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Delinea Secret Server

Delinea Secret Server
Formerly Thycotic Secret Server

Overview

What is Delinea Secret Server?

Secret Server (originally from Thycotic, now from Delinea since the 2021 Thycotic merger with Centrify) is an enterprise password management application, which is available with either a cloud-based or on-premise deployment which emphasizes fast deployment, scalability, and simplicity.

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Great PAM for Enterprise solutions

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 1, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
It allows us to have a password repository, as well as give out access to the password repository on a role based scenario. We are able to give different business units differ...
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Engineer
Delinea Secret Server1 year of experience

Enterprise level access management.

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 25, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use it to store secrets (passwords) for websites and applications. Secrets for production access can also be checked out in approved time windows, meaning you can schedule ...
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Christopher Sawyer
Analyst - Information Technology
Programmer Analyst
TCDRS
Delinea Secret Server1 year of experience

Rotate with Thychotoc

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 15, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Thychotic Secret Server for privilege access management. All our admin and service accounts are managed through the software. We engage in password rotation, automated ...
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Verified user
Team Lead
Delinea Secret Server2 years of experience

Keeping Secure with Secret Server

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 19, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Secret Server not only as a place to store passwords but also as a tool to rotate our passwords on a consistent basis on multiple platforms. We also use it as a "jump h...
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Cody Plassmeyer
Administrator - Information Technology
IT Network Specialist
Central Electric Power Cooperative
Delinea Secret Server4 years of experience

Secret Server: more than a password manager.

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 12, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Serves as a password vault and rotates credentials on schedule. It helps solve problems with managing and remembering where your service accounts are running.
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Verified user
Administrator
Delinea Secret Server1 year of experience

Secret Server

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 30, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Our IT department utilizes Secret Server to store our passwords for our privileged accounts. There are several departments we currently support the use of Secret Server for.
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Engineer
Delinea Secret Server2 years of experience

Secret Server is the secret everyone needs to know about

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 12, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We currently use Secret Server within the IT department only. It keeps track of all of our shared passwords— systems, websites, support sites—in one centrally located, secure ...
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Robert Paul
Technician - Information Technology
Technical Administrator
New Hampshire Retirement System
Delinea Secret Server5 years of experience

Enterprise grade password solution... with a few shortcomings.

Rating: 5 out of 10
January 4, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Secret Server enterprise-wide as the source for all password administration. It generally (but not always) generates our passwords, so as to maintain password complexit...
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Verified user
Employee
Delinea Secret Server8 years of experience

Thycotic Secret Server

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 19, 2018
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
As a distributor, we are using the SecretServer for our demo environment. We are able to share all our logins to websites or servers. In this way, the whole team can use them ...
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Marian Schulenkorf
Consultant - Engineering
Technical Consultant
ALSO Deutschland GmbH
Delinea Secret Server1 year of experience
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Engineer in Information Technology
Insurance Company, 201-500 employees
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Product Details

What is Delinea Secret Server?

Secret Server is a Privileged Account Management (PAM) solution available both on premise and in the cloud. It empowers security and IT ops teams to secure and manage all types of privileged accounts.

The software gives security and IT ops teams the agility to secure and manage all types of privileges, protecting administrator, service, application, and root accounts from cyber attack. Store privileged credentials in an encrypted, centralized vault.

The vendor states that unlike traditional, complex PAM solutions, Secret Server works the way users work, starting with a rapid deployment and giving users direct control to customize as they grow.

Secret Server aims to enable organizations to:

Improve Security Posture: Protecting privileged accounts helps businesses tighten their attack surface and build resilience against other causes of disruption

Minimize Complexity & Maintain Productivity - Secret Server is presented as fast to deploy and easy to use, unburdening IT teams.

Experience Enterprise-Class Performance - According to the vendor, Delinea secures privileged accounts for more than 10,000 organizations worldwide, including Fortune 500 enterprises and is deployed on the largest networks in the world.

