We performed a comparison between CyberArk Identity and Symantec Siteminder based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The initial setup of CyberArk Identity was straightforward."
"The solution helps with auditing, and monitoring, and integrates with Splunk for log analysis. User activity logs are captured in CyberArk Identity and sent to external tools like Splunk for analysis and monitoring."
"CyberArk Identity is a mature product."
"The feature that we find most valuable is the ability to integrate multiple IDs for on-premises Active Directory."
"The user identification is simplified, and managing user privileges, whether adding or revoking them, is also quite straightforward when utilizing CyberArk SaaS."
"The user self-service program and the Office 365 provisioning service feature are the most valuable. It is a very easy and feature-rich solution that gives priority to the users and security."
"The setup, via cloud, is simple."
"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."
"It provides the breadth and the width to provide solutions for the different kinds of technologies which we have."
"Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO."
"SAML is the best thing we're using right now because there is no need for creating an external account."
"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."
"It's agent-based. It's convenient to deploy and integrate."
"The solution's difficulty in gaining skill sets should be improved because it's a vertical product."
"More integrations would be better."
"They could improve their UI and make everything more user-friendly."
"We would like to see an improvement in the ability to manage mobile devices."
"I'm not sure what needs improvement. It is a good platform."
"There is room for improvement in documentation. The documentation could be more specific about the changes needed to achieve specific goals."
"The OpenID features could improve in CyberArk Identity."
"The solution could be easier to use and I found it to be very complex involving many steps."
"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."
"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."
"The main thing is we do not have the traceability and good monitoring that CA can provide us to capture problems when they occur."
"I'd like to see a rework of the user directory configuration."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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CyberArk Identity is ranked 8th in Access Management with 17 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 17th 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 PingID.
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