Frontegg vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

Frontegg and Broadcom are both solutions in the Single Sign-On (SSO) category. Frontegg is ranked #19, while Broadcom is ranked #13 with an average rating of 6.6. Frontegg holds a 1.8% mindshare in SSO, compared to Broadcom’s 2.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Frontegg users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

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91% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

Symantec Siteminder and Frontegg both offer robust capabilities for access management but cater to different user needs. Frontegg appears more comprehensive in features, making it worth the price difference.

Features: Symantec Siteminder offers enterprise-level security, extensive policy management, and scalability. Frontegg provides seamless integration, developer-friendly features, and comprehensive API support.

Room for Improvement: Symantec Siteminder could benefit from being more user-friendly, having better documentation, and usability enhancements. Frontegg needs improvements in customer support response times, more extensive documentation, and support efficiency.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Symantec Siteminder deployment is complex and time-consuming, with mixed feedback on customer service. Frontegg deployment is straightforward, with praise for ease of implementation and room for improvement in customer service response.

Pricing and ROI: Symantec Siteminder has higher setup costs but delivers ROI through security. Frontegg offers competitive setup costs and higher perceived ROI due to robust features and easier integration.

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Categories and Ranking

Frontegg

Ranking in Single Sign-On (SSO)

19th

Average Rating

9.6

Reviews Sentiment

8.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Authentication Systems (34th), Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) (13th)

Symantec Siteminder

Ranking in Single Sign-On (SSO)

13th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Web Access Management (1st), Access Management (12th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Single Sign-On (SSO) category, the mindshare of Frontegg is 1.8%, down from 1.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Symantec Siteminder is 2.4%, down from 3.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Single Sign-On (SSO)

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Developer at Kovrr

Intuitive with reCaptcha integration and helpful technical support

Frontegg's solution fits us very well, as it removes the extra work of developing, maintaining, storing, and securing all of the user-management platforms. It saves us a lot of time and money every single day. Frontegg allows our organization to focus on what matters - creating meaningful, innovative solutions for our customers without wasting time and energy on problems that were already solved by the industry many, many times before. Without Frontegg, our dev velocity would have been compromised greatly, since we would have to invest in a lot of resources to maintain a properly secured, granular, and flexible user-management framework.

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Muzi Lubisi

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.

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Pros

"Every feature is multi-tenant by design, making different customer requests effortless to provide."

"It has Audit Log and many cool features that if we were to develop them by ourselves, it would require a lot of research and development resources. Frontegg gives us everything we need to ensure that our customers have a safe and reliable authentication system in which they can also manage some of the features and roles by themself which gives them more control over their environment."

"Their developers were always willing to meet even though we are in very different time zones."

"The admin portal layer is super useful and saves valuable front-end development time."

"The MFA policy via Frontegg allows us to enable/disable/enforce the Multi-Factor Authentication policy of our users and to enhance security and adhere to modern standards."

"We like the SSO, permissions and roles, multiple workspaces, and react login components."

"The solution has features that allow you to easily distinguish between protected and unprotected resources."

"All of our applications get a point, click, and you are in, while we increase security at the same time."

"It is pretty easy to learn."

"The authentication and single sign-on features of Symantec Siteminder are valuable."

"Federation is valuable, for sure, because we have a lot of third-party vendors that we need to integrate with, and this is a turnkey solution in some ways."

"If you look at our organization, and really all financial institutions, we have a lot of legacy apps. So it really helps to get Single Sign-On."

"Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO."

"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."

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Cons

"We really like the ability to add the same user across tenants. From a UX perspective, the flow can be betterized."

"It would be nice to have a backup export with all tenant/users so that in case of a mistake we can have the option to restore the users."

"The web interface is missing a way to delete a workspace. I have accidentally created a workspace and was not able to delete it. It's a minor thing that should be supported."

"Frontegg is fairly stable, however, we are looking forward to some promised capabilities, such as more tightly integrated Feature Flag support."

"The PHP SDK is limited. It's not a huge deal as we can just use their web API directly, but it is something to note if you're using PHP.‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎"

"We're hoping to see more user management-related features, according to Frontegg's roadmap."

"The technical support could be better."

"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."

"I would prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface."

"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."

"Symantec Siteminder needs to have adaptive authentication and multi-factor authentication as integrated features."

"While I have some integration with a few major providers, support for more would be advantageous."

"To add more value to this solution it needs to be more user-friendly."

"We are finding some compatibility issues. We're still working with CA on them."

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"I recommend conducting a PoC on every available product before choose one."

"CA solutions are generally expensive but for the customer the ROI is big."

"The solution's pricing is competitive."

"The licensing is fair for this solution."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"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."

"The price is quite comparable to the other enterprise-level solutions in that market."

"Symantec Siteminder is expensive; they could definitely do better on the price."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

11%

Educational Organization

11%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Financial Services Firm

30%

Insurance Company

12%

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Transportation Company

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It's agent-based. It's convenient to deploy and integrate.

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My experience with pricing is that it is all good.

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SiteMinder, CA SSO, Layer7 SiteMinder

Overview

Frontegg is a user management platform, designed for the Product-Led Growth (PLG) era. Frontegg provides blazing-fast integration of a powerful user infrastructure, designed to handle modern application use-cases.

Our platform supports app builders by covering all the way from fundamental authentication flows to the most advanced capabilities such as complex organizational structures (multi-tenancy), fine-grained authorization, API-token management, self-service admin portal for end-users, subscription enforcement, single-sign-on (SSO), and much more.

Frontegg’s interfaces are embedded as a UI layer within your app and becomes a customer-facing management interface for your end-users, both on the personal and workspace levels. Frontegg also powers-up your backend through rich SDKs supported in various languages and frameworks.

Pricing: Starts at $249/m

Frontegg

Symantec® SiteMinder is designed to secure the modern enterprise through a unified access management platform that applies the appropriate authentication mechanism to positively identify users; provides single sign-on and identity federation for seamless access to any application; enforces granular security policies to stop unauthorized access to sensitive resources; and monitors and manages the entire user session to prevent session hijacking. Finally, Symantec SiteMinder is battle-tested and has been deployed in the largest IT environments in the world.

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

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