ARCON PAM vs. CyberArk Privileged Access Management

Best thing I like is the user access management. You can assign different users the different roles, so systems on the ARCONs become more secure. It comes with real-time threat detection which means we don't have to sit and watch every user's activity - ARCON does that for us. And we can use the recording feature if we diagnose any vicious behavior.

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The system is great for enterprise or larger IT departments or teams where temporary or full access may be given using privileged IDs. Requirements for needing local admin access is also eliminated which can help with specific Windows workstation related tasks. It can be very useful when working with remote teams or contractors who may need temporary access to a system when required.

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• Real-time threat detection.
• Manage user roles and access.
• Records of user activities.
• With one login can access multiple servers.

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• Managing local administrator accounts for Windows Servers
• Managing local root accounts for Unix Servers
• Managing service accounts for Windows Servers
• Managing IIS Application pool passwords for Windows web servers.

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• After a network failure it is very difficult to log into the system.
• GUI is bit slow.
• Improve the documentation to get more knowledge about easily using GUI.

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• GUI - right now everything is on one page/dashboard. Some level of folder/Safe type view would be great
• More options when storing passwords - especially for network based passwords
• Better integrations with vendors like Cisco so that admins dont need to really get the password from the vault (think Last Pass type add on)

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I think CyberArk is a great product and there are many different modules to incorporate. There are many great feature sets available right out of the box and you feel safer just implementing some of the basics. The more features you implement the better the product performs. There are definitely some implementation hurdles, but typically they are too difficult to figure out.

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I've been an engineer and architect in the Identity space for many years and CyberArk is the #1 tool I've found to help me secure accounts and credentials. I've architected CyberArk and built the implementation from the ground up twice in previous roles and found it here upon my arrival at my current job. I wouldn't want to have to live without it as it helps me sleep at night

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It is known as one of the safest products in the market. It has good support and is also available as on-premise. You can run it virtually on VMWare (and probably on other hypervisors as well). You can have a second instance on bare metal and that makes it a very safe system.

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• We have been able to prove the security of our products to the customers.
• Ability to provide different privilege levels to the different users.
• Time saver.

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• A positive impact is passing SOX audits when it comes to privileged account management. Making sure we are compliant with password expiration policies and complexities.

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