1. [Home](https://www.g2.com/) 2. ... 3. [Privileged Access Management (PAM) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/privileged-access-management-pam) 4. [Symantec PAM Discussions](https://www.g2.com/products/symantec-pam/discuss) [ ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/large_detail/large_detail_b99ae61f9dc94089fa276b942cc6c258/symantec-pam.jpg "Product Avatar Image") ](/products/symantec-pam/reviews) [ Symantec PAM ](/products/symantec-pam/reviews) (22)3.6/5 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. 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Please tell me is there any scripting way to download it or any other way to do it. 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