ARCON Secure Compliance Management is a robust tool designed to streamline and simplify compliance management, ensuring organizations maintain effective regulatory adherence.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| ARCON Secure Compliance Management | 0.5% |
| Wiz | 4.5% |
| Qualys VMDR | 3.9% |
| Other | 91.1% |
ARCON Secure Compliance Management provides advanced functionality to bolster IT governance by offering comprehensive control over compliance requirements. This platform utilizes automated processes to efficiently manage audits and regulatory tasks, reducing the time and effort needed to adhere to compliance standards. Its reliable architecture aids in minimizing risk while enhancing security measures across enterprises, offering a capable framework for managing complex compliance landscapes.
What are the vital features?In the finance industry, ARCON Secure Compliance Management is implemented to ensure stringent adherence to financial regulations, reducing risk exposure and enhancing credibility. In healthcare, it ensures compliance with data protection laws, safeguarding patient information.
ARCON Secure Compliance Management was previously known as ARCON ARSIM, ARCON SCM.
| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Zonal Credit Head at ICICIBANK Ltd | 4.0 | We use ARCON Secure Compliance Management for password encryption and remote access. It enhances productivity by providing good reports, though improvements are needed for automation as some parameters have occasionally disappeared, which is frustrating. We haven't used or considered other solutions. |
| Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees | 4.0 | I find ARCON ARSIM user-friendly with easy installations and good support. However, I wish it supported more devices and had better license audit and governance features. |
| Enterprise Technology Head at MANTRA TECHNOLOGIES | 4.0 | We implemented ARCON ARSIM for a public sector client, who is happy with its on-premise stability and scalability, replacing CyberArk. While pricing and dashboard visibility could improve, the support is excellent. I rate ARCON ARSIM an 8/10. |
We use this solution for password encryption and remote access. We are customers of ARCON.
This solution is good for productivity checking and provides good reports.
We've had instances where some parameters have disappeared and that is frustrating. The automation needs to be improved.
We've been using this solution for five years.
The solution is stable.
The solution is scalable.
We have our own internal support.
The initial setup is somewhat complex.
I rate this solution eight out of 10.
It is very user friendly. There are not a lot of clicks and buttons. The tool helps me with the installations. The user can do the installation rather than having a technical guide. I also like the browsing stream. It has a good dashboard.
I would love to have all the products. Currently they have all the server operating systems and network operating systems but they should have all the other devices also included, like security devices. That's what I think is missing. They should also improve the license audit part. If I want to do a license audit from this tool, I'm not able to do it right now.
I have been using ARCON ARSIM for three years.
It's a good, stable product and the scalability is good.
Technical support is nice, it's done from India 24/7 so it's not an issue. We have level three of support one we have an in-house team. The second option for support is the local partner and the third one is the ARCON team that is available 24/7 from India.
The initial setup is very straightforward.
I would rate it an eight out of ten.
In the next release, there should be a license audit. They should be able to do the license audit seamlessly. A lot of software tries to plug-in and we need to do that as well. The governance also needs improvement. We want more details like AI and the ability to scan things in.
We are one of the biggest security implementation and solution partners in Uganda. We work with multiple vendors, including Splunk, Fortinet, Check Point, Palo Alto, ARCON, Rapid Server, and Tenable. These are all our vendor partners. We work with different solutions for different kinds of customers and requirements. One of the PAM, privileged access management and identity management solutions our customers have been using was CyberArk, which they were not very happy with. We moved them over to solutions like Thycotic or ARCON. That is what we are working on. These are public sector customers, government customers, they are not private customers.
It is always on-prem, it cannot be hybrid. These guys will come and do an implementation on a server, which they put in the data center, then they map all the user credentials with it.
I am not a product guy, I'm the business guy for them, so I won't be able to give the specifics on the technical aspects. I can say that the customers are happy with ARCON ARSIM. They've been using it for the last six months and they've been happy with it.
As for what can be improved, definitely pricing. Customers look for pricing and ARCON is a little more expensive than Thycotic. So the pricing model could be improved. Our customer went with ARCON because being a government public sector entity, they could only go with an on-premises implementation which Thycotic does not offer.
It's still under evaluation and testing. These are big entities, the user base will be huge. So they have taken 50 user workable licenses and they're working on it for a while.
I don't think I have any other challenges or requests with ARCON, it satisfies what was required for mapping and reporting. I would say the dashboard visibility could be better. Thycotic's dashboard is very good.
We've been interacting with ARCON for more than a year.
We have also never had any issues with stability.
We have never had any issues with scalability.
The support for ARCON ARSIM is very good.
In terms of the initial setup, I can't say it was very straightforward nor very difficult; it was okay. Any implementation that we do, especially in security, is never going to be easy. This one is not tough, it was easy in the sense that we didn't have any difficulty implementing it - either at the POC stage or user stage. But it is not something that anybody off the desk can just start implementing. You need to understand how to do it and it's pretty complex unless you’re a security expert, which we are. Unless you know how to install the product and you've been trained on it, it is not easy for just anyone to do. So we had the ARCON team do a remote implementation for it with our engineer on the field.
Thycotic is cheaper then ARCON and CyberArk is more or less similar in its pricing.
The customer wanted to have a comparison between CyberArk, Thycotic, and ARCON. They wanted to understand whether Thycotic could work for them or not and we wanted to partner with them if it met certain customer requirements. The customer had to decide for their project in the next financial year, starting sometime in August, September, whether to go with Thycotic or ARCON. They were using CyberArk but they were not very happy with it. So they looked at Thycotic and ARCON. They checked out Thycotic because they were looking at its cloud-based pricing and it was cheaper than ARCON. That is one of the reasons why they looked at Thycotic, as well as the other features it has. But being a government entity, they cannot go for a cloud-based architecture. They need to have an on-prem implementation.
In Africa, migration to the cloud for services has not taken off. Because of the statutory requirements and concerns, they have not authorized anybody to use cloud services for any security applications, except for standard services like mail and messaging, which is on the cloud. Nothing else is allowed. Every other service is on-premises implementation. That is where the challenges are.
I would definitely advise anyone to look at it, it is a good product. Quite stable and scalable. It has its own strengths compared to other solutions and it does its job well. Thycotic has other strengths for other kinds of requirements. For the requirements that we looked into, ARCON met the customer's needs.
On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd rate ARCON ARSIM an eight. As a product, its technicality is good. There's nothing more that we could recommend. I'm just saying if you look at the complexity of implementation, it's not that it is hard, but unless you know how you cannot implement it properly. There is the issue of the graphics. The GUI interface display and reports that it generates could both be a little more user-friendly.
