be improved. Regularizing those trainings as part of a global alliance between the customer, SI partner, and CyberArk wo...
What is your primary use case for CyberArk Secrets Management?
The main use case for CyberArk Secrets Management is application integrations and the CI and CD part. In CyberArk Secrets Management, there are a variety of tools that they cover, one being the Cre...
 

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