We performed a comparison between NetIQ Access Manager and Symantec Siteminder based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Access Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The single sign-on feature is excellent."
"It's very easy to integrate with applications."
"The most valuable features of NetIQ Access Manager are SSO and Multi-Factor Authentication."
"The features that we have found most valuable with NetIQ Access Manager are its single sign-on and two factor two second factor database."
"There are lots of options to customize the solution to your needs."
"It's quite scalable."
"It has the ability to authenticate and authorize users. It is the main feature for our security."
"SAML is the best thing we're using right now because there is no need for creating an external account."
"Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO."
"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."
"You can quickly deploy the entire product with a basic config within couple of hours."
"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."
"IWA is an out-of-the-box feature. The SAML-based federation is standard for all tools. However, CA Single Sign-On has made the federation configuration way too simple and handy to set up and use."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say the security of the infrastructure and the server and the working networking device."
"The application portal could be improved with more options and easier customization."
"I would love to see the upgrade procedure handled more effectively. I would prefer to have OVS installation possibilities, although the upgrade procedures should include the OS as well. You should be able to use the whole application as an appliance."
"Having the ability to easily extract and view and compare and version control configurations would be ideal."
"Classification of junctions and new versions of applications, such as APIs, can be added to enable the use of more devices that utilize biometrics for Multi-Factor Authentication to improve the solution."
"I would prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface."
"The support could be faster."
"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."
"The initial setup was complex, painful. But that is to be expected of any new setup. When you're a big bank like us, any kind of migration to a new product is hard. I expect it to be painful, and it was painful. But it's not something that you can avoid."
"Better documentation. I went through some sessions on single sign-on for version 12.7."
"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."
"I'd like to see a rework of the user directory configuration."
"In future releases, I would like to see maybe more capabilities with some more modern authentication."
NetIQ Access Manager is ranked 3rd in Web Access Management with 5 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 2nd in Web Access Management with 69 reviews. NetIQ Access Manager is rated 8.0, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of NetIQ Access Manager writes "A mature, powerful product with good integration capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". NetIQ Access Manager is most compared with Okta Workforce Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Microsoft Entra ID and Auth0, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingAccess and IBM Security Verify Access. See our NetIQ Access Manager vs. Symantec Siteminder report.
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