Symantec VIP

What do you like best?

Symantec Access manager is a great multi authentication tool which is a great for connecting internal and external applications, web pages and enterprise application suites. It caters to various industry leading software like Paypal, ebay,One logic, T-mobile, imcu, USAA, Bank of Australia, etc. and various other industries. It offers Push authentication requests which doesn't require to enter anything, just swiping up will complete the request. It also has a QR code for digital wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay. The unique credentials offered are clone proof and unhackable with 256 bit level of encryption. No need to remember two factor authentication codes as application extensions offered will run in the background and do the work for you.

What do you dislike?

Symantec authentication offered on the mobile device requires you to have the mobile with you all the time to get the authentication accepted, which is annoying sometimes. While it offers exciting and great options of authentication methods to facilitate login, but a bio-metric enhancement or a face authentication method on desktop and mobile will be quite exciting and promising. The cost is also a deal breaker and hence other authentication applications from Google and Microsoft take a lead. The cost of investing the application is not justified and hence needs moderation.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

It is a versatile and a secure connection tool built by a reputed company handling Anti-virus and Anti-malware software for years. The process of deployment is simple and doesn't require any level of expertise and development. Depending upon the size of the organization, one can easily configure with a Local Network of 100- 500 people. A grater workforce or a global deployment requires an enterprise version which incurs costs and also requires expertise help. It will handle all login / connection requests quite easily with a breeze thus minimizing risks and damage.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

The software is deeply integrated to the Citrix environment of our Client which handles group of hospitals in the United States. This helps us go into the application suite of healthcare applications used in the Citrix environment which handles patient data which is sensitive and confidential.