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"The most valuable feature of Entrust GetAccess is its performance."

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"Ease of use is very good, for administrating it. It's very well known.""The most valuable feature is the integration with the Active Directory.""Right now, federation that comes out-of-the-box with single sign-on is the most valuable feature that we have, and also scalability.""The solution is easy to use for our managers.""It's agent-based. It's convenient to deploy and integrate.""A valuable feature of Siteminder is the way it handles bulk traffic. The features it has, in terms of routing the traffic and load balancing, are good.""It has the ability to authenticate and authorize users. It is the main feature for our security.""The Directory is secure. It's our user store, and it's important to keep our members safe. The product does well with that."

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Cons
"Entrust GetAccess is a very expensive solution, and its pricing could be improved."

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"I would like to see a move towards the newer technologies, which is what we are doing right now. I think that's in the roadmap that's coming, in the 12.8 and 14 releases, but we would like to have it sooner than later.""As we are moving in to the mobility space, this is where we really see SiteMinder and their other product really come together to provide a solution base to a different area where the IoT is coming, the different business communications are happening. All of those things require authentication and we really want to see this product grow into that role.""Some of the new protocols, like OAuth 2.0, could be improved.""If the reporting feature can be integrated into SSO itself that will be an icing on the cake.""The support could be faster.""The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA.""We're currently unable to find information about if the solution can do a full implementation with SQL. Some better and more accessible documentation for new users or those curious about the product would be helpful.""I think they need to integrate some of the newer types of authentication into the product. I'm not seeing the innovation when it comes to biometrics in the product."

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  • "We need to pay a yearly licensing fee for Entrust GetAccess, which is very expensive."
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  • "The price is quite comparable to the other enterprise-level solutions in that market."
  • "I recommend conducting a PoC on every available product before choose one."
  • "CA solutions are generally expensive but for the customer the ROI is big."
  • "Symantec Siteminder is expensive; they could definitely do better on the price."
  • "The licensing is fair for this solution."
  • "Siteminder is a little costly. You pay for licensing, and they offer packages, so if you have less users, then you have to buy different products at different prices. If you have more of a user base, then the package is different. They also include other features—for example, if you have a database and you're using Siteminder, then it's good to use a Semantic-specific database, but if you are using less, then you have to purchase the database separately. Whereas if you are going for a bigger license, then it comes within the package. It depends on which plan you are using."
  • "The pricing is reasonable."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of Entrust GetAccess is its performance.
    Top Answer:We need to pay a yearly licensing fee for Entrust GetAccess, which is very expensive.
    Top Answer:Entrust GetAccess is a very expensive solution, and its pricing could be improved.
    Top Answer:It's agent-based. It's convenient to deploy and integrate.
    Top Answer:It doesn't have a feature for... or maybe it has, but for modern authentication, like OAuth or OIDC. We haven't utilized that portion; we haven't really looked at it because our priority is LDAP… more »
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    10.0
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    8.0
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    Also Known As
    GetAccess
    Single Sign-On, SiteMinder, CA SSO, Layer7 SiteMinder
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    Overview
    Entrust GetAccess is a solution to solve security objectives for automating processes for suppliers and partners, improving productivity and efficiency, or simply providing an invaluable peace of mind. The Entrust GetAccess Server has automated service discovery, integral fail-over and fail-back capabilities, and flexible multilevel centralized logging.

    Symantec® SiteMinder is designed to secure the modern enterprise through a unified access management platform that applies the appropriate authentication mechanism to positively identify users; provides single sign-on and identity federation for seamless access to any application; enforces granular security policies to stop unauthorized access to sensitive resources; and monitors and manages the entire user session to prevent session hijacking. Finally, Symantec SiteMinder is battle-tested and has been deployed in the largest IT environments in the world.

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    British Telecom, CoreBlox, DBS, HMS, Itera ASA and Simeo
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    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm39%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Healthcare Company7%
    Retailer7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm35%
    Insurance Company11%
    Computer Software Company8%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    REVIEWERS
    Small Business8%
    Midsize Enterprise4%
    Large Enterprise88%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business12%
    Midsize Enterprise6%
    Large Enterprise82%

    Entrust GetAccess is ranked 1st in Web Access Management with 1 review while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 2nd in Web Access Management with 69 reviews. Entrust GetAccess is rated 10.0, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Entrust GetAccess writes "A scalable solution that can be used for hardware-based authentication". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". Entrust GetAccess is most compared with , whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with Ping Identity Platform, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, Microsoft Entra ID and Auth0.

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