Delinea Secret Server Reviews

My clients, who are mostly North American clients like SpartanNash and CFI, use Delinea Secret Server for maintaining privileged passwords for their service accounts. Delinea also includes privileged session monitoring and keystroke logging, which is similar to CyberArk.

People are moving towards Delinea Secret Server to store their passwords due to its cheaper cost compared to CyberArk. It provides session monitoring and keystroke logging, which help in maintaining security.

Delinea Secret Server offers features similar to CyberArk and BeyondTrust, such as maintaining and securing privileged passwords and session monitoring. The cost-effectiveness of the solution is a significant benefit.

Delinea Secret Server can improve in areas like statistics and notifications, and risk scoring, especially for highly privileged accounts where financial transactions occur. Additionally, complex management features similar to BeyondTrust's PMUL for Unix and Linux might be an area for improvement.

I have been working with Delinea Secret Server for more than two years.

Delinea Secret Server is very stable. I would rate it a ten out of ten for stability.

I rate the scalability of Delinea Secret Server at 9.7 out of ten. It's suitable for large enterprises that understand the importance of privileged access management.

While Delinea technical support is quite good, I am giving them a 9.7 instead of a ten due to the time it takes for processes to complete.

I have worked with CyberArk and BeyondTrust before. CyberArk remains my preferred solution due to its functionality.

The initial setup process for Delinea Secret Server is straightforward and not complex.

Delinea Secret Server is medium-priced. I would rate it at 60%, or three out of five.

CyberArk and BeyondTrust are the main competitors for Delinea Secret Server.

I would recommend Delinea Secret Server to other users. I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

On-premises

We use the solution to store the password for critical server applications.

Our customer wanted a tool which can fulfill their requirements on a low budget. Delinea Secret Server is a cost-effective solution.

When Delinea upgrades the tool, it rejects our password, saying that it is not compliant and strong. Earlier, we used ten-character passwords which were strong and compliant. It is very difficult to change the password.

If we use a service account, most people are unsure where we use those accounts. If we reset the password to make it compliant, we are not sure what the impact will be. Either it should sync with the application automatically, or it has to inform us so that we can easily track and make it compliant with a strong password. This is the only feature that needs to be improved.

We use a mobile authenticator. Whenever we reset the account of a user who lost his password, it asks for a recovery code or key. When we generate it for the first time, it provides the recovery key. We have to save that key to reset it. If we do not save it, the end user cannot automatically change it.

He has to raise a ticket for the administrator, and the administrator has to reset it from the console side. It has to be made simple so that the end user can easily change his recovery key.

I have been using Delinea Secret Server for the last three months.

I rate the solution’s stability a nine out of ten.

Delinea Secret Server is mainly suitable for medium and large companies.

I rate the solution’s scalability a nine out of ten.

The solution's initial setup is very simple. Recently, I upgraded the tool from 11.2 to 11.7. It's very simple to configure and upgrade the solution.

I would recommend the solution to other users because it is easy, and the console is very comfortable.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

Hybrid Cloud

It provides holistic Secret management for PAM solutions. We can have control over our network secrets and be sure that access to your critical servers isn't gained haphazardly by anyone on your network. It also helps with compliance with security standards for privileged devices. It offers a safer, more secure environment for reporting and implementation of secrets. When it comes to managing critical servers and sandboxes, like Ascentia access, you can easily manage them and put proper identity governance across all of them. This applies to both internal and external users, including third-party vendors.

It's a good, very good, superb even product, but the challenge for me with Delinea is that I may not be able to pitch it to an account with a low budget for PAM. Delinea is a good technical solution, but those with experience, especially in Thycotic, will find it easy to use Delinea.

I've known Delinea for about two or three years now. I've had personal interactions with stakeholders in the organization, both at the sales and technical levels.

It is a stable solution.

It is a scalable solution.

I'm familiar with three main PAM solutions: Delinea, BeyondTrust, and WALLIX. I had the opportunity to work with them last year. However, the issue with Delinea is the cost. It's quite expensive compared to the others. And that's all. So, the pricing could be improved.

