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BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management vs Fortra's Powertech Identity & Access Manager comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.8
BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management offers exceptional scalability, effectively supporting large user bases with minimal performance impact and high stability.
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Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.3
BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management enhances security with privilege control, risk reduction, and integration capabilities for efficient endpoint security management.
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Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
4.0
BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management needs UI, integration, reporting, compatibility, pricing improvements, and enhanced support and user guidance.
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Stability Issues

Sentiment score
6.0
BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management is mostly stable, with occasional minor bugs, quickly resolved issues, and an eight out of ten rating.
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Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.0
Mixed reviews for BeyondTrust support, citing knowledgeable help but variable response times and lack of local Australian assistance.
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Setup Cost

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BeyondTrust offers flexible licensing with varying costs, seen as both expensive and valuable, especially for Mac clients.
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Categories and Ranking

BeyondTrust Endpoint Privil...
Ranking in Privileged Access Management (PAM)
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
28
Ranking in other categories
Anti-Malware Tools (9th)
Fortra's Powertech Identity...
Ranking in Privileged Access Management (PAM)
42nd
Average Rating
5.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
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Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Privileged Access Management (PAM) category, the mindshare of BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management is 4.6%, down from 6.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Fortra's Powertech Identity & Access Manager is 0.2%, down from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Privileged Access Management (PAM)
 

Featured Reviews

Marlin B Pohlman - PeerSpot reviewer
Admin rights can be granted and revoked within minutes and that is what everything comes down to, for us
The most important factor is the ability to invoke least privilege, which is required under 27701 and GDPR. We have used the solution to remove users' administrative rights and instead provide on-demand, token-based administrative rights. The latter is an option for a single, temporary increase in privileges for a trusted user for a specific time. We use it in a medical environment for HIPAA compliance or medical compliance in a GDPR case. For example, if you have a clinician who needs access to a specific piece of medical information, or if there is an administrator who needs to have administrator rights to a particular database for a limited period of time, we can give it and then revoke it. That's another reason the tool is useful. Also, the fact that we are able to add events straight from event logs and/or the database is important for crisis management and rapid reaction. This ability helps us meet our SLA requirements. In addition, we can elevate approved applications and actions without broad administrative rights. We can temporarily increase privilege based on tasks. If someone puts in a ticket, we increase their privilege for that ticket. We then watch to see if that ticket has been resolved and then we decrease it. Another feature of the platform is instant risk reduction solutions. We can do a risk metric with it, and we do that as part of our risk evaluation. We can increase and decrease privilege and we can actually show that in the ISO 13485 risk metric. And it provides a single solution for managing endpoint security preferences. It does a good job of that.
reviewer910470 - PeerSpot reviewer
Inexperienced support for old product, but good flexibility for use case customization
HelpSystems Powertech is scalable if you throw more servers at it. Then you can distribute the load, which is a Microsoft SQL Server backend, and as long as you allocate enough resources to those things, then it is scalable. That's good enough. It would be an entire organization that uses it. So at a hospital for example, a healthcare system, a bank, and it would be the entire workforce on it. I haven't see a lot of customer's specific use cases, but it is for the whole workforce, everyone. The CEO of the company to the janitor. In terms of maintaining it, that requires application administrators or system administrators. There is a manual process to update the product, at least with the on-premise version.
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
8%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

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Also Known As

BeyondTrust PowerBroker, BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management for Windows, BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management for Mac, BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management for Linux, BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management for Unix, Avecto Defendpoint
HelpSystems Powertech Identity & Access Manager, Powertech Identity & Access Manager, BoKS, BoKS ServerControl, Fox Technologies ApplicationControl, ApplicationControl
 

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Sample Customers

Aera Energy LLC, Care New England, James Madison University
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