We performed a comparison between ForgeRock and Symantec Privileged Access Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Auth0, Ping Identity and others in Access Management."This is a stable solution. When you do experience any issues, you will see it in your DB logs or audit logs so you can easily reach a conclusion of might be causing it."
"I like the intelligent authentication feature."
"The most valuable features of ForgeRock are social login and data protection."
"Easy to customize and adaptable to any environment."
"We have found the identity and access management tools in the solution to be particularly useful for our organization."
"I like the way it is handling authentication and authorization."
"The most valuable features are that it is easy to manage and it's stable."
"ForgeRock is an extensive product with many functionalities and capabilities, much more than many other tools combined."
"It's easy to use and easy to configure."
"Password Management and Session Recording. The simplicity and ease that it is to be up and running out-of-the-box is very much appreciated."
"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."
"CA PAM is working well for us."
"It will provide us with more security."
"Transparent login for users of privileged IDs (Linux, Windows). This prevents sharing of the password because it is never seen."
"Stability is solid as a rock."
"Whoever built it from the ground up, they understand how an organization is laid out."
"The only problem with ForgeRock is that it is derived from an open-source product, so sometimes it's a bit unstable."
"Lacks simplified documentation within the tool that requires use of a separate portal."
"The solution's documentation is not very good, and they do not give more details."
"In an upcoming release, the solution could improve by limiting the need to do customizations."
"It should be a little bit easier to implement. It is user-friendly, but there is always scope for improvement."
"Automatic Deployment needs improvement. it could be made easier."
"The identity management model needs a bit of improvement."
"I find that it's quite expensive for just an open-source system. Support is quite expensive."
"An improvement for this solution is that it should not be constantly based on user name and password. There should be a condition to edit and update your username."
"The management console could be improved."
"We have to do a lot of manual work to automate features."
"Bring more technology into the portfolio and being able to collapse those products into a much more integrated way."
"I’m no fan of Java as an application front-end, as it tends to have issues depending on what browser one’s using."
"They should include some assignments in the test environment to explore the product's features."
"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."
"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."
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ForgeRock is ranked 5th in Access Management with 27 reviews while Symantec Privileged Access Manager is ranked 18th in Privileged Access Management (PAM) with 50 reviews. ForgeRock is rated 8.0, while Symantec Privileged Access Manager is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of ForgeRock writes "Governance and access management solution used for multi-factor authentication that is outdated with an unresponsive UI". 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". ForgeRock is most compared with SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, Ping Identity Platform, Microsoft Entra ID, Auth0 and Symantec Siteminder, whereas Symantec Privileged Access Manager is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management, ARCON Privileged Access Management and Delinea Secret Server.
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