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System Administrator at Alghanim Industries

We are moving to BeyondTrust.

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Information Security Manager at United Parcel Service

We had a project to review eight vendors and their PAM products: IBM, Hitachi, CyberArk, BeyondTrust, CA, Enforcive, Centrify, and Lieberman.

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Sr. Security Analyst at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We looked at a few other solutions over the years but nothing was better than what we had. We are looking to the future to see if any new solutions might be as good or better and cheaper. Licensing costs do add up as we are adding more servers in our secure networks.

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Program Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

One of the goals for one of our projects this year was to implement Privileged Access Management. We tried different products in the market: Xceedium, CyberArk, etc. This is when we decided on Xceedium. 

All were almost good, but CA's UI was much better. Performance-wise, CA was good. One of the advantages was Unix, which was not on CyberArk. It was more Windows-focused. We have been using Windows and Linux both. 

When we started analyzing different products, CA was really good. They are more proactive every time. 

They really worked hard in the PoC. They made sure all of our use cases are validated, and they would even provide us patches during our PoC. 

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it_user707178 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Coordinator at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

We started out with eight different products and wound up doing an RFP with four finalists, and CA PAM was one of them. The other three were BeyondTrust, CyberArk, and Hitachi ID.

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it_user705717 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Administrator at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I don’t know about the evaluation of other products. I was not involved in that part of the process.

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JO
Tech Lead at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
it_user621030 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We did not evaluate different products. There was no choice for us. We didn't have a choice to evaluate other solutions because they mandated the use of this product.

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it_user479766 - PeerSpot reviewer
CIO/Management Consultant at a tech company with 51-200 employees

No other options were evaluated because this PAM has made substantial gains in system integration, which outweigh industry choices.

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it_user526257 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect, at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We ran a PoC with CA and BeyondTrust at the same time.

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it_user558579 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Director at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

My organization had a push to increase our security posture this year. One of the areas we're looking at concentrating on is the use and control of privileged accounts. We obviously looked at the feature functionality set; then cost, then ease of use with a proof of concept demo.

We considered Thycotic Secret Server and we looked at a ManageEngine product. Ultimately, it came down to a choice between the Thycotic product and CA's PAM.

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it_user779106 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security at ITG

After doing a little bit of research in the PAM market, there are not too many PAM players out there. Obviously, there is CyberArk but the other big player is CA PAM. I took a look at CA PAM. CA's rep gave me every reason to pick CA PAM over CyberArk.

CyberArk is harder to set up. You need a stand up infrastructure to back up CyberArk. PAM, on the other hand, is much more simple to use, and you do not need as many Windows servers to back it up as far as I know. 

  1. According to the users who have actually used CyberArk and CA PAM, they have said that CA PAM is ten times easier to use and manage. 
  2. Also, according to the users, CyberArk is only in the Windows area. They only control passwords in the Windows area. I am not sure how true that is, but that is a huge thing. 
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it_user624780 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Managed Services - Analytics & Data Solutions at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We also evaluated One Identity, Centrify and Microsoft PIM.

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it_user558024 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of Information Security at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We went with it because of internal customer needs, the regulatory and audit requirements, ease of installation, and auditor funding.

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it_user351294 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

There are not many players in this arena so there aren't many choices. IBM has a solution, but I don’t think they push it.

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Balamurali P - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

We also considered CyberArk.

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AS
Security Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We did not evaluate any other solutions.

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it_user572856 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Engineer at EarthLink

For us, we mainly wanted a solution that worked in the scenarios that we were looking for.

We've demoed numerous products. After even just watching the demos we weeded some out. Then we actually brought a few in-house that we liked, and we did proof of concepts. We found out that some products just didn't work the way we wanted them to in our environment.

The reason we chose CA PAM is it worked in the scenarios that we wanted it to, and it just worked without problems.

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it_user712038 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Coach & Consultant

We looked at about a half a dozen, and this one came out to be the best one. We filtered down.

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it_user589527 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company

We did a proof of concept with another solution.

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it_user762522 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We have been using IBM extensively because customers demand that we provide this option.

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it_user708474 - PeerSpot reviewer
Pre-Sales Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Yes, CyberArk. We found it too complex and with more features than one would probably need.

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it_user651831 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud SME

We did evaluate other solutions.

  • We did a market research of Xceedium, before CA bought Xceedium Xsuite
  • CyberArk
  • Dell had a tool to do privileged identity management
  • There's another company also, that starts with Cyber, but I don't remember the name

We evaluated these solutions, and Xceedium, which is now CA PAM, stood out.

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Principal Consultant
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Presale Engineer with 51-200 employees

No, I didn’t.

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it_user705705 - PeerSpot reviewer
Finance at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I didn't get involved in that evaluation, either.

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it_user616500 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Engineer

We did not evaluate other solutions.

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it_user713793 - PeerSpot reviewer
Citrix / Windows Administrator/PM at a government with 10,001+ employees

I personally have used RPM and think it is more user-friendly.

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it_user531528 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Consultant
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Consultor Senior TI y Seguridad de Datos at a tech services company

We are a partner of CA. The tests were only executed for this product (CA PAM).

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it_user621822 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works

Before choosing this product, we did not evaluate other options.

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it_user708468 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's confidential.

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it_user705714 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems/Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Before choosing this product, we evaluated CyberArk PAM.

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it_user707184 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security and Governance Manager (Principal Director) at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We evaluated Sudo-AD and CyberArk.

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it_user705702 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Operations at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

I don't remember now, but we did a PoC for a few, but chose CA PPM (formally known as Xceedium).

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it_user705732 - PeerSpot reviewer
Ingeniero de servicios at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

No, I’m not from the sales department.

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it_user595743 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Solutions Architecture Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Other options were evaluated but I was not involved in that.

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Buyer's Guide
Symantec Privileged Access Manager
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Symantec Privileged Access Manager. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.