Compare Red Hat Single Sign On vs. Symantec Siteminder
Red Hat Single Sign On is ranked 13th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 1 review while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 6th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 4 reviews. Red Hat Single Sign On is rated 7.0, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Red Hat Single Sign On writes "It is very easy to scale and use as you want, but there could be more checks and balances to find out if there have been any security lapses". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "The flexibility helped us meet the requirements of our customer". Red Hat Single Sign On is most compared with Okta Workforce Identity and Auth0, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with Okta Workforce Identity, PingID and Oracle Access Manager.
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Red Hat SSO has a lot of very concise, well laid out documentation, which is available in the free edition as well. It is very easy to scale and use as you want. | The single sign-on is the solution's most valuable feature The most valuable feature is the integration with the Active Directory. 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? 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. You can quickly deploy the entire product with a basic config within couple of hours. |
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They could provide more checks and balances to find out if there have been any security lapses, e.g., if somebody is trying to break into the system. Some other products have these detection mechanisms in case someone is trying to hack into the system or find out a user's passwords. | 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. To add more value to this solution it needs to be more user-friendly. 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. The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA. |
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It is a low cost product. This product can be used by non-profit organizations or universities, when they don't want to invest a lot of money. If you want support, that is when you use the paid version. There are different support categories that you can pay for, which provide different support levels. E.g., there is a quick response if you pay a higher amount, where the response time is within a few hours. The license is around $8000 USD. | CA solutions are generally expensive but for the customer the ROI is big. I recommend conducting a PoC on every available product before choose one. |
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Views 1,145 Comparisons 96 Reviews 1 Average Words per Review 932 Avg. Rating 7.0 | Views 3,643 Comparisons 2,166 Reviews 4 Average Words per Review 692 Avg. Rating 7.8 |
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| Red Hat Single Sign-On, Red Hat SSO, RH SSO, RH-SSO | Single Sign-On, SiteMinder, CA SSO, Layer7 SiteMinder |
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| Red Hat | Broadcom |
Overview | |
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. | Symantec® SiteMinder is designed to secure the modern enterprise through a unified access management platform that applies the appropriate authentication mechanism to positively identify users; provides single sign-on and identity federation for seamless access to any application; enforces granular security policies to stop unauthorized access to sensitive resources; and monitors and manages the entire user session to prevent session hijacking. Finally, Symantec SiteMinder is battle-tested and has been deployed in the largest IT environments in the world. |
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Learn more about Red Hat Single Sign On | Learn more about Symantec Siteminder |
Sample Customers | |
Information Not Available | British Telecom, CoreBlox, DBS, HMS, Itera ASA and Simeo |
Top Industries | |
Software R&D Company65% Comms Service Provider12% Legal Firm6% Construction Company4% | Financial Services Firm41% Healthcare Company8% Comms Service Provider8% Retailer6% Software R&D Company34% Comms Service Provider14% Media Company9% Retailer7% |
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