AppViewX CERT+ vs. IBM Vault

Improve visibility for all certificates on your network, allows for automation on certificate lifecycle, improve security and enforcement policy on certificate generation. Great role base access for users to controls the access and the certificates. Improves the visibility for management on certificates, great dashboards and reports for certificates. Self service process for users on certificate creation.

Incentivized

HashiCorp Vault, in my opinion, is a defacto standard for any cloud or automation implementation. They're the best of the best as far as products for secrets management and the ability to use it against relatively any service you have is unheard of for other products. HashiCorp has really taken out all the stops when it comes to creating a nice, extensible tool that people can use to suit their needs.

Incentivized

• Discover digital certificates.
• Monitor digital certificates.
• Renew digital certificates.
• Provision digital certificates
• End to end certificate management solution.

• The HTTP API you use to write and read secrets is open and can be used by any application.
• It keeps our sensitive data/credentials out of our GitLab repositories.
• Sealing and unsealing the Vault on demand adds an additional layer of security.

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• Price
• bugs
• QA for deployments

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• Session Management is terrible to manage
• Monitoring is hard and not enough information
• User management
• Configuration is too complex
• More user friendly UI

HashiCorp Vault is the best there is out there, and it has become critical to our secret management use cases. It would be difficult to find anything that would suit our needs better and that would be beneficial for us to switch over to.

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Helps to shape the Private certificate infrastructure program (PKI). Helpful use cases to implement to manage the certificates lifecycle for every single phase: discovery, renew, enrollment, approval, revocation. Integration with other technologies is feasible and can improve the strategy for companies on the time spent of PKI. The return of investment for this product is really good.

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We spent a little more time than we imagined to conceptually understand how HashiCorp Vault operates, as well as how it is configured. This is not trivial, and keep in mind that you will need to take some time to get a thorough understanding of the tool. The documentation could be more helpful in this regard.

Incentivized

Hashicorp has been very responsive to our questions and inquiries up to this point. We are currently working on them to develop a more granular permissions model within Vault. We are very close to achieving our objectives with the help of their support team. We do not seem to be in the same time zone which makes it hard for escalated issues.

Incentivized

AppViewX CERT+ is the best as their user experience top notch. They have built it on an open sourced platform, which gives a lot of flexibility. Their integration with other providers and CAs are good compared to the competition.

HashiCorp Vault is way better than Azure Key Vault; it has more features and it goes beyond a key-value secret store.

Incentivized

• Huge positive impact on our operations.
• No more certificate related outages.

• Helped us reach our security compliance goals.
• Helped us strengthen our security position in our infrastructure by improving on poor secret management practices.

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