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"The most valuable feature of Entrust GetAccess is its performance."

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"We almost never have outages nor see slowdowns.""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.""It is very scalable. We have a very large customer base: 75 million customers.""All of our applications get a point, click, and you are in, while we increase security at the same time.""You can quickly deploy the entire product with a basic config within couple of hours.""I liked the debugging part. There are only two files (trace file and log file) that you need to look into while performing debugging, and the logs give you the exact info on where and what needs to be fixed.""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."

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"Entrust GetAccess is a very expensive solution, and its pricing could be improved."

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"The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA.""To add more value to this solution it needs to be more user-friendly.""We would like to the OAuth be more stable, more issues being fixed rather than not.""I would like to see a move towards the newer technologies, which is what we are doing right now. I think that's in the roadmap that's coming, in the 12.8 and 14 releases, but we would like to have it sooner than later.""The support could be faster.""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.""We are finding some compatibility issues. We're still working with CA on them.""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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  • "We need to pay a yearly licensing fee for Entrust GetAccess, which is very expensive."
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  • "The price is quite comparable to the other enterprise-level solutions in that market."
  • "I recommend conducting a PoC on every available product before choose one."
  • "CA solutions are generally expensive but for the customer the ROI is big."
  • "Symantec Siteminder is expensive; they could definitely do better on the price."
  • "The licensing is fair for this solution."
  • "Siteminder is a little costly. You pay for licensing, and they offer packages, so if you have less users, then you have to buy different products at different prices. If you have more of a user base, then the package is different. They also include other features—for example, if you have a database and you're using Siteminder, then it's good to use a Semantic-specific database, but if you are using less, then you have to purchase the database separately. Whereas if you are going for a bigger license, then it comes within the package. It depends on which plan you are using."
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    Also Known As
    GetAccess
    Single Sign-On, SiteMinder, CA SSO, Layer7 SiteMinder
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    Overview
    Entrust GetAccess is a solution to solve security objectives for automating processes for suppliers and partners, improving productivity and efficiency, or simply providing an invaluable peace of mind. The Entrust GetAccess Server has automated service discovery, integral fail-over and fail-back capabilities, and flexible multilevel centralized logging.

    Symantec® SiteMinder is designed to secure the modern enterprise through a unified access management platform that applies the appropriate authentication mechanism to positively identify users; provides single sign-on and identity federation for seamless access to any application; enforces granular security policies to stop unauthorized access to sensitive resources; and monitors and manages the entire user session to prevent session hijacking. Finally, Symantec SiteMinder is battle-tested and has been deployed in the largest IT environments in the world.

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    Telia
    British Telecom, CoreBlox, DBS, HMS, Itera ASA and Simeo
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    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm39%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Healthcare Company7%
    Retailer7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm33%
    Insurance Company11%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Small Business8%
    Midsize Enterprise4%
    Large Enterprise88%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business12%
    Midsize Enterprise6%
    Large Enterprise82%

    Entrust GetAccess is ranked 1st in Web Access Management with 1 review while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 3rd in Web Access Management. Entrust GetAccess is rated 10.0, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Entrust GetAccess writes "A scalable solution that can be used for hardware-based authentication". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". Entrust GetAccess is most compared with , whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingID and Microsoft Entra ID.

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