We performed a comparison between PingID and Symantec Privileged Access Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, Fortinet and others in Authentication Systems."The solution has a smooth and configurable user interface for single sign-on capabilities."
"We use the product to run different reports."
"What I like best about PingID is that it's very user-friendly. PingID is well-built as a developer tool and regularly upgrades and updates via patches. I also like that PingID has clear documents that will help you integrate it with other solutions."
"It gets a mobility portal in place in conjunction with Office 365. It provides very good possibilities and it's much better than other technology that we have used before which was unstable and slower."
"This is a user-friendly solution."
"It's pretty stable as a product."
"I find the auto-discovery feature the most valuable. It helps us automate a lot of things using a single password across applications."
"The only feature we were looking for in PingID was SSO integration with our existing web app."
"The interface is very friendly, colorful, and bold."
"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."
"The two factor authentication, and the single most important capability was it supported PIV and CAC as one of the two factors. That was pretty huge for us."
"We can check the activities in the server for fragile files and documents in case of any issues."
"We know we can scale up with what we have, and we probably will not need to buy any further appliances down the road."
"It reduces the viral attacks on my website. It also allows certain users access to see what happens daily."
"Comprehensive coverage of the required features for the PAM solution."
"Transparent login for users of privileged IDs (Linux, Windows). This prevents sharing of the password because it is never seen."
"The timing of the token validity, if it could be extended, would be great. I'm not sure if there is even an option to configure these types of settings."
"PingID would benefit from a better user interface for integration."
"The product is not customizable."
"PingID should put a little more effort into making a pretty self-explanatory deck about their tech features and the services they offer."
"If the solution is going to compete with Microsoft, they need to offer more unique functionality to keep their current user base."
"They could use some bio-certification. It's just more user-friendly and more convenient than entering the one time passes. That would be an improvement."
"PingID classifies the type of environment into internal and external, which is an area for improvement because you need to take additional steps to trust internal and external users."
"The solution should allow for better integration with other platforms and the UBT."
"I wish it could create local accounts on desktops."
"We have to do a lot of manual work to automate features."
"Bring more technology into the portfolio and being able to collapse those products into a much more integrated way."
"We experience stability issues after every patch upgrade. This is a place where CA needs to improve drastically."
"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."
"The setup is complex."
"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."
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PingID is ranked 7th in Authentication Systems with 14 reviews while Symantec Privileged Access Manager is ranked 18th in Privileged Access Management (PAM) with 50 reviews. PingID is rated 8.4, while Symantec Privileged Access Manager is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of PingID writes " A robust cloud-based multi-factor solution with a good customer support team". 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". PingID is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, ForgeRock, PingFederate, SailPoint IdentityIQ and RSA SecurID, 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.
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