Symantec SiteMinder Reviews & Insights

Score8 out of 10

3 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Symantec SiteMinder are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Business Problems Solved

Symantec SiteMinder provides a robust solution for authentication and authorization, which has been beneficial for large enterprises and government organizations. With SiteMinder, users have achieved seamless single sign-on and implemented attribute-based access control, ensuring secure access to web resources. SiteMinder's ease of setup and compatibility with most partners during SAML federation setup has been a top benefit for users.

Users have used SiteMinder to optimize app performance, reduce the number of passwords required for different applications, and provide a seamless login experience across multiple domains and federated partners. Moreover, users have realized the benefits of SiteMinder's policy-based authorization that helps control single sign-on and authorization to applications hosted within the organization or business partners in the cloud. Additionally, users have successfully upgraded from SiteMinder R6 to R12, migrated existing Oracle Identity Federation setup to SiteMinder R12 Federation services, and handled access management with the Federation component, both IDP and SP.

Overall, Symantec SiteMinder is an essential tool that ensures secure access to web resources while simplifying the authentication process for users. Its features such as single sign-on, attribute-based access control, policy-based authorization, ease of configuration, and compatibility with most partners make it a reliable solution to meet complex authentication and authorization needs.

Symantec SiteMinder Reviews

1 Review

Symantec SiteMinder is Your Go-To for SSO Implementation

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 27, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Symantec SiteMinder as our local IDP for other vendors to connect to and establish SSO connections. We do this through creating various entities and federations within the Symantec SiteMinder console. This creates ease of use for customers and flexibility on what our various applications are able to offer. As password security is becoming increasingly tedious we are always looking for ways to securely establish connections through other methods such as Single Sign On

Pros

Federation Services
Detailed logging for troubleshooting
Console management is clear and easy to use for less experienced techs

Cons

Guided tutorials within the console
Visual connection testing
Support can be difficult to contact

Likelihood to Recommend

We currently are working to set up Single Sign On and auto provisioning with a new vendor. Symantec SiteMinder visualizes things like SAML responses and assertion attributes within the console extremely clearly. This makes making adjustments on the Vendor's side or even working with Vendor support clear and effective. The only time I would avoid trying use Symantec SiteMinder as a local IDP would be when I am trying to minimize complexity or overhead troubleshooting needs.

Joshua Jordan

Sr Systems Engineer in Engineering at Mercury (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience