We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, IBM Tivoli Access Manager [EOL], and Symantec Siteminder based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, Auth0 and others in Single Sign-On (SSO)."It reduces the need for network administrator intervention by allowing the user to perform their own registration and resolve their own password problems and issues."
"Enables easy integration, allowing for 2FA with our VPN."
"The product enables SSO."
"The logs have great detail that make it easier to evaluate and control the security environment."
"Valuable features include the robust SSO features, when you have more complicated authentication within an organization. We can mix AD, Radius, Portal, SSO Portals (Google, etc.), and build our own environment. It is very flexible."
"The product is good, cost-effective, and functionally efficient."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"The current version is stable...Scalability-wise, it is a fine solution"
"SAML 2.0."
"The integration effort with the end application is quite straightforward and easy."
"Single Sign-On functionality is valuable because the core purpose of the product is to allow universal (or bespoke) SSO for application suites."
"OAuth 2 is now the de facto standard for API protection and scoped authorized delegation. IBM TAM now supports OAuth 2 and can act as fully compliant OAuth 2 authorization server."
"The Verify feature: A push method which customers are going for."
"It has the ability to authenticate and authorize users. It is the main feature for our security."
"It provides the breadth and the width to provide solutions for the different kinds of technologies which we have."
"You can quickly deploy the entire product with a basic config within couple of hours."
"The single sign-on is the solution's most valuable feature"
"Symantec Siteminder Is both scalable and stable."
"It's quite scalable."
"It is very scalable. We have a very large customer base: 75 million customers."
"It's agent-based. It's convenient to deploy and integrate."
"A better integration with other vendors."
"The product must provide full support for third-party FIDO security keys."
"The speed of deployment on the cloud could be improved. It took a few days when it should have been just two days"
"Integration with FortiGate could be more fluid."
"We had issues trying to integrate the keys properly during the initial setup."
"Fortinet FortiAuthenticator provides only authentication. It should also enable authorization services"
"The price of the solution could improve, it is expensive."
"I don't have any issues with this solution, but it may need a better, more user-friendly interface or better design of the platform."
"Looking at their roadmap, they have a broad grasp of the security features which the industry needs."
"The self-service portal needs improvement."
"Multi-factor authentication with social integration needs to improve."
"An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for the newer appliance versions for hosting the virtual appliances on AWS will help."
"The profiling element is incredibly robust, but also equally as complex, it requires an off-site course to be able to understand the context or the plethora of options available."
"The main thing is we do not have the traceability and good monitoring that CA can provide us to capture problems when they occur."
"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."
"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."
"The support could be faster."
"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."
"To add more value to this solution it needs to be more user-friendly."
"The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA."
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