We performed a comparison between BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management and Symantec Identity Governance and Administration based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about CyberArk, Delinea, BeyondTrust and others in Privileged Access Management (PAM)."The privileged access and the application control are helpful in making sure we have good, robust challenge responses. Blacklisting with trusted application protection is also beneficial for us."
"It has some features that other products don't have yet, differentiation that sets it apart in the marketplace... Those features are a centralized dashboard and the ability to issue and revoke entitlements within minutes. That makes a difference."
"Reduces major vulnerabilities by removing local administrator privileges."
"The features related to application elevate is amazing. It helped the company to remove almost all admin local users."
"The notable aspect is its ability to capture the application's behavior comprehensively and this thorough analysis is crucial for effective policy management."
"I find the comprehensive Privilege Access Management features valuable, including automation, and the ability to integrate with applications and the Windows operating system."
"It scales easily and the product is stable."
"The privileged access management into sensitive systems is very valuable. That includes control from the endpoint all the way through to the managing of passwords and credentials that are used by the person to access the sensitive information. It's very useful, because nobody ever really maintains passwords for those endpoint systems. It's maintained in the Dropbox password file."
"I've used it to manage users, create and update, delete users, change passwords, and assign and change rules."
"It is easy to use, and does not requires an extensive programming or development background."
"Out-of-the-box the product has a lot of opportunity for configuration and sophisticated identity management capability."
"Word mining and risk campaigns are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The most valuable aspects of Symantec Identity Governance and Administration are all the features, it is the most complete solution on the market. It has features, such as scanners and portals, it has everything."
"Governance."
"It has improved our user management. It is definitely streamlined."
"The product is relatively easier to use than other identity management products."
"They need to come up with better integrative options which should be customer-centric."
"There are three types of endpoints. If we need to use them in the solution, then we need to purchase the licenses separately. The tool needs to improve its licensing."
"We faced some challenges with remote desktop sessions."
"What's bothering me, which is true of all of them, is that sometimes, the error codes that come up don't necessarily get reflected in the searches within their support sites or they're out of date. I would rather search by an error code than type in the text and search for it by text because the error code means that it is programmatic, and it is known. It might not be desired, but it at least is not unexpected. If you don't have an error code, you just get an anomalous error, and if it is lengthy, it can be difficult to search and find the specific instance you're looking for. This is something I would like all of them to improve. BeyondTrust, CyberArk, Centrify, and Thycotic could do some improvements in staying up to date and actually allowing you to search based on the product version. They are assuming that everybody is on their way to release. They put out a new release, but it is not reflected on the support site, which makes no sense to me, especially when they revamp all the error codes. They all have been guilty of this in some way."
"There is room for improvement in having the solution align more with standards. We're always shoehorning the product into the standards. It's not that it doesn't work for standards, it does. But Quick Start Policies are pretty close to what we need. The vendor needs to keep looking at GDPR, 27001, and 27701. That's why our clients buy the product."
"The help system should be improved to provide a quick help guide with each tab within the solution, which explains what each particular function does."
"Their technical support could be more responsive and helpful."
"A valuable enhancement could be the capability to deploy agents directly through the console."
"Symantec is only on-premises, not on the cloud."
"Reporting could be improved."
"It has a large footprint which you'd expect to be much, much smaller. Just to run basic services, we have 10 different servers. Also, if it were easier to manage, that'd be useful."
"A better information display for the approvals within the workflow would give them more information and the ability to comment back on a request as to why they're rejecting it. We've been telling them we'd like this improvement, and we hope to see it."
"The directory has room for improvement. Also, the dashboards and, in particular, the KPI dashboard that shows the current user’s information needs reworking."
"The reporting functions."
"I find the API boring. I also faced issues while integrating with CA SSO."
"The product has a lot of need for improvement. Our issues are being raised back to the vendor as enhancements."
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BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management is ranked 5th in Privileged Access Management (PAM) with 28 reviews while Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is ranked 20th in Identity Management (IM) with 65 reviews. BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management is rated 8.0, while Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management writes "Admin rights can be granted and revoked within minutes and that is what everything comes down to, for us". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Identity Governance and Administration writes "Works well on-premises and has partial capabilities but lacks many feaures". BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management is most compared with CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), CyberArk Privileged Access Manager and Delinea Secret Server, whereas Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is most compared with SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, AlertEnterprise Enterprise Guardian, SAP Identity Management, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) and Saviynt.
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