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Pros:

Easy to install and deployAgent installation does not affect the resources of the workstation. There are many security features suitable for businesses.

Cons:

In the beginning, we faced some technical difficulties when upgrading to newer versions.

Syteca ratings

Average score

Ease of Use
4.6
Customer Service
4.7
Features
4.6
Value for Money
4.8

Likelihood to recommend

9.1/ 10

Syteca has an overall rating of <span class="">4.7</span> out 5 stars based on <span class="">25</span> user reviews on Capterra.

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Gatis
Gatis
Ceo & Founder in Latvia
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Good functionality - good software

4.0 6 years ago

Comments: Controlling 3party's who access company servers for supporting.

Pros:

You get right functionality with good service. Software doing exactly what you expect from monitoring and controlling software.

Cons:

Software UI not responsive and no user friendly on mobile devices.

Syteca Response

6 years ago

Hi Gatis, Thanks for your review! We're happy you found value in Ekran System feature set. We'll work on improving UX on mobile devices in the next major updates.

Wayne
Network Administration Manager in US
Hospital & Health Care, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

Security and Auditing is a must in Healthcare. Ekran helped us with that.

4.0 4 years ago

Comments: We have been using it for almost a year now. I really enjoy being able to see from a web browser to entire state of the system and recording without going onto the server itself. We have seen alerts come across and able to react quickly to verify what is going on. I especially enjoy the ability to keep everyone up to date on the agent without reboots or scheduling them. The quality of recordings is great and very detailed. Doing a search within the recordings helps to narrow down to what you are looking for.

Pros:

Integration was very easy. The install is silent and can be done without affecting users. The ability to view from our own screen using a browser is great. The amount of things that can be recorded and alerted on is a major plus. Searches thru the recordings for keywords helps to reduce how much info to sift through.

Cons:

Feature requests take a bit of time to get and if you request support in the afternoon, it seems to be the next business day before any reply comes. The amount of space the recordings require is also a major consideration. We have had to increase our drive by 1TB.

Antoine
Chief Security Architect in Taiwan
Information Technology & Services, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

install / setup

3.0 4 years ago

Comments: good experience. Meeting with Ekran team were easy to set up and helpful. good value for money.

Pros:

easy to set up and use. video recording feature works welll.

Cons:

user management could be improved for PAM module.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Management Consulting, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: Free Trial
Reviewer Source

Niiiiiice

5.0 last year

Pros:

Overall impression of successful using Ekran platform

Cons:

I need time to look around. The system became more easy to use after several days of use.

Aromal
Channel Account Manager in United Arab Emirates
Information Technology & Services, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Best UBA tool

4.0 last year

Pros:

Simplicity and Deploy Faster and will propose to other companies

Cons:

Powerful and easy to manage .Its a time purchase to manage easily

Ravi
Sr Director SRE in US
Computer Software, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Privileged Access Management solution

5.0 last year

Pros:

Ekran is a simple to deploy and use PAM solution that helps maintain security and user accountability accross our stack.

Cons:

It could use some more reporting functions and search filters to find isolated incidents.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Banking, 5,001–10,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Review of Ekran

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: We are using Ekran more than 2 years for subcontractors session recording and multi-view monitoring. Also, where is it applicable, Ekran helps us to investigate incidents providing session export and validation. The support team also very responsible and responds qualitatively to all requests.

Pros:

Easy of use, a lot of functionality, friendly interface.

Cons:

High Availability and integration capabilities.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Supermarkets, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Great experience with Ekran System

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: With the help of this software, I solved the problem associated with the lack of control of contractors. Now the services provided by contractors are of better quality and on time.

Pros:

I really like the functionality of monitoring the actions of contractors

Cons:

I have not yet discovered the bad sides of this software.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Computer Software, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

EKRAN good software for user activities monitoring

5.0 2 years ago

Pros:

Easy to install and deployAgent installation does not affect the resources of the workstation.There are many security features suitable for businesses

Cons:

Deploying agent from domain controller sometimes doesn't work properly

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Computer & Network Security, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

definitely meets your budget

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: having the smooth and seamless installation and ease of use are the specs in my priority and Ekran System provides me that.

Pros:

ease of use, system admin monitoring and price are the most prominent features.

Cons:

not possible to record tabs in browsers individually.

Syteca Response

6 years ago

Hi, Thanks for your review! We're happy you found value in Ekran System. We put a lot of focus to make Ekran System smoothly deploy on projects of any size. We constantly work on our website monitoring features and take a note of your feedback. - The Ekran System Team

Luca
Senior Software Engineer in Luxembourg
Information Services, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Powerful Performance with Ekran System

4.0 2 years ago

Comments: My overall experience with Ekran System has been very positive. I have found the software to be intuitive and user friendly, with great features and capabilities. The support team has been incredibly helpful, offering timely and accurate answers to my questions. I have been able to customize the software to better fit my needs, and found the documentation and tutorials to be very helpful. Ekran System is an excellent product and I would highly recommend it to others.

Pros:

Ekran System is designed to support a variety of IT security practices, including user access control, network segmentation, file integrity monitoring, privileged user monitoring, and data exfiltration detection. The system also features multi factor authentication, password management, and single sign on capabilities, allowing for secure and efficient user access.

Cons:

Ekran Systems can be complex to set up and maintain, requiring specialized IT knowledge.

Roland
Head of IT Security and Infrastructure in Canada
Hospitality, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Affordable Monitoring

4.0 4 years ago

Comments: We have used Ekran to effectively to monitor our users and it provides us with the evidence should performance issues arise. I find it a very intuitive and affordable audit tool that also supports our security needs. We are planning to roll it our across all of our network infrastructure to give us even greater insights. Ekran support is responsive and knowledgeable about their product, willing to listen to their customer concerns and incorporate suggestions in future releases.

