We performed a comparison between Symantec Privileged Access Manager and VMware Identity Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about CyberArk, Delinea, BeyondTrust and others in Privileged Access Management (PAM)."It is great for identity governance."
"We know we can scale up with what we have, and we probably will not need to buy any further appliances down the road."
"You can do A2A integration. You can have your own script, which can then run outside of PA to retrieve the password and perform other tasks."
"It's easy to use and easy to configure."
"One of the key things for us about the product is around its simplicity. Being able to put in the technology that allows the business to remove complexity and also allow the security improvements."
"The RDP-gateway: For limiting which server an operator can access."
"We found that the architecture is scalable and very resilient."
"Stability is solid as a rock."
"Personally, VMware Identity Manager is useful for comparison purposes so that I can provide better solutions to my company's customers."
"The most valuable feature is that it will use my credentials to access various parts of the infrastructure or other solutions, such as vRealize."
"Zero Trust implementation is a great feature."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable features in VMware Identity Manager for me are the control groups and rules."
"Its value is when you use it with a Workspace ONE UEM solution as it is part of the ecosystem for VMware Workspace ONE."
"The solution was easy to deploy."
"The most valuable feature is the User Experience Designer, which has been very helpful for our project."
"We experience stability issues after every patch upgrade. This is a place where CA needs to improve drastically."
"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."
"The support for other remote assistance tools would be excellent. Free included tools in Windows (Remote Assist) and Microsoft SCCM Configuration Manager (ConMgr Remote Control) allow companies to reduce the amount of RDP connections and expand the usage of the tools are frequently used by companies to provide technical support for remote assistance."
"The setup is complex."
"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."
"I wish it could create local accounts on desktops."
"They need to have zero tier and active-active setup with zero minimum downtime, which they are working on it. "
"The management console could be improved."
"Many of the features that exist in Active Directory do not exist in Identity Manager, which means that people depend on Active Directory."
"The database gets corrupted when used in the cluster. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't."
"vIDM could be improved with the multi-tenant capabilities that VMware tends to offer—features like customization branding and the integration of the app catalog based on the branding. Since the integration has been at top-level OGs, you were not able to then do rebranding if you were required to use specific user groups to highlight specific applications. At the time, I was personally opening feature requests for these things. I haven't worked with the latest release, so I don't know if these features were already deployed or not."
"The security features could always use improvement, although there has already been a huge improvement from years ago."
"The mobile SSO doesn't work as well on Android."
"The license could be better."
"There is a need for better user lifecycle management within VMware Identity Manager, along with better user governance...The scalability of the product needs to improve."
"I would like better integration for deploying programs with binary files."
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Symantec Privileged Access Manager is ranked 18th in Privileged Access Management (PAM) with 3 reviews while VMware Identity Manager is ranked 14th in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 4 reviews. Symantec Privileged Access Manager is rated 7.8, while VMware Identity Manager is rated 7.6. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Identity Manager writes "A tool that needs to improve scalability but is useful to manage user". 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 ForgeRock, whereas VMware Identity Manager is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Microsoft Entra ID, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), SailPoint IdentityIQ and NetIQ Identity Manager.
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