We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, IBM Tivoli Access Manager [EOL], and Symantec Siteminder based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, Auth0 and others in Single Sign-On (SSO)."The solution is easy to learn and makes it easy for our users to add FortiToken. It's very easy to integrate if you have other Fortinet devices."
"It reduces the need for network administrator intervention by allowing the user to perform their own registration and resolve their own password problems and issues."
"The initial setup is a valuable point on Fortinet products. Most of the time, putting the theory into practice on the devices is quite friendly and straightforward. As long as you can read English you can find your way around the solution and make it work. This is a high value point on Fortinet - the way everything is laid out in the web UI is user-friendly and quite straightforward. The UI is quite simple."
"It integrates very tightly with the rest of the Fortinet ecosystem."
"The product's on-premise version doesn't have recurring costs."
"The implementation has significantly improved access management within our organization."
"I appreciate its ability to provide multi-factor authentication, but it's primarily focused on this function."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is RADIUS service and the social network integration feature."
"The integration effort with the end application is quite straightforward and easy."
"The Verify feature: A push method which customers are going for."
"Single Sign-On functionality is valuable because the core purpose of the product is to allow universal (or bespoke) SSO for application suites."
"SAML 2.0."
"OAuth 2 is now the de facto standard for API protection and scoped authorized delegation. IBM TAM now supports OAuth 2 and can act as fully compliant OAuth 2 authorization server."
"The single sign-on is the solution's most valuable feature"
"Federation is valuable, for sure, because we have a lot of third-party vendors that we need to integrate with, and this is a turnkey solution in some ways."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with the Active Directory."
"The most valuable feature is that it meets the requirements of the customer. You have a lot of features in the product. Every product has them, but the question is, are these products going to meet the requirement of the customer?"
"Right now, federation that comes out-of-the-box with single sign-on is the most valuable feature that we have, and also scalability."
"SAML is the best thing we're using right now because there is no need for creating an external account."
"It has the ability to authenticate and authorize users. It is the main feature for our security."
"Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO."
"It can not use SQL to query FortiAnalyzer directly."
"We had issues trying to integrate the keys properly during the initial setup."
"The solution could be more automated. It should be able to let me automate a lot of things so that what normally is done as a matter of manual processes can be handled quicker. Slow integrations can be taken up/out if there was more automation."
"I would like to see some email options for Fortinet FortiAuthenticator."
"Fortinet FortiAuthenticator's initial setup process could be easier."
"The user interface and clustering are areas with shortcomings that need improvement."
"The technical support team is bad."
"I would like to see more ways to authenticate, such as adding facial recognition to the two-factor, where you log into your phone or another device."
"The profiling element is incredibly robust, but also equally as complex, it requires an off-site course to be able to understand the context or the plethora of options available."
"Looking at their roadmap, they have a broad grasp of the security features which the industry needs."
"An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for the newer appliance versions for hosting the virtual appliances on AWS will help."
"Multi-factor authentication with social integration needs to improve."
"The self-service portal needs improvement."
"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."
"The main thing is we do not have the traceability and good monitoring that CA can provide us to capture problems when they occur."
"We would like to the OAuth be more stable, more issues being fixed rather than not."
"I would prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface."
"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."
"They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting."
"The tech support has not been very good for us so we don't use them anymore. We have had some issues. Nobody is perfect."
"I'd like to see a rework of the user directory configuration."
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