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BeyondTrust Password Safe

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BeyondTrust Password Safe at a glance

Vendor
BeyondTrust Corporation
Headquarters
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026
Data hosting
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Free plan
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Panel verdict
The AI panel rates BeyondTrust Password Safe 2.5/5, the mean of 6 judges. BeyondTrust Password Safe scores highest on identity integration and deployment and portability, where scores cluster at 5 to 6. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 3 Nov 2026; evaluated by the panel 3 Nov 2026. all sources

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The SME Owner

Weighted verdict

Runs a forty-person company where the shared passwords currently live in an Excel file. Wants shared vaults the team actually uses, a way back in when someone forgets the master password, credentials handed over when someone leaves, and a per-user price with SSO not hidden two tiers up.

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Scored by The SME Owner

Panel median The SME Owner This judge’s scores over the panel median. Each label opens its reasoning below.
Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion Panel median The SME Owner
Encryption model & independent audits 2 of 5 2 of 5
Sharing, roles & recovery 2.5 of 5 2.5 of 5
SSO, directory sync & provisioning 3 of 5 2.5 of 5
Audit logs, policies & reporting 3 of 5 3 of 5
Hosting choice, offline access & export 3 of 5 2.5 of 5
European sovereignty 1.5 of 5 1.5 of 5

Encryption model & independent audits

How this is scored

What the vendor can prove about its security design: end-to-end encryption with named algorithms and key derivation, which fields are encrypted on the device and which are not, independent audits and penetration tests with published results, a bug bounty, and incident history disclosed.

0 — Vault contents are readable by the vendor by its own description: server-side encryption with keys the vendor holds, or no encryption of stored credentials.

3 — Client-side or end-to-end encryption described with the algorithms named; key derivation, audits and the scope of what is encrypted are basic or not described.

5 — A published security whitepaper or security page naming algorithms, key derivation and the client-side encryption model, and an independent audit, penetration test or certification (ISO 27001, SOC 2) named.

8 — A stated list of which fields are and are not encrypted (including URLs and metadata), recurring independent penetration tests or code audits with dates and reports or summaries published, a public bug bounty or vulnerability disclosure policy, past security incidents documented with their impact, and open-source clients or cryptography that can be reviewed.

10 — The design is verifiable end to end: full source or cryptographic design public, every field encrypted client-side including metadata, audits by named firms repeated yearly with full reports, a threat model that states what a compromise of the vendor's servers would expose, and incident post-mortems published.

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The SME Owner

The assurance side is real: ISO/IEC 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certifications for the hosting environment, third-party penetration tests and source-code reviews, and even customer-run penetration tests allowed once a calendar year with notice. What I cannot see is the crypto design for the passwords themselves — the pages describe TLS in transit and at-rest encryption of session data with keys held in a secret store on the appliance, with no named algorithms, no key derivation and no client-side or end-to-end model for vault contents. 1 2 10

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Sharing, roles & recovery

How this is scored

How credentials are shared and governed across a company: shared vaults or collections, role-based permissions, view-only and time-limited access, admin account recovery, emergency access, and what happens to shared items when an employee leaves.

0 — A personal password manager by the vendor's own description: no sharing between users is offered.

3 — Shared folders or vaults between users of one account; permission levels, admin recovery and offboarding are basic or not described.

5 — Shared vaults or collections with permission levels (for example read, edit, manage), groups and admin roles, and an admin account recovery or offboarding that keeps a leaver's shared items with the company.

8 — Recovery and offboarding documented with their key model, granular permissions down to hiding the password while allowing autofill, time-limited and one-time sharing with external parties, emergency access with a waiting period, delegated administration per team or location, and approval workflows for sensitive items.

10 — Access is governed and provable: least-privilege defaults, recovery and emergency access designed so the vendor never holds a key and stated so, periodic access reviews supported in the product, and every grant, change and revocation attributable to a person.