Delinea Secret Server Features

  • Supported: Secure Vault and Password Manager with AD Integration
  • Supported: Discover Local and Active Directory Privileged Accounts
  • Supported: Automatic Password Changing for Network Accounts
  • Supported: Enhanced Auditing & Reporting
  • Supported: Service Account and Dependency Management

Delinea Secret Server Competitors

Delinea Secret Server Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Mobile Web

Frequently Asked Questions

Secret Server (originally from Thycotic, now from Delinea since the 2021 Thycotic merger with Centrify) is an enterprise password management application, which is available with either a cloud-based or on-premise deployment which emphasizes fast deployment, scalability, and simplicity.

BeyondTrust Password Safe, Delinea Server PAM, and CyberArk Privileged Access Management are common alternatives for Delinea Secret Server.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 6.

The most common users of Delinea Secret Server are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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Great PAM for Enterprise solutions

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
May 01, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Delinea Secret Server
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It allows us to have a password repository, as well as give out access to the password repository on a role based scenario. We are able to give different business units different accessed based on the type of password and what the password is used for. It also gives us the ability for those different business units to create their own passwords without having to put in a ticket for access.
Pros and Cons
  • ease if use
  • secure
  • compartmentalized
Likelihood to Recommend
I think scenarios where it would be appropriate is where if there are many different units or teams that need the ability to store their passwords for different applications or service accounts as well as the ability to create their own without having to go to a certain team and open a ticket to do so. Where it's less appropriate is probably a smaller shop without many passwords to keep track of

Enterprise level access management.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
February 25, 2022
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use it to store secrets (passwords) for websites and applications. Secrets for production access can also be checked out in approved time windows, meaning you can schedule the access ahead of time. This is a great way to manage and approve this type of privileged access. Secrets can be individual or shared within a team.
Pros and Cons
  • Store and access secrets (passwords) securely.
  • Manage access to secrets and servers.
  • Autofill secrets via browser plugin.
Likelihood to Recommend
Great for managing access to secrets and servers and is more secure than storing passwords in a browser. The browser plugin to autofill passwords works well. Being able to schedule access ahead of time is a big plus for me as I can be forgetful. If you want a lightweight password vault, however, it may not be the best choice.

Rotate with Thychotoc

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
February 15, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Delinea Secret Server
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Thychotic Secret Server for privilege access management. All our admin and service accounts are managed through the software. We engage in password rotation, automated login through Thychotic interface into servers and other privileges environments. It enables us to be able to maintain secure access across our various environments which include production, development, staging, tests, etc. without having to engage in cumbersome password and access management.
Pros and Cons
  • Password Rotation
  • Ability to check in and check out credentials
  • Automated logins directly from Thychotic into the protected resource
Likelihood to Recommend
Thycotic Secret Service is especially well suited for password management through password rotation. This makes it easy to implement complex password management policies by defining regular rotations. The ability to have Thychotic log a user directly into the protected resource without having to know the password makes it well suited in our environment. This ensures that our passwords are complex without having to keep remembering them.

Keeping Secure with Secret Server

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
July 19, 2021
CP
Cody Plassmeyer
IT Network Specialist
Central Electric Power Cooperative (Utilities, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Delinea Secret Server
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Secret Server not only as a place to store passwords but also as a tool to rotate our passwords on a consistent basis on multiple platforms. We also use it as a "jump host" via RDP and SSH. Mainly our IT department uses it, but we also have other departments using it as well. Hopefully, in the future, Secret Server will allow you to use HTTPS as one of its proxies.
Pros and Cons
  • Centralized password repository
  • Ability to rotate passwords
Likelihood to Recommend
Using Secret Server as a centralized password repository is a must in today's world where every password needs to be different. Being able to have passwords rotated is another must as passwords should be frequently changed. If they could improve their mobile app, that would be fantastic!

Secret Server: more than a password manager.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
March 12, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Delinea Secret Server
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Serves as a password vault and rotates credentials on schedule. It helps solve problems with managing and remembering where your service accounts are running.
Pros and Cons
  • Works well with RBAC, workflow for access requests, and approvals for third parties.
  • Allows monitoring and recording of remote sessions.
  • Available for on-premise and cloud.
Likelihood to Recommend
Appropriate when trying to manage many services with high-level privileges across many machines. Not really a tool to just save your passwords like LastPass or Pleasant Password Server. Useful when you require auditing of user access.

