Enterprise Solutions & Services Head at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Top 10
Oct 9, 2024
Symantec PAM is recommended for customers looking for a stable and quick deployment solution at a reasonable price. It is important to ensure that Broadcom provides good support locally. Many customers have left due to acquisition impacts on sales strategy. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
I would rate this solution 5 out of 10. I wouldn't recommend this solution because the support isn't good, and the response time isn't good. It's also not on the Gartner report anymore.
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So when we are trying develop some particular portal, when you are looking with loop-back IP, connecting the backend by a loop-back IP, the response is coming by an actual IP - that's the portal design. Because it is redirecting multiple URLs, the portal designed like in such a way like it will take your input and redirect your many multiple URLs with the connection and respond back to your browser, but the browser always it comes back with the actual IP, not the loop-back IP. In this case, the CA PAM is working well for us.
Security Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
May 31, 2018
Go for it if your key areas are password/session management of Windows/Unix/database. Be careful if you want to use this for service account management. There are some technical challenges while integrating the web-based console (security devices) for transparent login/single sign-on.
CA Privileged Access Manager is a simple-to-deploy, automated, proven solution for privileged access management in physical, virtual and cloud environments. It enhances security by protecting sensitive administrative credentials such as root and administrator passwords, controlling privileged user access, proactively enforcing policies and monitoring and recording privileged user activity across all IT resources. It includes CA PAM Server Control (previously CA Privileged Identity...
I would rate the solution and its usage at least a nine out of ten.
It is simple to implement and is suitable for medium to large-scale enterprises. I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.
Symantec PAM is recommended for customers looking for a stable and quick deployment solution at a reasonable price. It is important to ensure that Broadcom provides good support locally. Many customers have left due to acquisition impacts on sales strategy. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
I rate Symantec Privileged Access Manager an eight out of ten.
I rate this solution a seven out of ten. I recommend this solution because it is suitable for the initial phase and the small business plan.
I would rate this solution 5 out of 10. I wouldn't recommend this solution because the support isn't good, and the response time isn't good. It's also not on the Gartner report anymore.
I would recommend that anyone thinking of using this solution carry out a proof of concept first. I would rate this solution an eight out of 10.
This solution is our gateway to access other servers. We plan to continue with this product as our company grows.
So when we are trying develop some particular portal, when you are looking with loop-back IP, connecting the backend by a loop-back IP, the response is coming by an actual IP - that's the portal design. Because it is redirecting multiple URLs, the portal designed like in such a way like it will take your input and redirect your many multiple URLs with the connection and respond back to your browser, but the browser always it comes back with the actual IP, not the loop-back IP. In this case, the CA PAM is working well for us.
Go for it if your key areas are password/session management of Windows/Unix/database. Be careful if you want to use this for service account management. There are some technical challenges while integrating the web-based console (security devices) for transparent login/single sign-on.