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Entrust GetAccess [EOL] vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

Entrust and Broadcom are both solutions in the Web Access Management category. Additionally, 100% of Entrust users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.
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Categories and Ranking

Entrust GetAccess [EOL]
Average Rating
10.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Symantec Siteminder
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
75
Ranking in other categories
Single Sign-On (SSO) (13th), Web Access Management (1st), Access Management (12th)
 

Featured Reviews

Tareq Elqadah - PeerSpot reviewer
Tareq Elqadah
Regional Sales Manager at Cyber Knight Technologies FZ LLC
A scalable solution that can be used for hardware-based authentication
Entrust GetAccess is used for hardware-based authentication, mainly for users The most valuable feature of Entrust GetAccess is its performance. Entrust GetAccess is a very expensive solution, and its pricing could be improved. I have been using Entrust GetAccess for two years. Entrust…
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Muzi Lubisi - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature of Entrust GetAccess is its performance."
"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?"
"The single sign-on is the solution's most valuable feature"
"SAML is the best thing we're using right now because there is no need for creating an external account."
"We almost never have outages nor see slowdowns."
"That seamless integration significantly improves user experience and efficiency."
"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."
"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."
"The feature that I mostly valued is the ease of installation on different systems, especially on Windows."
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Cons

"Entrust GetAccess is a very expensive solution, and its pricing could be improved."
"Some of the new protocols, like OAuth 2.0, could be improved."
"I would prefer to see their SAML integration be a more streamlined and easier interface."
"The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA."
"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."
"Better documentation. I went through some sessions on single sign-on for version 12.7."
"We would like to the OAuth be more stable, more issues being fixed rather than not."
"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."
"CA has reporting at the moment. With the reporting, every particular segmented product has a reporting engine. I would like to see centralized reporting for all of them together."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We need to pay a yearly licensing fee for Entrust GetAccess, which is very expensive."
"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."
"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."
"The solution's pricing is competitive."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"Symantec Siteminder is expensive; they could definitely do better on the price."
"The licensing is fair for this solution."
"The price is quite comparable to the other enterprise-level solutions in that market."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
24%
Insurance Company
9%
Marketing Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

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Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise69
 

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What do you like most about Symantec Siteminder?
It's agent-based. It's convenient to deploy and integrate.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Symantec Siteminder?
My experience with pricing is that it is all good.
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What needs improvement with Symantec Siteminder?
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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Product Reports

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Also Known As

GetAccess
SiteMinder, CA SSO, Layer7 SiteMinder
 

Overview

Entrust GetAccess is a solution to solve security objectives for automating processes for suppliers and partners, improving productivity and efficiency, or simply providing an invaluable peace of mind. The Entrust GetAccess Server has automated service discovery, integral fail-over and fail-back capabilities, and flexible multilevel centralized logging.

Entrust

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.

Broadcom
 

Sample Customers

Telia
British Telecom, CoreBlox, DBS, HMS, Itera ASA and Simeo
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