BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access Reviews

We primarily use the solution for Privileged Remote Access. The primary use case is to let the suppliers connect in a very, very secure way on privileged endpoints and internal privilege endpoints or internal operators, probably from Azure. They operate something in the Azure cloud, and that's a very secure way to connect to the Azure cloud.

It's one of the most secure products in the market. 

They have very good support. They have really have great support.

It's everything that we need. It's like a Swiss knife. We can do everything with that to produce what we need for Privileged Remote Access reasons. 

Every three to six months they bring new features like processes, access processes, and things like that, which are unique in the market. I have not seen other solutions offering what they offer.

The documentation is really great. It's cool. You can download all the documentation you need at any time. They've done it in a great way.

The API is great and we can automate anything that we need with the product.  

If you know what you are doing, it's not a difficult setup.

The solution is stable.

The scalability is excellent. 

The solution offers many great integrations.

I cannot say that the solution is lacking any features. It has everything we need right now.

They could probably integrate a wizard or something like that to add a new use case. It could be something that makes it easier to add a new use case. That's something they could probably improve. I'm not sure about this, however, as the direction is anyway going more and more in the direction of automation. That said, for a beginner customer who is starting from scratch, probably a wizard would be a good feature to add.

The on-premises version is not as easy to set up as a cloud deployment,

We've used the solution for about five years. We started using it pretty much from the moment it came out. We have worked with the solution for a while. We've benn BeyondTrust resellers, however, for 15 years.

It's got great stability. It's really great. In all the 15 years I used the remote support solution, and the five years we used the PRA solution, we never have seen an unstable situation with any of the components of the product. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.

The solution is scalable. You can do a worldwide rollout of the product. This is an Enterprise product, and so the scalability allows you to expand over multiple countries, over multiple locations, with their technology. 

The company is best suited to enterprise level organizations - specifically medium and large ones. 

They have really great support. If you have to call, for example, someone at Microsoft, you need to wait in a queue about 30 minutes, or here in Switzerland, some companies, have outsourced the support to other countries. Then you have to wait in a queue and wait for a person which is helping you. At BeyondTrust in all these 15 years, normally you have a wait of one or two minutes, and almost immediately you have a person in the chat, which helps you, and a competent person. They are very quick and very responsive. 

This is an on-premise product. You cannot really compare with the other products from the cloud, which you just click and then work. There is a setup process, and you need an admin with a certification. It's not so easy, however, if you have the right guys in place, then it's no problem. 

Normally, anyway, this is an Enterprise product, and in the company, you have a person which is administrating this product. BeyondTrust is an Enterprise solution, and therefore, you have to do some kind of rollout as well.

Typically, users will see an ROI within about a year or so. It gives you the best tool to your employees they can have in that area. And therefore the return of investment comes very fast.

The pricing depends on the model you choose. You can have it as a cloud version or you can have it as an on-premise version and therefore the prices vary. The initial costs are normally a little bit higher than with other products, however, after two or three years, it's a bargain. It's just that the initial cost is a little bit higher. That said, due to the functionality it gives to your team, the return of investment comes very fast.

We are a reseller, not an end-user.

While we do use different deployment models, many of our clients are government-related and therefore we deal a lot with on-premises deployments. 

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten. It's definitely on the upper level, well above what else is available.

I would recommend that those considering using the solution do a certification course similar to when you install Windows server or something like that from Microsoft where you can become a Microsoft certified professional, and you can attend a class and then you can do an exam about the product. 

I recommend that a company which uses the product has also a certified admin. It makes it lot easier. That way, they can really profit from all the functionality the product has. The product has many functions however, you need to give it to a person with enough know-how. Otherwise, the company will not use all the features the product offers. 

We use the solution to give the network access to third-party vendors or remote basis employees. It helps us authenticate their credentials directly without a VPN connection.

The solution has the best screen-sharing feature. We can invite external vendors without exposing any credentials or network access to them using it.

The solution's access process for third-party vendors needs to be simplified. It should eliminate the process of installing client applications on users' machines for better security. Instead, we can publish a URL link for them. Also, its web interface needs enhancement as well.

We have been using the solution for four years.

It is a stable solution. I rate its stability an eight out of ten.

The solution's scalability is a five or six out of ten.

The solution's technical support is good. Whenever we raise any case, they try to solve it as soon as possible.

Positive

The solution's initial setup process is straightforward. It is developed and managed by BeyondTrust itself. They provide us with the virtual appliance, and we ask the customer to deploy that profile on their server. Once the appliance is deployed, we can access the URL and start with the initial configuration. Further, it integrates with the active directory and the customer's NTP server to configure two-factor authentication. The users can easily enable it for their IDs by scanning the QR code using any authenticator app or mobile device.

I advise others to use BeyondTrust if they have an existing PAM solution. It will help them with seamless access to privileged accounts and credentials. I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

My company uses BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access for privileged access management to facilitate the management of RDP sessions and the rotation of credentials or passwords.

