AWS IAM Identity Center vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

"The organizational value of AWS IAM Identity Center is definitely significant, as it helps ensure that the least required permissions are given to users, thus preventing unnecessary access and reducing the risk of accidental deletions or changes."

"IAM provides significant benefits when properly deployed."

"IAM Identity Center provides micro-level control over resources, services, and users, allowing organizations to grant specific access and privileges safely."

"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."

"The features of AWS IAM Identity Center that I appreciate are single sign-on and multi-factor authentication, and we can manage all authentication aspects while integrating it with third-party applications."

"The features of AWS IAM Identity Center that I appreciate are single sign-on and multi-factor authentication, and we can manage all authentication aspects while integrating it with third-party applications."

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

"The most valuable feature is that it meets the requirements of the customer. You have a lot of features in the product. Every product has them, but the question is, are these products going to meet the requirement of the customer?"

"It's quite scalable."

"The most valuable feature is the Federation part of Single Sign On, which is customizable and is easily integrated with any customer application or any third party application."

"Symantec Siteminder has simplified user access for our customers from user login to their web applications."

"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 provides the breadth and the width to provide solutions for the different kinds of technologies which we have."

"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."

"For AWS services in general, I had trouble creating an S3 bucket due to a repetitive error message regarding existing names."

"IAM is challenging to manage in complex environments."

"I have opened support tickets and received responses, although not always resolving my queries fully. I would appreciate a live chat option with technical support for quicker resolutions."

"IAM is challenging to manage in complex environments. Enhancements could include automation tools or a centralized dashboard for managing roles and policies across multiple accounts, simplifying the process."

"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."

"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."

"In the product, two groups cannot have the same name...In general, the tool does not allow for the duplication of names."

"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."

"In future releases, I would like to see maybe more capabilities with some more modern authentication."

"Better documentation. I went through some sessions on single sign-on for version 12.7."

"The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA."

"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."

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

"I would prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface."

"The support could be faster."

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

"The solution's pricing is competitive."

"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."

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

"The licensing is fair for this solution."

"The pricing is reasonable."

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

"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."