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"Red Hat SSO has a lot of very concise, well laid out documentation, which is available in the free edition as well.""Good support for single sign-on protocols.""The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to assign only one password for the user at a false value.""It is very easy to scale and use as you want.""Red Hat SSO integrates well with our other solutions. Using OIDC protocols and ITL integration, employees can authenticate with Red Hat SSO and access our microservices."

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"It is very scalable. We have a very large customer base: 75 million customers.""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.""SAML is the best thing we're using right now because there is no need for creating an external account.""All of our applications get a point, click, and you are in, while we increase security at the same time.""Ease of use is very good, for administrating it. It's very well known.""The most valuable feature is the integration with the Active Directory.""It is reliable.""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."

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"The product’s technical support services could be better.""Security could be improved.""They could provide more checks and balances to find out if there have been any security lapses, e.g., if somebody is trying to break into the system. Some other products have these detection mechanisms in case someone is trying to hack into the system or find out a user's passwords.""Red Hat SSO's architecture could be updated."

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"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.""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.""I would prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface.""The technical support could be better.""The support could be faster.""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.""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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  • "It is a low cost product. This product can be used by non-profit organizations or universities, when they don't want to invest a lot of money."
  • "If you want support, that is when you use the paid version. There are different support categories that you can pay for, which provide different support levels. E.g., there is a quick response if you pay a higher amount, where the response time is within a few hours."
  • "The license is around $8000 USD."
  • "Red Hat Single Sign On is expensive."
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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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    Top Answer:The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to assign only one password for the user at a false value.
    Top Answer:Red Hat Single Sign On is expensive. There are similar local solutions available at low-cost.
    Top Answer:The product’s technical support services could be better. Additionally, they should add complimentary software security versions.
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    Also Known As
    Red Hat Single Sign-On, Red Hat SSO, RH SSO, RH-SSO
    Single Sign-On, SiteMinder, CA SSO, Layer7 SiteMinder
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    Overview

    Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies.

    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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    Financial Services Firm15%
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    Comms Service Provider7%
    Healthcare Company7%
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    Insurance Company11%
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    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise65%
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    Red Hat Single Sign On is ranked 11th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 4 reviews while Symantec Siteminder is ranked 16th in Single Sign-On (SSO). Red Hat Single Sign On is rated 8.6, while Symantec Siteminder is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Red Hat Single Sign On writes "It is very easy to scale and use as you want, but there could be more checks and balances to find out if there have been any security lapses". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Siteminder writes "Easy to implement and customize and very stable". Red Hat Single Sign On is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Auth0, Okta Workforce Identity and Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, whereas Symantec Siteminder is most compared with PingFederate, ForgeRock, Okta Workforce Identity, PingID and NetIQ Access Manager.

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