# IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) Reviews **Vendor:** HashiCorp **Category:** [Secrets Management Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/secrets-management-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 47 ## About IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) IBM Vault (formerly 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 ## IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **robust security features** of IBM Vault, enhancing their security posture with ease of use and integrations. (3 reviews) - Users find IBM Vault to be **extremely user-friendly** , enhancing their security and integration capabilities effortlessly. (2 reviews) - Users enjoy the **easy integrations** in IBM Vault, enhancing security and allowing seamless connectivity with internal applications. (2 reviews) - Users value the **native integrations** offered by IBM Vault, enhancing security and supporting custom application needs. (2 reviews) - Users find the **vault setup process easy** , enhancing security while seamlessly integrating with existing services like Kubernetes. (2 reviews) - Authentication (1 reviews) - Users value the **exceptional customer support** from IBM Vault, praising the knowledgeable and helpful account team. (1 reviews) - Users find IBM Vault's **easy management** and strong support team enhance their overall experience and efficiency. (1 reviews) - Easy Setup (1 reviews) - Intuitive (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **complexity of IBM Vault** challenging, especially for those who are new to the system. (1 reviews) - Users find the **complex usage** of IBM Vault challenging, especially for those new to the system. (1 reviews) - Users find IBM Vault to be **expensive** when trying to access its full range of enterprise features. (1 reviews) - Users find the **learning curve steep** , making it challenging for beginners to grasp IBM Vault's functionalities. (1 reviews) - Users find the **learning difficulty** of IBM Vault challenging, especially for those new to the system. (1 reviews) - Navigation Issues (1 reviews) - Poor Interface Design (1 reviews) - Poor Navigation (1 reviews) - Poor Search Functionality (1 reviews) - Poor UI (1 reviews) ## IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) Reviews ### 1. Effortless Integration and Security—A Developer Favorite **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jacob R. | PKI Security Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2025 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Super easy to use, developers here love it. There are so many native integrations and capabilities that improve our security posture, and it also allows for custom integrations with our internal applications which only further the use cases. Vault is also not hard to manage, the platform is simple and makes sense. Their product team as well as our account team are very knowledgeable and helpful. They have been the best of any vendor I've worked with. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** I have no issues with Vault. It is a bit expensive if you want to fully unlock all the capabilities as an enterprise. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** HashiCorp Vault is our primary secrets manager within our enterprise. We have over 1000 users which access Vault for a variety of purposes, some of those are secret retrieval and injection in K8s, PKI certificate management with internal PKI provider, SSH key management and many more. ### 2. Great for TSA-Compliant Secrets, but Complex to Architect at Scale **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2026 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Great for TSA-compliant secrets and passwords. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** It’s very complex to architect, and there’s a limited knowledge pool available when it comes to more extensive deployments. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** TSA compliance. ### 3. Complex yet essential for saas based companies **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Neil S. | DevOps Engineer, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly 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. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Some of the documentation is very poor, especially when I was trying to integrate Keycloak I cannot find a good documentation. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly 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. ### 4. Safe, secure and Trustworthy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Riddhesh S. | Software Engineer II, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly 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. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Nothing off the top of my head. Its actually the best given its competitors. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly 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. ### 5. It's a versatile, and secure solution for managing secrets in production **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel S. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly 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. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly 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. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly 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. ### 6. Great for securing sensitive information **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sabir P. | DevOps Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly 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. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** It takes time to learn the Vault so there is high learning curve. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It stores secret in the Vault securely and easy to manage them. ### 7. Hashicorp Vault Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ambuj P. | Associate Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly 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. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** The usage of vault can be bit complex to understand for beginners. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly 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. ### 8. Improves security protocols **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Timothy C. | Manager, Automotive, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 09, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly 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. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** The initial setup and configuration process is complex and time consuming for organizations. