SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) vs. Digital Guardian

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)
Score 7.8 out of 10
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SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) is designed to assist IT and security admins to quickly and easily provision, deprovision, manage and audit user access rights to systems, data, and files. By analyzing user authorizations and access permission you get visualization of who has access to what and when they accessed it. Demonstrate compliance with most regulatory requirements with customized reports. Provision and deprovision users using…N/A
Digital Guardian
Score 7.8 out of 10
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The Digital Guardian Platform from Fortra (formerly HelpSystems, acquired in late 2021) is a cloud-delivered data protection platform purpose-built to stop data loss by both insiders and outsiders on Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. Additionally, Digital Guardian User Activity Monitoring enables users to detect, investigate and mitigate suspicious user actions to ensure sensitive data doesn’t get out. And Digital Guardian for Data Discovery provides visibility and auditing of sensitive…N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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User Ratings
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)Digital Guardian
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(14 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
5.5
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
8.2
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Performance
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
4.5
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.4
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
5.5
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
1.8
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
4.5
(1 ratings)
-
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Vendor post-sale
4.5
(1 ratings)
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Vendor pre-sale
8.2
(1 ratings)
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User Testimonials
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)Digital Guardian
Likelihood to Recommend
SolarWinds
It [SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)] is well suited for small to medium sized companies who want to enhance and ease up their daily work. As well as it is suited for organized structures, it has its problems with very complex environments. For example, if you are working with direct and multiple permissions instead of having more granular group based permissions.
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Fortra
Digital Guardian has excellent data-preventing solutions, which locate and protect [that] database that [is] super sensitive. More so, Digital Guardian offers complete coverage of endpoint safety and network monitoring. Again, Digital Guardian has a team of elite professionals, who screens and detect any cyber threats. Finally, Digital Guardian has improvised and detailed attack response, very efficient in making the right controls.
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Pros
SolarWinds
  • SolarWinds Access Rights Manager is easy to set up and configure. We had the first report generated in a few hours.
  • The automated feature for the reports is great. We just set it and forget it and now the reports get emailed on schedule.
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Fortra
  • Email data leaks - DLP software must prevent certain actions to work well. Let's say you try to copy and paste an SS # to an email, or upload sensitive data to your personal email account. Guardian Edge can prevent that, and then alert administrators that it happened
  • Unauthorized file copies - Guardian Edge can also prevent users from copying files from a sensitive restricted area to somewhere else where they might be able to more easily exfiltrate it. A good example would be from a company file share to a less secure server or their own home drive
  • Alerting Administrators of suspicious activities - Any time a user uploads a file to an upload service or personal email, it is logged and reported as an event to be reviewed. If it found nothing in scanning the data, it will still notify you that it happened so you can review it yourself to confirm it wasn't a false negative.
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Cons
SolarWinds
  • Licensing model when we changed over to SolarWinds was [I feel] a nightmare. It needs to be more streamlined and SolarWinds needs to understand what their customers require. When we changed over to SolarWinds we found it very hard to get answers to what modules we were still licensed for.
  • Our current system is not functioning. We can't login to the application with the accounts we created that were working. The error that appears doesn't help to resolve it. So at present we just renewed licenses for this year and we can't use the system.
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Fortra
  • Digital Guardian is perfect in database protection, hence, no complaint.
  • Digital Guardian makes the detection process effective, hence, reliable.
  • Finally, Digital Guardian is cloud focused or delivered, hence, concrete and efficient.
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Likelihood to Renew
SolarWinds
It is in place and working. No time or money to consider anything else.
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Fortra
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Usability
SolarWinds
End user experience is much better than administration
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Fortra
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Reliability and Availability
SolarWinds
On occasion the server will need to be restarted to get things running again
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Fortra
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Performance
SolarWinds
Satisfactory performance
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Fortra
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Support Rating
SolarWinds
Very slow response times and sometimes I found the solution and ended up sharing it with support
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Fortra
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Implementation Rating
SolarWinds
It was my first exposure to this type of product and I wasn’t given the time to figure out how best to implement it. I would say get a plan together of what you are tying to accomplish first
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Fortra
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Alternatives Considered
SolarWinds
I found the installation and configuration to be much easier and more straightforward. What also assisted in the decision to go with Access Rights Manager, was the fact we already made use of Solarwinds products. Knowing from previous experiences with their support staff, meant we knew how great their after-hours support was whenever we had any technical issues with the platform. We felt it would be better to keep it all under one roof so to speak
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Fortra
DG is the only DLP platform I've used at my current employer. I used it at my previous employer as well, and we ended up abandoning future deployments of it due to many problems caused by it, especially with web browsers. This was in 2015, rather than the 2018 version I used with my current employer, but I feel it still warrants mentioning. DG works great...when it works. When it doesn't, it's a disaster.
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Scalability
SolarWinds
No experience with this
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Fortra
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Return on Investment
SolarWinds
  • Team leads recieve automated reports of permissions within their team, and it allows them to proactively audit their team members
  • Security specialists have really clear dashboards to audit individuals
  • We can be sure we never leave a permission open after a person leaves
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Fortra
  • The professional threat detectors and cyber security analysts [increase] the reliability of the company database.
  • Cloud coverage allows easy deployment and efficient systematic controls.
  • Lastly, Digital Guardian [values] and monitors the procedures or the roles that every player makes in the company.
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ScreenShots

SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) Screenshots

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