Idira Privileged Access Manager vs RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle comparison

The compared Idira by Palo Alto Networks and RSA solutions aren't in the same category. Idira by Palo Alto Networks is ranked #1 in PAM , with an average rating of 8.6, and holds a 9.9% mindshare in the category. RSA is ranked #21 in IAM , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Idira by Palo Alto Networks users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 60% of RSA users who would recommend it.

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Categories and Ranking

Idira Privileged Access Man...

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

230

Ranking in other categories

User Activity Monitoring (1st), Enterprise Password Managers (2nd), Privileged Access Management (PAM) (1st), Mainframe Security (1st), Operational Technology (OT) Security (3rd)

RSA Identity Governance and...

Average Rating

7.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Identity Management (IM) (21st)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Identity and Access Management solutions, they serve different purposes. Idira Privileged Access Manager is designed for Privileged Access Management (PAM) and holds a mindshare of 9.9%, down 17.3% compared to last year.
RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle, on the other hand, focuses on Identity Management (IM), holds 1.1% mindshare, down 1.5% since last year.

Privileged Access Management (PAM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Idira Privileged Access Manager	9.9%
One Identity Safeguard	4.4%
Delinea Secret Server	4.0%
Other	81.7%

Privileged Access Management (PAM)

Identity Management (IM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle	1.1%
SailPoint Identity Security Cloud	9.1%
Microsoft Entra ID	6.1%
Other	83.7%

Identity Management (IM)

Featured Reviews

Atul-Gujar

CyberArk manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Secures critical infrastructures with essential user session audit records

A potential area for improvement is enhancing support for cluster environments and distributed Vaults. Clients in multiple countries that need central access have different challenges that require better solutions from CyberArk. For financial services, CyberArk can improve incident response by ensuring fast support for critical priority tickets to meet compliance requirements. Providing more documentation on CyberArk is recommended for new team members to enhance their troubleshooting capabilities. I understand it's up to the client, but 99% fail to change the demo key, so it's crucial for CyberArk to emphasize changing the key and documenting it as part of the installation process.

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Harshul Nayak

Senior Project Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Streamline identity lifecycle management with intuitive interfaces and robust policy features

The functions of RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle, especially the IGA, are quite strong with their custom forms and workflows integrated. The user interface is very friendly and easy to use, making it a good product overall. However, it still has to be on-premise and the cloud version is not easily accessible, as dedicated instances are required and machines cannot be shared as multi-tenant for various customers. The advanced policy features of RSA definitely help in defining certain policies such as segregation of duties. That's particularly useful along with creating different access reviews. Regarding access control in simplifying access management, RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle has strong foundations of groups and roles, which help in defining all policies very easily. This makes it very easy to integrate with other access management tools or privileged access management tools.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"There are no issues with scalability, and our clients are very happy to use the product."

"Implementing CyberArk is not only rolling out a tool, it also will force the company to have a good look at the access management strategy, improve security processes and clean data."

"The product enables us manage passwords of highly privileged (service) accounts, which are not tied to a person, and they include a full audit trail and approval workflow functionality."

"Rather than multiple tools for maintaining regulatory compliance around passwords and privileged accounts, we have centralized as much as possible with CyberArk. This is now a one stop shop for end users to access their elevated credentials."

"It's secure and reliable. I especially appreciate that it's locked down and only allows access to authorized components."

"The voice technology is very good."

"Session monitoring is excellent. It may be the solution's most valuable aspect."

"Security is the solution's most valuable feature. As far as I know, this solution is the most secure system of this class on the market today, even considering another management system like Fudo Security, which we also use. The integration capabilities are very good; it helps strengthen our overall security."

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"RSA Identity Governance and lifecycles are good for the access certification and auditing sections."

"Roles, connectors for provisioning and re-accreditation or reviews help greatly to govern user access."

"It improved security."

"The most valuable feature is the security, in particular, the One Time Password support."

"Soft and hard tokens for two factor authentication has been introduced."

"The data collection is excellent and easy to do. It does not require a lot of configuration nor does it require rules to be written like other competitors do."

