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WALLIX Bastion

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WALLIX Bastion at a glance

Vendor
WALLIX S.A.
Headquarters
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026
Data hosting
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026
Free plan
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026
Panel verdict
The AI panel rates WALLIX Bastion 2.5/5, the mean of 6 judges. WALLIX Bastion is a privileged access management product from WALLIX, a French company registered in Paris under French law. 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 Skeptic

Weighted verdict

Has read the breach post-mortems. Reads "zero knowledge" next to unencrypted URLs and item names, "independently audited" with no report, "SSO unlock" where the vendor holds half the key, and "admin recovery" that means the vendor can decrypt — and treats a missing incident history as an answer.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The Skeptic

Panel median The Skeptic 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 Skeptic
Encryption model & independent audits 1 of 5 1 of 5
Sharing, roles & recovery 2 of 5 2 of 5
SSO, directory sync & provisioning 2 of 5 2 of 5
Audit logs, policies & reporting 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
Hosting choice, offline access & export 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
European sovereignty 3 of 5 2.5 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 Skeptic

The captured pages describe a "secure and certified vault" and "password encryption" and offer a setting to "set the cryptographic security level", but name no cipher, key derivation or certifier, and I found no public audit report, penetration test, bug bounty or incident history in the captures. The compliance language ("meets the requirements of... ISO 27001") is a marketing list of standards, not an audit of this product. 11 12 4

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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 Skeptic

Session sharing is documented with two users in one session, sensitive fields like passwords masked, and guest invites logged, and privilege elevation with precise delegation is described; I found no public information on vault-level permission roles, admin account recovery, emergency access, or what happens to shared access when an employee leaves. 7 10 11

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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 Skeptic

Single sign-on via SAML and OpenID Connect, MFA ranging from authenticator apps to passkeys and security keys, and verification of credentials against the customer's own directory are stated; the pages name no identity provider, and I found no public information on directory sync, SCIM provisioning, or automated deprovisioning. 8 5

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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 Skeptic

The SIEM log guide documents authentication, vault-activity, configuration-change, command-line and session-integrity events, backed by claims of unalterable audit trails, real-time audit and video session recording. I found no public information on log retention, named SIEM targets, or auditor-ready compliance reports beyond a list of standards. 10 6 11 4

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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 Skeptic

Deployment documentation covers on-premises and virtual appliances, cloud images, master/master and master/slave replication, disaster-recovery migration, rollback, and full-database or per-organization backup, with France hosting and on-premises stated for the Identity Access product. I found no public information on a status page with incident history, an encrypted full-fidelity export, or continuity during an outage of the vendor's service. 12 8 5

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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 Skeptic

A Paris-registered French company contracting under French law before the Paris courts, with an on-premises option and France hosting claimed for its identity product, is a solid European core — though the captured pages give different figures for the company's legal form. I found no public information on a data-processing agreement or on where the bastion's vault data sits, and the website chain runs through AWS and Google Analytics alongside French hosts. 2 3 8

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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 Skeptic

The captured pages offer a free trial, a demo and "speak to an expert", and no price, tier, seat minimum or term appears on any of them. A buyer cannot compute any cost without a sales conversation. 1 2 8

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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 ⚠ unverified — 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 WALLIX Bastion

Is WALLIX Bastion European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where WALLIX Bastion is based.

Where does WALLIX Bastion store data?

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

Does WALLIX Bastion have a free plan?

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

What are the best alternatives to WALLIX Bastion?

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: WALLIX Bastion alternatives.

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Sources (13)

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

  1. 1 Vendor page wallix.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Legal notice — found from the homepage www.wallix.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Privacy policy — found from the homepage www.wallix.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Security / trust page — found from the homepage www.wallix.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Encryption model & independent audits — found from sitemap www.wallix.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Encryption model & independent audits — found from sitemap www.wallix.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Sharing, roles & recovery — found from sitemap www.wallix.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  8. 8 SSO, directory sync & provisioning — found from sitemap www.wallix.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  9. 9 SSO, directory sync & provisioning — found from sitemap www.wallix.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Audit logs, policies & reporting — found from sitemap docs.wallix.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Audit logs, policies & reporting — found from sitemap www.wallix.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Hosting choice, offline access & export — found from sitemap docs.wallix.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  13. 13 Hosting choice, offline access & export — found from sitemap docs.wallix.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →