We performed a comparison between PingFederate 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)."The most valuable feature is multifactor authentication."
"PingFederate is very flexible. We can do many customizations, and it also provides an SDK to tailor it to our specific requirements. There are also numerous plugins available. I've worked with tools like ForgeRock and Okta, but I find PingFederate to be the most customizable."
"PingFederate gives you granular control over the settings. There are many options for fine-tuning policies."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"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?"
"Symantec Siteminder Is both scalable and stable."
"As our identity model continues to mature, probably the Federation is most valueable."
"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."
"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."
"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 the Federation part of Single Sign On, which is customizable and is easily integrated with any customer application or any third party application."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with the Active Directory."
"Notifications and monitoring are two areas with shortcomings in the solution that need improvement."
"PingFederate's UI could be streamlined. They have recently made several improvements, but it's still too complex. It's a common complaint. The configuration should be simplified because the learning curve is too steep."
"It requires some expertise to set up and manage."
"Currently, the main integration is SAML-based, but other integration methodologies need to be supported."
"Better documentation. I went through some sessions on single sign-on for version 12.7."
"I would prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface."
"We would like to the OAuth be more stable, more issues being fixed rather than not."
"The main thing is we do not have the traceability and good monitoring that CA can provide us to capture problems when they occur."
"They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting."
"We are finding some compatibility issues. We're still working with CA on them."
"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."
"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."
Earn 20 points
PingFederate is ranked 10th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 4 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 17th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 69 reviews. PingFederate is rated 8.2, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of PingFederate writes " A highly stable tool offering extremely helpful technical support to its users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". PingFederate is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, PingID, Microsoft Active Directory, CyberArk Identity and Auth0, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingID, PingAccess and Microsoft Entra ID.
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