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Entrust GetAccess [EOL] vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Entrust GetAccess [EOL]
Average Rating
10.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Symantec Siteminder
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
75
Ranking in other categories
Single Sign-On (SSO) (13th), Web Access Management (1st), Access Management (12th)
 

Featured Reviews

Tareq Elqadah - PeerSpot reviewer
Regional Sales Manager at Cyber Knight Technologies FZ LLC
A scalable solution that can be used for hardware-based authentication
Entrust GetAccess is used for hardware-based authentication, mainly for users The most valuable feature of Entrust GetAccess is its performance. Entrust GetAccess is a very expensive solution, and its pricing could be improved. I have been using Entrust GetAccess for two years. Entrust…
Muzi Lubisi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior technical Consultant at CA Africa
Improved user experience with seamless integration and easy installation
The feature that I mostly valued is the ease of installation on different systems, especially on Windows. Additionally, it is very beneficial for deploying single sign-on sessions between different windows on a web browser, provided I am connected to the right identity provider. That seamless integration significantly improves user experience and efficiency.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable feature of Entrust GetAccess is its performance."
"It provides us with authentications, authorizations, and basically providing the client with better secure services."
"The solution is easy to use for our managers."
"The single sign-on is the solution's most valuable feature."
"It helps protect our applications and provides identity management."
"Authentication Authorization for our websites are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes and that has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO."
"The feature that I mostly valued is the ease of installation on different systems, especially on Windows."
"It is a pretty complete product."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with the Active Directory."
 

Cons

"Entrust GetAccess is a very expensive solution, and its pricing could be improved."
"To add more value to this solution it needs to be more user-friendly."
"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."
"It's not user friendly, but it's very customizable."
"Some of the new protocols, like OAuth 2.0, could be improved."
"I used to get the runaround initially. They would ask us the same four questions all the time."
"Upgrade planning is extensive and costly and involves a lot of applications, so we’d like to see that improved."
"It’s really difficult to initially configure, but once you know where the traps are, it’s not a big deal."
"The documentation is not good enough, particularly the installation documentation could be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We need to pay a yearly licensing fee for Entrust GetAccess, which is very expensive."
"CA solutions are generally expensive but for the customer the ROI is big."
"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."
"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 price is quite comparable to the other enterprise-level solutions in that market."
"The licensing is fair for this solution."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"The solution's pricing is competitive."
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Financial Services Firm
24%
Insurance Company
8%
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8%
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5%
 

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What needs improvement with Symantec Siteminder?
Symantec Siteminder needs to have adaptive authentication and multi-factor authentication as integrated features. Currently, multi-factor authentication is available as a separate solution, and it ...
What is your primary use case for Symantec Siteminder?
I deploy and support Symantec Siteminder ( /products/symantec-siteminder-reviews ). I have been a partner and reseller.
 

Also Known As

GetAccess
SiteMinder, CA SSO, Layer7 SiteMinder
 

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Sample Customers

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British Telecom, CoreBlox, DBS, HMS, Itera ASA and Simeo