We performed a comparison between LastPass 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 most valuable feature is the liberty of keeping encrypted passwords and elevated information in a sealed vault."
"One feature that is really important to us is the ability to create secure notes."
"The initial setup for this process is straightforward and extremely easy. It just works."
"Until now, I haven't found anything like the dashboard. It gives you a security score. I find that to be really great. The Sharing Center is really great as well. And the Security Challenge is really great too."
"The most valuable feature for me is being able to pair applications and user permissions."
"Tech support has been good. We haven't needed it much, because it is not a complex application. There is not that much you have to do with it."
"It is easy to use."
"The shared folders is an important feature. It's the primary feature we use. Also, the ability for LastPass to autofill and hide the passwords, so we don't have to keep changing passwords every time a person leaves, is valuable."
"The Directory is secure. It's our user store, and it's important to keep our members safe. The product does well with that."
"We almost never have outages nor see slowdowns."
"It has the ability to authenticate and authorize users. It is the main feature for our security."
"Right now, federation that comes out-of-the-box with single sign-on is the most valuable feature that we have, and also scalability."
"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?"
"Ease of use is very good, for administrating it. It's very well known."
"It's quite scalable."
"As our identity model continues to mature, probably the Federation is most valueable."
"LastPass has a problem syncing the passwords to all of the users."
"I would like to be able to reduce the log out time of the session."
"I also don't like the add-in for Internet Explorer and Google Chrome, because when you do the add-in, you can actually save that to your credentials in your IE, and the problem is, if I left my screen open, or any of the IT people leave their screen open someone could come up and access all their credentials in LastPass without having to put a password in within your own network. I don't like that functionality. We've banned that from any of our staff adding that as an add-in because we see that as a security risk."
"One thing I wish LastPass had is an integration with Active Directory, not for synchronizing users but to actually manage, in some way, privileged accounts by replacing the password of LastPass itself."
"Our biggest issue over the years was around the stability of the LDAP sync to AD."
"The management through the plugin is poor. It consumes tons of client resources especially as an administrator."
"Its user interface should be better, and there should probably be more information about scalability."
"The ability to set up an account expiration limit/date would be very useful."
"The technical support could be better."
"They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting."
"We are finding some compatibility issues. We're still working with CA on them."
"Some of the new protocols, like OAuth 2.0, could be improved."
"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."
"In future releases, I would like to see maybe more capabilities with some more modern authentication."
"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."
LastPass is ranked 20th in Single Sign-On (SSO) while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 17th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 69 reviews. LastPass is rated 7.4, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of LastPass writes "Straightforward to set up, good support, intuitive to use, and offers good value for the cost". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". LastPass is most compared with Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault, BeyondTrust Password Safe, Keeper and CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingID and PingAccess.
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