"Customer service was always exceptional and if we needed to call the regular customer support number for administrative tasks on the account, they were always helpful and resolved our cases within a few days."

"All of the features in this product are good and this is a product that I recommend."

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Cons

"We would, of course, always prefer it if the pricing was cheaper."

"Functionality to enable drive mappings to platforms and default connectors without the need to use AutoIt."

"Perhaps improve the user registry integration. User registry integration is atypical in the sense that the product creates a copy of the user inside the product itself."

"I would like to see an easier way to define delegated roles within the administration of the core product."

"The usual workload is sometimes delayed by the solution."

"Our DevOps team is looking in the direction of cloud, because we are not in it today. We are hoping to build it with Conjur from the ground up."

"I sometimes require learning resources when there is a new solution for CyberArk."

"We would like to have more flexibility in the RBAC model and have more options to define who should have access to what, not only based on safe membership."

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"As the size becomes larger, the collections and unifications of the IDs process become quite slow, which can be improved further."

"There are scalability issues. This product does not scale very well. It is not a good product for load balancing / active–active architecture."

"RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle could improve out-of-the-box customization."

"Technical support in Pakistan can be improved."

"This product is missing a lot of features which other competitors are providing. One of the key features that are missing right now is risk scoring. Additionally, there is not much scope for customization - everything is hard-coded and predefined, so it does not allow the developers to make many modifications."

"Application and appliance stability needs improvement."

"It could be a little more flexible with the installation of the product."

"The stability of RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle could improve; it has some bugs that need to be fixed."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I haven't seen the numbers. I know it is not cheap, but I don't know what it is. I would rate it a six out of ten in terms of pricing. It is definitely more expensive than the other product, but it also provides more functionality, and it is modular too. So, we pay for the functionality we're actually going to use, and that's nice."

"The cost is high compared to other products."

"In comparison to other products on the market, CyberArk is a more costly product."

"CyberArk is one of the best PAM solutions and one of the most expensive, but it works better than the others, so the pricing is fair."

"Compared to other solutions, it is costly."

"From a client perspective, CyberArk's pricing is fair but there is a significant increase each year. They should limit the price increase because this could potentially drive customers to other partners. Price changes should be at defined intervals. There should not be sudden jumps."

"The main problem for the tool is its licensing. I work for a really big company. When you try to develop this as a service, usually you work with leverage teams who are formed with dozens of members. You might dedicate one FTE, or less, for something, e.g., an antivirus administrator. You might have half an FTE's effort dedicated to administering the antivirus, but then you have a team of about 30 users who might access that ticket. The problem is that CyberArk eliminated the possibility of concurrent users years ago. This is a big problem for companies who work with leverage teams. You need to pay for everyone. 40 licenses are used by 20 or 30 people. This is a big problem because licenses are not precisely cheap."

"CyberArk is good at what they do, and the price reflects that. You have to pay the price for the same."

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"We are using the cloud platform, but we don't find it compatible to be served as a multi-tenant platform. This is a large drawback. It becomes expensive because it is then an all-dedicated solution. You have to have a separate tenant for each client, which increases the cost. The overall unit pricing can be less expensive than how it is right now."

"Pricing varies based on user count/number of modules you need."

"I rate the product's price a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

Construction Company

Comms Service Provider

14%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Construction Company

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	59
Midsize Enterprise	42
Large Enterprise	175

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	6

Questions from the Community

How does Sailpoint IdentityIQ compare with CyberArk PAM?

We evaluated Sailpoint IdentityIQ before ultimately choosing CyberArk. Sailpoint Identity Platform is a solution to manage risks in cloud enterprise environments. It automates and streamlines the m...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CyberArk Privileged Access Manager?

My thoughts on the pricing of CyberArk Privileged Access Manager depend entirely on the vendors' requirements. If they want their things to be secure, they have to spend accordingly. We have four t...

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What needs improvement with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager?

I believe account discovery and rolling support need to be improved. Account discovery is important when integrating with other systems, as other PAM solutions can perform account discovery and onb...

