We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, Okta Workforce Identity, 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)."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 implementation has significantly improved access management within our organization."
"FortiAuthenticator is a very good solution. It is all jury-based. FortiAuthenticator is very easy for anyone to understand how it works and be able to take action."
"Fulfilled our requirement at a good price."
"We use this product for SSL two-factor authentication and FortiToken management."
"It keeps track of users and their IPs no matter where they are in the network. When users roam, we don't have to worry about not mapping them to an IP."
"The initial setup is so easy and there is no problem in the implementation."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The support for YubiKey is really good because you don't actually have to type in your username and password."
"The most valuable feature in Okta Workforce Identity is the single sign-on, universal directory, and lifecycle management."
"Having a single sign-on to all our applications."
"First of all, the solution is very simple."
"Its simplicity and its integration with various vendor-agnostic platforms are the most valuable features."
"The solution so far has been very stable."
"It made things a lot easier, especially with passwords."
"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."
"It provides the breadth and the width to provide solutions for the different kinds of technologies which we have."
"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."
"All of our applications get a point, click, and you are in, while we increase security at the same time."
"The most valuable feature is that it meets the requirements of the customer. You have a lot of features in the product. Every product has them, but the question is, are these products going to meet the requirement of the customer?"
"SAML is the best thing we're using right now because there is no need for creating an external account."
"As our identity model continues to mature, probably the Federation is most valueable."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with the Active Directory."
"Integration with FortiGate could be more fluid."
"The speed of deployment on the cloud could be improved. It took a few days when it should have been just two days"
"Lacks a simplified two-factor authentication process."
"The solution could be more automated. It should be able to let me automate a lot of things so that what normally is done as a matter of manual processes can be handled quicker. Slow integrations can be taken up/out if there was more automation."
"It does the job I paid for, but the graphical interface could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in stability and support."
"I would like to see more ways to authenticate, such as adding facial recognition to the two-factor, where you log into your phone or another device."
"It can not use SQL to query FortiAnalyzer directly."
"There should be automated aggregation and complete classification processes included in it."
"There are some issues with the interface that can be improved."
"We've not had any problems with Okta."
"It only facilitates provisioning and not de-provisioning."
"They also have single sign-on (SSO). When we bought Okta Workforce Identity a year and a half ago, I was also looking at SSO, but not much documentation was available for SSO. The documentation for SSO should be a little more robust for somebody who is implementing it for the first time."
"Okta Workforce Identity could improve the way passwords are reset and how it interfaces with Microsoft."
"Therefore, if you have 10 million users, that's almost 100 million, so it is costly."
"It can have more API integrations."
"We are finding some compatibility issues. We're still working with CA on them."
"We would like to the OAuth be more stable, more issues being fixed rather than not."
"The initial setup was complex, painful. But that is to be expected of any new setup. When you're a big bank like us, any kind of migration to a new product is hard. I expect it to be painful, and it was painful. But it's not something that you can avoid."
"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."
"I would prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface."
"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 GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA."
