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)."For me, it is the robust API which is the most valuable feature. This allows for low maintenance costs and allows applications to automatically connect. This is great to automate security of the DevOps pipeline for shared secrets across environments. Also, being on Linux and a virtual appliance is great."
"We have received good support from the tech support team."
"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."
"We found that the architecture is scalable and very resilient."
"It will provide us with more security."
"CA PAM is working well for us."
"It's easy to use and easy to configure."
"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."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution was easy to deploy."
"The most valuable feature is the User Experience Designer, which has been very helpful for our project."
"When we publish the applications, getting the credentials to log in and keep the application up or running is easy."
"The most valuable feature is single sign-on."
"The most valuable feature is that it will use my credentials to access various parts of the infrastructure or other solutions, such as vRealize."
"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."
"The most valuable features in VMware Identity Manager for me are the control groups and rules."
"They should include some assignments in the test environment to explore the product's features."
"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."
"The management console could be improved."
"I would like this solution to be simpler. It should have a one-click access that works together with AWS."
"I’m no fan of Java as an application front-end, as it tends to have issues depending on what browser one’s using."
"The setup is complex."
"The response time for support could be faster. Some features should be added: cloud-based, VPN-less, more secure, and it should be adjusted in a hybrid environment."
"It'd be great if you just stuck in your PIV card and Windows popped up, asked you for your password. You typed it in, then it remembered your credentials."
"I would like better integration for deploying programs with binary files."
"The license could be better."
"I would like to have better support for multi-cloud sessions."
"There is a need for better user lifecycle management within VMware Identity Manager, along with better user governance...The scalability of the product needs to improve."
"We have a lot of problems when it comes to integrating with Active Directory."
"The security features could always use improvement, although there has already been a huge improvement from years ago."
"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."
"The mobile SSO doesn't work as well on Android."
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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 20th 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, ARCON Privileged Access 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 Okta Workforce Identity.
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