We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiAuthenticator 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)."We use this product for SSL two-factor authentication and FortiToken management."
"Fulfilled our requirement at a good price."
"We have not had issues with Fortinet FortiAuthenticator. It is stable."
"I work a lot with Fortinet products and I call the support often. They are very quick to respond and the support is very good."
"The product's on-premise version doesn't have recurring costs."
"I appreciate its ability to provide multi-factor authentication, but it's primarily focused on this function."
"The product enables SSO."
"The current version is stable...Scalability-wise, it is a fine solution"
"It's agent-based. It's convenient to deploy and integrate."
"All of our applications get a point, click, and you are in, while we increase security at the same time."
"You can quickly deploy the entire product with a basic config within couple of hours."
"It's quite scalable."
"As our identity model continues to mature, probably the Federation is most valueable."
"Ease of use is very good, for administrating it. It's very well known."
"I liked the debugging part. There are only two files (trace file and log file) that you need to look into while performing debugging, and the logs give you the exact info on where and what needs to be fixed."
"Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO."
"FortiAuthenticator's interface could be better."
"The speed of deployment on the cloud could be improved. It took a few days when it should have been just two days"
"We had issues trying to integrate the keys properly during the initial setup."
"The only way the solution could be improved is if it were cheaper."
"For improvement, Fortinet needs to ensure that they provide quick support to users...Fortinet sometimes needs to respond to users facing issues within an hour."
"A better integration with other vendors."
"I would like to see some email options for Fortinet FortiAuthenticator."
"I would like to see integration and customization capabilities with the end-user portal to solve authentication issues with diverse implementation scenarios."
"As we are moving in to the mobility space, this is where we really see SiteMinder and their other product really come together to provide a solution base to a different area where the IoT is coming, the different business communications are happening. All of those things require authentication and we really want to see this product grow into that role."
"In future releases, I would like to see maybe more capabilities with some more modern authentication."
"If the reporting feature can be integrated into SSO itself that will be an icing on the cake."
"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."
"An area Siteminder could improve on is that there are a few limitations, in terms of new protocols for OpenID. If I want to have different scopes, the features are limited. They also do not have APIs exposed, which is a major drawback. API is a feature I would like to see included in the next release."
"They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting."
"I would like to see a move towards the newer technologies, which is what we are doing right now. I think that's in the roadmap that's coming, in the 12.8 and 14 releases, but we would like to have it sooner than later."
"Some of the new protocols, like OAuth 2.0, could be improved."
Earn 20 points
Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is ranked 5th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 52 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 17th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 69 reviews. Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is rated 8.0, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiAuthenticator writes "A reasonably priced solution that can be scaled toward different functionalities and offers flexible SMS messaging". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiToken, Fortinet FortiNAC, Microsoft Entra ID and Cisco Duo, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingID and PingAccess.
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