We performed a comparison between Delinea Secret Server 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.
"One of the features I find most valuable is workflow, which allows you to configure the solution to have multiple approvals."
"Provides us with the ability to control access [to secrets] by groups."
"I find it really easy and computer confident, and the experience with the product is really good. Additionally, customizations are easy."
"The solution is good."
"What I like best about this product is the interface."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the random changing of passwords."
"Delinea's network integration is the most useful. For example, I use a Check Point firewall connect to SmartConsole, so I need to do a lot of configuration in Delinea Secret Server. Native integration with Check Point is valuable. You can also go download whatever API you need from the cloud, whether you're using Check Point, Palo Alto, etc. Enriched discovery is another good feature. If you are dealing with several kinds of systems, you can see which system requires privileged access to my network."
"The tool has many models. The tool also has a good cloud version. Also, the customers need not control any components on the solution side. The product's licensing model is also good since customers can choose a price that is most useful for them. The solution also supports password management for the users in your organization."
"It reduces the viral attacks on my website. It also allows certain users access to see what happens daily."
"The two factor authentication, and the single most important capability was it supported PIV and CAC as one of the two factors. That was pretty huge for us."
"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."
"Whoever built it from the ground up, they understand how an organization is laid out."
"The key benefits are we improve our governance. We ensure we can build more trust in the way we run and operate our environment, and most of all is the accountability."
"Password Management and Session Recording. The simplicity and ease that it is to be up and running out-of-the-box is very much appreciated."
"We know we can scale up with what we have, and we probably will not need to buy any further appliances down the road."
"Stability is solid as a rock."
"I think that the main interface should integrate better with non-standard applications and clients, to connect with other systems."
"The initial setup and deployment can be cumbersome. It's not an easy process."
"The UI needs improvement because the interface is a little clumsy."
"We faced some upgrade issues, especially during the management and administration parts. I found it less straightforward than on many other platforms, even outside password managers."
"There are some things that I know are really important to include like A/B version features which are available in Windows. I would say that they should be included in the road map."
"There could be tweaks here and there. For example, instead of going to one main function to do this and another main function to do that, the solution could remap the user interface so that a person only has to go through one function. The way that function branches off should make a bit more sense."
"The setup for this solution is complex. I'm not going to lie, you need a specialized system security engineer to deploy it."
"We find the documentation hard to understand."
"I’m no fan of Java as an application front-end, as it tends to have issues depending on what browser one’s using."
"An improvement for this solution is that it should not be constantly based on user name and password. There should be a condition to edit and update your username."
"We have to do a lot of manual work to automate features."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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Delinea Secret Server is ranked 2nd in Privileged Access Management (PAM) with 47 reviews while Symantec Privileged Access Manager is ranked 18th in Privileged Access Management (PAM) with 50 reviews. Delinea Secret Server is rated 8.2, while Symantec Privileged Access Manager is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Delinea Secret Server writes "Effective for password rotation policies triggered by audit requirements, it helps maintain compliance standards and seamless integration with third-party tools ". 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". Delinea Secret Server is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault, IBM Security Secret Server and ManageEngine PAM360, whereas Symantec Privileged Access Manager is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management and ARCON Privileged Access Management. See our Delinea Secret Server vs. Symantec Privileged Access Manager report.
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