We performed a comparison between CyberArk Identity and Symantec Siteminder based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Access Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The initial setup is straightforward. It takes me up to an hour and a half."
"The tool helps with authentication. It acts as an MFA for any kind of privileged access that occurs in our organization."
"CyberArk Identity is a mature product."
"The setup, via cloud, is simple."
"I like the RBAC (Role-Based Access Control). It basically involves defining various roles, and then simply assigning those roles to users."
"The most valuable feature of CyberArk Identity is the adaptive interface."
"If anyone makes an error, or if an incident occurs by accident, the business will not be harmed as a result of this activity."
"The integration capabilities, ability to integrate CyberArk into the overall IBB strategy of our current clients."
"SAML is the best thing we're using right now because there is no need for creating an external account."
"Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO."
"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."
"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."
"The single sign-on is the solution's most valuable feature"
"All of our applications get a point, click, and you are in, while we increase security at the same time."
"The Directory is secure. It's our user store, and it's important to keep our members safe. The product does well with that."
"There is room for improvement in documentation. The documentation could be more specific about the changes needed to achieve specific goals."
"The solution could be easier to use and I found it to be very complex involving many steps."
"They could improve their UI and make everything more user-friendly."
"More integrations would be better."
"The OpenID features could improve in CyberArk Identity."
"In terms of a governance platform, it's worth noting that CyberArk doesn't offer a particularly strong one."
"They can include the Mobile Device Management (MDM) feature."
"CyberArk Identity could improve by having the ability to better manage the network, such as Cisco. There seem to be some issues in this area."
"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."
"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 would prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface."
"The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA."
"If the reporting feature can be integrated into SSO itself that will be an icing on the cake."
"To add more value to this solution it needs to be more user-friendly."
"The main thing is we do not have the traceability and good monitoring that CA can provide us to capture problems when they occur."
"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."
CyberArk Identity is ranked 8th in Access Management with 17 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 12th in Access Management with 69 reviews. CyberArk Identity is rated 8.2, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of CyberArk Identity writes "Allows Linux and Unix administrators to login with single password ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". CyberArk Identity is most compared with Microsoft Intune, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Microsoft Entra ID, SailPoint IdentityIQ and PingFederate, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity and PingAccess. See our CyberArk Identity vs. Symantec Siteminder report.
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