Enterprise Password Manager Evaluation Checklist
Define the capabilities your organization needs before comparing enterprise password managers and privileged access management solutions.
Build your evaluation checklist
Open the areas relevant to your organization and prioritise only the capabilities that matter to your evaluation.
Your enterprise evaluation checklist
Use these requirements when comparing products, reviewing demonstrations and evaluating solutions in your own environment.
Focus first on your essential requirements
You've identified 0 requirements for your evaluation. Validate your essential capabilities before comparing secondary features or pricing.
A product doesn't need every feature
The goal is to find the product that fits your actual requirements, infrastructure and security model rather than selecting the solution with the longest feature list.
Required capabilities
Capabilities that should be explicitly validated before selecting a product.
Preferred capabilities
Desirable capabilities that aren't essential to your current evaluation.
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Evaluate fit, not just features
Enterprise password management requirements depend on your infrastructure, identity model, privileged accounts, security controls and operational processes.
Start with architecture
Decide whether you require vendor-hosted SaaS or infrastructure controlled by your organization, including on-premises or your own cloud environment.
Prioritise security outcomes
Focus on the controls needed to protect credentials and privileged access, rather than treating every possible feature as equally important.
Validate claims during a trial
Test your Required capabilities using your own identity services, systems and operational workflows before committing to a solution.
Enterprise Password Manager Evaluation FAQ
Common questions about evaluating enterprise password management and PAM solutions.
Important evaluation areas can include deployment model, credential management, granular access controls, authentication, auditing, password automation, account discovery, integrations, resilience and support for remote environments.
No. Requirements should reflect your infrastructure, identity services, security model, privileged accounts, compliance obligations and operational processes.
Prioritisation helps separate capabilities that are essential to your organization from features that are merely desirable. This makes product comparisons, demonstrations, procurement and trials more focused.
Not necessarily. Different products are designed around different deployment models and security requirements. This checklist distinguishes capabilities that map directly to Passwordstate from those that should be reviewed further or are not provided by Passwordstate.
