We performed a comparison between NetIQ Privileged Account Manager and Symantec Privileged Access Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about CyberArk, Delinea, BeyondTrust and others in Privileged Access Management (PAM)."Most valuable feature is the credential vault."
"The product is very scalable in terms of concurrent sessions that it can handle at a time, number of device it can support, accounts that it can manage, or number of nodes that you can deploy in a cluster."
"We found that the architecture is scalable and very resilient."
"The key benefits are we improve our governance. We ensure we can build more trust in the way we run and operate our environment, and most of all is the accountability."
"Transparent login for users of privileged IDs (Linux, Windows). This prevents sharing of the password because it is never seen."
"We know we can scale up with what we have, and we probably will not need to buy any further appliances down the road."
"It will provide us with more security."
"CA PAM is working well for us."
"One of the key things for us about the product is around its simplicity. Being able to put in the technology that allows the business to remove complexity and also allow the security improvements."
"The user interface could be improved, it's not that good,"
"The support for other remote assistance tools would be excellent. Free included tools in Windows (Remote Assist) and Microsoft SCCM Configuration Manager (ConMgr Remote Control) allow companies to reduce the amount of RDP connections and expand the usage of the tools are frequently used by companies to provide technical support for remote assistance."
"The management console could be improved."
"It'd be great if you just stuck in your PIV card and Windows popped up, asked you for your password. You typed it in, then it remembered your credentials."
"Instead of just giving passwords to the user based on job function, from auditing perspective, turn that cycle around. That would really help from an auditing standpoint."
"Bring more technology into the portfolio and being able to collapse those products into a much more integrated way."
"It's difficult to locate the reports, there are limits on what reports can be run from the GUI, and the report formats are lacking."
"What I hope happens with the new product CA PAM is to keep all the useful features that exist in PA, but what I’ve noticed with many new products is the UI gets polished but systems lags stability and performance or it adds additional complexity instead of simplifying the user experience."
"They need to have zero tier and active-active setup with zero minimum downtime, which they are working on it. "
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NetIQ Privileged Account Manager is ranked 27th in Privileged Access Management (PAM) while Symantec Privileged Access Manager is ranked 18th in Privileged Access Management (PAM) with 50 reviews. NetIQ Privileged Account Manager is rated 6.0, while Symantec Privileged Access Manager is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of NetIQ Privileged Account Manager writes "Has a useful credential vault feature but the user interface needs to be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Privileged Access Manager writes "Allows IT and consultants to access the infrastructure environment but needs more security and better support". NetIQ Privileged Account Manager is most compared with , whereas Symantec Privileged Access Manager is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management, Delinea Secret Server and ARCON Privileged Access Management.
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