We performed a comparison between Symantec 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)."One of the key things for us about the product is around its simplicity. Being able to put in the technology that allows the business to remove complexity and also allow the security improvements."
"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 reduces the viral attacks on my website. It also allows certain users access to see what happens daily."
"We have received good support from the tech support team."
"CA PAM is working well for us."
"We can check the activities in the server for fragile files and documents in case of any issues."
"Comprehensive coverage of the required features for the PAM solution."
"The DB clustering is a really good benefit of using CA PAM."
"The most valuable feature is the User Experience Designer, which has been very helpful for our project."
"Zero Trust implementation is a great feature."
"Its value is when you use it with a Workspace ONE UEM solution as it is part of the ecosystem for VMware Workspace ONE."
"The most valuable features in VMware Identity Manager for me are the control groups and rules."
"The solution was easy to deploy."
"Personally, VMware Identity Manager is useful for comparison purposes so that I can provide better solutions to my company's customers."
"The most valuable feature is that it will use my credentials to access various parts of the infrastructure or other solutions, such as vRealize."
"The solution is stable."
"The service account management functionality needs to be extended to application pools, SQL database, PowerShell scripts, service account discovery, etc."
"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."
"They need to do a little bit more on the mainframe side."
"What I hope happens with the new product CA PAM is to keep all the useful features that exist in PA, but what I’ve noticed with many new products is the UI gets polished but systems lags stability and performance or it adds additional complexity instead of simplifying the user experience."
"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."
"The management console could be improved."
"We experience stability issues after every patch upgrade. This is a place where CA needs to improve drastically."
"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."
"We have a lot of problems when it comes to integrating with Active Directory."
"it's very dependent on an active directory"
"The security features could always use improvement, although there has already been a huge improvement from years ago."
"I would like to have better support for multi-cloud sessions."
"vIDM could be improved with the multi-tenant capabilities that VMware tends to offer—features like customization branding and the integration of the app catalog based on the branding. Since the integration has been at top-level OGs, you were not able to then do rebranding if you were required to use specific user groups to highlight specific applications. At the time, I was personally opening feature requests for these things. I haven't worked with the latest release, so I don't know if these features were already deployed or not."
"The license could be better."
"I would like better integration for deploying programs with binary files."
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Symantec Privileged Access Manager is ranked 18th in Privileged Access Management (PAM) with 50 reviews while VMware Identity Manager is ranked 17th in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 12 reviews. Symantec Privileged Access Manager is rated 7.8, while VMware Identity Manager is rated 7.6. 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". 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". Symantec Privileged Access Manager is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management and Delinea Secret Server, whereas VMware Identity Manager is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Microsoft Entra ID, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiAuthenticator and Fortinet FortiToken.
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