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.
| Type | Title | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Category | Single Sign-On (SSO) | May 31, 2025 | Download |
| Product | Reviews, tips, and advice from real users | May 31, 2025 | Download |
| Comparison | Symantec Siteminder vs Microsoft Entra ID | May 31, 2025 | Download |
| Comparison | Symantec Siteminder vs Cisco Duo | May 31, 2025 | Download |
| Comparison | Symantec Siteminder vs Okta Workforce Identity | May 31, 2025 | Download |
| Title | Rating | Mindshare | Recommending | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Entra ID | 4.3 | 27.2% | 95% | 234 interviewsAdd to research |
| Okta Workforce Identity | 4.3 | 11.4% | 94% | 65 interviewsAdd to research |
Symantec Siteminder was previously known as SiteMinder, CA SSO, Layer7 SiteMinder.
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We use it for authentication and authorization for our website. We have multiple external and internal websites that we host, so we are using SSO for authenticating and authorizing for all those websites.
It has performed quite well. We have been using it more than 10 years now.
for our websites. These features are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO.
It doesn't take time for us to configure, maybe because we have been using this product for so long. In terms of security rights, a lot are covered under SSO, so we don't actually have to go and do something on the back end.
We would like to the OAuth be more stable, more issues being fixed rather than not.
We're pretty happy, but there are some scenarios with the new stuff, like OAuth - where authentication happens from Google, Amazon - in which they're still lagging right now. They're developing it, but we have been using SSO for a long time and Oauth capability was not there, and it recently started this year. So we had a little bit of a question, "Should we still use this product or we should go to another product?" That was the one concern.
Stability? There have been some issues but over the years but it's pretty stable. The issue we encountered was a whole site going down. But we were able to bring it up.
Scalability is pretty good.
They're pretty good on some of the non-issues. There are some delays, however, and they keep on asking for logs or try to delay it, maybe it's stuff they don't know. But in most of the cases they respond pretty quickly.
I wasn't in on the initial setup, but I have been installing a lot of the newer versions. Compared to six, seven years ago, now it is very, very smooth.
I would still not rate it a 10 out of 10 because, like I said, we had some issues with the OAuth here and there. Once those are done right, I think it would be a nine out of 10.
Regarding advice to a colleague who is researching this or a similar solution, it depends on what they are trying to accomplish. Are they going legacy, where you authenticate, versus the newer federation?
But I would recommend SSO as a solution.
