AWS IAM Identity Center vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

"IAM provides significant benefits when properly deployed."

"Overall, IAM Identity Center is a great service, currently rated at nine out of ten."

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

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

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

"The most valuable feature is the security configuration ease, which is great for me, especially as a beginner."

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

"The most valuable feature of AWS Identity Center is its ability to centrally create permission templates, known as permission sets, which define AWS IAM roles."

"It's agent-based. It's convenient to deploy and integrate."

"The Directory is secure. It's our user store, and it's important to keep our members safe. The product does well with that."

"You can quickly deploy the entire product with a basic config within couple of hours."

"Ease of use is very good, for administrating it. It's very well known."

"It is reliable."

"SAML is the best thing we're using right now because there is no need for creating an external account."

"The solution has features that allow you to easily distinguish between protected and unprotected resources."

"The most valuable feature is the integration with the Active Directory."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"The initial setup of Symantec SiteMinder was a bit tricky. I would rate it a seven on a scale of one to ten, where ten indicates an easy setup."

"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."

"Siteminder needs to improve its user experience."

"We would like to the OAuth be more stable, more issues being fixed rather than not."

"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."

"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."

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

"The solution's pricing is competitive."

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

"The pricing is reasonable."

"CA solutions are generally expensive but for the customer the ROI is big."

"The licensing is fair for this solution."

"I recommend conducting a PoC on every available product before choose one."

"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."