We performed a comparison between Microsoft Entra ID 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."Multi-factor authentication (MFA) has improved our customers' security posture. Multi-factor authentication has two layers of authentication, which helps in case you input your credentials into a phishing website and then it has access to your credentials. So if they use your credentials, then you have proof on your phone that was sent to the end user."
"Active Directory itself is the best feature it has. It also gives us a single pane of glass for managing user access."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is its authentication security. That is Azure Active Directory's purpose - making cloud services' security and integration easier."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to delegate roles to each individual resource, which is great."
"It has been stable, and we haven't had any issues since we started to use it."
"The initial setup was very straightforward."
"We have the ability to define the email user in the designated field."
"The solution has a variety of tools. Two of the most valuable features are the ability to create users and to replicate the user account from on-premise to the cloud."
"A valuable feature of Siteminder is the way it handles bulk traffic. The features it has, in terms of routing the traffic and load balancing, are good."
"The solution is easy to use for our managers."
"It is reliable."
"We almost never have outages nor see slowdowns."
"It has considerably reduced the amount of time that new users would take to join into the organization. Previously, it was a lengthy, manual process because it's a very secure environment, where they need to verify the user before they can actually grant him a user-ID and password. Integrating with the built-in custom application, and exposing CA Single Sign On to the internet, we were able to get the employees onboard. The time that we gained was: previously it would generally take from four to eight weeks for each employee, we brought it to one to two days."
"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."
"It's quite scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with the Active Directory."
"We would like to have more granularity in the Azure conditional access in order to be able to manage more groups for devices and for applications."
"The dashboard and interface could be better. It would be ideal if it was easier to use."
"The licensing cost is a bit prohibitive."
"Everything should be in one package. There are so many different packages. They need to provide guidance because there are so many features and we don't know how to implement them in our organization."
"Customers should be informed that public review features are not intended for production use."
"If your organization requires additional security then the subscription will be more expensive."
"Microsoft should work on enhancing its machine-learning algorithm to prevent unnecessary lockouts of users."
"Microsoft Entra ID's impact on access and identity management is relatively limited."
"If the reporting feature can be integrated into SSO itself that will be an icing on the cake."
"In future releases, I would like to see maybe more capabilities with some more modern authentication."
"We are finding some compatibility issues. We're still working with CA on them."
"The support could be faster."
"They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting."
"To add more value to this solution it needs to be more user-friendly."
"The technical support could be better."
"The main thing is we do not have the traceability and good monitoring that CA can provide us to capture problems when they occur."
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Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Access Management with 190 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 17th in Access Management with 69 reviews. Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Entra ID writes "Allows users to authenticate from home and has excellent integrations in a simple, stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Yubico YubiKey and Cisco Duo, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingID and Auth0.
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