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Delinea Secret ServerFormerly 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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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 Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | Apple 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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February 25, 2022
Enterprise level access management.
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.
- Store and access secrets (passwords) securely.
- Manage access to secrets and servers.
- Autofill secrets via browser plugin.
- Personally I would prefer an app instead of a website.
- Can be too many options. Sometimes I just want to add a secret quickly.
- Can be slow to adopt until you get used to how it works.
February 15, 2022
Rotate with Thychotoc
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.
- Password Rotation
- Ability to check in and check out credentials
- Automated logins directly from Thychotic into the protected resource
- Ease of integration with Identity and Access Management tools
July 19, 2021
Keeping Secure with Secret Server
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.
- Centralized password repository
- Ability to rotate passwords
- The Secret Server mobile app is terrible!
- HTTPS isn't supported as a proxy
March 12, 2020
Secret Server: more than a password manager.
Serves as a password vault and rotates credentials on schedule. It helps solve problems with managing and remembering where your service accounts are running.
- 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.
- Implementation can take some time to get everything running.
- Does not actually find all your service accounts.
January 30, 2020
Secret Server
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.
- 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.
- It can be difficult at times figuring out how to architect a new group within the solution. Often times it takes a couple attempts to get it right.
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.
- 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.
- Granularity in Security Groups: Groups can be assigned per folder, and different groups can have different permissions, but sometimes there are groups of passwords where only some of them should be visible to some users, and there's no good way to organize that. The best way right now is subfolders, which works, but it can clunky if you have a lot of cases like that.
- Direct URL Logins: Secret Server has a feature where, if it works, lets you click the resource link in the list, which should take you to the site directly and log you in. However, in the years I've used this, it has never worked. I always get a weird application redirection error.
- Default Policies: Some of the default expiration/complexity policies are annoying. I recognize that they are trying to meet best practices, but in many cases this is impractical. I end up having to turn off the default policy altogether and do this manually or with my own policy that I can apply later.
January 04, 2019
Enterprise grade password solution... with a few shortcomings.
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.
- 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.
- The sharing functionality NEEDS improvement. We share most passwords at a group level, but then it becomes impossible to share them with a dynamic group and one or two one-off people as well. This is a major shortcoming.
- I don't love the interface. I feel like there is an attempt at a dashboard, but it is really not effective.
- I've heard, but never seen, that the software can actually change passwords in the target systems. If this is part of its deliverable, I do not know how to use it, and I don't know how you would do that. Seems like a great feature for password management.
February 19, 2018
Thycotic Secret Server
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.
- Quick and easy installation.
- All features for PAM in one product.
- Modern and intuitive UI.
- Functions can be extended by license.
- You have to work with it regularly to find the right menu, because of the high functionality.