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The SME Owner

There is a genuine shared vault — privileged accounts stored centrally on the appliance, personal accounts for individuals without vault permission, admins with full rights, report-viewing in three levels, and group policies mapped from LDAP or SCIM groups — and when someone leaves, access is revoked immediately on removal from the identity provider, which answers my offboarding worry. But the permission set is thin at two vault permissions, and I found no public information on admin account recovery, emergency access or time-limited sharing. 3 4 5

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SSO, directory sync & provisioning

How this is scored

How the vault fits into the company's identity stack: SSO with Entra ID, Okta or Google, and the key model behind an SSO unlock; SCIM or directory sync for joiners and leavers; MFA options including hardware keys; and passkey support for users and the vault itself.

0 — A consumer product by the vendor's own description, with no business administration, SSO or directory connection offered.

3 — Users invited by email or CSV with two-factor authentication; SSO, directory sync and hardware keys are basic or not described.

5 — SSO with named identity providers (Entra ID, Okta, Google), SCIM or directory sync for provisioning and deprovisioning, and MFA including FIDO2 or hardware keys.

8 — The SSO unlock documented with how the vault key is derived or released and designed so the vendor cannot derive it, group sync driving vault permissions, automated suspension on deprovisioning, conditional access or device policies, and passkeys stored and used across platforms.

10 — Identity is integrated without trust shortcuts: the SSO key model published and independently reviewed, deprovisioning that revokes vault access and shared items immediately with a log entry, passwordless vault unlock with passkeys, and support for the customer's own key-management or trusted-device approval.

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The SME Owner

Single sign-on via SAML with Microsoft Entra ID named, Active Directory and Kerberos integration, RADIUS multi-factor, and SCIM 2.0 provisioning of users and groups with immediate revocation — the joiner-leaver wiring is documented, which is what I need for a forty-person team. The pages are silent on how the vault is unlocked under SSO, and I found no public information on hardware security keys or passkeys. 1 5 6

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Audit logs, policies & reporting

How this is scored

What an administrator and an auditor can see and enforce: event logs of access and changes, password health and breach reports, enforceable policies (master password, MFA, sharing, export), SIEM integration, and reports an ISO 27001 or NIS2 audit can use.

0 — No administration by the vendor's own description: a personal tool with no admin console, logs or policies.

3 — An admin console with an activity list and a password health or strength report; exportable logs and enforceable policies are basic or not described.

5 — Event logs covering logins, item access, sharing and admin changes, enforceable policies for master password and MFA, and password health and breach-monitoring reports.

8 — Logs exportable or available through an API with native SIEM integration to named targets (Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Elastic or syslog), policies for sharing, export and browser-extension behaviour, log retention stated, and compliance reports aligned to ISO 27001, NIS2 or BSI IT-Grundschutz.

10 — Auditability is complete: every view, copy, autofill and permission change logged with user and device, logs tamper-evident and retained for a configurable period, alerting on anomalous access, and an auditor role that can read logs without access to secrets.

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The SME Owner

Every session is logged in an uneditable text log kept up to 90 days, sessions can be recorded on video with real-time monitoring, authentication and configuration changes go out as syslog events, and a Windows integration client exports logs and recordings to a file system or Microsoft SQL Server. The compliance reporting module is disabled by default until the vendor enables it on request, and I found no public information on password health or breach-monitoring reports. 1 7

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Hosting choice, offline access & export

How this is scored

Where and how the vault runs and how the data leaves it: cloud region choice, a self-hosted or on-premises option, offline access during a vendor outage, client coverage across operating systems and browsers, and a complete, documented export and import path.

0 — Vault data cannot leave the product: the vendor states that no export is offered.

3 — Apps for common platforms and browsers and an export of vault items (for example CSV); hosting region, offline access and export completeness are basic or not described.

5 — Clients for Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and the major browsers, offline access to the vault, an EU region or self-hosted option, and export and import of vault data including from named competitors.

8 — Both EU cloud and self-hosted or on-premises deployment documented, Linux clients, a status page with incident history, an encrypted full-fidelity export covering all item types including attachments, and vault access continuing during an outage of the vendor's service.

10 — The customer can run and leave the vault on their own terms: self-hosting with documented high availability and backup, an open or documented export format that preserves structure, permissions and history, and a stated procedure for continued access if the vendor ends the service.

