CA Role and Compliance Manager [EOL] vs Symantec Identity Governance and Administration comparison

CA Role & Compliance Manager improves the efficiency and effectiveness of identity governance initiatives by automating processes based on a business-relevant foundation. It is designed to embed the business context and security controls required in activities such as entitlements certification, role management and privilege cleanup which drives better alignment between the security, IT and business organizations. This helps deliver reduced cost, better service to users, and minimized security exposure.

The Symantec Identity Governance and Administration (formerly CA Identity Suite) provides comprehensive identity management and governance capabilities with a simple, intuitive user experience. This user experience can dramatically simplify processes such as user access requests and access certifications, resulting in improved productivity and user satisfaction. In addition, the Symantec Identity Governance and Administration performs risk analysis and certification and enables remediation actions in real-time during the access provisioning steps, thereby improving audit performance and risk posture with preventive policy enforcement.

While providing these business and governance-centric capabilities for business users, the Symantec Identity Governance and Administration also delivers core enterprise-grade identity management and governance capabilities, including broad provisioning support for on-premise and cloud apps, extensibility and flexibility to integrate with other IT systems and consumer-grade scale. This means organizations are not forced to choose between usability and performance. With the Symantec Identity Governance and Administration, they can have both.