Product Report: Cyber-Ark Privileged Identity Management Suite (PIM) - 70257

From the KuppingerCole perspective it is mandatory to quickly address the PxM challenges which exist in any IT environment. This requires solutions which cover all (or at least most) of the different aspects of PxM in an integrated solution, for a heterogeneous environment.

Cyber-Ark PIM is defined as a suite by the vendor. However, it is more sort of an integrated product with several common elements and different feature sets, going beyond the typical suite approach. Cyber-Ark itself names the common elements as “Privileged Identity Management Infrastructure”. Defining the product as a suite however fits to the licensing approach which allows for selecting the required elements – even while, when looking at the PxM challenge, implementing the entire suite with all features typically is the best approach.

Cyber-Ark PIM suite is amongst the leading-edge products in the emerging PxM market, provide one of the most comprehensive feature sets in the entire markets. The well-thought architecture allows for scalability as well as ease-of-use. A particular strength of the product is the platform support which covers virtually all core systems in today’s IT environments.

Thus we strongly recommend to include the Cyber-Ark Privileged Identity Management Suite in evaluations for PxM tools – even more in complex, heterogeneous enterprise environments.