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What needs improvement with RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle?

There is room for improvement with RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle. As the size becomes larger, the collections and unifications of the IDs process become quite slow, which can be improved fu...

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What is your primary use case for RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle?

We provide RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle as a service, mainly to oversee the digital identity lifecycle, from the initiation to the off-boarding at the end of that digital identity. Our cli...

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What advice do you have for others considering RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle?

Overall, I would rate RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle at an eight out of ten.

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Also Known As

CyberArk Privileged Access Security, CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault

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Overview

CyberArk Privileged Access Manager safeguards privileged accounts through password management, credential rotation, and session recording. With seamless integration and real-time monitoring, it ensures robust security across platforms.

CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is recognized for its extensive capabilities in managing and securing privileged accounts. It offers vital functionalities such as automatic password rotation, real-time session monitoring, and cross-platform integration through APIs and custom connectors. Users find the flexibility in workflows and granular access controls beneficial, particularly in protecting access across cloud and on-prem infrastructures. However, improvements in its interface, installation process, plugin support, and integration with third-party tools are often suggested. Pricing is a concern for many, along with the need for better dashboard reporting, user provisioning, and enhanced documentation. Organizations leverage this tool for encrypting and monitoring critical account activities and automating password management to bolster security.

What are the key features of CyberArk Privileged Access Manager?

Enterprise Password Vault: Provides secure storage and management of enterprise credentials.
Privilege Session Manager: Offers comprehensive session recording and monitoring.
Privileged Threat Analytics: Detects and alerts on potential credential threats.
Integration Capabilities: Easily integrates with multiple systems using APIs and custom connectors.

What benefits or ROI should users expect?

Enhanced Security: Automates and centralizes password management, reducing risk of account misuse.
Compliance Support: Ensures alignment with compliance policies through automated processes.
Operational Efficiency: Streamlines security operations with real-time monitoring and integration.
Adaptability: Protects privileged access across diverse infrastructure setups including cloud and on-prem.

CyberArk Privileged Access Manager finds substantial use in industries such as finance, healthcare, and technology, where the protection of privileged accounts is critical. These sectors rely on its capabilities to manage application credentials securely and provide safe access for developers, administrators, and vendors across various infrastructures.

Idira by Palo Alto Networks

RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle aids efficient identity management, offering synchronization with Active Directory for seamless setups and enhancing security with two-factor authentication.

RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle streamlines identity management from initiation to off-boarding, focusing on role-based access control and application integration. Despite requiring on-premise deployment, it provides advanced policy features for segregation of duties and access management. Performance issues arise with large file sizes, and there is limited integration with some third-party applications. Users benefit from custom forms, workflows, and an intuitive portal that eases the user's experience. While improvements are needed in database integration and multi-tenant capabilities, the solution remains popular for its auditing and certification support.

What are the key features of RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle?

Synchronization with Active Directory: Facilitates quick setups.
Role-based access control: Eases application access management.
Custom forms and workflows: Enhances user interaction.
Advanced policy features: Supports compliance needs.
Two-factor authentication: Increases security levels.
Access certification and auditing: Ensures efficient data management.

What benefits should users consider in reviews?

Enhanced Security: With layered authentication methods.
Efficient Data Collection: For streamlined operations.
Improved Access Governance: Through streamlined user role management.
Easy Identity Management: From onboarding to off-boarding events.

RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle is utilized in sectors managing digital identities, with deployment options on AWS, either on the cloud or on-premise. It assists organizations in handling joiner, mover, and leaver processes, adapting to business-specific needs while adding authentication layers to network access.

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Sample Customers

Rockwell Automation

NTT Com Asia, Virgin Blue, Bank of Uganda, EMEA Telecommunications Company, LAit (Lazio Innovazione Tecnologica), NyNet, OTP Bank, Red Bull Racing, Rupert House School, Signify, UK Local Authority, Bancolombia, Banco Popular de Puerto Rico (BPPR), TIVIT, Array Services, International Computerware, KPMG LLP, Moffitt Cancer Center

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