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly 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. ### 9. Does what it needs to in the best way possible **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** it integrates with so many services, key being GitHub Action for me. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly 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. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sharing secrets across multiple services. ### 10. Useful software to store our third party software passwords **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ardhiya C. | Technology Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly 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. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly 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. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly 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. ### 11. Hashicorp vault for secret storage **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sahil G. | QA Cybersecurity Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly 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 **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly 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 **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly 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 ### 12. Excepted Secret store **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly 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. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly 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. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly 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. ### 13. Nice idea and execution but the interface isn't quite up to snuff. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 28, 2022 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** 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 concept. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** The interface is horrible. Different buttons for functions show up incosistently. If you have a large list you either have to scroll all the way to the top or bottom. Buttons are not in both areas. This badly needs a search function for entries. It quickly turns chaotic once it's used widely and not being able to see where a particular entry is used is very difficult to determine. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault):** It works very well and is a comprehensive product. That also means it's complicated. Like any other complicated software, the more you try to do with it, the more you need to plan use. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's geting the passwords out of emails, chats and documents. ### 14. Vault A Game Changer In Secret Management **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chaminda M. | Cloud Platforms Engineer , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2020 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Simple installation in a single binary. Adapt tokanization concept in whole process of the product. Support IaC approach to deploy the whole product and service. Robust plugin architecture enable integrate with other solutions too. In build integration of most famous cloud make vault a perfect match to manage cloud as well as onprems . On other hand vault work on standard set of API which can manipulate easily without any dependency. This will make the product highly customization and put change management on a automated workflow. Hashicorp do a nice job by making the vault OSS version and free of charge learning materials with ongoing community developments. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Inconsistency of command and it is parameters make us confuse. They should have a standard on this. The documentation is there but not up to date. Most of the configuration example are missing. It is not cut and clear how we integrate the vault in day to day work for immature user. Hashicorp should think about this and improve the lack of up to date documentation. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault):** Your first impression will make think you it is a simple tool. But it's UI just tip of the iceberg. Explore more in API and CLI, think more in automation & secure manner to see the correct picture **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Securing the identity, access levels, manage rotatable secrets in devops workflow and implement encryption too in a single trusted authority. The dynamic secrets in the vault is a top graded feature in terms of securing sensitive data in SCM and logs. The automated token rotation is very helpful. Vault solve very common and critical problems like encryption, data masking, token validation and least privileges in one place without any additional tolls. ### 15. Nice freemium, overpriced premium **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roy A. | Application Secuirty Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Hashicorp Vault is pretty easy to use, have a large community online for help and support, and the integration with Consul is flawless. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** The premium features require the premium plan of course, but the pricing is very high for the value IMO. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storing secrets such as passwords, API keys, etc, and providing those easily through an API or the CLI ### 16. Really powerful and good tool to use for your microservices architecture **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** The set of the toolbox that the vault provides allows you to implement multiple requirements of security that a cloud-native architecture requires. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** An audit trail is not intuitive and could be better implemented and user-friendly since this is a tool for security. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Manage kubernetes and other company tool secrets to automate the process of updating and auditing secrets. ### 17. Vault : Key Management for Everyone **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Secrets management and ease of use on cloud-native architectures. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Initial setup and configuration on Kubernetes architecture can be complicated and time-consuming. