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)."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 product enables SSO."
"The logs have great detail that make it easier to evaluate and control the security environment."
"We have not had issues with Fortinet FortiAuthenticator. It is stable."
"The current version is stable...Scalability-wise, it is a fine solution"
"Intuitive interface and easy to deploy."
"The feature I value the most is the one-time passwords because it helps to authenticate users so you know the timing of their usage."
"The first valuable feature is being able to see everything on one platform. This includes logs and authentication failure."
"It has considerably reduced the amount of time that new users would take to join into the organization. Previously, it was a lengthy, manual process because it's a very secure environment, where they need to verify the user before they can actually grant him a user-ID and password. Integrating with the built-in custom application, and exposing CA Single Sign On to the internet, we were able to get the employees onboard. The time that we gained was: previously it would generally take from four to eight weeks for each employee, we brought it to one to two days."
"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 most valuable feature is the Federation part of Single Sign On, which is customizable and is easily integrated with any customer application or any third party application."
"It's quite scalable."
"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."
"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."
"If you look at our organization, and really all financial institutions, we have a lot of legacy apps. So it really helps to get Single Sign-On."
"The speed of deployment on the cloud could be improved. It took a few days when it should have been just two days"
"The user interface and clustering are areas with shortcomings that need improvement."
"Other features that would improve the product are a single sign-on where people can use their Gmail ID to log-in, etc."
"There are some protocols, such as SHA and SHA-2, that are not supported."
"FortiAuthenticator's interface could be better."
"The product must provide full support for third-party FIDO security keys."
"The solution could be more automated. It should be able to let me automate a lot of things so that what normally is done as a matter of manual processes can be handled quicker. Slow integrations can be taken up/out if there was more automation."
"It can not use SQL to query FortiAnalyzer directly."
"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."
"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."
"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 tech support has not been very good for us so we don't use them anymore. We have had some issues. Nobody is perfect."
"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."
"To add more value to this solution it needs to be more user-friendly."
"The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA."
"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."
Earn 20 points
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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