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.

Entrust GetAccess [EOL]

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100% willing to recommend

Symantec Siteminder

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91% willing to recommend

Entrust GetAccess [EOL]

Symantec Siteminder

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Categories and Ranking

Entrust GetAccess [EOL]

Average Rating

10.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Symantec Siteminder

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Single Sign-On (SSO) (13th), Web Access Management (1st), Access Management (13th)

Featured Reviews

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

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."

"It helps protect our applications and provides identity management."

"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."

"The single sign-on is the solution's most valuable feature"

"It provides a secure interface and single sign-on to a variety of different applications."

"For us, it’s the best-of-breed pick on the market today."

"It's really increased the security of our applications, and in some cases, has provided much more security."

"If you need the ability for just logging without buying an application and want good security, it’s an awesome solution."

"A valuable feature of Siteminder is the way it handles bulk traffic. The features it has, in terms of routing the traffic and load balancing, are good."

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Cons

"Entrust GetAccess is a very expensive solution, and its pricing could be improved."

"If the reporting feature can be integrated into SSO itself that will be an icing on the cake."

"The technical support could be better."

"Not great. The first level of support is not up to the mark or able to understand the actual problem."

"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."

"Symantec SiteMinder is not easy to set up and maintain at an infrastructure level."

"We installed one version and there is a bug in it; from a customer perspective I would want that particular issue to be fixed rather than getting an answer that the bug will be fixed in the next version."

"They get us answers, but often they’re too slow."

"The policy store configuration, and tuning the policy store is a bit complex in ensuring it does not corrupt."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We need to pay a yearly licensing fee for Entrust GetAccess, which is very expensive."

"Symantec Siteminder is expensive; they could definitely do better on the price."

"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."

"I recommend conducting a PoC on every available product before choose one."

"The price is quite comparable to the other enterprise-level solutions in that market."

"The licensing is fair for this solution."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"CA solutions are generally expensive but for the customer the ROI is big."

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23%

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Marketing Services Firm

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Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	69

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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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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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