Centrify & Thycotic Named Leaders in 2021 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for PAM

Centrify & Thycotic Named Leaders in 2021 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for PAM

Based in Washington D.C. (US), Thycotic offers Secret Server as its primary Password Management product and Privilege Manager for Endpoint Privilege Management. The company’s product portfolio is known for its comprehensiveness, ease of deployment and configuration. The company recently merged with Centrify but for now the products continue to be sold and supported separately.

Thycotic’s portfolio consists of five key modules: Secret Server, Privilege Manager (for workstations and servers), Account Lifecyle Manager, DevOps Secrets Vault plus the Connection Manager to manage remote connections. Secret Server and Privilege Manager are supported by Privileged Behavior Analytics. That is a lot of products in a market that is drifting towards platform consolidation; one of the challenges for Thycotic post-merger will be how to combine these with Centrify’s platform.

Privilege Manager is Thycotic’s agent based EPM solution for Windows, Mac, and Linux endpoints that supports extensive EPM capabilities including application control and privilege elevation (available on-premises or as a SaaS-hosted solution in Azure). The Thycotic Privilege Behavior Analytics solution monitors user activities across Secret Server deployments and can alert upon detection of anomalies based on an alert threshold.

Thycotic offers some key developments since our last Leadership Compass outing. A new Session Connector provides support for jump hosts and moves session recording away from client endpoint or the target server. A new integration between Secret Server and DevOps Secrets Vault allows usage of the CI/CD pipeline integrations present in DevOps Secrets Vault while using credential management and password rotation in Secret Server. Thycotic also joins the ranks of PAM providers to support iOS and Android devices with Secret Server Mobile. DevOps Secrets Vault can now be integrated with SIEM platforms.

Thycotic Privilege Manager benefits from several UI improvements for policy management and the introduction of a new Wizard tool — we would like to see more vendors introduce such ease-of-use enhancements. The Connection Manager can now open multiple connections at once, bulk edit capabilities for local connections and customize themes for SSH sessions. There is also an Auto Reconnect to Secret Server after loss of connectivity.

Thycotic has committed to frequent product updates including for DevOps Secrets Vault, and the Account Lifecycle Manager. Thycotic is on the right lines by saying that PAM for DevOps is more about secrets management and development cycles, than just issuing passwords in the traditional sense. To that end, credentials will get embedded into microservices, not a vault, in Thycotic’s approach. We expect to see a very different presentation of Thycotic technologies in 2022.

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Strengths

  • Solid and well-known brand that has mixed product choice with enhanced capabilities
  • Ongoing product development and frequent updates show commitment
  • Thycotic understands that PAM for DevOps needs to take account of coding environments
  • Good new user interface leverages current UX trends for ease of use; Wizards tools now added
  • Strong endpoint management capabilities for complex digital environments
  • Supports most advanced capabilities

Challenges

  • Merger with Centrify may lead to period of uncertainty and loss of momentum in the market
  • We would like to see simplification of product choices although merger will undoubtedly affect how this plays out
  • May need to convince larger organizations of the need to replace legacy PAM

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