We performed a comparison between Microsoft Entra ID and Symantec Siteminder based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Auth0, Okta and others in Access Management."The features around permissions are excellent."
"The ability to grant access to other organizations is helpful."
"It also has features that help improve security posture. The most important of these features include multifactor authentication, which is very useful for connecting to the organization, especially from outside the boundaries of the organization. That is very helpful when it comes to user security."
"It is great for mom-and-pop shops or small businesses that are truly coming into the enterprise ecosystem and that have not come from a legacy environment."
"Using [Azure AD's] passwordless technology, you're not even using a password anymore. You're basically just creating a logon request without actually sending or typing or storing the password. This is awesome for any user, regardless of whether you're a factory worker or a CFO. It's secure and super-simple."
"It enhances security, especially for unregistered devices. It 1000% has security features that help to improve our security posture. It could be irritating at times, but improving the security posture is exactly what the Authenticator app does."
"I like that you can run it on-premises. I also like that I can use Azure at any time as the main one."
"Azure Active Directory has useful policy assigning and management."
"All of our applications get a point, click, and you are in, while we increase security at the same time."
"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."
"Ease of use is very good, for administrating it. It's very well known."
"It is very scalable. We have a very large customer base: 75 million customers."
"Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO."
"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."
"Federation is valuable, for sure, because we have a lot of third-party vendors that we need to integrate with, and this is a turnkey solution in some ways."
"It's agent-based. It's convenient to deploy and integrate."
"We would like to have more granularity in the Azure conditional access in order to be able to manage more groups for devices and for applications."
"To look at more documentation, engineering, or an open standard would be nice."
"Allowing for more customization would be very useful. There is a limited metadata capability. When you look at a user, there are only six pieces of information you can see, but organizations are way more complex, so having that metadata available and being able to use that for dynamic user groups and other policies would be very helpful."
"Its area of improvement is more about the synchronization of accounts and the intervals for that. Sometimes, there're customers with other network challenges, and it takes a while for synchronization to happen to the cloud. There is some component of their on-prem that is delaying things getting to the cloud. The turnaround time for these requests is very time-sensitive. I don't mean this as derogatory for this service, but in my experience, that happens a lot."
"The product takes at least ten minutes to activate privilege identity management roles."
"Microsoft services and most familiar third-party applications are currently supported, but we can't find many other platforms that integrate with Office 365 or Azure Active Directory. Microsoft should develop connectors for different applications and collaborate more with other vendors to cover a broader range of applications."
"I would like it if Intune could manage MacOS or iOS directly. Right now, we have to use a third-party solution."
"The custom role creation function could be improved as it's somewhat tricky to use."
"Better documentation. I went through some sessions on single sign-on for version 12.7."
"If the reporting feature can be integrated into SSO itself that will be an icing on the cake."
"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 main thing is we do not have the traceability and good monitoring that CA can provide us to capture problems when they occur."
"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."
"We would like to the OAuth be more stable, more issues being fixed rather than not."
"I would prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface."
"The support could be faster."
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Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Access Management with 190 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 17th in Access Management with 69 reviews. Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Entra ID writes "Allows users to authenticate from home and has excellent integrations in a simple, stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Yubico YubiKey and Cisco Duo, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingID and Auth0.
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