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We performed a comparison between BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access 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.
To learn more, read our detailed BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access vs. Symantec Privileged Access Manager Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"It is a real fortress. Its security is very strong. Multi-factor came as a feature out-of-the-box, which was big for us. That helps us meet another compliance requirement. It enforces encryption. Nobody can see what we are doing in our remote system if they happen to be listening for unencrypted traffic. That is its biggest strength.""One of the features that I really like about it is the ability to set a start date, time, and end date for the access. For example, you can set the access for a person from tomorrow, Monday, or Tuesday and ending on a specific period of the day or a specific date. That's really quite helpful.""The most valuable feature is that this solution can be implemented regardless of the operating system.""The visibility of the solution's Vault works as it is supposed to: out-of-the-box for domain accounts, endpoints, and local accounts associated with discovery jobs.""The security provided by PRA when it comes to access for remote and privileged users has been outstanding. It has met all of our objectives, everything from password rotation to securing and allowing us to clamp down access to the auditing and monitoring features.""The project goal was to allow staff to run applications with admin privileges without being admins, which was the product's most important feature.""It's a stable product. Based on the demos and interaction with it, it was stable.""The product has improved remote support capabilities since it works fine."

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"It reduces the viral attacks on my website. It also allows certain users access to see what happens daily.""We can enforce complicated password policies and very important frequent password changes.""The interface is very friendly, colorful, and bold.""We have received good support from the tech support team.""Stability is solid as a rock.""Comprehensive coverage of the required features for the PAM solution.""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.""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."

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Cons
"The price is pretty expensive.""It would be very nice if it has an enterprise vault. Currently, it can interact with Password Safe, which is a separate solution and equivalent to Thycotic Secret Server. Instead of having Password Safe as a separate entity, they should combine it with BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access. They have done it in some way, but it is not an enterprise tech solution.""Changing your password should be simplified, and there should not be a charge for it.""When doing protocol panel jumps, the tool does not restrict what is recorded on the user's computer.""The integration of the solution with many platforms is a difficult area to manage and needs to be made easy.""Its management is through two different portals, and you can't get from one portal to the other. I have to literally open up another website and go into it a different way. There are no inner links between the two. They should interlink the actual virtual server and the appliance. In general, there should be one interface for management for admins.""In terms of the ability to automate the creation of new accounts within it, it's still a bit laborious.""The integration client, backup solution, and SSO setup and provisioning could be improved. There isn't any documented or supported user provisioning currently, which slows down the processes of onboarding and assigning permissions. I would like to see this improved soon."

