Symantec Privileged Access Manager Scalability

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System Administrator at Alghanim Industries

It's not scalable, which is another reason we're moving. We can have BeyondTrust in Azure, AWS, and have hybrid connectivity.

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Information Security Manager at United Parcel Service

Yes, we noticed that when trying to rotate 1400 privileged passwords with a single job, the results were not consistent. Support suggested we break the job up into smaller groups. We will likely have well over 200,000 managed accounts in the system when we are fully deployed. We should be able to submit mass password changes without having to break them down into groups of 50 or less.

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

We have not encountered any scalability issues; we have plenty of capacity for our environment usage. We only added appliances for new data centers and redundancy.

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it_user715158 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Manager at United Parcel Service

Based on the purchase that we made, we bought an awful lot of appliances. We are using only a small portion of it right now, because it can handle so much volume. We know we can scale up with what we have, and we probably will not need to buy any further appliances down the road. So, that is huge.

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

For scalability, we had some performance issues with the regular virtual jump servers. Therefore, to make the improvement better and all, we ordered bare metal physical servers. This way we will have better results and the performance will be good. 

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

At this point, there were no issues with scalability.

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

We had scalability issues, particularly in regards to the limit of CIs.

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it_user705711 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Support Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We have scalability issues. For our current stress test, it looks like the system is not able to handle a large number of users at peak times.

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it_user621030 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

There were no issues with scalability.

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

I have not encountered any issues with scalability; this is a true enterprise expandable product for mid-market and beyond.

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

I have not encountered any scalability issues; it scaled easily.

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CF
Senior Security Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

There is enough power to support our whole organization and the scalability potential is very wide. We currently have between 50-100 users of the solution. 

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Stefan Zivanovic - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Consultant at CyberGate Dfenese

It is a scalable platform.

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AP
IT Security Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

There were no issues with scalability.

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

We have a relatively small implementation, but from what we've seen so far, it would scale pretty well.

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it_user599001 - PeerSpot reviewer
Co Founder & Chief Operating Officer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is very scalable. I know it's used in large organizations like banks and healthcare organizations. It's just a matter of swapping in. I recall on one of the enablement calls that I attended, they had a very defined set of parameters where if you reached a certain threshold, you would then swap in another PAM appliance.

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it_user624780 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Managed Services - Analytics & Data Solutions at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

There were scalability issues. The architecture forces us to add systems - similar to a Cisco model.

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

So far, so good. It is new. We haven’t had any issues yet.

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

Scalability is not an issue because of the architecture. The management piece just manages policies, so you can still go the system and are not handicapped.

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Sudip Karmacharya - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Specialist at CAS Trading House

It is scalable because we can add and remove all the models. We have onboarded around 500 users, and actual users are around 100 to 500.

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

The product is very scalable in terms of concurrent sessions that it can handle at a time, number of device it can support, accounts that it can manage, or number of nodes that you can deploy in a cluster. It comes in four forms.

  1. Physical appliance
  2. Virtual instance
  3. AWS
  4. Azure (just launched).
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it_user705741 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Oracle DBA at a government with 10,001+ employees

We did not encounter any issues with scalability.

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it_user572856 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Engineer at EarthLink

It's pretty scalable from what we can see. We have four appliances in a single cluster across two data centers, and we can actually even grow that if we wanted to.

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it_user712038 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Coach & Consultant

We didn't run into any scale issues at all. The more people involved, the more it was able to handle.

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

Now, it is scalable.

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

Scalability has been good. 

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

Not in my experience.

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it_user651831 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud SME

There were some scalability issues. Along with access manager, there's something called a credential manager. The way the CA PAM solution is designed, a credential manager is local to each of these boxes.

If you want to scale to multiple data centers and multiple end points, the credential manager is not centralized anymore. We need to have a way to synchronize that. That seems to be one of the biggest issues of scalability.

It has AD integration, but the way they do it is an issue, because it's not scalable. For every active directory identity, it basically creates a local user. It defeats the whole purpose of using a single identity store. That's not a scalable solution to manage identities itself. That's a big issue.

We did submit an enhancement request to CA on multi-tenancy and the active directory implementation, and we don't think they have released any updates. That's a big issue with this product.

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it_user707196 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant

There were no scalability issues.

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it_user459162 - PeerSpot reviewer
Presale Engineer with 51-200 employees
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Finance at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
it_user616500 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Engineer

I have not faced any scalability issues.

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

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

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IAM Architect at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Do not know as of right now, as we only have one instance in production at the moment.

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it_user531528 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Consultant

There were no issues with scalability.

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OI
Engineer at a university with 51-200 employees

Scalability seems to be fine. 

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RS
Especialista em CA at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

There were no issues with scalability.

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it_user705699 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultor Senior TI y Seguridad de Datos at a tech services company
it_user621822 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

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

Yeah, it still does not support HA in Multi AZ subnets.

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

We did not encounter any issues with scalability.

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

There were no issues with scalability.

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it_user707193 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security & Compliance at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

There were no scalability issues experienced, but we never went live.

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

Easy to scale with clusters.

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

No, but the answer is not always clear or satisfactory. In some cases, the answer result is vague.

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

I did not encounter any scalability issues.

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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.
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