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CA Role and Compliance Manager [EOL] vs Idira Privileged Access Manager comparison

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Categories and Ranking

CA Role and Compliance Mana...
Average Rating
5.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Idira Privileged Access Man...
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
231
Ranking in other categories
User Activity Monitoring (2nd), Enterprise Password Managers (3rd), Privileged Access Management (PAM) (1st), Mainframe Security (2nd), Operational Technology (OT) Security (4th)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user350628 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
A compliance manager is able to see things he wouldn't otherwise be able to see, although I can't run it across all systems because some of them don't have all the required configurations.
This solution exposes things that are going on. Here's an analogy: the first time you look at drop of water in a microscope, you don’t know what things are floating around. You see things that you want to investigate, but you don’t know whether they're good or bad. With this solution, a compliance manager is able to see things he wouldn't otherwise be able to see. He sees both the good and the bad, makes a determination of whether they're indeed good or bad, and then takes the necessary steps or actions to take the good and get rid of the bad. In this way, it allows him to do better things with regard to security control, certificates, role management, and other role-based access.
Mahmudul Hoque Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Engineer at intelQong Technology
Centralized access has improved privileged control and visibility yet still needs better integrations
While the access control capabilities are useful, streamlining some configuration and policy management workflows could enhance the user experience for administrators. A simpler interface for creating access policies and quickly identifying unusual activities would make day-to-day administration more efficient. Stronger integration with existing identity data and secret management could be a significant improvement for Idira Privileged Access Manager. Deeper integration with cloud solutions would make it easier to correlate privileged access activity with other security events. I would also appreciate more flexible reporting and dashboards so administrators can swiftly see access patterns and unusual privileged access from a single view.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"With this solution, a compliance manager is able to see things he wouldn't otherwise be able to see."
"The PSM is excellent and the ability to write your own connectors and plugins is invaluable as far as flexibility goes."
"It provides a one-stop shop for the majority of our administrators to get the privileged access they need."
"CyberArk Privileged Access Manager has helped our organization by controlling users' access."
"This is a complete solution that can detect cyber attacks well."
"CyberArk has the most extensive hardening and encryption techniques I have seen in a product, with equal intentions."
"CyberArk Privileged Access Manager indeed helps meet compliance and regulatory requirements for customers, especially in the financial sector, by aligning with PCI DSS standards."
"CyberArk PAS helps ensure accounts are managed according to corporate policies."
"CyberArk PAM gives us a single pane of glass to manage and secure identities across multiple environments."
 

Cons

"Unfortunately, right now it's just eye candy and, despite the ability for a compliance manager to see things he wouldn't otherwise see, it still hasn't provided the benefits we had hoped."
"We require IAM (identify and access management) capability at the administrator level because we need more identification."
"Their post-sale support area requires a big improvement."
"The only problem involves granting access to people who are authorized to view it."
"The product could be easier to use. More work needs to be done on this aspect; it is not good enough yet. It also takes up a lot of server space. Sometimes we need to use up to seven servers."
"On-prem CyberArk is pretty expensive."
"This solution is a bit complex compared to other solutions."
"It needs better documentation with more examples for the configuration files and API/REST integration"
"Functionality to enable drive mappings to platforms and default connectors without the need to use AutoIt."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"In comparison to other products on the market, CyberArk is a more costly product."
"The pricing for CyberArk is on the higher side compared to other Privileged Access Management products. Something should be done regarding enterprise licensing for long-standing customers."
"The price of CyberArk Privileged Access Manager could be less expensive."
"The solution is cost-effective for the features."
"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."
"Overall, its pricing is really good. The main difference from all the other vendors is that they have one package that covers all the functionality and modules of the basic PAM, except the add-on modules like adware and server protection. It also doesn't include the licenses for domain controller protection or maybe an API call-related feature. For the basic privileged access management, the bundle pricing is really good, but when it comes to an agent-based solution for advanced cyber protection or application identity managers, it is expensive. Services are also very expensive if you hire the services team from CyberArk, but these guys are really good. For a couple of large banking projects, we had an experience with them. The banks wanted to have things quickly and efficiently, so we had to hire them. If we take four weeks, these guys can do everything on a weekend. They charge quite a big sum of money, but they know the system well."
"CyberArk is very expensive and there are additional fees for add-ons."
"There are additional features added to our CyberArk Privileged Access Manager license. For example, features that allow us to integrate into various kinds of platforms."
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Outsourcing Company
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Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

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Also Known As

Role and Compliance Manager
CyberArk Privileged Access Security, CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault
 

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