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WALLIX Bastion

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WALLIX Bastion at a glance

Vendor
WALLIX S.A.
Headquarters
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Data hosting
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Free plan
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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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Read this page as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.

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 1 of 5 1.5 of 5
Sharing, roles & recovery 2 of 5 2.5 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 of 5
European sovereignty 3 of 5 3.5 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 captured pages describe password encryption, a "secure and certified vault" that "prohibits physical password reset or override", secure disk encryption, and a configurable cryptographic security level, but we found no public information naming the algorithms, the key model, or any independent audit, penetration test or bug bounty. ISO 27001 appears only as a standard the solution is said to help customers meet, not as a certification of the vendor itself. 4 11 12

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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 vault with centrally enforced policy, privilege elevation and delegation "with precision", and session sharing where sensitive fields like passwords stay masked even while a guest user is invited and logged — that maps well to handing credentials to a colleague or third party without exposing them. But for my forty people I most need a documented admin recovery path when someone forgets a master password and offboarding that keeps a leaver's shared items with the company, and we found no public information on either, though staff-change tracking and access certification campaigns are mentioned. 1 4 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 SME Owner

Single sign-on is documented as an authentication and federation layer using SAML and OpenID Connect, designed to work with the directory we already trust rather than replace it, and MFA spans authenticator apps, one-time passwords, passkeys and security keys. We found no public information on SCIM or directory sync to provision joiners and revoke leavers automatically, and no named providers such as Entra ID, Okta or Google appear in the captured pages. 5 8

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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

This is where a bastion earns its keep: unalterable audit trails for compliance reporting, video session recording, and a dedicated SIEM logs guide covering authentication, vault activity, session, file-transfer, configuration-change and log-integrity events, plus access certification campaigns and staff-change tracking. We found no public information on named SIEM destinations, a stated log retention period, or password-health and breach reports, though ISO 27001 and the NIS/NIS2 Directive are listed among the frameworks the solution supports. 1 4 6 10 11

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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

Hosting in France or full on-premises deployment is documented, along with ISO images, virtual and physical appliances, cloud tenant images, high-availability master/master and master/slaves replication, disaster-recovery migration and rollback — serious deployment choice for a company our size to grow into. We found no public information on desktop or mobile client apps, offline access during a vendor outage, a status page, or a documented export of vault data; only session-log import/export and full-database or per-organization backup and restore are described. 5 8 10 12

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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

WALLIX is a French company registered in Paris under French law with the CNIL named as supervisory authority, Identity Access is hosted in France under what the vendor calls European governance, and the Bastion can run entirely on-premises in our own environment. The privacy policy names subprocessors with French addresses for the website hosts and an EU region for AWS, but we found no public information on a data-processing agreement or on certifications published for the vendor itself. 2 3 8 12

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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

No public prices at all: the only commercial information in the captured pages is a free trial and "watch the demo / speak to an expert", so I cannot begin to compute what this would cost my forty users per year, let alone where single sign-on sits in the lineup. 1 2 3 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
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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 →