AWS IAM Identity Center vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

"The most valuable feature of AWS IAM Identity Center is the ability to provide a structured approach to access management through a single dashboard."

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

"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 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."

"The solution enhances security through features like multifactor authentication."

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

"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."

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

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

"The solution is easy to use for our managers."

"We almost never have outages nor see slowdowns."

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

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

"All of our applications get a point, click, and you are in, while we increase security at the same time."

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

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

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

"Greater visualization for security policies would be beneficial."

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

"The configuration with other tools can be hard."

"IAM is challenging to manage in complex environments."

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

"Some of the new protocols, like OAuth 2.0, could be improved."

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

"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."

"I think they need to integrate some of the newer types of authentication into the product. I'm not seeing the innovation when it comes to biometrics in the product."

"The tech support has not been very good for us so we don't use them anymore. We have had some issues. Nobody is perfect."

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

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

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

"The pricing is reasonable."

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

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

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

"The solution's pricing is competitive."

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

"The licensing is fair for this solution."

"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."