We performed a comparison between Symantec Privileged Access Manager and WALLIX Bastion based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Comprehensive coverage of the required features for the PAM solution."
"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."
"It's easy to use and easy to configure."
"We can check the activities in the server for fragile files and documents in case of any issues."
"The two factor authentication, and the single most important capability was it supported PIV and CAC as one of the two factors. That was pretty huge for us."
"The RDP-gateway: For limiting which server an operator can access."
"We can enforce complicated password policies and very important frequent password changes."
"It is great for identity governance."
"The support is great. They offer 24/7 support, but the specific level of support depends on your subscription. There's a weekday-only option, and a 24/7 option that covers all days of the week. They also have offices in different regions, including West Africa, so people there can easily get support. There's no need to worry about getting assistance."
"The solution's technical support team is helpful."
"The interface is very simple. It doesn't need any plug-ins, just browsers that are installed at the beginning."
"WALLIX Bastion's most valuable feature is the Access Manager because you can use it and access the data center without any client VPN."
"Its video recording capabilities have definitely been key for us."
"I like that it's Linux-based, and you don't need to have separate implementations, extra database licenses, or enterprise licenses. I think because it's Linux-based, it's more seamless than Windows. I also like the access manager, which I think is a super tool. Everything is browser-based, and you don't need a VPN. So, that's a great thing."
"I would like this solution to be simpler. It should have a one-click access that works together with AWS."
"Bring more technology into the portfolio and being able to collapse those products into a much more integrated way."
"The service account management functionality needs to be extended to application pools, SQL database, PowerShell scripts, service account discovery, etc."
"They need to have zero tier and active-active setup with zero minimum downtime, which they are working on it. "
"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."
"We experience stability issues after every patch upgrade. This is a place where CA needs to improve drastically."
"They should include some assignments in the test environment to explore the product's features."
"I’m no fan of Java as an application front-end, as it tends to have issues depending on what browser one’s using."
"For me, the main issue has to do with the system performance itself."
"There could be more automation features for the solution."
"The password management needs improvement. Management of Access Manager should be improved as well."
"Based on my experience as a sales tech person, one area of improvement could be a more unified licensing model."
"The product doesn't have behavior analytics. They promised to develop this, but only for the cloud, not for on-premise versions."
"The performance of WALLIX Bastion's password manager is very low."
"It would be better if I could manage multiple accounts in one place, like CyberArk. With WALLIX, you can only manage one account, and you are given a separate category. You have to click on each connection to do anything. For example, CyberArk might give three options for one connection if you want to have an interactive user-level experience. But with WALLIX, you have to click three times to get that access. Also, the biggest disadvantage of WALLIX is the reporting. I feel like it's very weak in reporting when compared to the other solutions. As a solution, they're good and stable. But they need to make their reports neater and better. Right now, we're going to the console and then pressing buttons every single time."
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Symantec Privileged Access Manager is ranked 18th in Privileged Access Management (PAM) with 50 reviews while WALLIX Bastion is ranked 9th in Privileged Access Management (PAM) with 7 reviews. Symantec Privileged Access Manager is rated 7.8, while WALLIX Bastion is rated 7.8. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WALLIX Bastion writes "Offers secure identity management, privilege control, access monitoring, and risk reduction through controlled access". 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, whereas WALLIX Bastion is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access, Fudo PAM, One Identity Safeguard and Delinea Secret Server. See our Symantec Privileged Access Manager vs. WALLIX Bastion report.
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