Symantec PAM vs. Akeyless Identity Security Platform

Symantec PAM is designed to prevent security breaches by protecting sensitive administrative credentials, controlling privileged user access, proactively enforcing security policies, and monitoring and recording privileged user activity across virtual, cloud, and physical environments. The solution provides a privileged credential vault, session recording, threat analytics, host-based access control for mission-critical servers, and application-to-application password management to address non-human actors, such as applications, configuration files, and scripts.

Akeyless delivers identity security for an era shaped by automation and AI. The cloud-native platform secures machines, AI agents, and human access across hybrid, multi-cloud, and on-prem environments. It provides a practical path to secretless, identity-based access through secrets management, certificate lifecycle management and PKI, PAM, and unified governance. Akeyless is built on a cryptography foundation that combines encryption, key management, and Distributed Fragments Cryptography to keep sensitive material under customer control and protected from post-quantum threats.