We performed a comparison between Amazon Cognito and Symantec Siteminder based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Auth0, Okta and others in Access Management."Cognito speeds up our development and saves us time."
"The most valuable features of Amazon Cognito are the pre and post-token generation, and the different Cognito triggers. It has lots of functionality and flexibility."
"The solution is proto connective and integrates well with other AWS services."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its swift authentication."
"The multi-factor authentication setup has room for improvement."
"The most valuable features of Amazon Cognito are OTP validation and email validation."
"They offer a permission tool to help us manage multi-factor authentication."
"This is a scalable solution. If our app or general usage increases, this solution can support it."
"The Directory is secure. It's our user store, and it's important to keep our members safe. The product does well with that."
"As our identity model continues to mature, probably the Federation is most valueable."
"We almost never have outages nor see slowdowns."
"It is reliable."
"It has the ability to authenticate and authorize users. It is the main feature for our security."
"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."
"It provides the breadth and the width to provide solutions for the different kinds of technologies which we have."
"Symantec Siteminder Is both scalable and stable."
"The MFA related to the solution's side is nonexistent."
"What I found generally lacking in AWS is privileged access management (PAM)."
"You need to evaluate the export users. The multifactor authentication, much less this room for improving the configuration setup of that."
"In a future release, we would like to have different methods to validate the characteristic of a user. For example, we would like to use biometric data to analyze the behavior of users."
"The ease and simplicity of integration could be improved when using this solution. When using Okta, scope is a single endpoint with a parameter as a scope. In the Cognito for each scope, there is a separate endpoint."
"Amazon Cognito could improve by simplifying the configuration."
"Amazon Cognito’s UI needs improvement while onboarding new users."
"I believe this product could improve by enriching user profiles."
"They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting."
"I would prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface."
"I'd like to see a rework of the user directory configuration."
"The support could be faster."
"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."
"In future releases, I would like to see maybe more capabilities with some more modern authentication."
"The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA."
"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."
Amazon Cognito is ranked 6th in Access Management with 10 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 12th in Access Management with 69 reviews. Amazon Cognito is rated 7.4, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon Cognito writes "Good integration with AWS services but not feasible for B2C because MFAs are nonexistent". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". Amazon Cognito is most compared with Auth0, Microsoft Entra ID, Cloudflare Access, Okta Workforce Identity and ForgeRock, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingAccess and PingID.
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