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AppViewX CERT+ vs IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management comparison

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Categories and Ranking

AppViewX CERT+
Ranking in Certificate Management Software
4th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM HashiCorp Security Life...
Ranking in Certificate Management Software
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), Secrets Management Tools (7th)
 

Featured Reviews

MS
Sr. Consutant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Automation has transformed certificate lifecycle tasks and saves significant operational time
Recently, every customer must have seen that AWS has added their feature or support for public CA signed certificates, allowing you to use AWS signed certificates for your applications hosted on the internet. Earlier that support was not there, and when we compare the cost of the AWS provided certificates with other vendors, they are very much cheaper, almost 20% to 25% of the costs of others. Many customers have started moving to AWS provided public certificates. However, I do not see that AppViewX CERT+ currently supports AWS public CA for certificate integration and automation, which is something they can add. I believe their engineering team is already working on it, and I am still waiting for their update.
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"AppViewX CERT+ has positively impacted our organization by helping us significantly with certificate expirations."
"The biggest difference in my work due to AppViewX CERT+ is the seamless discovery process, along with the dashboard that is built on the Kubernetes platform, supporting various certificate management features in one product."
"AppViewX CERT+ has positively impacted our organization by helping us to remediate many audits in a better manner."
"I would advise others looking into using AppViewX CERT+ to use it because it is a more user-friendly tool, and you can easily manage your certificates as well as deploy and renew them."
"AppViewX CERT+ is one of the great tools based on my usage over the last three years, and it is going to definitely increase your team's operational efficiency, and you should consider this product for evaluation."
"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."
"CI/CD integration is the most valuable feature for my team because it helps me manage sensitive credentials securely throughout the deployment process."
"IBM HashiCorp Security Lifecycle Management has been useful in my main use case."
"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."
"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."
 

Cons

"Another improvement area is the integration with automation, specifically simplifying the ACME services they offer to work without an agent."
"Currently we are having a couple of issues with the solution and those resolutions are being very slow, so that could be improved."
"However, I do not see that AppViewX CERT+ currently supports AWS public CA for certificate integration and automation, which is something they can add."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Insurance Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Wholesaler/Distributor
8%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise4
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AppViewX CERT+?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is good; it is not much, and not less. It is pretty deserving pricing and cost, and licensing is also good.
What needs improvement with AppViewX CERT+?
AppViewX CERT+ is almost good, and the support is also good. From my side, no improvement is required. I have nothing to add about the needed improvements; even small things that could make my expe...
What is your primary use case for AppViewX CERT+?
My main use case for AppViewX CERT+ involves issuing new certificates and managing the internal servers to manage those certificates. We are creating the CSR and all those things. A specific exampl...
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.
 

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