We performed a comparison between Red Hat Single Sign On 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 product’s most valuable feature is its ability to assign only one password for the user at a false value."
"Good support for single sign-on protocols."
"It is very easy to scale and use as you want."
"Red Hat SSO has a lot of very concise, well laid out documentation, which is available in the free edition as well."
"Red Hat SSO integrates well with our other solutions. Using OIDC protocols and ITL integration, employees can authenticate with Red Hat SSO and access our microservices."
"Right now, federation that comes out-of-the-box with single sign-on is the most valuable feature that we have, and also scalability."
"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."
"It is very scalable. We have a very large customer base: 75 million customers."
"You can quickly deploy the entire product with a basic config within couple of hours."
"The Directory is secure. It's our user store, and it's important to keep our members safe. The product does well with that."
"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."
"SAML is the best thing we're using right now because there is no need for creating an external account."
"It's quite scalable."
"Red Hat SSO's architecture could be updated."
"Security could be improved."
"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."
"The product’s technical support services could be better."
"The Federation part of CA Single Sign On, it's a bit complex to implement because it involves the SSL certificates, exchange of certificates, and lot of technical details. The documentation misses some important parts of this, so that's the reason it took some time for us to go live."
"As we are moving in to the mobility space, this is where we really see SiteMinder and their other product really come together to provide a solution base to a different area where the IoT is coming, the different business communications are happening. All of those things require authentication and we really want to see this product grow into that role."
"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 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 technical support could be better."
"In future releases, I would like to see maybe more capabilities with some more modern authentication."
"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."
"We are finding some compatibility issues. We're still working with CA on them."
Earn 20 points
Red Hat Single Sign On is ranked 11th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 4 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 17th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 69 reviews. Red Hat Single Sign On is rated 8.6, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. 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 "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". Red Hat Single Sign On is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Auth0, Okta Workforce Identity and Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingID and NetIQ Access Manager.
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