Feature comparison between cloud-hosted Safetica and Safetica hosted on-premises

Article last updated: August 2025

Safetica offers two hosting options: on-premises and in the cloud. They offer very similar feature sets, but differ in the following details:

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Features are the same for both cloud-hosted Safetica and Safetica hosted on-premises.

Features are the same for both cloud-hosted Safetica and Safetica hosted on-premises.

Feature	On-premises	Cloud
Risk assessment and visibility	Coming later
Insights
User activity visibility across applications, websites, and external devices
Email traffic visibility
Application policies to control app usage
Website policies to control web visits
External device policies to control the use of external devices
Basic app and website categorization
Advanced app and website categorization (bulk management, custom categories, etc.)	In Safetica Maintenance Console	Coming later

Feature	On-premises	Cloud
AI summary of insights
Insight similarity
AI suggestions for data destinations

Features are the same for both cloud-hosted Safetica and Safetica hosted on-premises.

Feature	On-premises	Cloud
Alerts about policy violations		New alert system
Alerts related to insights	Coming soon
Maintenance-related service alerts	In Safetica Maintenance Console	Coming later
Summarizing informative alerts	In Safetica Maintenance Console	Coming later
Advanced scheduled reports with customized layout
Security Audit Report
Record exporting

Feature	On-premises	Cloud
Companion Safetica Maintenance Console for advanced maintenance use cases	In Safetica Maintenance Console
Safetica server update
Safetica server settings	In Safetica Maintenance Console	Not needed
Access rights and permissions
Basic Safetica Client deactivation
Advanced Safetica Client deactivation for individual components	In Safetica Maintenance Console	Not needed
Advanced Safetica Client management (process and folder hiding, user notification controls, record sending controls, etc.)	In Safetica Maintenance Console	Coming later
Basic troubleshooting log collection
View license details
Change language and date/time format displayed in Safetica console
Advanced integration settings (Application and system integration, trusted servers, external device exceptions)

Feature	On-premises	Cloud
Attaching and managing database archives		Not needed
Creating and managing new database archives		Not needed
Data record retention on cloud	Depends on server and database specifications	6-18 months depending on license

Feature	On-premises	Cloud
Entra ID integration
Active Directory integration	In Safetica Maintenance Console	We support Entra ID integration. If you can't use Entra ID, you must pair your local AD with Entra ID. Learn more here.
SIEM integration
Extended reporting: Data analysis tools integration (PowerBI, Tableau, etc.)	In Safetica Maintenance Console	Coming later

Learn in what details the feature sets of cloud-hosted and on-premises-hosted Safetica differ.