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As of July 2025, the mindshare of Symantec VIP Access Manager in the Authentication Systems category stands at 1.7%, down from 2.4% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Symantec VIP Access Manager reviews

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Presales Consultant at Cyberwise
Verified user of Symantec VIP Access Manager
Sep 2, 2024
With its mobile application, this tool offers a convenient and user-friendly experience to its users

Pros

"The tool has been very stable, in my experience. Also, I haven't faced any issues or problems with integration or connectivity."

Cons

"I would like to see the solution meet the integration needs at our company...Improving the solution's integration feature would be beneficial."
PeerSpot user
Administrator at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of Symantec VIP Access Manager
Aug 4, 2023
Intuitive and simple to use solution

Pros

"It's a good tool. It's pretty straightforward. "

Cons

"Maybe Symantec could consider providing a step-by-step guide for first-time users."
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Senior Security Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of Symantec VIP Access Manager
Jul 26, 2020
Product version discussed: 2.2.4.44
It's fairly easy to install, fairly easy to set up, and provides us the ability to get into our corporate environment

Pros

"Other than it provides us with remote access, so it's fairly easy to install, fairly easy to set up, and provides us the ability to get into our corporate environment."

Cons

"It gets out of sync with Active Directory or whatever it might be, whatever the authentication piece is on Active Directory, and they just reset it on the backend. I never have to contact the vendor."
WB
Specialist Solution Architect at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Verified user of Symantec VIP Access Manager
Sep 4, 2019
Product version discussed: 9.8
Good interface and the VPN works well

Pros

"The VPN we are using is good and working quite well."

Cons

"If they had dashboards or a report for managers or executives, then it would allow them to see the status and have it make sense to them."
AK
Consultant at a government with 11-50 employees
Verified user of Symantec VIP Access Manager
Mar 20, 2019
Offers more platform support and is easy to use

Pros

"It is easy to use."

Cons

"In the next release, I would like the ability to work offline with remote access."
PeerSpot user
Professional Services Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Verified user of Symantec VIP Access Manager
Jul 23, 2017
Provides an easy management of credentials for the remote users when accessing the corporate resources

Pros

"Cloud-based service and management."

Cons

"Geofencing needs improvement."
PeerSpot user
Network Analyst at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of Symantec VIP Access Manager
Jul 21, 2017
Product version discussed: 9.8.0
One of the most valuable features is two-factor authentication

Pros

"The two-factor authentication is most definitely valuable and moves us closer to being able to check off those important boxes for compliance."

Cons

"The gateway server is a RADIUS server, but it lacks the functionality of returning RADIUS attributes other than those that are required for the gateway to authenticate the users."
PeerSpot user
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of Symantec VIP Access Manager
Jun 6, 2017
Intelligent Authentication and the cloud-based service with BYOD are valuable features. The User Store synchronization part needs to improve.

Pros

"In this version 9.1, lots of changes are done for the dashboard, User Store etc."

Cons

"The User Store synchronization part needs to improve. Also, the logs, reports, and dashboard can be improved."