Secret Server

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
January 30, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Delinea Secret Server
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Our IT department utilizes Secret Server to store our passwords for our privileged accounts. There are several departments we currently support the use of Secret Server for.
Pros and Cons
  • Role-Based access. Users only have access to the secrets they need within their department based on their role.
  • Secret Server authenticates with Active Directory for easy connectivity.
Likelihood to Recommend
Secret Server is a great tool for privileged access management. Not only can you securely store passwords, but users can access their servers within this solution without ever having to view or enter the password.

Secret Server is the secret everyone needs to know about

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
June 12, 2019
RP
Robert Paul
Technical Administrator
New Hampshire Retirement System (Government Administration, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Delinea Secret Server
5 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We currently use Secret Server within the IT department only. It keeps track of all of our shared passwords— systems, websites, support sites—in one centrally located, secure place. The department used to use a shared desktop application that was hard to keep up to date, and frequently resulted in passwords being recorded elsewhere unofficially, and as less secure.
Pros and Cons
  • Password Management: Its entire purpose, really. Secret Server stores passwords in an incredibly easy to use way. They can be organized in groups, they contain all the information about the site or system the password is used for (including URLs for websites), and even a notes field. You can set up specific policies for expirations and complexity, and Secret Server can even generate strong passwords for you. Using a password is simple, too, since you can just click a button to add it to your clipboard; you don't even have to unmask the password.
  • Security: The passwords are stored encrypted in a SQL database, and the application requires an authenticated login. This could be local, but we tie it into Active Directory. Each folder of passwords has groups assigned (in our case, again, AD, but you can make them local groups) with different permission levels, so we can compartmentalize passwords. Desktop technicians don't have access to network switch passwords, etc.
  • Easy Setup: It took me about an hour to get the server running, from spinning up the VM to importing our old password list. It took a little longer to organize the passwords into proper folders, and then assigning groups, but it was easy to do.
  • Personal Passwords: Each user also gets a personal folder, where they can keep their own, unshared passwords. This is nice for sites or systems with individualized logins (e.g., a firewall, VPN, etc.)
  • Favorites: Secret Server lets you tag passwords as "favorites" so you can easily find ones you use constantly. The search feature is nice, but this is nicer.
Likelihood to Recommend
Secret Server is really a great solution for any business that needs more than one person to have access to passwords for various devices, systems, and websites. Even an organization with only one person who would need access, if that person was no longer around, a simple change in Active Directory could assign those permissions to their successor. Candidly, the only scenario I can think of where a business might not want Secret Server would be a sole-proprietorship that was unconcerned with succession or security in general. The free version has no cost beyond using a server, and it's pretty low overhead.

Enterprise grade password solution... with a few shortcomings.

Rating: 5 out of 10
Incentivized
January 04, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Delinea Secret Server
8 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Secret Server enterprise-wide as the source for all password administration. It generally (but not always) generates our passwords, so as to maintain password complexity. We use it to securely share passwords between administrators and users. On a personal level, I use it for my personal passwords as well. It keeps them secure, albeit on our corporate hardware.
Pros and Cons
  • Recommends complex passwords.
  • Interfaces with our Identity Management software to already know users. No extra passwords needed.
  • Ability to track additional information such as system, resource and even notes on a password.
Likelihood to Recommend
I actually really like that we have Secret Server. It is WAAAAY better than anything else we've used. I do feel like in today's age, there should be a better interface, mobile app, etc. I just don't see that with Secret Server. If it exists, we are not using it. In a smaller company, this interface would probably work out ok. If you have hundreds or thousands of users, the sharing feature will leave something to be desired.

Thycotic Secret Server

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
February 19, 2018
MS
Marian Schulenkorf
Technical Consultant
ALSO Deutschland GmbH (Telecommunications, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Delinea Secret Server
1 year of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
As a distributor, we are using the SecretServer for our demo environment. We are able to share all our logins to websites or servers. In this way, the whole team can use them and work with the product.
Pros and Cons
  • Quick and easy installation.
  • All features for PAM in one product.
  • Modern and intuitive UI.
  • Functions can be extended by license.
Likelihood to Recommend
You can easily grant access to external consultants and record every session. High security solution for your most important password. Helps to optimize and automate the password change process.
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