# Keystash Reviews **Vendor:** Keystash **Category:** [Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/certificate-lifecycle-management-clm) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 15 ## About Keystash Keystash is a full Identity Access Management and SSH Key Management in one integrated platform. - Full Linux user account and group management - SSH Key deployment and management - SSH server policy management - SSH server two factor authentication enforcement, user privilege management, full audit log history and so much more. Keystash is geared for businesses who are scaling with it's disruptive pricing model and generous bundles of included user accounts. ## Keystash Reviews ### 1. Easy central SSH key management with MFA for Linux servers. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David E. | IT Manager/Devops/Systems Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Keystash?** I needed a central SSH key management solution with MFA and Keystash was easy to setup and well priced. I have had to use support, as a third party piece of software didn't like the MFA option. Keystash support was excellent and they helped me to find a way to get it to work as I wanted it to. **What do you dislike about Keystash?** Nothing really. SSO with M365 would be nice for me, but not essential. Otherwise, it does exactly what I need it to. Someone below said "Storing the keys online rather than a local database feels rather insecure". Keystash only stores public keys online, not your private key. **What problems is Keystash solving and how is that benefiting you?** I no longer have to manage user access for each server, so I save time. ### 2. The best keystash management tool you find in the market **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Balendu S. | Programmer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Keystash?** The tool is easy and the best solution in these times as not many tools in the market are the least expensive and easy to use. This particular software helps in mitigating that. Easy to install and use and nothing complex in it. **What do you dislike about Keystash?** There aren't enough downsides in using this software as this is newly launched and might be able to gauge the disadvantages in the long run. May be if they can increase the number of hosts per month for a free user and the others a bit more it would be so useful. **What problems is Keystash solving and how is that benefiting you?** Security is one of the key problems solved using this tool and happy with it as it is not complex to understand and easy to apply in the real-life projects and the project team whose team strength is low. Automated the work with the help of these features and it was never been better. ### 3. Very good Cloud SSH key management system for Linux and BSD servers **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maha M. | insurance agent, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Keystash?** Keystash helps facilitate management and increase security by switching to a cloud-based SSH key management system. It ensures compliance and reduces IT workload. **What do you dislike about Keystash?** It happens to lose connectivity to Keystash. We must then copy the SSH keys into the local file system of our server so that users can still connect, whether our server can communicate with Keystash in the cloud or not. It's cumbersome sometimes... **What problems is Keystash solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keystash records all user activities and all changes made to permissions or settings. It is also Multi Cloud and Private Cloud compatible. ### 4. Keystash - New way to secure Linux Platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Piyush K. | Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Keystash?** Keystash is very flexible simultaneously, making our Linux platform secure. Furthermore, it has MFA; we can use passwords whenever we want to switch and add multiple users here. **What do you dislike about Keystash?** It could give options to integrate with the identity management systems like Azure AD, Facebook etc. It is providing support right now only for Linux. It should start for Microsoft as well. **What problems is Keystash solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is solving security issues for all my helpdesk users. We are managing multiple servers for our client. It's not easy to audit server login. This is not only giving a secure login option, but you can monitor through the audit option. ### 5. Centralized Management of SSH Keys **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Han-Tsung L. | Member Of Technical Staff - Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Keystash?** A single point and centralized location to manage all the SSH keys with additional features including two factor authentication and access levels. Additional API access and audit logs that can be used for reviews. **What do you dislike about Keystash?** Storing the keys online rather than a local database feels rather insecure knowing there's potential vulnerabilities associated with external or insider attacks. **What problems is Keystash solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working with multiple VMs and source code repositories as a software developer leads to creating multiple SSH keys to manage access to each individual project. Keystash provides the solution of securely storing the keys in a central database. ### 6. good tool for store and mange SSH key **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gulshan k. | Data Engineer analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Keystash?** Complete SSH Key Management When users upload or create new SSH keys, Keystash will provide instructions to ensure the greatest strength keys. For contractors or instances where you need to grant access for a brief time, create temporary user accounts and keys. **What do you dislike about Keystash?** This is a new tool for our organization, so we still find its documentation. I felt documentation would be better so we could easily follow. **What problems is Keystash solving and how is that benefiting you?** Very easy to install and set up an agent. Very cost efficient so help to reduce the cost. ### 7. Key Security to the Rescue! