IBM Security Verify Access pros and cons

Vendor: IBM

3.9 out of 5

7 reviews
100% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

IBM Security Verify Access provides robust access control capabilities and offers seamless integration with existing systems. Highly customizable to fit various business needs, it delivers strong authentication mechanisms. While it ensures reliable and efficient performance, buyers should note the complex setup, challenging documentation, occasional integration issues, and high maintenance costs. Additionally, flexibility in customization can be limited.

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PROS

IBM Security Verify Access provides strong performance in securing applications.

The integration capabilities with other systems are highly customizable.

IBM Security Verify Access offers comprehensive support for multi-factor authentication.

Effective alignment with compliance standards is a notable benefit.

Scalability to accommodate growing organizational needs is consistently praised.

CONS

Lack of detailed documentation, making setup challenging

Requires significant technical expertise to configure

Limited integration options with third-party applications

Complex licensing model can be confusing

High costs associated with implementation and maintenance

IBM Security Verify Access Pros review quotes

Gaurav Gaurav

Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Aug 1, 2022

From the integration point of view, it supports SAML, OIDC, and OAuth. For legacy applications that don't have support for SAML and other new protocols, it provides single sign-on access to end-users. From the integration compatibility point of view, it is highly capable.

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AsifIqbal

Chief Information Security Officer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 24, 2022

The most valuable feature of IBM Security Access Manager, at least for my company, is multi-factor authentication. That's the only feature my company is using. The solution works well and has no glitches. IBM Security Access Manager is a very good solution, so my company is still using it.

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Jared Ochieng

Information Technology Security Specialist at infoark

Mar 13, 2024

The tool provides a password vault, single sign-on, and multifactor authentication. It offers various authentication methods like fingerprint integration, one-time passwords, or tokens sent via email or SMS. This ensures secure access to your accounts by providing multiple authentication options.

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reviewer1784646

Assitant Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Mar 25, 2022

Its stability and UI are most valuable.

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Pakorn Leesakul

CEO, Founder at Finema

May 18, 2021

I have found this solution to be really practical and when a user wants to log in, it is effortless and runs smooth.

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NunoSantos

Senior Network Engineer at IIS

Jan 26, 2020

It's a good solution for identification and access management.

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reviewer1225032

Manager in Digital Identity at PricewaterhouseCoopers

Nov 17, 2019

The solution has powerful authentification and authorization. It offers a good way to increase security.

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IBM Security Verify Access Cons review quotes

Gaurav Gaurav

Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Aug 1, 2022

They can improve the single sign-on configuration for OIDC and OAuth. That is not very mature in this product, and they can improve it in this particular area. OIDC is a third-party integration that we do with the cloud platforms, and OAuth is an authorization mechanism for allowing a user having an account with Google or any other provider to access an application. Organizations these days are looking for just-in-time provisioning use cases, but IBM Security Access Manager is not very mature for such use cases. There are only a few applications that can be integrated, and this is where this product is lagging. However, in terms of configuration and single sign-on mechanisms, it is a great product.

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AsifIqbal

Chief Information Security Officer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 24, 2022

What we'd like improved in IBM Security Access Manager is its onboarding process as it's complex, particularly when onboarding new applications. We need to be very, very careful during the onboarding. We have no issues with IBM Security Access Manager because the solution works fine, apart from the onboarding process and IBM's involvement in onboarding issues. If we need support related to the onboarding, we've noticed a pattern where support isn't available, or they don't have much experience, or we're not getting a response from them. We're facing the same issue with IBM Guardium. As we're just focusing on the multi-factor authentication feature of IBM Security Access Manager and we didn't explore any other features, we don't have additional features to suggest for the next release of the solution, but we're in discussion about exploring ID management and access management features, but those are just possibilities because right now, we're focused on exploring our domain.

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Jared Ochieng

Information Technology Security Specialist at infoark

Mar 13, 2024

The user interface for users and administrators could be improved to make it easier. Automating some functions could also be beneficial.

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reviewer1784646

Assitant Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Mar 25, 2022

There are a lot of areas that can be improved, but the main area is the lack of customization. You cannot easily customize anything in the product. It is not easy to tweak the functionality. It is challenging to change the out-of-the-box functionality.

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Pakorn Leesakul

CEO, Founder at Finema

May 18, 2021

The solution could be classified as a hilt system. There are a lot of resources being used and it is suitable for very large enterprises or the public sector.

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NunoSantos

Senior Network Engineer at IIS

Jan 26, 2020

The user interface needs to be simplified, it's complex and not user-friendly.

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reviewer1225032

Manager in Digital Identity at PricewaterhouseCoopers

Nov 17, 2019

Configuration could be simplified for the end-user.

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