87% of large enterprises run both legacy AD-joined Windows estates and modern cloud-native infrastructure. Today's PAM vendors force you to choose — or buy two products and reconcile by hand. Veqtorix doesn't.
Strong on Windows AD and vault-based password rotation. Cloud and Kubernetes are bolted on. Static credentials live forever in the vault.
Strong on SSH and Kubernetes. No deep AD integration, no ADCS, no PKINIT, no Windows JIT user lifecycle. Hybrid enterprises hit a wall.
Cloud-only access requests and approvals. No proxy, no on-prem coverage, no protocol-level enforcement.
The capabilities that actually decide a hybrid PAM evaluation.
| Capability | Veqtorix | CyberArk | Teleport | StrongDM |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| One query answers "everything under CR-12345" across database + Kubernetes + Windows | Yes | Per-product | Cloud-only | Cloud-only |
| Login identity is your choice — native cert/PKINIT (target sees the real user), JIT, or your existing vaulted account keep CyberArk-vaulted accounts and still get the unified chain | Yes | Vault-centric | Cert / JIT | Proxy-only |
| Unified cloud + on-prem in one architecture | Yes | Bolted on | Cloud-strong | Cloud-strong |
| JIT AD users via ADCS / PKINIT | Yes | No | No | No |
| Zero standing credentials | Yes | Vault-based | SSH-only | Limited |
| Proxy-enforced RDP with cert auth | Yes | CredSSP injection | Basic RDP | No |
| All major databases, full SQL capture Oracle · SQL Server · Db2 · PostgreSQL · MySQL · MariaDB · MongoDB · Amazon RDS / Aurora · Azure SQL · Azure Cosmos DB · Google Cloud SQL · MongoDB Atlas · DocumentDB | Yes | Limited | Subset | Subset |
| Single audit trail across all surfaces | Yes | Per-product | Cloud-only | Cloud-only |
| Inbound port reduction (proxy mesh dial-out) | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Cert-based RDP authentication into an AD-joined enterprise — no static password, no standing user. Competitors match individual links. The complete chain — JIT AD user + ADCS certificate + PKINIT + cross-surface audit, under one model — is where Veqtorix stands apart.
Veqtorix JIT AD user created → ADCS issues short-lived cert → PKINIT obtains Kerberos TGT → RDP session via proxy with cert-based auth → full session recording + audit → JIT user deleted on session end ✓ CyberArk Vault retrieves static password → PSM injects via CredSSP → session recorded (no cert-based auth, no JIT user — password lives in the vault forever) Teleport No AD user JIT. No ADCS integration. No PKINIT. Basic RDP only. StrongDM Same gaps. No ADCS. No PKINIT. No AD user lifecycle.
Identity-preserving database access exists elsewhere in pieces — Teleport does it for Oracle. What no other PAM product matches is the same model across Oracle, SQL Server, Db2, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB — and their managed services on AWS, Azure, and GCP — with every session bound to the same ticket as the Windows and Kubernetes work beside it. One trail, one authorization, every action attributed to the real user — end to end.
# The compliance answer that closes audits "User X ran ALTER TABLE customers ADD COLUMN ssn VARCHAR(11) on prod-db-postgres at 09:15 UTC, using JIT account jit-userX that existed from 09:00 to 10:00, through proxy proxy-east-1, with full session recording available."
We'd rather name our own edges than have you find them mid-evaluation.
Never distributed to the user, never typed, never on their endpoint. Target credentials are brokered and vaulted, exposed to no human in the normal path. Break-glass is a separate, fully logged flow — not the default.
The target accepts the brokered, identity-bound path — not a direct credential the user holds. Mediation is enforced at the protocol and network path, so "go around it" doesn't resolve to working access.
No. Identity already exists. Veqtorix consumes SAML, OIDC, ServiceNow, and existing PAM and CA investments, and adds the authorization-to-audit chain on top — rather than asking you to rip anything out.
On a single target, no — others do identity preservation too. The defensible claim is the combination: the same identity, ticket, and audit model across database, Kubernetes, and Windows at once, tied to one change request.