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What do you like best about HashiCorp Vault?

Secret as a Service (Dynamic secrets) and flexibility.

Good integration with multiple authentication provider. Good varities on Dynamic secrets and can be used with Encryption as a Service.

The installation and configuration is very easy. We can up and running a cluster in 1 day.

The rolling update is easy and we can quickly add more cluster nodes if needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Vault?

Vault integration with project is leak.

We have one side the Vault agent, and other side the Consul template or envconsul. For example, envconsul didn't work with Vault agent auto-auth token.

It's hard sometime to use Vault because projects don't want (or haven't budget for) to develop Vault code lines integration.

The Vault UI is very basic. Some actions can't be done with the UI. Add more UI features for administration facilities.

Dynamic secrets is great but some time legacy application couldn't not use it. Should be great to have static secret with specific hook trigger to rotate password. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering HashiCorp Vault:

The most complicated part to start with Vault is to make all roles for any entity and to do the policies matching. In big companies, it's can be hard and take a lot of time. Starting with "Who will do What" is cost saving. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HashiCorp Vault solving and how is that benefiting you?

Security needs in Cloud environment.

Projects migration from intranet to cloud to solve security issue with very sensitive data.

One tool for any environment (multi-cloud, intranet, etc).

Vault is used to add security in cloud like intranet and having control to encryption keys. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

HashiCorp Vault Overview

What is HashiCorp Vault?

HashiCorp Vault tightly controls access to secrets and encryption keys by authenticating against trusted sources of identity such as Active Directory, LDAP, Kubernetes, CloudFoundry, and cloud platforms. Vault enables fine grained authorization of which users and applications are permitted access to secrets and keys. Some of Vault's main use cases include: - Secrets Management - Identity Brokering - Data Encryption

HashiCorp Vault Details
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Product Description

HashiCorp Vault is a tool that secure user applications and infrastructure to limit the surface area and attack time in the event of a breach


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Seller
Hashicorp
Year Founded
2012
HQ Location
San Francisco, CA
Twitter
@hashicorp
97,547 Twitter followers
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2,465 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
NASDAQ: HCP
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At HashiCorp, we believe infrastructure enables innovation, and we are helping organizations to operate that infrastructure in the cloud. Our suite of multi-cloud infrastructure automation products — all with open source projects at their core — underpin the most important applications for the largest enterprises in the world. As part of the once-in-a-generation shift to the cloud, organizations of all sizes, from well-known brands to ambitious start-ups, rely on our solutions to provision, secure, connect, and run their business-critical applications so they can deliver essential services, communications tools, and entertainment platforms worldwide.


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Ambuj P.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
3.5 out of 5
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The vault setup process is quite easy. The backend engines are very useful for integrating authentication and authorization of existing services li...
Riddhesh S.
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4.5 out of 5
"Safe, secure and Trustworthy"
We have used Hashicorp Vault forever now and we have had no issues with it in terms of security of our data. The documentations also make it very e...
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4.0 out of 5
"Nice idea and execution but the interface isn't quite up to snuff."
It can really be useful for getting hard coded passwords out of circulation. It's well thought out in terms of security and execution of the conc...
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HashiCorp Vault Media

HashiCorp Vault Demo - Writing_Secret_Vault.png
Example of writing a secret to Vault. Secrets are always encrypted and written to backend storage. To learn more: https://learn.hashicorp.com/vault/getting-started/first-secret
HashiCorp Vault Demo - Vault_Secret_Engines_UI.png
Secrets menu to manage integrated secrets engines. Secrets Engines are components which store, generate, or encrypt data and are enabled at a path in Vault. To learn more: https://www.hashicorp.com/resources/vault-oss-ui-introduction
HashiCorp Vault Demo - HCP Vault dashboard
HCP Vault provides all of the power and security of Vault, without the complexity and overhead of managing it yourself. To learn more: https://cloud.hashicorp.com/products/vault
HashiCorp Vault Demo - Vault identity group
Vault identity has support for groups. A group can contain multiple entities as its members. A group can also have subgroups. To learn more: https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/concepts/identity
HashiCorp Vault Demo - Vault Usage Metrics UI
View entity client and non-entity client counts.
HashiCorp Vault Demo - Vault Multi-Factor Authentication
MFA is built on top of the Identity system of Vault. To learn more: https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/auth/login-mfa
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HashiCorp Vault Pros and Cons

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Neil S.
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What do you like best about HashiCorp Vault?

The community and the overall functionality it provides, are easy to integrate with LDAP and OIDC, and it supports almost all the top secret management providers like AWS KMS and Google KMS. Its open-source nature of it enables other developers to create tools for Vault which is fantastic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Vault?

Some of the documentation is very poor, especially when I was trying to integrate Keycloak I cannot find a good documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HashiCorp Vault solving and how is that benefiting you?

The secret sprawl in the companies, storing it in base64 cannot provide security hence Vault solves this by providing encryption and tons of other features like its seal/unseal method. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Riddhesh S.
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What do you like best about HashiCorp Vault?

