AWS IAM Identity Center vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

"We efficiently use AWS to create multiple user privileges and permissions, making it very scalable and supportive of our clients' operations."

"I highly recommend AWS IAM Identity Center to new users, especially for storage and deployment services like EC2, which are cost-efficient and scalable."

"AWS IAM Identity Center offers a secure and centralized way to manage access and permissions."

"The two most valuable features of IAM Identity Center are the security policy generation and automation in creating credentials."

"The product is easy for beginners to learn and use."

"IAM provides significant benefits when properly deployed."

"Its valuable features include granular access control, allowing precise control over who can access specific AWS resources and under what conditions using JSON-based policies."

"The solution helps us manage access in a time-efficient manner and offers reliable integration for our services, avoiding security breaches and maintaining operational efficiency."

"Symantec Siteminder Is both scalable and stable."

"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."

"The single sign-on is the solution's most valuable feature"

"That seamless integration significantly improves user experience and efficiency."

"It is pretty easy to learn."

"As our identity model continues to mature, probably the Federation is most valueable."

"Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO."

"Integrating AWS IAM Identity Center with other applications sometimes presents challenges."

"There is a desire to see integration or adoption of time-based user creation features within AWS IAM Identity Center."

"I would like to see more flexibility in the features as sometimes it doesn't meet my expectations."

"The initial setup isn't very easy, around four on a scale of one to ten. It permits setting up policies that might not be entirely secure if improperly configured, which can lead to issues later."

"Focusing on further allowing customization and flexibility in developing solutions as a solution architect or developer would enhance user experience."

"Greater visualization for security policies would be beneficial."

"IAM is challenging to manage in complex environments."

"I would like to see more flexibility in the features as sometimes it doesn't meet my expectations."

"To add more value to this solution it needs to be more user-friendly."

"Siteminder needs to improve its user experience."

"I'd like to see a rework of the user directory configuration."

"While I have some integration with a few major providers, support for more would be advantageous."

"The main thing is we do not have the traceability and good monitoring that CA can provide us to capture problems when they occur."

"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."

"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 support team could work on their response time and overall competence."

"The product is cheap since it is available on the cloud."

"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."

"Siteminder is a little costly. You pay for licensing, and they offer packages, so if you have less users, then you have to buy different products at different prices. If you have more of a user base, then the package is different. They also include other features—for example, if you have a database and you're using Siteminder, then it's good to use a Semantic-specific database, but if you are using less, then you have to purchase the database separately. Whereas if you are going for a bigger license, then it comes within the package. It depends on which plan you are using."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"The price is quite comparable to the other enterprise-level solutions in that market."

"Symantec Siteminder is expensive; they could definitely do better on the price."

"The licensing is fair for this solution."

"The solution's pricing is competitive."