The most valuable features of the solution are the seamless features that allow you to use the password without manually copying it while also providing it in a clear format. The solution's feature injects the password directly into the application you use.

The integration of the solution with many platforms is a difficult area to manage and needs to be made easy. For example, I don't think BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access works with products from Sophos.

I have been using BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access for around three months. My company has a partnership with BeyondTrust.

It is a stable tool. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight to eight and a half out of ten.

In my company, there are less than ten users of the solution. I have dealt with my company's clients, with more than five hundred people working with the product.

The solution can be used in small and enterprise-sized businesses.

Based on the feedback from my colleagues who have never complained about the technical support, I would say that the product's support team is good.

BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access is one of the easiest products to deploy.

The solution is deployed mainly on virtual appliances.

I rate the product's pricing a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is high, and ten is low. It is an expensive product.

I have only compared BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access with Delinea Secret Server till now. From a technical standpoint, Delinea has more features. From a practical point of view, I think BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access is easier to manage and deploy. I haven't worked with Delinea to be able to give an elaborate opinion about it.

I rate the overall solution an eight and a half to nine out of ten.

We use this solution to provide remote authentication for a support system that we are providing. We have a data center with many different products that are based on Windows, Linux, and hardware appliances.

There are many different ways to configure this solution in order to provide what we need. Depending on the kind of system that we're supporting, we can directly access the server, and application, or even a web page.

The most valuable feature is that this solution can be implemented regardless of the operating system. It can be used with Microsoft, Linux, Unix, and Cisco, and we can use the same product to access every different service.

This solution is simple to use.

Changing your password should be simplified, and there should not be a charge for it. For every server that we are supporting, we have an administrator password to log in. This is for remote access and remote support, and we do not like to give this password to the local support people. I would like to be able to assign a dedicated password that can be used only for one day. There are other products that can do this.

We built this system with redundancy and we have never had a crash or any other problem with it.

We deal with a person from the vendor to handle our maintenance, and we never have to contact technical support directly. We are very happy with the support.

This initial setup of this solution is straightforward.

It is not very easy to implement because there are so many types of servers. It depends on the knowledge of the person. However, if it is properly defined then it is very simple to use.

The length of time for deployment depends on the implementation. If everything is known then it can take one to two hours. In other cases, it can take a week or two.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

I have a hundred different use cases. They're all different because every customer is different. One of the top use cases is where a third-party vendor needs to internally access one of the servers or applications. 

Its security, simplicity, and ease of deployment and maintenance are the most valuable. It is FIPS compliant, so it goes through severe penetration testing every one year or two years. They have to maintain this compliance. It is very safe.

Customers have been using it in the last eight years because of the simplicity of getting it deployed quickly. Most of the people using the solution had been hacked already, so they needed it quickly. As compared to the other solutions in the market, it can be turned on in production very quickly. You don't really need to have a server. It can be deployed very rapidly on VMware or Hyper-V, and you don't need to do an installation. It is a kind of an all-included package that you just deploy in a VM environment. It is basically a VM that is specifically built for a customer. The way the PRA data solutions work is that you need to build them for each customer because of being hard-coded with their SSL certificate, their web page name, and all that.

It would be very nice if it has an enterprise vault. Currently, it can interact with Password Safe, which is a separate solution and equivalent to Thycotic Secret Server. Instead of having Password Safe as a separate entity, they should combine it with BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access. They have done it in some way, but it is not an enterprise tech solution.

I have been using this solution for eight years.

It is very stable. In eight years, I've never seen a bug.

Our clients are large businesses. 

I used to work there. I know this stuff by heart, so I don't need to call them. 

It is easy to set up. The complex part is to explain all the beneficial features and functionality to the customer because it can pretty much do everything. Discussing the environment and use cases is where you spend most of the time before you do the deployment.

Its deployment can be done very quickly. It can be deployed within 24 hours, which is useful if there is any hacking or breach. After that, you can add more complexity to it and configure it for a use case.

I would rate BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access a nine out of ten.

The primary use case is for customers who are aware of RDP, remote desktop insecurity, and want to resolve this by deploying BeyondTrust Remote Access. There are so many features built into the system, and both cloud and on-premises deployment are offered. 

This product is very stable and scalable. This is an excellent platform. 

I can't think of any specific improvements because the product is already so rich. 

This solution is very stable. 

It's very scalable—horizontal, vertical, you name it. 

This product is backed up by excellent, very knowledgeable support. 

The company guarantees the best ROI, provided you take advantage of all the features. If you're buying a product, though, you shouldn't use only the basic function features anyway—use the advanced features. So the ROI is almost guaranteed when you invest in this product, but you need to find the right partner for deployment. You need a partner who will show you all the features you can take advantage of so that you benefit from the ROI, otherwise you're wasting it and you might as well buy something cheaper and more basic. 

The price is pretty expensive, but you get what you pay for and this is a great product. 

This product is the de facto standard, based on function features, installation, and customer base. There is a reason why so many well-known companies use it. 

I rate BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access a nine out of ten, just because there's no such thing as a perfect product.