It's not difficult to set up. It should be able to be done within two days without any issues. It's a very large enterprise solution, so the exact setup time will depend on the company and the environment where it's being installed. But it shouldn't take more than two to three days at most.

Delinea has a good technical team that can handle deployment and maintenance. They also have well-trained partners who can do it. So deployment and maintenance are not an issue at all.

It's very expensive. In the Nigerian market, the adoption of Delinea depends largely on an organization's budget. If they have the financial capacity, they might consider Delinea as a viable option.

Delinea Secret Server is a top-notch solution. The only reason some organizations don't go for it is because of the cost. It's priced in dollars, and with the foreign exchange rate in Nigeria, it becomes very expensive. If an organization sees a solution that works just as well at a lower cost, they'll likely go with the more affordable option.

The licensing costs are on a yearly basis.

Delinea is good, and I would recommend it to financial organizations or those in similar industries. It really depends on their budget. If they have a larger budget, then Delinea is worth considering. Moreover, I would suggest that you just need to be familiar with the solution. It's a bit technical, so you need to know your way around it. If you're familiar with it, it'll be easier for them to integrate it. It's a very good solution, especially for the financial industry, but if you're not familiar with it, you might find it difficult. That's just my take on it. Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten.

Hybrid Cloud

We use the solution to control privileged accounts in our organization. We use it to discover and track privileged account usage and to ensure accountability. For example, we can use Delinea Secret Server to see who registers accounts and when.

The valuable features are remote password changing, session recording, and integrations with other tools. Delinea Secret Server is fine and easy to use, especially compared to other solutions.

There's room for improvement regarding user interface and new functionality.

I have been using Delinea Secret Server since 2017. We are using the latest version of the solution.

I haven’t had any issues with stability.

I rate the solution’s stability a nine out of ten.

The solution scales both vertically and horizontally well. We have a couple of hundred users using the solution.

I rate the solution’s scalability an eight out of ten.

The initial setup is super easy. It takes a couple of hours to deploy the solution completely.
I rate the initial setup a nine out of ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy.

I rate the product’s pricing a six out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.

Delinea Secret Server is a stable product with quick deployment. It delivers value when it's on. I would recommend it for PAM.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

On-premises

We primarily use the solution for privileged access management. 

Delinea Secret Server is like a vault for the users to store their device passwords and is also used for auditing sessions monitoring password production, et cetera.

The most valuable feature is the subscription on offer.

We like the policies that can be put in place. The password duration backup part and even the pipeline are useful. 

The solution offers useful APIs as well. 

We find the initial setup to be simple. 

It's scalable. 

The stability is great. 

The pricing is good.

Support is helpful.

Account discovery and asset discovery is easier in Delinea than in other solutions.

Occasionally, the proxy does not work so well. For example, when the custom client application is integrated with a Teams solution.

The server integration needs improvement. 

We find the documentation hard to understand. 

Support can sometimes be slow. 

I've been working with the solution for the last two years. 

The solution is stable. It's reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

The solution would work well for medium to large organizations. The solution can scale. 

While support is good, sometimes the documentation, especially for newer features, is not. That can be a challenge. 

The support team can sometimes take a while to solve issues. While they do tend to solve problems, it does take time. 

Positive

We previously used BeyondTrust and WALLIX.

I found the licensing simpler with Delinea. BeyondTrust, for example, required the purchase of different licenses. WALLIX similarly needed more complex licensing. 

It is pretty easy to set up the product. It's been straightforward, according to my experience. 

I can deploy the solution in eight hours. However, it takes five to six days for the full implementation. 

In terms of maintenance, if the team is good, it can be handled in-house. We have three people working on the solution currently.

I handled the implementation myself. However, it depends on the organization's policy. If there's a team in place that understands the solution, it can be done internally. Otherwise, it should be handled by a vendor, for example. 

While I cannot speak to the exact pricing, it is a bit cheaper than other options. 

I'd rate the affordability a five out of five. 

We are the partner of Delinea. We are a reseller, and we have deployed for six clients already in Bangladesh there are many more POC contacts in the works for different customers.

