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One Identity Safeguard pros and cons

Vendor: One Identity

4.0 out of 5

40 reviews
93% willing to recommend

1,226 followers

Pros & Cons summary

One Identity Safeguard excels in providing strong security measures and ease of use, though it can be pricey and complex to set up. Users appreciate its robust access control and audit features which enhance security. However, some report that it requires significant resources and expertise to deploy effectively, and the cost can be a barrier for smaller organizations.

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PROS

Pros:

Provides robust identity discovery and configuration options.

Excellent remote access solutions that do not require a VPN.

Comprehensive monitoring system and advanced data protection functionalities.

The installation process is straightforward and agentless.

CONS

Cons:

Issues with integration and documentation.

The GUI can be confusing and cumbersome.

Notable performance concerns with the application.

Relatively expensive.

One Identity Safeguard Pros review quotes

Daniel Pettersson

System Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Jun 28, 2023

The whole product solves the privileged access management challenge for our company. We have a secure tunnel, a secure session manager, and automatic logging of sessions, which is good for forensic purposes. We have a rich level of logs and can trace what happened on which machine and see who did what.

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Reviewer7009881

Independent Consultant

Jun 27, 2023

It offers high availability and enables end users to deploy the solution with 99.999 percent uptime, which is crucial in an enterprise environment with a large number of endpoints.

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CE

Expert Systems Architect at Tempur Sealy International, Inc.

Jul 2, 2020

It has greatly helped improve our security posture. Safeguard has an option where it will reset passwords on service accounts, then go out to those servers where that service account is running as a service and update the password on it. That makes password changes very easy. We can regularly change passwords now and are planning on making it an annual activity, where all the people who own service accounts will go in and make sure all their passwords get changed, updated, and reset.

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reviewer1300329

VP Risk Management at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 1, 2020

We are able to log and get reporting on all privileged activity that is being performed. We like the fact that we can leverage the session recording feature, which is especially valuable when we're dealing with third-party vendors that have to remote into our our boxes and servers to do any work on behalf of the bank. Now, we can record everything they are doing to ensure that they're only doing the changes that were needed. In addition, we use it to leverage knowledge transfer with our internal staff.

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reviewer1308201

VP & Head of Cybersecurity Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 11, 2020

It's one of the best products we've seen. When you start looking at the functionality and use cases and usability of the product, it's straightforward. They designed this product with the end-user in mind, and they also had the sysadmin who is supporting the product in mind. They really did a nice job. Overall, it's a nice product to work with.

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reviewer1334721

Director of Information Security at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 21, 2020

There are a lot of features, so it's going to sound funny, but one of the most simplistic features, the Favorites feature, is the one we like the best. You do a full run-through of configuration to check out a server and then you can save that whole configuration as a favorite. So the next time you go in, you click on the favorite that you configured and it automatically takes you to the end so you can check the server out that much faster. It saves a lot of time...

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FI

Chief Information Security Officer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Aug 9, 2020

We use the solution’s Approval Anywhere feature which enables us to add an extra layer of security for critical passwords without adding time-consuming approval processes. By using this platform, if someone goes on a vacation, out of office, or needs urgent/planned leave, then our setup will select the functions tied to that person and automatically delegate them to the next person. That person can start performing that duty based on their access. No sharing of passwords is required.

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Executive Director at Semaphore

Nov 22, 2023

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

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reviewer1386330

Manager Engineering at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 9, 2022

All the features are promising, but we love the reporting feature because we can get each and every report. That's a major compliance requirement. Its reporting is really amazing, and it has made life a lot easier.

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Martin Ajayiobe

Senior Vice President (Infrastructure Systems/Information Security) at MAXUT

Jul 26, 2020

The Transparent Mode is the number one advantage of the product.

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One Identity Safeguard Cons review quotes

Daniel Pettersson

System Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Jun 28, 2023

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.

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Reviewer7009881

Independent Consultant

Jun 27, 2023

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

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CE

Expert Systems Architect at Tempur Sealy International, Inc.

Jul 2, 2020

Transparent mode was too cumbersome, so I don't foresee us being able to use it. On paper when we were initially talking about it, it was definitely going to be the preferred method until we realized the burden it would be on our network guys. Then, we had to step back and reevaluate what we wanted to do. That's when we changed our approach to use the RD Gateway feature.

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reviewer1300329

VP Risk Management at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 1, 2020

Some of the out-of-the-box reporting isn't that rich. We spoke to our Safeguard reps who have acknowledged that some of the reporting features can certainly be improved and that we're not the only customer who has cited this. There are very little out-of-the-box reporting capabilities. You have to build the queries and the report. I believe in the next release they're going to be addressing this.

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reviewer1308201

VP & Head of Cybersecurity Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 11, 2020

From a usability perspective, what we are finding out is that our privileged domain admin users, in particular, want functionality for extending a checkout session. So we are working with One Identity support to see if there's an enhancement that can be made to the product.

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reviewer1334721

Director of Information Security at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 21, 2020

There is room for improvement in the launch module. They built in a launch button but they don't have effective instructions for configuring it to allow it to launch an RDP session. They're working on that, but the button is in the live product. If they were going to install something that wasn't useful, they should have just disabled it and not rolled it out with the product.

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FI

Chief Information Security Officer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Aug 9, 2020

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

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Executive Director at Semaphore

Nov 22, 2023

Something for One Identity to look at is having integration guidelines for how to logically group accounts.

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reviewer1386330

Manager Engineering at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 9, 2022

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

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Martin Ajayiobe

Senior Vice President (Infrastructure Systems/Information Security) at MAXUT

Jul 26, 2020

The product uses a lot of resources in current sessions.

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