CyberArk vs BeyondTrust Our old vault setup worked fine until the org hit about 400 privileged accounts across hybrid AD and Azure. Credential rotation was manual, standing admin accounts never actually went away between rotations, and auditors kept flagging accounts that technically had access to nothing but still existed. The trigger was a pen test finding: a service account with Domain Admin rights that nobody owned and hadn't been used in 11 months. Still active. That was the meeting where leadership stopped treating PAM as an IT problem. We evaluated CyberArk and BeyondTrust among others, both confirmed players with solid credential rotation and, discovery capabilities, though comparing feature depth across vendors really depends on your environment and use case. CyberArk deployment timelines and staffing requirements vary a lot and I've seen wildly different estimates depending on who you ask, so I won't throw numbers out there.…