I am working with the latest update of the solution. 

I'd recommend the solution. I'd rate it eight out of ten.

On-premises

In my company, Delinea Secret Server was primarily used for accessing websites with credentials that were shared among the team.

Guaranteeing that the passwords were kept up to date and not known to the users increased the security around the solution and the infrastructure.

The ease of granting access to a secret without having to share the actual password and the password rotation were the main features I found effective for password management.

Cybersecurity is constantly evolving, so there will be features needed in the future. There is space to use AI in several aspects of the solution, however, I can't pinpoint which ones.

I was using Delinea Secret Server for six years.

The stability of the solution was good.

For small companies, the complexity of the solution may be heavy. I would recommend it for medium to large companies due to its complexity versus the rewards.

The technical support by Delinea was good.

Positive

The initial setup was fairly straightforward and easy to deploy.

I did not take part in the deployment, so I can't provide details on the implementation team.

The pricing was fair, and maintenance or support was included in the subscription.

I was also looking into Keeper to compare features and see how they differ.

I would recommend Delinea Secret Server to medium to large companies, however, for smaller ones, there are likely easier solutions to use.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

On-premises

We use Delinea Secret Server as a PAM solution. It helps us to check, rotate, and store passwords. 

We implemented the product for our privileged identities. We have configured them in check-in/check-out rotation. Delinea Secret Server rotates the password each time a privileged identity is checked in, making the password valid only for some time. 

The tool's most valuable feature is robust audit logging. 

Delinea Secret Server needs to improve its reporting. 

I have been working with the product for three years. 

I rate Delinea Secret Server's stability a nine out of ten. 

I rate the tool's scalability a seven out of ten. 

I have had limited exposure to CyberArk. 

We can see ROI when we use the product to its full capacity. 

The tool's pricing is expensive. 

Delinea Secret Server is superior to CyberArk. I rate it an eight out of ten. 

I need to look at using their tool's true multi-tenancy capability to cater to multiple customers within a single platform architecture without compromising security. Information security is key, and an MSP model's objective is to have a privileged access management solution.

Secret Server is called a secret server for a reason. You can create multiple secret servers underneath the parent for every secret server. Every "parent" will be considered as one customer, secret server #1, secret server #2, etc. Under every secret server, you can create multiple secret servers. Those secrets will belong to customers A, B, and C, respectively. If I want to access a customer's Windows environment under a secret server, I will create a secret group called "Windows." This group will be onboarded with customer A's Windows environments within their secret server. We have a logically separated environment as an MSP model.

The privileged access management module is the most reliable feature, along with the password manager.

The integration with the ticketing system ServiceNow is complex. That can be enabled with an API-based out-of-the-box consumption. We have customized it, and the features cannot be used without customization. Ideally, there should be a direct mapping between our ticketing system to Delinea instead of having to do custom development.

I have been working with Delinea Secret Server for almost a year, and I'm the platform's chief architect, responsible for leveraging Delinea for a managed service provider model.

Every update goes through rigorous testing and gets updated into SaaS periodically, and they are also patching in the backend without even impacting the services. I rate the solution's stability a ten out of ten. We have not seen any downtime so far.

We have not seen any scalability issues so far because they are managing a 30 or 15-K environment within a single instance of Secret Server, so it is horizontally and vertically auto-scalable based on the volume you're bringing in. Since it is Saas, we don't worry about the infra. I rate the solution's scalability a nine out of ten.

Though I consume SaaS with platinum support, the support is not too great. By the time they resolve an issue or get into details on what to resolve, I might have resolved the issue already.

Neutral

The initial setup is seamless. I have not seen any environments or services like ServiceNow, for example, get impacted. Delinea is one of these services where you can spin up the environment within five to three minutes, and your environment is ready for consumption.

After enablement, your environment is ready for consumption in five minutes, but we have to onboard, customize, and use cases, so deploying the solution takes at least two weeks. We have integrated Delinea Secret Server with Azure AD on the MFA authentication front and Delinea with ServiceNow. All these customizations took very long. It will take two to three weeks to complete with a dedicated effort.

