G2 Vendor Directory

Symantec PAM vs. Tenable Cloud Security

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricSymantec PAM

by Broadcom

Tenable Cloud Security

by Tenable

Overall rating3.64.5
Review count2242
Ease of use8.19.1
Ease of setup7.79.2
Quality of support8.19.0
Meets requirements7.89.1
NPS21.42857169.047619
Small Business27.3%7.3%
Mid-Market31.8%53.7%
Enterprise40.9%39.0%
Total page views151513
Total LLM citations1612,311

Symantec PAM

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.

Pros

  • Secure Access
  • Access Control

Tenable Cloud Security

Tenable Cloud Security is an actionable cloud security platform that exposes and closes priority security gaps caused by misconfigurations, risky entitlements and vulnerabilities. Organizations use its intuitive UI to unify siloed tools to secure the full cloud stack, achieving end-to-end visibility, prioritization and remediation across infrastructure, workloads, identities, data and AI services. Users can access the extensive knowledgebase of Tenable Research, reducing the risk of breaches with advanced prioritization that understands resource, identity and risk relationships.

Pros

  • Compliance
  • Detailed Analysis
  • Vulnerability Management
  • Vulnerability Detection
  • Integrations
  • Vulnerability Identification