We performed a comparison between PingAccess 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 solution is highly stable and scalable"
"It's agent-based. It's convenient to deploy and integrate."
"The single sign-on is the solution's most valuable feature"
"It has the ability to authenticate and authorize users. It is the main feature for our security."
"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."
"All of our applications get a point, click, and you are in, while we increase security at the same time."
"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."
"It's quite scalable."
"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 initial setup appears to be difficult in the beginning."
"They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting."
"The technical support could be better."
"We are finding some compatibility issues. We're still working with CA on them."
"I'd like to see a rework of the user directory configuration."
"The main thing is we do not have the traceability and good monitoring that CA can provide us to capture problems when they occur."
"Some of the new protocols, like OAuth 2.0, could be improved."
"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."
"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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PingAccess is ranked 15th in Access Management with 1 review while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 17th in Access Management with 69 reviews. PingAccess is rated 10.0, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of PingAccess writes "A hybrid lightweight solution that simplifies web management ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". PingAccess is most compared with ForgeRock, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingID and Microsoft Entra ID.
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