We performed a comparison between One Identity Safeguard and Symantec Privileged Access Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Safeguard can define and update processes and procedures into the security framework of a company, including mobile. It allows us to change the policies and configurations on a mass scale in regards to security."
"We use the solution’s “transparent mode” feature for privileged sessions. It is very easy because it is only a simple configuration for our users. We don't have to modify our network. We install it, configure it, and it works. So, it is super easy. The rollout for our users is seamless."
"There are a lot of features, so it's going to sound funny, but one of the most simplistic features, the Favorites feature, is the one we like the best. You do a full run-through of configuration to check out a server and then you can save that whole configuration as a favorite. So the next time you go in, you click on the favorite that you configured and it automatically takes you to the end so you can check the server out that much faster. It saves a lot of time..."
"The first feature I like about One Identity Safeguard is the live contact point for the VPNs. This has been working very well for us, as it's both highly available and reliable."
"The system is easy to manage, as it is not a system that you will change everything all of a sudden. It evolves most of the time with customer requests."
"The transparent mode for privileged sessions is a very good solution."
"We deployed it into our company for controlling a client's behavior in our data center. It is very useful to control their connections, such as RDP."
"Safeguard has the ability to record and retrieve in the full-video format."
"We found that the architecture is scalable and very resilient."
"It is great for identity governance."
"The product is very scalable in terms of concurrent sessions that it can handle at a time, number of device it can support, accounts that it can manage, or number of nodes that you can deploy in a cluster."
"We know we can scale up with what we have, and we probably will not need to buy any further appliances down the road."
"You can do A2A integration. You can have your own script, which can then run outside of PA to retrieve the password and perform other tasks."
"It's easy to use and easy to configure."
"We can enforce complicated password policies and very important frequent password changes."
"CA PAM is working well for us."
"For some users, the physical appliance has been a bit buggy."
"Even though we have two nodes, there's no way to do an upgrade without taking everything completely offline. It would be nice if they could improve that."
"The main point regarding the user experience is that Safeguard has two separate management consoles."
"On a scale of one to ten, the stability is an eight."
"The interface is better now, but it still could be improved a lot. It needs more organization, menus, automatic refresh of information, and Web 2.0."
"Transparent mode was too cumbersome, so I don't foresee us being able to use it. On paper when we were initially talking about it, it was definitely going to be the preferred method until we realized the burden it would be on our network guys. Then, we had to step back and reevaluate what we wanted to do. That's when we changed our approach to use the RD Gateway feature."
"We would like to have the option of importing assets by using the CSV file. It was available in the earlier versions, but it is not available now."
"Some of our users find the functionality a bit complex, and it could be made more user-friendly."
"The support for other remote assistance tools would be excellent. Free included tools in Windows (Remote Assist) and Microsoft SCCM Configuration Manager (ConMgr Remote Control) allow companies to reduce the amount of RDP connections and expand the usage of the tools are frequently used by companies to provide technical support for remote assistance."
"I’m no fan of Java as an application front-end, as it tends to have issues depending on what browser one’s using."
"They need to do a little bit more on the mainframe side."
"Bring more technology into the portfolio and being able to collapse those products into a much more integrated way."
"Instead of just giving passwords to the user based on job function, from auditing perspective, turn that cycle around. That would really help from an auditing standpoint."
"They should include some assignments in the test environment to explore the product's features."
"They need to have zero tier and active-active setup with zero minimum downtime, which they are working on it. "
"It's difficult to locate the reports, there are limits on what reports can be run from the GUI, and the report formats are lacking."
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One Identity Safeguard is ranked 4th in Privileged Access Management (PAM) with 38 reviews while Symantec Privileged Access Manager is ranked 18th in Privileged Access Management (PAM) with 50 reviews. One Identity Safeguard is rated 8.2, while Symantec Privileged Access Manager is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of One Identity Safeguard writes "Provides us with centralized storage of secrets and credentials, and visibility into the use of privileged access". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Privileged Access Manager writes "Allows IT and consultants to access the infrastructure environment but needs more security and better support". One Identity Safeguard is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, WALLIX Bastion, Delinea Secret Server, BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access and Fudo PAM, whereas Symantec Privileged Access Manager is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management, Delinea Secret Server and ARCON Privileged Access Management. See our One Identity Safeguard vs. Symantec Privileged Access Manager report.
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