SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) vs. UserLock

SolarWinds ARM is best used for large organiziation with users exceeding 1000 users or employee with varius roles and permissions. Controll access rights and prevening data leakes. Auditing and monitoring users access to see if users are accessing data that they are not supposed to see. Reporting when users rights are expired and degrant permissions

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UserLock is well suited to easily managing MFA for users of various levels to improve security hardening in a granular manner. It's open ended implementation of the IIS module is good for web authentication of all sorts of sites. Reporting of user's access and notifying of multiple logons is great.

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• 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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• Easy to setup and install for the most part
• Easy to onboard users
• Logging and reporting of user's access to devices really good

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• 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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• Implementing the agent in IIS scenarios could be easier and more guided
• IIS upgrade agent upgrade process could be improved upon
• An overall summary of applied permssions for a particular user would be useful

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It is in place and working. No time or money to consider anything else.

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The GUI is pretty straight forward and easy to learn for new employees. All changes that have been made over the years have not required additional training. Reports generated are easily viewed in Excel, and can be added into our reporting file seamlessly

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On occasion the server will need to be restarted to get things running again

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Satisfactory performance

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Very slow response times and sometimes I found the solution and ended up sharing it with support

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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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While the CatTools are used mainly by a colleague of mine, DameWare is only used periodically and definitely not on a daily base. We chose ARM (when we bought it, it was called 8Man) because it had a good and well fitting set of features for a reasonable price. In addition to that, we could quite easily configure some features for our needs. Other products didn't get even close to this feature list for this price.

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sorry was quite some time ago and can't remmber specifics but cost was a big factor and this was a very competitively priced product at the time.

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No experience with this

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• Because it's cut down on the mistakes and time lost creating new user accounts, this has meant there is a reduction in tickets relating to changes needing to be made to user accounts. Whether this was the incorrect spelling of the name, or the need to add/remove security groups. With ARM now doing the user creation along with the templates we've created, this has dramatically cut down the number of support tickets regarding user accounts, meaning our team now has more time to tend to other pending tickets.

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• Sometimes does not unlock task manager access when it pops up with MFA prompt, can be a pain to have to undo
• It's great value for money compared to more high end products
• Generally reliable and has improved security hardening

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