One Identity Safeguard vs Symantec Privileged Access Manager comparison

One Identity Safeguard vs. Symantec Privileged Access Manager

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Categories and Ranking

One Identity Safeguard

Ranking in Privileged Access Management (PAM)

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) (6th)

Symantec Privileged Access ...

Ranking in Privileged Access Management (PAM)

21st

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Privileged Access Management (PAM) category, the mindshare of One Identity Safeguard is 4.2%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Symantec Privileged Access Manager is 1.4%, down from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Privileged Access Management (PAM)

Featured Reviews

Tor Nordhagen

Executive Director at Semaphore

Transparent mode for privileged sessions will greatly simplify our client's administrative situation

We're introducing the solution's transparent mode for privileged sessions. This is part of what the client hasn't used before. It will simplify their administrative situation greatly. So far, the rollout of this feature has been a seamless process, but we're still in the midst of rolling it out. The benefits will be on the risk side. Right now, the way accounts are managed, you don't necessarily know who is using an account. There's a shared admin account, and that's not a good thing. And those accounts are shared in wallets by several people. One of the real benefits of safeguarding here is that the client will have an absolute audit of who is using an administrative interface, whether it's server or network.

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Krishnan Srinivasan

Senior Test Analyst at Wipro Limited

Enhances credential management and relatively inexpensive but needs feature improvements

I work for a service provider company, and we implement Symantec Privileged Access Manager solutions for our clients, which include various banking and mining clients We have implemented both the remote access and credential management features. The agent-based credential management solution…

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Being able to use a proxy server is an advantage."

"We deployed it into our company for controlling a client's behavior in our data center. It is very useful to control their connections, such as RDP."

"We use the Approval Anywhere, or cloud assistant feature and it is great. It enables us to add an extra layer of security for critical passwords without adding time to the approval process."

"The technical support is tremendous."

"All sessions are audited and they are indexed/searchable through the GUI."

"One of the real benefits of safeguarding here is that the client will have an absolute audit of who is using an administrative interface, whether it's server or network."

"We don't need to use VPN for remote access."

"I like Safeguard's snapshot feature that enables us to review the last time an application was opened and by whom. If there are any issues, we can look behind the scenes to see what has been done. We can suspend a user's access or close off a server."

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"It's easy to use and easy to configure."

"You can do A2A integration. You can have your own script, which can then run outside of PA to retrieve the password and perform other tasks."

"It is great for identity governance."

"It will provide us with more security."

"It is simple to implement and is suitable for medium to large-scale enterprises."

"Stability is solid as a rock."

"The RDP-gateway: For limiting which server an operator can access."

"It gives you list of servers, so you can see which users have access to which servers. This is really useful, so we can make sure nobody is getting extra access than what is needed."

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Cons

"We have issues using Safeguard to connect to and record from the cloud. Currently, they don't have a mechanism to record this type of connection."

"The SPS could be a lot easier to administrate and the parts should be unified, from a design perspective, so that I can recognize the systems as being part of the same package. They feel like they have been forced together."

"Cost-wise, it is a little bit expensive, which makes it difficult to get management approval. Its price should be reduced."

"There is a lack of documentation and many problems with the plugins."

"We have feature requests and would like to see the turnaround times on those features to be faster."

"The multilanguage functionality does not support the Arabic language, even though this solution is deployed in an Arabic region."

"The main thing that needs improvement is the slowness. Apart from that, the change password check-in feature also needs improvement because it is not working perfectly accurately."

"The main point regarding the user experience is that Safeguard has two separate management consoles."

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"The response time for support could be faster. Some features should be added: cloud-based, VPN-less, more secure, and it should be adjusted in a hybrid environment."

"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."

"They need to have zero tier and active-active setup with zero minimum downtime, which they are working on it. "

"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."

"Instead of just giving passwords to the user based on job function, from auditing perspective, turn that cycle around. That would really help from an auditing standpoint."

"I’m no fan of Java as an application front-end, as it tends to have issues depending on what browser one’s using."

"We experience stability issues after every patch upgrade. This is a place where CA needs to improve drastically."

"I would like this solution to be simpler. It should have a one-click access that works together with AWS."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its subscription cost is too much, and sometimes, it is very difficult to pitch the solution to the management for cost approval. If the cost is reduced a little bit, it would be easier. If its cost was less, many other organizations that currently cannot afford it would be able to use this technology. I'm sure many organizations around the globe are having issues with identity management, and it is a very difficult task for IT to manage privileged accounts."

"One Identity Safeguard is expensive and the cost goes up as we scale."

"It was definitely cheaper than the other two products that we evaluated."

"It is a bit on the pricey side, but you get what you pay for. You don't want to get anything too cheap because then you get cheap stuff and cheap support. That really never helps anybody."

"Safeguard is cheaper than CyberArk."

"The pricing is about $80,000 per 100 servers. There are few elective costs."

"The license is very expensive for us, partly due to inflation and partly because of the exchange rate between the Dollar and the Iranian Rial. We purchased a perpetual license that we've been using up until now, but I believe that we are not going to update it in the future. Instead, we plan to find another third-party to support us with the license, in the sense that we would have access to their license as a shared agreement."

"We have a yearly license. The cost depends on how much a company wants to invest in technology. In our organization, we believe in modern digitization and automation processes so we found it affordable. One Identity was not that much less than other solutions and it is not a cheap solution. There were number of cheaper solutions. However, it's the most effective, according to our evaluation."

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"Pricing is fair compared to other top vendors."

"It is more expensive than other solutions on the market."

"The prices are not low, but one can ask for a discount. It’s not the cheapest PAM solution."

"Appliances are relatively cheap, don’t skimp. Make sure you have redundancy, high availability, and enough appliances to manage the concurrent workload."

"The licensing is simple and scalable."

"I would prefer better licensing options for the 20-100 users we have at a given time."

"It is reasonably priced."

"Cost-wise, CA was better compared to others in the market. "

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

24%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

17%

Manufacturing Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Comms Service Provider

12%

Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about One Identity Safeguard?

The identity discovery is good, and the performance is pretty good value.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for One Identity Safeguard?

One Identity Safeguard is expensive. The license is around $3,000 per month.

What needs improvement with One Identity Safeguard?

I find it complicated to implement HTTPS monitoring because the documentation is unclear. The disaster recovery process is complicated for me. For some configurations on the SPS side, if I need to ...

What do you like most about Symantec Privileged Access Manager?

We can check the activities in the server for fragile files and documents in case of any issues.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Symantec Privileged Access Manager?

Symantec Privileged Access Manager is potentially cheaper than other solutions. I am not involved in the business side, so I do not have specific cost details.

What needs improvement with Symantec Privileged Access Manager?

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Also Known As

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CA PAM, Xceedium Xsuite, CA Privileged Access Manager

Overview

One Identity Safeguard manages and monitors privileged access, enhancing security with features like automatic session recording, real-time monitoring, and credential rotation. It integrates seamlessly, supports compliance with audit trails, and improves operational efficiency across organizations. This robust platform significantly bolsters security protocols while controlling sensitive operations.

One Identity

CA Privileged Access Manager is a simple-to-deploy, automated, proven solution for privileged access management in physical, virtual and cloud environments. It enhances security by protecting sensitive administrative credentials such as root and administrator passwords, controlling privileged user access, proactively enforcing policies and monitoring and recording privileged user activity across all IT resources. It includes CA PAM Server Control (previously CA Privileged Identity Manager) for fine-grained protection of critical servers

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Sample Customers

Cavium

NEOVERA, Telesis, eSoft

One Identity Safeguard vs. Symantec Privileged Access Manager