Symantec Privileged Access Manager Customer Service and Support

MB
System Administrator at Alghanim Industries

Technical support isn't good. If you escalate to a higher level or open up T1 cases, they reply back after two or three days. The response time is not good.

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it_user715158 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Manager at United Parcel Service

For the most part, support is good. We do run into problems sometimes with respect to getting support for APIs. Our experience has been that engineering has to become involved due to limitations with the support staff's knowledge/experience in this area.

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it_user613575 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Security Analyst at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Technical support is excellent. They respond quickly and work with us to find solutions; easy web access to open and update tickets.

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it_user778803 - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We are using the technical support. We also have a list of all the security enhancements, which are needed. We gave it to CA. They are working on it, and for any issues, we are escalating the issues and working with the product team directly. 

They are really good at answering us quickly. Some of them, they also provided us a patch, and some of them are going into the new version, which is 301, so we are upgrading our environment to 301 now in our development and QA next week. 

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it_user707178 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Coordinator at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

The technical support has be an essential part of our deployment. They are very responsive and work diligently to resolve the issues.

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it_user705717 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Administrator at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The technical support is very good. They are very helpful. They are knowledgeable and follow-up when we have issues.

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it_user705711 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Support Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I think there are two points to this. It’s very hard to get to level 2 or 3 support to answer questions. We had cases that were dragged on for years with no answer waiting for engineering. It almost sounds like we are on our own and this product is not “really supported” or CA is so busy with other more important issues that higher level support is almost never available.

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JO
Tech Lead at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

CA technical support has been very responsive the past couple years. It has come a long way.

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it_user621030 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I would give technical support a rating of 10/10. It's a matter of a learning curve for my administrators. When they requested support, they were quick to respond. It's not really a problem. It's basically a lack of awareness of the product. It was quickly resolved talking to the technical support people.

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it_user479766 - PeerSpot reviewer
CIO/Management Consultant at a tech company with 51-200 employees

In my experience with the CA PAM, their support apparatus has improved immensely over the past 12 months and continues to improve based on client feedback. Indications from my clients are that CA Technologies actually listens to their concerns and takes action.

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it_user526257 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect, at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Technical support is very good.

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CF
Senior Security Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The tech support is good. They are very helpful.

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AP
IT Security Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I would give technical support a rating of four out of five.

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it_user558579 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Director at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We’ve used a little bit of technical support. It was really just a couple of questions here and there, and the support has been very good so far.

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it_user599001 - PeerSpot reviewer
Co Founder & Chief Operating Officer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I've actually never called in to their technical support, so I really can't say.

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it_user779106 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security at ITG

There have been no issues with CA technical support.

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it_user624780 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Managed Services - Analytics & Data Solutions at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The technical support is above average.

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it_user558024 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of Information Security at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Technical support been good too. We had professional services onsite with us, so that made things easy. We have transitioned away from that, but so far things have been fine. We haven't had any major issues.

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Sudip Karmacharya - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Specialist at CAS Trading House

The technical support is not satisfactory. I rate the technical support a four out of ten. Most of the time, they are not accessible, and we can't directly contact Symantec. There is a middle partner we can use to contact dot com support. We are waiting for a solution to the long wait times.

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AS
Security Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The technical support has improved a lot in last year with the advent of the European technical support team.

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it_user572919 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We have worked with CA before, so we understand that each engagement is slightly different. One thing we do make sure is we always do things like test runs as part of any onboarding of a system. This would be no different if we go down this path in the future.

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it_user572856 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Engineer at EarthLink

I haven't had to call in any cases yet, but we've been working with the CA services team to help us implement the solution. They've been really really good.

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it_user712038 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Coach & Consultant

Yeah, we worked with technology support. They were actually pretty helpful. The couple of problems we had, they were able to identify and help us resolve.

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it_user589527 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company

I would give technical support a 2.5/5. I'm not sure if this is a problem with my local support or CA support, but when we opened a case, it took several days to get a response. It cost me time to get a reply. They'd come back to us to understand what is going on or what was necessary to give support. Between me opening the case and my local support trying to understand what we want; then, they don't know how to solve it and go to CA support and try to understand again; that takes a long time.

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it_user762522 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We have received good support from the tech support team.

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it_user708474 - PeerSpot reviewer
Pre-Sales Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I have had a good experience because they have been able to resolve issues nine of 10 in a short period.

The cons are that you are rarely (if ever) able to talk to a technician when calling support. This is frustrating when the issues are critical or urgent.

This is much worse in out of office hours. At times, when the issues are complex, the resolution times has been longer than desired and the time in between contacts is also too long.

There is a lot of space to improve in this area.

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it_user651831 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud SME

I would give tech support a rating of 7/10. They're not the best, because the product was acquired from a small company. Just updating the portal with the knowledge base and the support took a long time. We had a bad experience with that.

Once they got all the stuff integrated into the CA support structure, the responsiveness was there, but the relevant information of the tech staff to solve the problem was not there.

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it_user707196 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant

I would give technical support a rating of an eight out of 10.

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it_user459162 - PeerSpot reviewer
Presale Engineer with 51-200 employees

I appreciate CA technical support. They respond quickly.

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it_user705705 - PeerSpot reviewer
Finance at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

So far, it's fair. Because sometimes, it takes me a few days/weeks to get attention.

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it_user616500 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Engineer

I would give technical support a rating of 6/10.

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it_user713793 - PeerSpot reviewer
Citrix / Windows Administrator/PM at a government with 10,001+ employees

Few people I've dealt with know the product well. They are not very helpful. Some technical support team members don't have much knowledge.

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it_user705735 - PeerSpot reviewer
IAM Architect at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

So far, I would rate it high. I have gotten fast and accurate answers to my questions and any issues have been resolved in a timely manner.

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it_user531528 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Consultant

I would give technical support a rating of 7/10.

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OI
Engineer at a university with 51-200 employees

I haven't used the support because I've relied on the documentation until now. I think there could be some improvement with that. 

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RS
Especialista em CA at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Technical support is very good.

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it_user705699 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultor Senior TI y Seguridad de Datos at a tech services company
it_user621822 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works

Technical support is average.

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it_user708468 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Yeah, it's great. I would give it a nine out of 10.

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it_user705714 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems/Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Technical support could be improved.

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it_user707184 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security and Governance Manager (Principal Director) at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Technical support has yet to be included completely in the CA Support.

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it_user707193 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security & Compliance at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Technical support is average. They took a long time to provide good answers, only recommended to upgrade SW version which in some environments is not an option and they don’t even know if that will fix the problem.

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it_user705702 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Operations at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

10 out of 10.

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it_user705732 - PeerSpot reviewer
Ingeniero de servicios at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

On a scale from 1 to 10, I give it a 7. I hope to know the SLA of the technical support.

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it_user595743 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Solutions Architecture Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We actually haven't had to use technical support, yet.

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Buyer's Guide
Symantec Privileged Access Manager
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Symantec Privileged Access Manager. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
768,246 professionals have used our research since 2012.