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 #12 with an average rating of 6.8. Frontegg holds a 1.7% mindshare in SSO, compared to Broadcom’s 2.3% 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 (36th), Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) (13th)

Symantec Siteminder

Ranking in Single Sign-On (SSO)

12th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Web Access Management (1st), Access Management (11th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Single Sign-On (SSO) category, the mindshare of Frontegg is 1.7%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Symantec Siteminder is 2.3%, down from 3.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Single Sign-On (SSO) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Symantec Siteminder	2.3%
Frontegg	1.7%
Other	96.0%

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reviewer1660836

DevOps Manager at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Gives us everything we need to ensure that our customers have a safe and reliable authentication system

It would be nice to have a export button to file with all tenants/users so that in case of a disaster we will have the option to restore the users from file. For security certifications, we need to make sure we can restore all of our products and data in minimal time. We are backing up the data using the API but it will be better to export everything to an external file so in case of a disaster or mistake from our side, we can have the option to reload all the users and assign them to the relevant tenant as fast as possible

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

Pros

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"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 is reliable."

"Symantec Siteminder Is both scalable and stable."

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

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

"Siteminder allows us to manage identity and portability control efficiently."

"It has the ability to authenticate and authorize users. It is the main feature for our security."

"It is pretty easy to learn."

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Cons

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"Some of the new protocols, like OAuth 2.0, could be improved."

"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."

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

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

"The support could be faster."

"The initial setup of Symantec SiteMinder was a bit tricky. I would rate it a seven on a scale of one to ten, where ten indicates an easy setup."

"In future releases, I would like to see maybe more capabilities with some more modern authentication."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"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."

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

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

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

"The pricing is reasonable."

"The licensing is fair for this solution."

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

"The solution's pricing is competitive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Financial Services Firm

30%

Insurance Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	8

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	69

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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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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 ...

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Also Known As

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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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