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We performed a comparison between LastPass and Symantec Siteminder based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"One feature that is really important to us is the ability to create secure notes.""Reduction in number of sensitive passwords stored insecurely on local systems.""The initial setup for this process is straightforward and extremely easy. It just works.""It's always hard to put a value on return on investment. You avoid one breach and it's paid for a million times over. We got a penetration test company internally, just to see how secure our network is, and there happened to be one bit of software that had been overlooked by an external company that managed it. It hadn't been upgraded so that managed to get them into the network. They would've been able to access through the test thing a file that we had previously. If that was a real-life scenario they would have been able to get into our network and get full access to our organization's passwords. If they did get in, they would have gotten access to the cloud. The ROI we see is that we are completely secured compared to what we had previously where there was a vulnerability.""The stability has been rock solid. A couple of years ago, they were breached. However, if you had two-factor authentication enabled, it didn't affect you. We did, so it has been good.""It is easy to use.""Tech support has been good. We haven't needed it much, because it is not a complex application. There is not that much you have to do with it.""This product helps keep us secure."

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"Right now, federation that comes out-of-the-box with single sign-on is the most valuable feature that we have, and also scalability.""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.""It is very scalable. We have a very large customer base: 75 million customers.""The most valuable feature is the Federation part of Single Sign On, which is customizable and is easily integrated with any customer application or any third party application.""The solution is easy to use for our managers.""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.""You can quickly deploy the entire product with a basic config within couple of hours.""IWA is an out-of-the-box feature. The SAML-based federation is standard for all tools. However, CA Single Sign-On has made the federation configuration way too simple and handy to set up and use."

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Cons
"I struggle a little bit with the mobile app. As a browser extension, it works really well, and we are able to get to what we need to. However, on the phone, it's not quite as easy to navigate.""We have issues from time to time where, for some reason, it just keeps auto logging-out the user and then, the next day, they'll come in and it will work just fine.""I would like to be able to reduce the log out time of the session.""One thing I wish LastPass had is an integration with Active Directory, not for synchronizing users but to actually manage, in some way, privileged accounts by replacing the password of LastPass itself.""The ability to set up an account expiration limit/date would be very useful.""I also don't like the add-in for Internet Explorer and Google Chrome, because when you do the add-in, you can actually save that to your credentials in your IE, and the problem is, if I left my screen open, or any of the IT people leave their screen open someone could come up and access all their credentials in LastPass without having to put a password in within your own network. I don't like that functionality. We've banned that from any of our staff adding that as an add-in because we see that as a security risk.""Right now we have two products; there is the password manager and there is the authenticator app. Ideally, these should be fully integrated and support better handling of two-factor authentication or any other authenticator data.""Our biggest issue over the years was around the stability of the LDAP sync to AD."

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"Better documentation. I went through some sessions on single sign-on for version 12.7.""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.""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.""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 technical support could be better.""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.""We are finding some compatibility issues. We're still working with CA on them.""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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "If you import from sources like XML, keepass, CSV files be sure to clean the import files, this reduces the adjustments in the slow tool itself."
  • "You do not have to purchase licenses for your entire organization. You can scale as adoption grows."
  • "The previous pricing was of good value. I don't really know, as of now, whether the new pricing is. The Enterprise license is $48 per license per year now. That is a steep increase of $24, which is what it was when we first signed up."
  • "It would be nice to do a quarterly true-up process with them versus having to buy 50 licenses at a time when we realize we're out, then we have to buy more. So far, they have been nice about letting us exceed our allotment and just letting us true-up on our own, but a more robust quarterly true-up process would be good."
  • "The pricing and licensing are okay. Basically, at the last contract negotiation, they attempted to jack the rate up and we just said, "No." We still did negotiations with them, but they bumped everything up quite a bit."
  • "LastPass was cheap as chips. It was very cheap, hence one of the reasons we went with it. If you're a small organization and you're after something that'll do 90% of your requirements, it's very good. Licensing and all that was really cheap and simple to understand."
  • "I have been involved with many password managers. Passportal, Secret Server, CyberArk, and BeyondTrust. I chose LastPass for our organization because of the pricing. The organization didn't want to implement something really expensive. LastPass, for what it's offering, for the price that it's offering the service, is unbeatable."
  • "In terms of pricing, my feeling is that they are all roughly the same. LastPass is in line with its competitors, plus or minute a dollar or two per month."
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  • "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."
  • "CA solutions are generally expensive but for the customer the ROI is big."
  • "Symantec Siteminder is expensive; they could definitely do better on the price."
  • "The licensing is fair for this solution."
  • "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."
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    Buyer's Guide
    Single Sign-On (SSO)
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    Also Known As
    LastPass Business, LastPass Enterprise, Lastpasss
    Single Sign-On, SiteMinder, CA SSO, Layer7 SiteMinder
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    Overview

    Auto-pilot for all your passwords

    LastPass removes obstacles, letting you get back to the things you love most.

    Log in and go

    Once you save a password in LastPass, you'll always have it when you need it; logging in is fast and easy.

    Passwordless login

    Gain instant access to your LastPass vault by using the LastPass Authenticator instead of your master password.

    Generate strong passwords

    The built-in password generator creates long, randomized passwords that protect against hacking.

    Store digital records

    Insurance cards, memberships, Wi-Fi passwords... keep all your notes safe and easy to find.

    Share effortlessly

    Some things shouldn't be sent in a text. Conveniently and safely share passwords and notes with anyone.

    Dark web monitoring

    Stop worrying about data breaches. Get alerts if your personal information is at risk.

    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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    REVIEWERS
    Retailer13%
    Engineering Company13%
    Non Tech Company13%
    Legal Firm13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company13%
    Insurance Company10%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Comms Service Provider6%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm39%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Healthcare Company7%
    Retailer7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm33%
    Insurance Company11%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business53%
    Large Enterprise47%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise59%
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    Small Business8%
    Midsize Enterprise4%
    Large Enterprise88%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business12%
    Midsize Enterprise6%
    Large Enterprise82%
    Buyer's Guide
    Single Sign-On (SSO)
    March 2024
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    LastPass is ranked 19th in Single Sign-On (SSO) while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 16th in Single Sign-On (SSO). LastPass is rated 7.4, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of LastPass writes "Straightforward to set up, good support, intuitive to use, and offers good value for the cost". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". LastPass is most compared with Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault, BeyondTrust Password Safe, Keeper and CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingID and Microsoft Entra ID.

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