We performed a comparison between Symantec VIP Access Manager and Thales Authenticators based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, Fortinet and others in Authentication Systems."It is easy to use."
"The two-factor authentication is most definitely valuable and moves us closer to being able to check off those important boxes for compliance."
"The product is useful for providing user access from an in-built office server as we follow the work-from-home model."
"The tool has been very stable, in my experience. Also, I haven't faced any issues or problems with integration or connectivity."
"It offers more platform support, like Apple, Android, and Microsoft."
"Cloud-based service and management."
"The VPN we are using is good and working quite well."
"Other than it provides us with remote access, so it's fairly easy to install, fairly easy to set up, and provides us the ability to get into our corporate environment."
"We use this solution to log into virtual machines like VMware and VMware Horizon."
"Scalable and stable."
"The most valuable feature of SafeNet Authentication Manager is authentication."
"I like how the solution allows me to support different types of hardware tokens and integrate with OTP."
"Geofencing needs improvement."
"I would like to see the solution meet the integration needs at our company...Improving the solution's integration feature would be beneficial."
"The User Store synchronization part needs to improve. Also, the logs, reports, and dashboard can be improved."
"It gets out of sync with Active Directory or whatever it might be, whatever the authentication piece is on Active Directory, and they just reset it on the backend. I never have to contact the vendor."
"Maybe Symantec could consider providing a step-by-step guide for first-time users."
"If they had dashboards or a report for managers or executives, then it would allow them to see the status and have it make sense to them."
"Every time that I have a new phone or computer, it takes a little longer to deploy it."
"It is challenging to use when installing a new version."
"The problem with SafeNet is that it's not integrated with Microsoft 365."
"The solution should allow for support of multi-tenant architecture."
"The stability could improve."
"Lacks integration with other platforms."
Symantec VIP Access Manager is ranked 15th in Authentication Systems with 15 reviews while Thales Authenticators is ranked 17th in Authentication Systems with 4 reviews. Symantec VIP Access Manager is rated 8.4, while Thales Authenticators is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Symantec VIP Access Manager writes "With its mobile application, this tool offers a convenient and user-friendly experience to its users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Thales Authenticators writes "Responsive support, effective authentication, but stability could improve". Symantec VIP Access Manager is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Check Point Remote Access VPN, Yubico YubiKey, RSA SecurID and Q-Bot, whereas Thales Authenticators is most compared with Yubico YubiKey, Microsoft Entra ID, Cisco Duo, Atalla Hardware Security Module and Utimaco SecurityServer.
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