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"They need to do a little bit more on the mainframe side.​""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.""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.""I wish it could create local accounts on desktops.""We experience stability issues after every patch upgrade. This is a place where CA needs to improve drastically.""The service account management functionality needs to be extended to application pools, SQL database, PowerShell scripts, service account discovery, etc.""Bring more technology into the portfolio and being able to collapse those products into a much more integrated way."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The price is pretty expensive, but you get what you pay for and this is a great product."
  • "I wish it was a little bit cheaper, but when a product is as solid as this, I understand what the cost does. It helps them to make sure it stays that way. If you want a reliable, solid product, you're going to pay more."
  • "Don't get into a situation where you are licensing per desktop or per person until you fully understand the licensing."
  • "My client found the solution a bit expensive but considering their use case and requirements, they didn't have any other choice. As far as I know, implementation and licensing are the only costs."
  • "I wasn't directly involved in the licensing and pricing, but I can say that PRA is licensed per endpoint added to the Vault. I would advise users to take frequent exports of their license usage package; it's a simple feature that provides a spreadsheet of every machine in the Vault. This helps to cut down on duplicate licenses, which can happen by adding the same endpoint using an IP address and a fully qualified domain name, for instance. The implementation is an additional cost, and they offer several tiers, so the price varies. There are also some optional add-ons, so I would advise people to research the product well and find out precisely what they need regarding features. The Advanced Web Access add-on provides some required functionality when interfacing with websites; that's one to consider."
  • "Its price is pretty good for the features and services that it provides. It is not outrageous. I'm not aware of any additional charges or anything like that."
  • "PRA was one of the cheapest solutions that we evaluated."
  • "Though the solution was a bit expensive, the overall pricing was average."
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  • "Don’t go with an agent model. Don’t go with a model that has you buying a thousand different parts. Go with PAM that gives you everything, or you’ll just be paying costs of implementing another tool that PAM would have just given you up front."
  • "The prices are not low, but one can ask for a discount. It’s not the cheapest PAM solution."
  • "Appliances are relatively cheap, don’t skimp. Make sure you have redundancy, high availability, and enough appliances to manage the concurrent workload."
  • "Cost-wise, CA was better compared to others in the market. ​"
  • "Pricing is fair compared to other top vendors."
  • "The licensing is simple and scalable."
  • "I would prefer better licensing options for the 20-100 users we have at a given time."
  • "It is more expensive than other solutions on the market."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The product has improved remote support capabilities since it works fine.
    Top Answer:The issue I found with the product revolves around the fact that RDP and SSH sessions take too much time, making it an area of concern where improvements are required. The product should be able to… more »
    Top Answer:I use the tool in my lab. I am involved in the product's testing phase in my lab, where I am trying to check out the solution.
    Top Answer:We can check the activities in the server for fragile files and documents in case of any issues.
    Top Answer:The product's pricing depends on the agreement. They offer per-device, per-user, or monthly and yearly licensing models.
    Top Answer:There should be some training platform similar to Microsoft and IBM. We can't find useful documentation or YouTube videos to learn about the process. They should include some assignments in the test… more »
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    Also Known As
    Bomgar Privileged Access
    CA PAM, Xceedium Xsuite, CA Privileged Access Manager
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    Overview

    BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (formerly Bomgar Privileged Access) lets you secure, manage, and audit vendor and internal remote privileged access without a VPN.

    Privileged Remote Access provides visibility and control over third-party vendor access, as well as internal remote access, enabling your organization to extend access to important assets, but without compromising security.

    Features include:

    - Privileged Access Control: Enforce least privilege by giving users the right level of access.

    - Monitor Sessions: Control and monitor sessions using standard protocols for RDP, VNC, HTTP/S, and SSH connections.

    - Reduce the Attack Surface: Reduce attacks by consolidating the tracking, approval, and auditing of privileged accounts in one place and by creating a single access pathway.

    - Integrate with Password Management: Inject credentials directly into servers and systems with just one click, so users never need to know or see plain text credentials.

    - Mobile & Web Consoles: Use mobile apps or web-based consoles anytime, anywhere.

    - Audit & Compliance: Create audit trails, session forensics, and other reporting features by capturing detailed session data in real-time or post- session review, and provide attestation reports to prove compliance.

    CA Privileged Access Manager is a simple-to-deploy, automated, proven solution for privileged access management in physical, virtual and cloud environments. It enhances security by protecting sensitive administrative credentials such as root and administrator passwords, controlling privileged user access, proactively enforcing policies and monitoring and recording privileged user activity across all IT resources.  It includes CA PAM Server Control (previously CA Privileged Identity Manager) for fine-grained protection of critical servers

    Sample Customers
    Horizon Beverage, Air Liquide, Gateway Bank of Florida
    NEOVERA, Telesis, eSoft
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Comms Service Provider21%
    Security Firm14%
    Government14%
    Wholesaler/Distributor14%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company18%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Government9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    REVIEWERS
    Retailer20%
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Logistics Company15%
    Government10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business50%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise35%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise67%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise63%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise79%
    Buyer's Guide
    BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access vs. Symantec Privileged Access Manager
    March 2024
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    BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access is ranked 3rd in Privileged Access Management (PAM) with 21 reviews while Symantec Privileged Access Manager is ranked 18th in Privileged Access Management (PAM) with 50 reviews. BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access is rated 8.6, while Symantec Privileged Access Manager is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access writes "Our support team can do so much more without having to actively engage our customers, which saves us time and money". 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". BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, BeyondTrust Remote Support, Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service), BeyondTrust Password Safe and WALLIX Bastion, whereas 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. See our BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access vs. Symantec Privileged Access Manager report.

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