We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiAuthenticator 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's most valuable aspect is that it easy to install. The user experience is very good."
"Enables easy integration, allowing for 2FA with our VPN."
"The most valuable feature is the OTP on the mobile phone."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility in using the SMS messages."
"We have not had issues with Fortinet FortiAuthenticator. It is stable."
"FortiAuthenticator is a very good solution. It is all jury-based. FortiAuthenticator is very easy for anyone to understand how it works and be able to take action."
"The ease of use is really nice. Using Authenticator, I've been able to actually work better on my authentication due to the fact that I have a single fabric to authenticate control from my firewall and on my access points. Authentication takes place from this area."
"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."
"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."
"As our identity model continues to mature, probably the Federation is most valueable."
"IWA is an out-of-the-box feature. The SAML-based federation is standard for all tools. However, CA Single Sign-On has made the federation configuration way too simple and handy to set up and use."
"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?"
"SAML is the best thing we're using right now because there is no need for creating an external account."
"It provides the breadth and the width to provide solutions for the different kinds of technologies which we have."
"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 product must provide 2FA for applications."
"We had issues trying to integrate the keys properly during the initial setup."
"The hardware aspect of the solution could be improved. We are not really able to understand the hardware capabilities of the device."
"There are multiple areas that are in need of improvement. It is not a mature product."
"The speed of deployment on the cloud could be improved. It took a few days when it should have been just two days"
"Integration with some other enterprise applications could be improved."
"It can not use SQL to query FortiAnalyzer directly."
"There is room for improvement in stability and support."
"In future releases, I would like to see maybe more capabilities with some more modern authentication."
"All the problems that we reported actually have never been resolved. We could not capture enough information for CA to be able to debug the problem."
"The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA."
"An area Siteminder could improve on is that there are a few limitations, in terms of new protocols for OpenID. If I want to have different scopes, the features are limited. They also do not have APIs exposed, which is a major drawback. API is a feature I would like to see included in the next release."
"To add more value to this solution it needs to be more user-friendly."
"The technical support could be better."
"CA has reporting at the moment. With the reporting, every particular segmented product has a reporting engine. I would like to see centralized reporting for all of them together."
"I would prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface."
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Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is ranked 5th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 52 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 17th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 69 reviews. Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is rated 8.0, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiAuthenticator writes "A reasonably priced solution that can be scaled toward different functionalities and offers flexible SMS messaging". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiToken, Fortinet FortiNAC, Microsoft Entra ID and Cisco Duo, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingID and PingAccess.
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