We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, Okta Workforce Identity, 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 logs have great detail that make it easier to evaluate and control the security environment."
"I appreciate its ability to provide multi-factor authentication, but it's primarily focused on this function."
"The product is stable and reliable."
"We have a perpetual license for 2FA."
"Intuitive interface and easy to deploy."
"It keeps track of users and their IPs no matter where they are in the network. When users roam, we don't have to worry about not mapping them to an IP."
"FortiAuthenticator is easy to use."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is easy."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution are the integration with external websites one-factor authentication."
"The solution so far has been very stable."
"I find the provisioning features and the integration with other applications useful."
"We face no challenges in integrating the product with our legacy systems."
"Valuable features include UD, SSO functionality, MFA and Adaptive MFA functionality, ability to link multiple Directory databases with UD."
"Its simplicity and its integration with various vendor-agnostic platforms are the most valuable features."
"We find the solution to be reliable for our customers and it is nice that it is cloud-based and can be accessed from anywhere."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"Ease of use is very good, for administrating it. It's very well known."
"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."
"SAML is the best thing we're using right now because there is no need for creating an external account."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with the Active Directory."
"You can quickly deploy the entire product with a basic config within couple of hours."
"Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO."
"All of our applications get a point, click, and you are in, while we increase security at the same time."
"As our identity model continues to mature, probably the Federation is most valueable."
"The integration with other products, for example, some SAML authentications, would make it more flexible."
"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."
"We would like to see Linux-based operating systems be able to integrate with FortiAuthenticator to get two-factor authentication running on them. as well. This is a shortcoming that I have faced a few times already."
"I don't have any issues with this solution, but it may need a better, more user-friendly interface or better design of the platform."
"Integration with some other enterprise applications could be improved."
"The speed of deployment on the cloud could be improved. It took a few days when it should have been just two days"
"FortiAuthenticator's interface could be better."
"We have issues with HA (high availability). These should be addressed in future releases."
"Okta Workforce Identity could improve provisioning it can be made simpler."
"On the admin side, we can create our own passwords instead of generating one, which is usually difficult to explain to a user."
"RESTful Web Service calls and their response seem a bit slow."
"The ability or the options in the solution for changing the look and feel are not good enough because in our partner portal, essentially what they have is an ugly admin interface."
"It only facilitates provisioning and not de-provisioning."
"The only area of concern in the solution stems from the fact that my company needs some help regarding the setup phase from a partner."
"Its pricing needs improvement."
"There are some issues with the interface that can be improved."
"The technical support could be better."
"The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA."
"I'd like to see a rework of the user directory configuration."
"The initial setup was complex, painful. But that is to be expected of any new setup. When you're a big bank like us, any kind of migration to a new product is hard. I expect it to be painful, and it was painful. But it's not something that you can avoid."
"If the reporting feature can be integrated into SSO itself that will be an icing on the cake."
"They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting."
"The Federation part of CA Single Sign On, it's a bit complex to implement because it involves the SSL certificates, exchange of certificates, and lot of technical details. The documentation misses some important parts of this, so that's the reason it took some time for us to go live."
"To add more value to this solution it needs to be more user-friendly."
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