Pros:

Ekran does what it promises which is monitoring our users productivity and performance plus it augments our security nicely by providing evidences for our controls and audits. It also provides alerts based on a number of rules/conditions and we have been able to identify behavioral risks and further improve our controls to support PCI and SOC 2 audits.

Cons:

The only thing I didn't like was the inability to record only when an alert was generated. As always, Ekran support was very receptive and responsive to our request and they will be rolling out this new functionality in the next few months.

Shay
Head of system division in Israel
Nonprofit Organization Management, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Would like to recommend on UAM product

5.0 2 years ago

Pros:

We have been customers of the Ekran system for several years and the system provides us with tremendous added value and visibility into the activity of privileged users Along with the ability to stop suspicious activity and analyze the activity in the corporate work environment. The ease of implementing and using the system creates an easy and friendly user experience for us. It is important to note that the service provided is at a high level and the system works with zero malfunctions

Cons:

I didn't find any cons in the product, I'm an existing customer for over 5 years in total

Egzon
Director of Support and Security in Albania
Education Management, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Reviewing the EKRAN system

5.0 4 years ago

Comments: Overall, we are satisfied with the product. With the majority of our operations completed digitally, EKRAN serves very well the prupose of helping us identify potential information security threats.

Pros:

EKRAN cares about its customers even after the transaction is completed. Their response time is excellent, and they have proven many times that they are a customer-centric organization.

Cons:

In the beginning, we faced some technical difficulties when upgrading to newer versions. With help from the EKRAN's technical team, we managed to successfully resolve the issues, and now we are to upgrade without any trouble.

Vincent
Sales in France
Information Technology & Services, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

How to minimize internal threats

5.0 3 years ago

Pros:

TO be able to have a quick view on internal activity on the network, for employee monitoring but even more to minimize internal threats, intentional or not.

Cons:

Necessary to have some help to understand the implementation of Ekran (technically and legally)

Shaked
IT manager in Israel
Computer Networking, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

Great monitoring\PAM system

5.0 2 years ago

Pros:

very easy to use, doing a good very job.

Cons:

there are not a lot of things i didnt like about the system.

Christian
Infra Engineer in Malta
Gambling & Casinos, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Brilliant product for traceability purposes

5.0 4 years ago

Comments: Overall good experience

Pros:

Ease of use and it gave us exactly what we needed, which is being able to go back in time and revisit what happened during that particular session. We already had a couple of users asking to view the recording themselves in order to verify if they actually did a particular command / sequence or not

Cons:

UI could be improved to feel more modern Easier access to get reports etc.

Ünal
Senior Software Engineer in Türkiye
Machinery, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

I love it <3

5.0 2 years ago

Pros:

Thanks to the remote work feature, you can watch the screen and manage your projects remotely. Your learning time is short as it is easy to use in general.

Cons:

I didn't have a bad experience, I think it's a great software

Herzel
IT in Israel
Media Production, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

easy to deploy and use. very good support

5.0 3 years ago

Pros:

easy to deploy and use. very good support

Alexander
CEO in Germany
Nonprofit Organization Management, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

good value for money

5.0 6 years ago

Pros:

I does what it should, is easy to run and to understand while the support team is very responsive.

Cons:

There is no real lack of function we miss so I don't have any negative to say...

Syteca Response

6 years ago

Hi Alexander, Thanks for your review! We're proud to have such loyal customers. Recently, we've launched 24/7 customer support to make our service even better. - The Ekran System Team

Justin
System Administrator in US
Military, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Amazing Support

5.0 4 years ago

Comments: Excellent, the support team was there for me 100% for any questions I had and was able to resolve issues during deployment and STIG settings for IIS.

Pros:

The support provided by the company is by far the best for any software I have ever encountered.

Cons:

Configuration and STIG implementation can get a little tricky

Gianluca
IT Manager in United Arab Emirates
Automotive, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Best Monitoring Solution

5.0 3 years ago

Comments: critical access monitoring

Pros:

Value for money and easy to manage .Very Useful

Cons:

Graphics and appearance can be improved a slightly

paloma
country manager in Spain
Computer & Network Security, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Monitor, Detect, and Analyze Insider Threats

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: Complete traceability of everything that is done in the machines.

Pros:

It is very easy to use and with great functionality. And its price is cheap for your practical aspects

Cons:

The least I like about this software is that it is not translated into Spanish

Arash
VP in US
Information Technology & Services, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Great Software! Easy to use and deploy.

5.0 4 years ago

Comments: Overall, our compliance team is now very happy! Highly recommended.

Pros:

If you need a solution to monitor your privileged user access sessions, Ekran is the easiest to use and quick to deploy. The installation and deployment of the agents took less than an hour. Unlike other solutions, Ekran's management console is very straightforward and with a couple of clicks we set up our environment. The documentation is very accurate and up to date, and it follows every aspect of the system. We haven't had any issues so far, but the support team has been very helpful with the setup process.

Cons:

This isn't really a con, but I wish there were more built-in alert rules. Nevertheless, the built-in rule set covered more than 80% of our needs.

Rimvydas
BDM in Lithuania
Information Technology & Services, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Review of Ekran System

5.0 4 years ago

Pros:

Easy installation and integration. Excellent amount of recorded and alerted things. Easy search within recordings. With Ekran we are able to identify risks and maintain ours services uncompromised.

Cons:

Additional investment to disk space to keep records must be planned well in advanced.