Symantec Privileged Access Manager Stability
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Muhammad Baber
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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View full review »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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March 2024
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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.
View full review »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.
View full review »At this point, there were no issues with stability.
View full review »We did not encounter any issues with stability.
View full review »Stability is a problem that we fight every day.
View full review »We don't use it that often and it is only for admin users. So far, there have been no issues with stability.
View full review »I have not encountered any issues with stability.
View full review »I have not encountered any stability issues; it is very stable.
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ReviewerCk326
Senior Security Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The stability is very good.
View full review »It is a stable platform.
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Anton Purba
IT Security Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
There were no issues with stability.
I have had no stability issues whatsoever with it.
View full review »It's very self-contained as a product. Being appliance-based, it's easy to implement. It's stable. No complaints there.
View full review »At the beginning, we did have some stability issues, i.e., until we understood the product, and then the process was better.
View full review »So far, so good. It is new. We haven’t had any issues yet.
View full review »It’s been in the market a long time, so thankfully it is stable.
I find it is a stable product for our organization. But, we have had to do some debugging sessions occasionally.
View full review »It is a stable solution for PAM. We sometimes have issues with stability and identity governance.
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Asif Shaikh
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.
View full review »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.
View full review »We did not encounter any issues with stability.
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.
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.
View full review »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.
View full review »Not in my experience. It has proven to be a very stable solution, even when it is run as a virtual appliance.
View full review »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.
View full review »There were no stability issues.
The CA PAM appliance works stably. I didn’t see many errors related to stability.
View full review »It’s very stable, unless we do some patches or upgrade, then it’ll break some functional parts.
View full review »I faced stability issues in the past, but I have not faced any stability issues lately.
View full review »I did not encounter any issues with stability.
No issues so far, except the typical Java/web-browser problems that all Java-based products have.
View full review »There were no issues with stability.
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reviewer1398909
Engineer at a university with 51-200 employees
The stability looks okay.
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Renê Souza
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.
Not yet.
View full review »We had some issues with the load balancing feature when configured for clustering.
View full review »It has been reliable down the line with new features and updates.
View full review »We did not encounter any issues with stability.
Some rollover credentials often do not work or you need a more complex configuration.
View full review »There were no stability issues experienced, but we never went live.
View full review »The product is matured now after new patches and versions.
View full review »Yes, at first the cluster desynchronizes often.
View full review »I did not encounter any stability issues.
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Symantec Privileged Access Manager
March 2024
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