We performed a comparison between CyberArk Privileged Access Manager 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)."We have accomplished our security goals. We have two-factor authenticated and vaulted our important accounts, so people can't just steal stuff from us."
"It is a scalable product."
"Creating policies and the password rotation feature have been valuable. We don't have to memorize our password for the ADM account."
"DVR like video recording and text-based recording for easier audits."
"The threat analytics is an important feature."
"Automatic password management, which will automatically change passwords based on compliance requirements."
"Helped us meet our standards and requirements to help us comply with industry standards and banking regulations."
"The voice technology is very good."
"The solution is easy to scale."
"When comparing it to other products, you can set up CA IAM in a PoC very quickly to demonstrate its provisioning capabilities."
"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."
"There are many valuable features within the solution. The product is easy to customize. It’s also highly secure."
"It has good endpoint support and endpoint connectivity to different versioning endpoints."
"I like that it is easy to diagnose. It has a version of a virtual appliance so we can download it, run it, configure it, and it would take about 10 to 15 minutes to configure the cluster or so."
"The scalability potential is there if a company needs to expand."
"Connector Xpress and Policy Xpress and the new interface."
"They need to provide better training for the System Integrator."
"There is a bit of a learning curve, but it's a pretty complex solution."
"Initially, there was a lot of hiccups, because there were a lot of transitions due to manual installations."
"I think having a distributed architecture would certainly help this solution."
"There was a functionality of the solution that was missing. I had noticed it in Beyond Trust, but not in this solution. But, recently they have incorporated something similar."
"The current interface is not very intuitive."
"More additional features as far as the REST is concerned, because we have something which was the predecessor to REST. A lot of the features which were in the predecessor have not necessarily been ported over to REST yet."
"The web interface has come a long way, but the PrivateArk client seems clunky and not intuitive. It could use an update to be brought up to speed with the usability of PVWA."
"The product has a lot of need for improvement. Our issues are being raised back to the vendor as enhancements."
"Although the capabilities are there, the user interface needs to be redesigned and the opportunities for integration should be improved."
"They should easier and better integration with other software."
"I find the API boring. I also faced issues while integrating with CA SSO."
"There are several areas for improvement in Symantec Identity Governance and Administration. They have no proper documentation on how to do backups. They also have a lengthy workflow process where we have to make some configurations to manage automation in the rules and in our tasks which takes time. We have to manually configure all the configuration files, and we cannot export users because there's no export system in Symantec Identity Governance and Administration. What we'd like to see in the next release of the solution is for them to make configuration and integration with other systems their top priorities. We have many API systems to manage, so hopefully, if they make these enhancements shortly, we can directly connect with our API systems when using Symantec Identity Governance and Administration."
"Symantec is only on-premises, not on the cloud."
"Identity Manager has a lack of entitlement support, unlike other products that I have worked with."
"The Identity tool needs to do more kinds of reporting for audit purposes. It doesn't really track any of the metrics that are useful to us, at this point."
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CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is ranked 1st in Privileged Access Management (PAM) with 142 reviews while Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is ranked 19th in Identity Management (IM) with 65 reviews. CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is rated 8.8, while Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of CyberArk Privileged Access Manager writes "Lets you ensure relevant, compliant access in good time and with an audit trail, yet lacks clarity on MITRE ATT&CK". 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". CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Microsoft Entra ID, Delinea Secret Server, WALLIX Bastion and One Identity Safeguard, whereas Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is most compared with SailPoint IdentityIQ, AlertEnterprise Enterprise Guardian, Microsoft Identity Manager, SAP Identity Management and BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management.
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