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HashiCorp Vault pros and cons

Vendor: HashiCorp

4.2 out of 5

27 reviews
92% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

HashiCorp Vault is platform agnostic and open source, offering significant advantages for security lifecycle management and compliance. It automates secrets management, enhancing security governance. While its encryption management is a strong feature, users note the complexity in setup and insufficient documentation. Challenges include reaching technical support and needing HSM for PCI compliance. Improved integrations and examples are required to better assist users in diverse cloud environments.

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PROS

HashiCorp Vault is platform agnostic, making it valuable for customers using various cloud infrastructures.

HashiCorp Vault is open source, cloud agnostic, easy to maintain, and provides encryption management.

HashiCorp Vault provides significant advantages in security lifecycle management and compliance.

HashiCorp Vault reduces workload by automating the rotation and management of secrets.

HashiCorp Vault improves security governance, reducing risk and enhancing organizational security.

CONS

Clients needing PCI compliance still require an HSM solution subscription with HashiCorp Vault.

The documentation is too general and lacking in examples and use cases.

Technical support is difficult to reach and lacks in service quality.

Integrations require more comprehensive documentation and support.

Initial setup and installation process of HashiCorp Vault is complex and challenging.

HashiCorp Vault Pros review quotes

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Sylvain Déjardin

TechOps Engineer - Middleware & Containers specialist at EBRC -European Business Reliance Centre

Sep 25, 2019

It is an added value for our customers to have a Secrets Management workflow available that is PaaS/CaaS/KaaS Platform agnostic.

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SN

Cloud Solutions Architect

Mar 30, 2020

This solution is easy to use and to integrate.

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RamanaBhavaraju

Founder & Principal Architect at NCompas Business Solutions Inc.

Mar 16, 2021

It can still be configured by a separate team other than developers. That's why I think it's more secure.

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MK

Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jul 23, 2021

The interface is very simple to navigate.

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Ruwan Senarathne

Technical Lead at Fortude.co

Dec 14, 2021

The solution is stable. It has been working perfectly without any problem.

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MA

Lead DevOps Engineer at Etisalat

Dec 16, 2021

The most valuable feature of HashiCorp Vault is that it's an open source solution. Second, it's cloud agnostic, so it's very easy to maintain and control, which is why we prefer HashiCorp.

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reviewer1591359

Project Manager at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

Mar 30, 2022

We were using it because we have compliance requirements around secret management. Having a secure vault and encrypting data was an additional requirement. When we looked at it first, we were just looking for a vault, like a lockbox. The greatest benefit of HashiCorp is its ability to manage encryption on the fly. It provides encryption of data at rest, in use, in transit, on the fly, and linked with applications, which was really attractive.

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reviewer1566825

Senior Manager Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

May 23, 2023

It is user-friendly and easy to implement from any application point.

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DevOps Technical Lead at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

May 25, 2023

The most valuable feature of HashiCorp Vault is the management of tickets in the pipeline.

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Vice President - Global Head of Privilege Access Management, Data Services and Certification at Barclays Capital

Jun 6, 2023

We use the solution for secret management.

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HashiCorp Vault Cons review quotes

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Sylvain Déjardin

TechOps Engineer - Middleware & Containers specialist at EBRC -European Business Reliance Centre

Sep 25, 2019

A drawback for some clients who have to be PCI compliant is that they still need to use and subscribe to an HSM (Hardware Security Module) solution.

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SN

Cloud Solutions Architect

Mar 30, 2020

The documentation is very general; it should have more examples and more use cases.

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RamanaBhavaraju

Founder & Principal Architect at NCompas Business Solutions Inc.

Mar 16, 2021

We could use more documentation, primarily to do with integrations.

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MK

Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jul 23, 2021

The technical support was hard to get a hold of and lacking in service.

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Ruwan Senarathne

Technical Lead at Fortude.co

Dec 14, 2021

The solution could be much easier to implement.

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MA

Lead DevOps Engineer at Etisalat

Dec 16, 2021

I don't think there are any major improvements required—so far, so good. However, I think that having more training materials, such as videos, and documentation available would be helpful. I would prefer to have more videos available either on the official site or on YouTube.

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reviewer1591359

Project Manager at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

Mar 30, 2022

In terms of features, the only thing that I found a little bit hinky was that there was no revocation or deletion on the model we were using. Once in a financial year, a client interacts, and you pay for that client for the year. So, there are just little things like that in the pricing. There should be more clarity around the end of the key. I know there is no system like this. They all are the same. I tested Microsoft, Google, and some others, and none of them really want you to delete a key, which makes sense. You delete a key, and you lose everything that it has wrapped or encrypted, but it's actually just a language. Deletion isn't really deletion. It's really revocation, but overall, HashiCorp Vault ticked all the boxes for us, and I couldn't fault it.

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reviewer1566825

Senior Manager Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

May 23, 2023

The solution's initial setup process is complicated.

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DevOps Technical Lead at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

May 25, 2023

It would be helpful to have more advanced features.

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Vice President - Global Head of Privilege Access Management, Data Services and Certification at Barclays Capital

Jun 6, 2023

The product needs to improve its customization. It should be also more like easy to plug and play.

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