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sprith S. | Solutions Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Keystash?** It is highly beneficial to safeguard the organization by securing and automating the keys. The 2-factor authentication ensures the security is top-notch within the company. **What do you dislike about Keystash?** The system's slowness can be an issue, but it is something rarely faced in the company, and no significant issues as such have been caused while using the program. **What problems is Keystash solving and how is that benefiting you?** It reduces the overall tedious work and security that the internal IT department has to do as the program centralizes the overall users' key security and streamlines the internal IT policies. ### 8. Keystash key management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Keystash?** Ability to create secure strength keys quickly. Also, to assign to contractors when required. The ability to upload and create new SSH keys help guide users. Providing a time period for the SSH keys allows for safer security in lost or transferred over keys. **What do you dislike about Keystash?** Use of the Keystash features being integrated to more services and apps. For example in Dockers and other personal Linux OSs. Using it in raspberry pi would be helpful to secure a vault. **What problems is Keystash solving and how is that benefiting you?** Two factor authenticaion turned on not just in one server but all servers is greatly valued. Benefits also include reduced costs, enforce IT security policy, compliance with security standards in the industry, compatibility in the cloud. ### 9. Best and secure ssh key management tool. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashutosh D. | Technical Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Keystash?** Interface is very quick, fast and nice, easy to manage multiple keys and users. The algorithm used to generate keys is very secure. **What do you dislike about Keystash?** Similar kind of tools are available with better support, I think a guidebook should be provided with every new release. **What problems is Keystash solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are connecting to different servers using this tool and there is no latency also it provides multiple others fetures as upload the files to server easily. ### 10. Keystash Feedback **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Keystash?** Helps with a centralised user and privilege mangement including the SSH key Management. The admin console is very easy to use and makes access mangement very smooth **What do you dislike about Keystash?** The onboarding process for technical to non technical user for creating the SSH keys is not user friendly and takes a lot of time and learning curve. The process is very confusing when starting. **What problems is Keystash solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keystash is helping us reduce the overall burden of Managing user accounts, bring better visibility and governance in Linux environments while aligning with ISO, SoC2 and PCI DSS standards ### 11. Increased security **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shannon P. | Paid Social Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Keystash?** Guides you how to create new SSH Keys on platform **What do you dislike about Keystash?** With all automation tools there still requires QAing **What problems is Keystash solving and how is that benefiting you?** Increases security by moving to cloud based system ### 12. Great way to keep important keys secure **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Keystash?** Great way to automate and keep users/ keys across company secure **What do you dislike about Keystash?** So far there is nothing I dislike. My PC does run a tad slow right now but I don't think this program was the cause **What problems is Keystash solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy alternative to keypads for increased security ### 13. Very interesting **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Keystash?** Literally just what the product was meant for, holding passwords. **What do you dislike about Keystash?** The user interface is quite difficult to work with. **What problems is Keystash solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me from using the save passwords over and over again and forgetting them. ### 14. Securing ssh **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Keystash?** It secures ssh keys and provide high level of authentication **What do you dislike about Keystash?** Nothing much, It is quite secured and reliable **What problems is Keystash solving and how is that benefiting you?** Securing hash keys and ssh pem keys ### 15. One of the best Key Management experience providers - Easy Use, Secure, Cost Effective **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Keystash?** Easy Use, Secure, Cost Effective, Must have for your Linux Systems **What do you dislike about Keystash?** It is not free :) Seriously no downsides **What problems is Keystash solving and how is that benefiting you?** Authentication, Compliance and most of all, Security - [View Keystash pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/keystash/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+14%3A21%3A14+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=8e1742bc-5e15-4a0f-ad12-e80a9a184d9e&secure%5Btoken%5D=639956d02752f26570b98be40e7570ad0b56fa77551ad00519cfa13c4fdcfb2b&format=llm_user) ## Keystash Features **Functionality** - Certificate Discovery - Expiration Monitoring - Automated Certificate Operations - Policy And Role-Based Access Controls - Workflow - Protocol Support - Reporting And Search - Audit And Enforcement - Key Storage ## Top Keystash Alternatives - [Cloudflare Application Security and Performance](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudflare-application-security-and-performance/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (577 reviews) - [Sectigo Certificate Manager](https://www.g2.com/products/sectigo-certificate-manager/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (183 reviews) - [SecureW2 JoinNow](https://www.g2.com/products/securew2-joinnow/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (96 reviews)