We have used Hashicorp Vault forever now and we have had no issues with it in terms of security of our data. The documentations also make it very easy to use.

Its integration with terraform and other tech is pretty straightforward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Vault?

Nothing off the top of my head. Its actually the best given its competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HashiCorp Vault solving and how is that benefiting you?

HashiCorp Vault helps us save all our important passwords without the hassle of losing them to hackers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Daniel S.
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What do you like best about HashiCorp Vault?

One of the things I appreciate about HashiCorp Vault is its versatility. It supports a wide range of authentication methods, including tokens, user-pass, and LDAP, allowing us to choose the method that best suits our needs. The platform also supports dynamic secrets generation, making it easier to manage secrets at scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Vault?

While HashiCorp Vault is a robust and reliable solution for managing secrets, some users may find it challenging to set up and configure, particularly for more complex use cases. Additionally, some users may find the pricing model to be a bit expensive, especially for smaller teams or organizations with limited budgets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HashiCorp Vault solving and how is that benefiting you?

HashiCorp Vault solves the business problem of securely storing, managing, and distributing sensitive data and secrets such as API keys, passwords, and certificates across distributed systems and applications in production environments. By offering end-to-end encryption, access controls, and a user-friendly interface, Vault helps businesses keep their secrets safe and secure from unauthorized access and breaches. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sabir P.
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What do you like best about HashiCorp Vault?

Vault provides amazing central place to keep secrets securely and manage the key values easily throgh beautiful user interface. The APIs are also easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Vault?

It takes time to learn the Vault so there is high learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HashiCorp Vault solving and how is that benefiting you?

It stores secret in the Vault securely and easy to manage them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ambuj P.
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What do you like best about HashiCorp Vault?

The vault setup process is quite easy. The backend engines are very useful for integrating authentication and authorization of existing services like Kubernetes. The path based secret storage is great where RBAC can be integrated for better security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Vault?

The usage of vault can be bit complex to understand for beginners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HashiCorp Vault solving and how is that benefiting you?

The secret storing with different application teams having isolated paths. Role based access control to restrict access to specific teams according to the team role and secrets required. Versioning of secrets is a feature very frequently used for rotation of secrets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about HashiCorp Vault?

Capability of encrypting files and handling loads is commendable. The ability to create sections tailored for document types is good. Its flexibility is incredibly valuable.HashiCorp Vault stands as a powerful tool for securing sensitive information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Vault?

The initial setup and configuration process is complex and time consuming for organizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HashiCorp Vault solving and how is that benefiting you?

HashiCorp Vault is storing and managing sensitive information solving this problem. Its strong encryption mechanisms and access control features ensure data protection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about HashiCorp Vault?

it integrates with so many services, key being GitHub Action for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Vault?

Identifying tokens can be a bit of a hassle, and requires mulitple API calls to properly delete a key from a user-friendly identifier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HashiCorp Vault solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sharing secrets across multiple services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ardhiya C.
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What do you like best about HashiCorp Vault?

We can store our third-party software passwords and retrieve them easily. We can also give vault access to users to recover certificates and passwords through PAT tokens from GHE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Vault?

As of now, nothing. We can satisfy the basic necessity of retrieving passwords for our nexus repository. Most of the team members use it for that purpose alone so no concerns have been raised. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HashiCorp Vault solving and how is that benefiting you?

We can store important passwords for our repository and codes for our proxy setup within our project. Since we work in a bank account, the passwords need to be protected, and the codes need to be stored safely. We can also grant access through PAT token, so anyone accessing will automatically be authorized as they are part of GHE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sahil G.
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What do you like best about HashiCorp Vault?

Hashicorp vault is a great tool to store and manage secrets like passwords, private keys, certificates, etc.. in a secure environment, and it also rotates the keys to manage the secret lifecycle plus Hashicorp vault also comes in community edition and Hashicorp vault community is very active to provide various custom solution to fulfill various use-cases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Vault?

Hashicorp vault is not very useful for code and binary signing, especially in CI/CD environment and we can not integrate Hashicorp vault CI/CD tools to perform digital signatures without sharing the keys Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HashiCorp Vault solving and how is that benefiting you?

Hashicorp vault helps to securely store of all the secrets in a central place with secure authentication and authorization service, and three API helps to fulfill various use cases plus Hashicorp vault support integration with various other tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about HashiCorp Vault?

HashiCorp Vault is a secret store needed for enterprises to store secrets like passwords, oAuth tokens, metadata, etc. The beauty here is data stored and transmitted are hashed/encrypted.

It has both CLI(Command Line Interface) and User Graphical Interface. And also can retrieve secrets via Rest call as API.

Option to classify store based on namespace a parent and child namespace. This may help to have HashiCorp env for different environment (like QA/UAT/PT & Production)

The tokens are generated once and are presented for successive secret store/retrieval. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Vault?

I don't see an issue with the product. But to have a Graphical User Interface, it costs more and is not included in the basic product package cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HashiCorp Vault solving and how is that benefiting you?

Vulnerability- As everyone knows, there are high cyberattacks on enterprises. This tool will help to reduce the risk of secrets getting stolen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.