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)."I prefer the passing tool that sent an active directory console to a Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, then Fortinet FortiAuthenticator does not pass the locks."
"FortiAuthenticator is easy to use."
"Simple to deploy, simple to use, and user-friendly."
"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."
"I work a lot with Fortinet products and I call the support often. They are very quick to respond and the support is very good."
"The product's on-premise version doesn't have recurring costs."
"It is very stable. We have never had any issues with this solution."
"FortiAuthenticator is really good software that integrates very well with Fortinet products."
"All of our applications get a point, click, and you are in, while we increase security at the same time."
"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."
"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's quite scalable."
"It provides the breadth and the width to provide solutions for the different kinds of technologies which we have."
"The Directory is secure. It's our user store, and it's important to keep our members safe. The product does well with that."
"You can quickly deploy the entire product with a basic config within couple of hours."
"It is reliable."
"It does the job I paid for, but the graphical interface could be improved."
"There are multiple areas that are in need of improvement. It is not a mature product."
"There are some protocols, such as SHA and SHA-2, that are not supported."
"We have issues with HA (high availability). These should be addressed in future releases."
"Improvements in the product could start from the dashboard, overall customization, and configuration."
"For improvement, Fortinet needs to ensure that they provide quick support to users...Fortinet sometimes needs to respond to users facing issues within an hour."
"I would like to see more ways to authenticate, such as adding facial recognition to the two-factor, where you log into your phone or another device."
"Integration with FortiGate could be more fluid."
"The technical support could be better."
"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."
"We are finding some compatibility issues. We're still working with CA on them."
"They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting."
"Some of the new protocols, like OAuth 2.0, could be improved."
"The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA."
"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."
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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