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The SME Owner

On-premises deployment as a physical or virtual appliance is documented down to power outlets and DMZ placement, and the cloud option is a single-tenant instance on Amazon Web Services with a regional data center the customer designates, with clients for Windows, Mac, Linux and mobile. The export path I can see covers session logs, recordings and backups; I found no public information on exporting the vault contents themselves, on offline access, or on a European region. 1 9 10

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Who the contracting entity and the parent company are, where vault data and metadata are hosted, and who the subprocessors are. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; end-to-end encryption narrows what a foreign authority could compel, but metadata, logs and the update channel for the client software remain in the vendor's hands, so the chain still counts.

0 — Proven non-EU on every dimension the evidence covers: non-EU vendor and contracting entity and non-EU hosting, with no EU or self-hosted option stated.

3 — One European element proven: an EU data region, an EU contracting entity or EU representative, a self-hosted option, or a published DPA, with the rest of the chain unstated.

5 — EU hosting as standard or selectable, or a self-hosted option, and an EU contracting entity or EU representative, with a DPA offered; the parent company or parts of the chain (support, analytics, email, client distribution) are unstated or non-EU.

8 — EU hosting on named infrastructure, EU contracting entity, subprocessor list published with locations, a DPA covering vault metadata and logs, and a self-hosted option that removes the vendor from the data path.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: European ownership, entity, hosting and every subprocessor, certifications published (ISO 27001, BSI C5 or equivalent), and source code or builds verifiable so the client update channel is not a blind trust in the vendor.

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The SME Owner

The one European-relevant element the pages prove is self-hosting: the product runs on your own appliance in your own network, taking the vendor's cloud out of the data path, though licensing and updates still route through the vendor's support. The rest of the chain is unstated in these captures — contracting entity and jurisdiction, data residency, subprocessors, a data protection agreement — with cloud hosting on Amazon Web Services, no European region named, and Data Privacy Framework compliance the only cross-border commitment mentioned. 1 9 10

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

How this is scored

Whether a buyer can compute the real annual cost from public pages alone: price per user and tier, which features (SSO, SCIM, SIEM, self-hosting) sit in which tier, minimum seats, add-ons, and the minimum term.

0 — No public prices at all; every tier is a sales conversation.

3 — A public "from" price or one priced tier, per user or flat.

5 — Per-user prices public for the business tiers with the billing period stated and the main features per tier listed.

8 — Every tier priced publicly with its feature set and seat minimum, add-on prices listed, self-hosted licensing stated, minimum term and VAT treatment given.

10 — Complete price computability: annual invoice derivable for a given number of users, with every add-on, self-hosting licence, support level and renewal condition published.

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The SME Owner not rated — no public information

We found no public information on pricing in the captured pages: no per-user price, no tiers, no seat minimums, no minimum term, nothing an owner could turn into an annual invoice. The only licensing described is a software package that the vendor's technical support builds per appliance after you email them your details — a support conversation, not a published price. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 of 6 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

Hosting location Not determined — uncited Report an error
Hosting options Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error
Open source Not determined — uncited Report an error
Data processing agreement Not determined — uncited Report an error
Transfer impact assessment Not determined — uncited Report an error

Questions about BeyondTrust Password Safe

Is BeyondTrust Password Safe European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where BeyondTrust Password Safe is based.

Where does BeyondTrust Password Safe store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026.

Does BeyondTrust Password Safe have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026.

What are the best alternatives to BeyondTrust Password Safe?

As of 3 Nov 2026, the panel rates Password Depot (3.5/5), Bitwarden (3.5/5) and Proton Pass (3.5/5) highest among the other 23 Password Management products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is Password Depot (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: BeyondTrust Password Safe alternatives.

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Sources (10)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Encryption model & independent audits — found from sitemap docs.beyondtrust.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Encryption model & independent audits — found from sitemap docs.beyondtrust.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Sharing, roles & recovery — found from sitemap docs.beyondtrust.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Sharing, roles & recovery — found from sitemap docs.beyondtrust.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  5. 5 SSO, directory sync & provisioning — found from sitemap docs.beyondtrust.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  6. 6 SSO, directory sync & provisioning — found from sitemap docs.beyondtrust.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Audit logs, policies & reporting — found from sitemap docs.beyondtrust.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Audit logs, policies & reporting — found from sitemap docs.beyondtrust.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Hosting choice, offline access & export — found from sitemap docs.beyondtrust.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Hosting choice, offline access & export — found from sitemap docs.beyondtrust.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →