We performed a comparison between PingFederate 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)."It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature is multifactor authentication."
"PingFederate gives you granular control over the settings. There are many options for fine-tuning policies."
"PingFederate is very flexible. We can do many customizations, and it also provides an SDK to tailor it to our specific requirements. There are also numerous plugins available. I've worked with tools like ForgeRock and Okta, but I find PingFederate to be the most customizable."
"The single sign-on is the solution's most valuable feature"
"We almost never have outages nor see slowdowns."
"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."
"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."
"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 has the ability to authenticate and authorize users. It is the main feature for our security."
"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."
"Currently, the main integration is SAML-based, but other integration methodologies need to be supported."
"PingFederate's UI could be streamlined. They have recently made several improvements, but it's still too complex. It's a common complaint. The configuration should be simplified because the learning curve is too steep."
"It requires some expertise to set up and manage."
"Notifications and monitoring are two areas with shortcomings in the solution that need improvement."
"Some of the new protocols, like OAuth 2.0, could be improved."
"We are finding some compatibility issues. We're still working with CA on them."
"In future releases, I would like to see maybe more capabilities with some more modern authentication."
"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."
"The support could be faster."
"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."
"I would prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface."
Earn 20 points
PingFederate is ranked 10th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 4 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 17th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 69 reviews. PingFederate is rated 8.2, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of PingFederate writes " A highly stable tool offering extremely helpful technical support to its users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". PingFederate is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, PingID, Microsoft Active Directory, CyberArk Identity and Auth0, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingID, PingAccess and Microsoft Entra ID.
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