CyberArk vs HashiCorp Vault
Because Security Comes First
Eliminate hardcoded secrets, break down secret vault silos, and transparently secure your machine identities with an identity security SaaS platform that scales with you.
More than 50% of the Fortune 500 trust CyberArk, the Identity Security Company® to protect their human and machine identities.
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Identity Security: More than Secrets Vaults
The last thing Security needs is more vaults, especially shadow vaults managed by other teams. This brings too many cooks to the kitchen, with inconsistent security policies and standards.
CyberArk brings a security-first focus, with out-of-the-box policies, immutable audit logging and attribute-based authentication. In contrast, HashiCorp solutions prioritize operational efficiency over security best practices: for example, HashiCorp dynamic secrets can be extended indefinitely, and its session recording storage is configured outside the platform.
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Enterprise-scale Performance and Reliability
Security your developers will love.
Developers can continue to use native workflows and cloud secret stores to access secrets. Out-of-the-box support and integrations include AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, GCP Secrets Manager, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins & many more across our C3 Technical Alliance.
CyberArk solutions are equipped to handle large-scale enterprise deployments with resilience via automatic failover and failback mechanisms, along with high performance Read-Only (RO) secrets replication. These functions are critical for modern environments, yet they are not currently available in HashiCorp architecture.
“CyberArk helps us secure and manage human and non-human identities in a unified solution.
We secure 50,000 human privileged identities, isolate and monitor more than 25,000 sessions per month…vault and rotate tens of thousands of credentials used by applications…including 40+ million API secrets calls a month.”
– Santosh Prusty, Senior Leader, Enterprise Security Team, Cisco
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How Accenture is Solving Vault Sprawl with CyberArk
CyberArk offers a unified platform that centrally secures enterprise credentials and privileged access, enforcing least privilege and eliminating standing privileges for developers, IT admins, and the broader workforce—all while integrating seamlessly with native user workflows.
Unlike HashiCorp, which lacks an integrated console experience and offers limited Privileged Access Management, CyberArk leverages insights from over 8,500 global customers to help you build a robust security strategy for all identities.
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Adopting a new secrets management solution should be smooth and worry-free. CyberArk offers a straightforward migration process from your existing vault solutions. We will work with you to ensure minimal disruption to your operations.
Potential insights include:
The last rotation date for each secret.
Flagging unused or stale passwords.
Potential risks associated with these secrets.
*HashiCorp, Boundary, Terraform and HashiCorp Vault are trademarks of HashiCorp, Inc. CyberArk is not affiliated with HashiCorp, Inc.