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** The implementation of Vault can solve keys and secrets management issues in the Kubernetes environment. ### 18. Information security **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fernando F. | Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** * Protect passwords * Confidential data * Data box * Run **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** * Encrypt files * Certificate * Add password **Recommendations to others considering IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault):** Protect data and unauthorized access **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Protect data and password to the system ### 19. Very rich functionality, but has some issue with a really big scale **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2020 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Rich set of options to control access (policies, groups), rich set of authorizations for users (e.g. oidc, leap) and for apps (kubernetes, approle). Versioned KV storage for secrets. Dynamic passwords for databases and etc. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Open Source version does not have replication of any kind. Premium version has replication and disaster recovery, but replication sometimes has issues under big load. Even in Premium version, you can find bugs. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault):** Follow the guidelines provided by HashiCorp. IF you have a premium version - don't hesitate to ask for a review of your setup. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centralized secrets storage for the whole organization. Integration with cloud, on-prem, and kubernetes. Dynamic passwords management for databases. ### 20. Hashicorp Vault **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vinayak S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2020 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** It has both cli and rest endpoints to manage secrets at one place. Along with secret management it provides other features like audit for secret access **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Documentation is not up to mark, some more improvement in documentation can lower the entry barrier for users **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** To generate and manage our single sign in tokens for applications ### 21. My experience so far with HashiCorp's Vault software/platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kevin B. | Systems Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Personally and Professionally.. So, far i think the best thing i like about the Vault product is secure secret storage for API Keys and dynamic secrets. Also, the sheer fact that we can also utilize this as our CA aka Certificate Authority is huge and extremely awesome! Besides that, we're enabling Docker/Kubernetes access via Vault, and this is a huge breakthrough for us as an organization that is redefining a lot of things in our industry, especially in IoT. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** I don't really dislike anything. However, if i had to specify one specific thing, i would have to say large data encryption. But, due to my limited knowledge i can't truly say it's a dislike. It's just taken some work with my minimal knowledge to get applications setup properly to encrypt all their data types and then storing it in specific locations. Please do not take this "Dislike" the wrong way though. This product works great in many scenarios and i have no regrets thus far either way. It's not a dislike per say, just a learning curve for some of the typical use cases.. but is still coming along just fine for us overall. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault):** Do your research but i highly recommend you AT LEAST evaluate HashiCorp Vault. Read up on it, do an implementation and at least one integration with something you already utilize in the cloud or on-prem and the product will start to speak for it self.. Honest to god truth! **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're solving a lot of problems.. secure storage of every type of secret you can imagine, from API keys, to encryption, to ssl certificates, and more. Dynamic secrets that the vault software generates on the fly is terrific! We can have on-premise applications access S3 style storage objects within Amazon Cloud (AWS) and within our own CEPH cluster. We also accomplish SQL Database access for various compliance reasons now with Dynamic Secrets that HashiCorp Vault gives us the ability to do, better than any other software i have utilized to date. Docker Access Rights. Centralized managed. Automated certificate generations, and still, i could go on and on (literally)! This software package overall is allowing us to accomplish so many things with one single point of management overall; i.e. PKI aka Public Key Infrastructure in across the board for our infrastructure and users (especially our development teams). ### 22. Good experience but some keys features missing **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly 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. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly 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. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Vault (formerly 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. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly 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. ### 23. Swiss army knife for handling security in DevOps **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Different method of authentication! Many engines with unique capabilities. Good integration with other Hashicorp products. Compatible with all the modern tools. Cloud friendly! It is easy to test features by just running the dev server on your local machine. Vault uses resources very efficiently so it does not require large servers. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Implementing Vault properly in an organization is a bit challenging since the tool can do many things in many different ways and you should make sure you setup your workflows properly to be able to scale easily. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault):** Make sure you put sometime to layout paths, naming conventions , policies before you going to production with Vault. Make sure you check in all the configuration in VSC and use tools like Terraform to run them. Vault is a very powerful tool! Start using it if you have not already! **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Secret management, PKI as a Service, Consul ACL token lifecycle management, Nomad ACL token lifecycle management, ### 24. Best in class Product - but disappointed with the service **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shivam S. | Head of Research and Development, Computer & Network Security, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** I like the product and its working. It's quite easy to setup and start using effortlessly. There are very good enough documentations and tutorials on the internet to use vault precisely to meet your requirements. And it has almost all of the functionality you can expect from a secrets management product. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** I am very satisfied with the product. But I am not sure about the service. I wanted a demo and quotation of their product - So I did fill up the form for getting started with vault enterprise. I did not receive any sort of communication email from them - regarding the product or the demo. After I filled up the form - It did say that a demo will be provided. Still waiting for the same. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault):** HashiCorp Vault is a very good product. Only I am not sure about the support and communication - If it's only me being ignored or it's same for most of us. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed a password management product to use in our company. As we are using AWS and other products which require proper secrets management - It did fulfil all our requirements. And features like leasing & renewal, dynamic secrets, revocation are extremely useful(which we did not think of earlier). ### 25. Using Vault to secure Terraform code **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ricardo T. | System Admin, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Vault is lightweight and easily installable. The possibility of high availability. Terraform integration with own resources. Simple Web UI API driven access/manage, could integrate with other software. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** The high learning curve. Maybe the lack of an officicial Ansible Module (not only a Lookup Plugin) **Recommendations to others considering IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault):** Test Vault in Dev mode (in a Docker instance for example) and switch into production using it for every secret you have in code. Vault must your new front door, now. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vault has solved the problem of sharing passwords and AWS credentials. Now the code of Terraform could be safe in the Git repository. A vault it's easily up with Ansible. ### 26. Versatile database protector **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Several basic functionalities that I found the best in it is its ability to create useful folders for my ease that helps me to find my particular document within just seconds. Moreover, the search bar of the software helps in finding the data and even the content present in it which is quite delightful and easy-going. Furthermore, it helps me to maintain a large amount of data at one single place with a full secure system. Password maintaining ability of this particular application is the best because it enables me to safely secure my passwords at one single location without a need of remembering them. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** The product has different useful features that are effective to maintain a large amount of load into a specific way. Moreover, creating useful sections for particular type of document is the best feature in it. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault):** I would really prefer this software on others because it helps me in an efficient way that keeps my data fully secure and safe at one certain place. Moreover, the affordability of the product is so much enhanced that it could be affordable by every type of organization regardless of their resources and size as well. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** HashiCorp is data security software that keeps my data fully safe and secure from all the outside threats. Moreover, it helps me securely saving data with a facility of tightly control access to tokens, certificates, passwords and encryption keys that is effective enough to keep data safe and secure at specific platforms. Apart from this it has various features that helps in central management and also these functions are enough capable of enforcing access to secrets and systems that are based on trusted control applications. ### 27. great for secrets mangement **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nathan R. | System Administrator, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Central place to store and manage secrets. consistent and reliable. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Steep learning curve, but it's very usable once you get it up and running. Just tackle one small piece at a time. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault):** Make use of Hashicorp's learing docs as well as any user group you can find for Vault **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** automating and securing our internal certificate process. also storing secrets in vault instead of in metadata. ### 28. An all encompassing solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fernando B. | Lead Solutions Architect, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Vault is super flexible, and helps you implement from simple secrets management to dynamic credentials and a series of other operations with data encryption. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Flexibility sometimes comes at the cost of complexity, implementing and managing Vault is not for the faint of heart. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault):** A steep learning curve shouldnt deter you from using this. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Secure access to secrets for kubernetes workloads, dynamic credentials. Once the initial setup is done, its easy for users to input secrets and make use of dynamic credentials in their apps. ### 29. amazing products **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eric M. | Senior System Engineer, Banking, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** we use vault for security it really responde to our needs. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** I would like to have an ocsp function for this **Recommendations to others considering IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault):** first all this about roles, policies and make tests to be sure about what tokens can do. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** générate certficates and store secret are very slow before, now it is possible in less then 10 secondes. ### 30. Vault - Highly Secure KV Store **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** - I can trust that vault will keep my data secure with minimal management overhead from my team - Simple Interface to review my key values - Simple to use API's **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Longer ramp up period for teams across the organization to use. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault):** Read all of the documentation! It is extremely helpful in getting started and training your employees to effectively implement Vault **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Secure KV store for database credentials with Dynamic rotation ### 31. Compared against CyberArk for CI/CD Secrets **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Security and Investigations | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Integration with Terraform was seamless. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Web UI was lacking, and featureset for user secret management would be great to add. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault):** Great product, with a few user features still to come to compete with the likes of CyberArk and Secret Server. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We would like to leverage the dynamic secret function, with a focus on just in time authentication and short-lived access keys. ### 32. A good solution for secret management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Vault provides a number of methods for manage and securing information ranging from certificates to ssh keys and passwords, provides HA capabilities and an easy to use web ui **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Some of the back end management is difficult to script. Certificates are stored via token making it hard to audit with out some work **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Password management, key rotation, dev facing ca server ### 33. Extremely solid solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** High availability even in the free version (with consul backend) **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** The deployment in enterprise environment is not the smoothest, but it works fine anyway. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving the problem of having credentials stored in git. ### 34. Vault **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Great for secret storage and access control of users/team with policies **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Docs and real-life scenarios are not quite the same. The google page with QA is more helpful **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Secret storage Access control ### 35. Vault - highly secure tool to store and retrieve sensitive data (secrets/passwords) **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** - Highly reliable authentication mechanism - It offers a seamless access to store & retrieve sensitive data - The APIs to read & write secrets in vault are quite useful **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** - Deploying this tool could be difficult for a newbie - Functionality of Randomize token / password generation should also be provided **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vault, the name itself is self explanatory, a great tool to store secrets. This tool is used to store and retrieve sensitive data in my company & one can easily rely on the authentication mechanism provided by the tool. ### 36. Hashicrop vault **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sajal S. | Office Worker, Internet, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** This simplicity. Whether it's the HTTP API you use to write/read secrets, their amazing CLI toolEase of installation and use. The process was a simple download and works with brew install. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** I would like to have a more portable light-weight solution for using on nodes.Manually unseal when all the vault servers are sealedDifficult to setup to work with a production/staging environment out of the box. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Secure storage of secret of the product platform.easy to implement middleware in our existing app and microservices ### 37. Data Encrypted Protection for Data and Passwords **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** I like that I can trust my data is kept secure and not at risk of being hacked. I trust the company that it's working. It's easy to use interface also helps and makes this a worthwhile product **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** I dislike the fact that I need to use a service like this, but thats not on the company at all. I'm glad there are companies out there that help with problems like this **Recommendations to others considering IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault):** Keep on keeping our stuff secure **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ensure accounts are secure, passwords are private and our clients data can't be accessed by anyone with our credentials ### 38. Great secure tool to store and retrieve sensitive data **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marcel G. | CEO & Co-Founder, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** - A highly reliable authentication mechanism - Easy to use Apis and clients - Great for GDPR compliance - Supported and maintained by an official company **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Nothing, it's a greqat product that is free to use **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're using Vault to improve our security and stay GDPR compliant ### 39. Decent **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rae L. | Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** It was helping in creating a site where people could access thing very easily and work together **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** It was little hard to get used to at first **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped us have better security and grow as a company ### 40. Very safe to use **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** It keeps our sensitive date and credentials out of our repositories **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** It's not the cheapest option in the market **Recommendations to others considering IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault):** Git it a try! I'm sure it won't let you down **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** I want to keep our sensitive data and credentials out of repositories. HashiCorp Vault helps to accomplish that by keeping these sensitive data in a vault and injecting them as environment variables ### 41. I've started work with the Vault Key Management System and found that this is the best solution. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2017 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Vault is perhaps the most commonly heard name in secret storage for infrastructure these days. I like: 1)Multi-factor authentication 2)BYOK 3)various secrets type support 4)resilience as design **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** I compared Vault Key Management System with Torus. And yes, we can use Vault Key Management or Torus for connectors authentication tokens. But it leads us to create reliable and resilience the Key Management System. It was approved and we have already created a task for a Vault Key Management investigation. Currently, there is an explosion of tools that aim to manage secrets. For the first glance, Torus has a poor functionality in support of multi-factor authentication (and so on). **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Access to production cloud instances API tokens distribution for external integrations ### 42. More secure than AWS KMS but also more complex **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Secure. Plenty of available clients for it. Works well in a non-monolithic architecture. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Fairly complex when compared to something like AWS KMS. Requires a bit of setup. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storing secrets and credentials in a secure manner for distributed architecture. ### 43. Excellent Vaulting for the Cloud **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** I like the flexibility and the use of this vaulting solution for password management in our cloud-native environment. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** I don't really have any dislikes that are immediately obvious. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** See above ### 44. Hashicorp Vault for secret management **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Features like encryption/decryption, sealing, auditing etc **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Manually unseal when all the vault servers are sealed **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Secret Management System ### 45. Difficult to setup for production the first time, but incredibly useful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Makes storing sensitive data for applications a breeze when setup properly. Multiple storage backends and authentication modules is incredibly valuable. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Difficult to setup to work with a production/staging environment out of the box. Documentation does not support versioning, so new updates immediately impact the documentation. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** - insurance compliance - easy to implement middleware in our existing app and microservices - looking forward to implementing auto-provisioning of approle tokens in the future ### 46. Hashicorp's Vault solution is solid **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2017 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Ease of installation and use. The process was a simple download and works with brew install. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** I would like to have a more portable light-weight solution for using on nodes. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault):** Start using right away. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Secure storage of secrets for the product platform. ### 47. Brilliant secret management **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Toby A. | Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2016 **What do you like best about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** This simplicity. Whether it's the HTTP API you use to write/read secrets, their amazing CLI tool, or one of the many packages for many programming languages - the simplicity is immense. **What do you dislike about IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault)?** Vault tokens are rather manual - However this is a lot better than other authentication I've seen. **What problems is IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Distributed secret management ## IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) Discussions - [How do you implement HashiCorp vault?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-you-implement-hashicorp-vault) - [How much does HashiCorp vault cost?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-much-does-hashicorp-vault-cost) - [How does HashiCorp vault work?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-does-hashicorp-vault-work) - [What is the use of HashiCorp vault?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-use-of-hashicorp-vault) - [View IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-vault-formerly-hashicorp-vault/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-14+03%3A48%3A21+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=76b94b6a-1e0c-4160-bb0b-8b85b8ccc414&secure%5Btoken%5D=2c12c1670550092e3b716dc747e34191a333a4d33e4283c79658a608a49f645b&format=llm_user) ## IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) Integrations - [VMware vSphere](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-vsphere/reviews) ## IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) Features **Administration** - Supported Databases - Data Management - Logging and Reporting - API / integrations **Prevention** - Intrusion Prevention - Firewall - Encryption - Security hardening - Cloud Data Protection **Functionality** - Durability - Envelope Encryption - Automation **Functionality** - Audit trail - Cental dashboard - Universal approach **Usability & Access** - Quick Login - Browser Extension - Mobile App Usability - Multi-Device Use - Admin Management **Encryption** - Email Encryption - Messaging Encryption - File Transfer Encryption - Data Encryption - Document Encryption - Full-Disk Encryption **Compliance** - Access Management - At-Risk Analysis - DLP Configuration - Sensitive Data Compliance **Governance** - Compliance - Access Management - Multi-Factor Authentication **Detection** - Intrusion Detection - Security Monitoring - Anti-Malware / Malware Detection **Availability** - API/Integrations - Service Integration - Regional Support - Scalability **Security Measures** - Password Generator - Two-Factor Authentication - Security Audits **Compliance** - Authentication - Policy Enforcement - Access Management **Administration** - Database Management - Deduplication - Backup - API / integrations **Protection** - Database Activity Monitoring - Firewall - Data Masking - Audits **Administration** - Compliance - Administration Console - - API / integrations **Administration** - Auditing - Compliance - Management Console **Storage** - Digital Wallet - File Storage **Management** - Backup - Recovery - File Management - Anomaly Detection **Security ** - Multi-Factor Authentication - Data Transport - Data Types - Security Tools ## Top IBM Vault (formerly HashiCorp Vault) Alternatives - [Keeper Password Manager](https://www.g2.com/products/keeper-password-manager/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (1,188 reviews) - [1Password](https://www.g2.com/products/1password/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (1,779 reviews) - [Akeyless Identity Security Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/akeyless-identity-security-platform/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (86 reviews)