We performed a comparison between CyberArk Privileged Access Manager and VMware Identity Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about CyberArk, Delinea, BeyondTrust and others in Privileged Access Management (PAM)."We are able to centrally manage credentials, touch applications, and rotate passwords."
"It has helped us with our adoption with other teams, and it has also helped us to integrate it at the ground level."
"The biggest feature is the security of the overall solution. It's very secure. The vaulting technology and the number of security layers involved in the vault, where privileged accounts are actually stored, is the heart of the solution."
"The Password Upload Utility tool makes it easier when setting up a Safe that contains multiple accounts and has cut down the amount of time that it takes to complete the task."
"CyberArk is not just an IT security or cybersecurity tool. It's also an administrator tool. I had a fair number of systems where the passwords were not fully managed by CyberArk yet, and they were expiring every 30 or 45 days. I was able to get management turned on for those accounts. From an administrator perspective, I didn't have to go back into those systems and manually change those passwords anymore. CyberArk... lightened the load on our administrative work."
"Rather than multiple tools for maintaining regulatory compliance around passwords and privileged accounts, we have centralized as much as possible with CyberArk. This is now a one stop shop for end users to access their elevated credentials."
"It provides an accountability to the individuals who are using it, knowing that it is audited and tracked."
"It enables companies to automate password management on target systems gaining a more secure access management approach."
"The most valuable feature is single sign-on."
"Zero Trust implementation is a great feature."
"The most valuable features in VMware Identity Manager for me are the control groups and rules."
"One of the features that I enjoyed most was the integration with Azure AD because I could use VMware Identity Manager to standardize the User Principal Name coming from Active Directory. You have Azure AD Connect to do that. In between, if you have vIDM handling it, you can easily get the synchronization of users into your VM and standardize the User Principal Name. If you require quality assurance for handling it, you can actually count on the vIDM to do so. That was one of the main things I enjoyed about the product."
"Personally, VMware Identity Manager is useful for comparison purposes so that I can provide better solutions to my company's customers."
"Its value is when you use it with a Workspace ONE UEM solution as it is part of the ecosystem for VMware Workspace ONE."
"When we publish the applications, getting the credentials to log in and keep the application up or running is easy."
"It helps the end users to work on the road without needing to set up all kinds of VPN connections"
"They can do a better job in the PSM space."
"The product documentation has to be more precise in certain aspects with explanations for functionality limitations along with reference material or screenshots."
"I would like to see better automation in granting access, better tools, more efficient tools, to be able to customize the solution that CyberArk provides."
"The solution needs better features for end users to manage their own whitelisting for API retrieval."
"I think having a distributed architecture would certainly help this solution."
"This is probably a common thing, but they do ask for a lot of log files, a lot of information. They ask you to provide a lot of information to them before they're willing to give you anything at all upfront. It would be better if they were a little more give-and-take upfront: "Why don't you try these couple of things while we take your log files and stuff and go research them?" A little bit of that might be more helpful."
"We would, of course, always prefer it if the pricing was cheaper."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"it's very dependent on an active directory"
"The mobile SSO doesn't work as well on Android."
"The security features could always use improvement, although there has already been a huge improvement from years ago."
"The license could be better."
"I would like better integration for deploying programs with binary files."
"Many of the features that exist in Active Directory do not exist in Identity Manager, which means that people depend on Active Directory."
"I would like to have better support for multi-cloud sessions."
"There are a lot of difficulties whenever people have a lot of configurations in it, basically related to security certificate configurations and integration with VMware Horizon."
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CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is ranked 1st in Privileged Access Management (PAM) with 144 reviews while VMware Identity Manager is ranked 17th in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 12 reviews. CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is rated 8.8, while VMware Identity Manager is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of CyberArk Privileged Access Manager writes "Lets you ensure relevant, compliant access in good time and with an audit trail, yet lacks clarity on MITRE ATT&CK". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Identity Manager writes "A tool that needs to improve scalability but is useful to manage user". CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Microsoft Entra ID, Delinea Secret Server, WALLIX Bastion and One Identity Safeguard, whereas VMware Identity Manager is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, Okta Workforce Identity and SailPoint IdentityIQ.
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