Symantec Privileged Access Manager Stability

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System Administrator at Alghanim Industries

The performance is fine. It's stable. We have been using this solution for many years, and there are no issues at all. It can be slow because it's a Java-based product, so it requires a good amount of bandwidth to work with.

It's a Java client, which required more CPU and RAM, and it required a good amount of bandwidth to start.

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Information Security Manager at United Parcel Service
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Sr. Security Analyst at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have encountered stability issues at various software and hardware versions, but we worked with the support team to quickly stabilize our environment.

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it_user715158 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Manager at United Parcel Service

Solid as a rock. It is a hardened appliance. We went with that version versus the virtual, and we set it up in less than half a day, and have had no problems since. It has been running fine.

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

So far, it is stable in our development and QA. Once we go in production, we will know it. We have just started testing on the products, especially integration testing and performance testing. After that, we will know the stability, and we are putting Splunk and monitoring alerts on right now. 

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Project Coordinator at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

At this point, there were no issues with stability.

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

We did not encounter any issues with stability.

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

Stability is a problem that we fight every day.

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

We don't use it that often and it is only for admin users. So far, there have been no issues with stability.

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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 stability.

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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 stability issues; it is very stable.

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

The stability is very good. 

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Stefan Zivanovic - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Consultant at CyberGate Dfenese

It is a stable platform.

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

There were no issues with stability.

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

I have had no stability issues whatsoever with it.

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

It's very self-contained as a product. Being appliance-based, it's easy to implement. It's stable. No complaints there.

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

At the beginning, we did have some stability issues, i.e., until we understood the product, and then the process was better.

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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

It’s been in the market a long time, so thankfully it is stable.

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Solution Architect at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

I find it is a stable product for our organization. But, we have had to do some debugging sessions occasionally.

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

It is a stable solution for PAM. We sometimes have issues with stability and identity governance.

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

We experience stability issues after every patch upgrade. This is a place where CA needs to improve drastically.

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Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

At the moment, we are going through several evaluations. We found that the architecture is scalable and very resilient. In terms of scaling up, it has yet to be proven, but so far, so good.

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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 stability.

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it_user572856 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Engineer at EarthLink

It's a very stable solution, but we also built it to be highly available and redundant as well. We built it out where we have four appliances in one single cluster across two data centers.

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it_user712038 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Coach & Consultant

There were some issues with stability.

From what I remember, people would complain that every 30 minutes to an hour or so, their connection would drop and they'd have to reconnect, but it wasn't clear whether that was a problem with the network we were working on or whether that was a problem with Privileged Access Manager.

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

The current release that we are using is much faster than the old ones we were trying. We had several problems with performance and crashes, screens that wouldn’t load up. The final release we are using is much better and more stable.

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

Not in my experience. It has proven to be a very stable solution, even when it is run as a virtual appliance.

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it_user651831 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud SME

Stability-wise, there were no issues. It met our SLAs. For the most part, it's really stable. There were no significant outages or issues with the stability of the product. We didn't have any of that experience with the solution.

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it_user707196 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant

There were no stability issues.

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it_user459162 - PeerSpot reviewer
Presale Engineer with 51-200 employees

The CA PAM appliance works stably. I didn’t see many errors related to stability.

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Finance at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It’s very stable, unless we do some patches or upgrade, then it’ll break some functional parts.

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it_user616500 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Engineer

I faced stability issues in the past, but I have not faced any stability issues lately.

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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 stability.

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it_user705735 - PeerSpot reviewer
IAM Architect at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

No issues so far, except the typical Java/web-browser problems that all Java-based products have.

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it_user531528 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Consultant

There were no issues with stability.

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OI
Engineer at a university with 51-200 employees

The stability looks okay. 

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

The solution is not implemented for end users, so we haven't had any problems so far.

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Consultor Senior TI y Seguridad de Datos at a tech services company
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Works

We had some issues with the load balancing feature when configured for clustering.

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

It has been reliable down the line with new features and updates.

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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 stability.

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

Some rollover credentials often do not work or you need a more complex configuration.

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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 stability issues experienced, but we never went live.

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

The product is matured now after new patches and versions.

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

Yes, at first the cluster desynchronizes often.

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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 stability 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.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.