I wanted to do a side by side comparison so let’s do it.

Capability

CyberArk

Britive

Zero Trust Architecture

• Fixed credentials with standing permissions

• Dynamic authrozation
• JIT ephemeral access

Agentless

• Often requires agents.

• Many features require installed gateway to access CyberArk SaaS/cloud functionality

• Agentless and Proxyless solution. cloud native API first approach.
• 100% cloud delivered

Cloud-Native

• Primarily on-premises focus.

• Cloud access policies are limited to using existing cloud service provider (CSP) roles.

• Built for cloud-native environments
• Support for
• hybrid, cloud, multicloud and on-premises setups.
• Can directly create and manage roles in CSPs.
• Broad support for CSPs and SaaS/PaaS/DaaS beyond Azure, AWS, and GCP

CI/CD Integration

• Complex and limited CI/CD integration mostly used to retrieve valued secrets.
• Requires customer container images.

• Cannot restrict access by projects or specific branch

• Seamless integration with CI/CD workflows and tools via API or CLI.
• Ephemeral access eliminates need for static secrets.
• OIDC integration allows restricting permissions access to a specific project or even branch.

Deployment and Management

• Complex, heavy deployment processes.
• Adding features typically requires distinct modules or
• services which are deployed and administered
• separately, adding complexity, friction, and ongoing cost.
• May require multiple teams just to add a new resource

• for management. Visibility is limited and fragmented.

• As a single SaaS platform, deployment is quick and
• simple. One unified interface for management and
• feature control simplifies onboarding, management,
• and adding resources. Centralized visibility across
• cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments

Kubernets Support

• Limited deployments supported. Mainly focuses on secrets management for apps in Kubernetes clusters.

• Does not provide group or role management on clusters.

• Supports virtually any “flavor” or deployment of
• Kubernetes including self-hosted and multi-cloud clusters.
• Full group and role management for any Kubernetes
• cluster including on-cluster creation

Disclaimer: I worked for Britive at the time of writing of this blog