I wanted to do a side by side comparison so let’s do it.
Capability
CyberArk
Britive
- Fixed credentials with standing permissions
- Dynamic authrozation
- JIT ephemeral access
- Often requires agents.
- Many features require installed gateway to access CyberArk SaaS/cloud functionality
- Agentless and Proxyless solution. cloud native API first approach.
- 100% cloud delivered
- Primarily on-premises focus.
- Cloud access policies are limited to using existing cloud service provider (CSP) roles.
- Built for cloud-native environments
- Support for
- hybrid, cloud, multicloud and on-premises setups.
- Can directly create and manage roles in CSPs.
- Broad support for CSPs and SaaS/PaaS/DaaS beyond Azure, AWS, and GCP
- Complex and limited CI/CD integration mostly used to retrieve valued secrets.
- Requires customer container images.
- Cannot restrict access by projects or specific branch
- Seamless integration with CI/CD workflows and tools via API or CLI.
- Ephemeral access eliminates need for static secrets.
- OIDC integration allows restricting permissions access to a specific project or even branch.
- Complex, heavy deployment processes.
- Adding features typically requires distinct modules or
- services which are deployed and administered
- separately, adding complexity, friction, and ongoing cost.
- May require multiple teams just to add a new resource
- for management. Visibility is limited and fragmented.
- As a single SaaS platform, deployment is quick and
- simple. One unified interface for management and
- feature control simplifies onboarding, management,
- and adding resources. Centralized visibility across
- cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments
- Limited deployments supported. Mainly focuses on secrets management for apps in Kubernetes clusters.
- Does not provide group or role management on clusters.
- Supports virtually any “flavor” or deployment of
- Kubernetes including self-hosted and multi-cloud clusters.
- Full group and role management for any Kubernetes
- cluster including on-cluster creation
Disclaimer: I worked for Britive at the time of writing of this blog
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