Delinea has a distributed engine deployed on the customer's premises, communicating securely over a CTP protocol. Every customer communication will be enabled to secret servers through this distributed engine or a remote access solution engine. Without this deployed on the customer's premises, access to the customer enrollment will not work seamlessly, or it might not be available.

We expect the solution API-based, but even if it's API-based, it will go through custom scripts.

A key highlight is that Delinea is nothing but Thycotic and Centrify combined as a ready-to-market adoption. Delinea is ISO 2700 and CSA Star certified.

If you want a ready-to-market adoption with security and compliance in place, you are good to go with Delinea. And any customization for ticketing integration needs a detailed working session with a professional servicer. I rate Delinea Secret Server a nine out of ten.

Public Cloud

We use Delinea Secret Server for pharmacy equipment management. We use a secret vault. We use it as a temporary hold, and we use it for password rotation.

I like that you can change the password remotely.

It would be better if they had a Linux version of the secret server.

I have been using Delinea Secret Server for about a year.

Delinea Secret Server is a stable solution.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give stability a nine.

Delinea Secret Server is very scalable. We have about 20 users using this solution.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give scalability an eight.

The initial setup is straightforward. It took us about a day to deploy this solution.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give the initial setup an eight.

We implemented this solution. You need a team of three professionals to deploy this solution. Two people can maintain this solution.

We have seen a return on investment.

I would give the price a four on a scale from one to ten, with one being the cheapest and ten being the most expensive. We pay for the license on a yearly basis, and we paid for three years. It costs around 5000 a year.

I would tell potential users to keep customization flexible using the power shell. This is a good one.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give Delinea Secret Server a nine.

Hybrid Cloud

The primary use case for Delinea Secret Server is to sort the privileged passwords. It can also change passwords after a set period or revoke passwords when someone leaves the company. Delinea needs to be on-premises because Turkish regulations do not allow cloud-based security solutions for some sectors. 

Delinea's network integration is the most useful. For example, I use a Check Point firewall connect to SmartConsole, so I need to do a lot of configuration in Delinea Secret Server. Native integration with Check Point is valuable. You can also go download whatever API you need from the cloud, whether you're using Check Point, Palo Alto, etc.  Enriched discovery is another good feature. If you are dealing with several kinds of systems, you can see which system requires privileged access to my network.

I formerly used only one service: the remote server. For example, I connected to the Active Directory user and the computer's console. But now, I need to do a remote connection to the domain controller. Maybe it only connects to that tool, the Active Directory users, and the computer management console, but not to the domain controller. Another thing Delinea could add is multi-factor authentication.

I've been using Delinea Secret Server for five years.

Delinea is highly stable.

It's incredibly easy to scale up Delinea. You can install a new vendor server and deploy the Delinea Secret Server application if you have performance issues. We have 120 admin users and around 5,000 privileged passwords stored in the vault on the Secret Server.

I rate Delinea support 10 out of 10. It's good, but I don't need it often. Sometimes I need help with configuration. If you need a custom configuration, you can pay for professional services, but it's expensive.

I've also used CyberArk. CyberArk has more features, but they are minor. Some customers may need them, but others don't. The main difference is pricing. CyberArk is more expensive. 

A Delinea license costs about a dollar per admin, whereas it's $5 for CyberArk.

The installation is pretty basic, and it doesn't require advanced knowledge. It takes a day to install and configure CyberArk, but Delinea is done in an hour. But you need an escrow database. I requested a cluster system from the customer site.

After deployment, the solution doesn't require much maintenance because the Delinea is stable. I sometimes have a connection problem due to configuration, but I never have an issue with the database. You don't need to spend much time on maintenance or have a lot of technical knowledge.

We deployed Delinea in-house. 

I would rate Delinea 10 out of 10 for affordability.

I rate Delinea Secret Server 10 out of 10. If your customer uses a privileged access solution, they need to sort all the passwords. They should do a session recording and change the password, then do workflow delegation. Delinea can do it all, so I strongly recommend it.