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Keeper Enterprise Password Manager vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Keeper Enterprise Password ...
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
43
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Password Managers (6th)
Symantec Siteminder
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
75
Ranking in other categories
Single Sign-On (SSO) (14th), Web Access Management (1st), Access Management (15th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Keeper Enterprise Password Manager and Symantec Siteminder aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Keeper Enterprise Password Manager is designed for Enterprise Password Managers and holds a mindshare of 4.8%, up 4.3% compared to last year.
Symantec Siteminder, on the other hand, focuses on Single Sign-On (SSO), holds 3.1% mindshare, up 2.4% since last year.
Enterprise Password Managers Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Keeper Enterprise Password Manager4.8%
Azure Key Vault14.9%
AWS Secrets Manager13.9%
Other66.4%
Enterprise Password Managers
Single Sign-On (SSO) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Symantec Siteminder3.1%
Okta Platform10.3%
Microsoft Entra ID9.0%
Other77.6%
Single Sign-On (SSO)
 

Featured Reviews

AR
Technical Lead
Password manager has strengthened daily device security and has simplified secure sharing
While Keeper Enterprise Password Manager has a good interface for password management, I believe they can make the feature for Privileged Access Management a bit more user-friendly, as right now it is somewhat complicated to get a privileged access manager running in both development and production environments. Regarding improvements needed for the deployment of Keeper Enterprise Password Manager, I would like to see a simple way to install requirements on servers so they can easily be accessed through it and use Privileged Access Management. Right now the installation is somewhat complex as there is scripting to be done. It would be great for that setup to be more simple for operators.
Muzi Lubisi - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"i have only one password to remember, which is the one to get me into Keeper."
"Both the stability and the scalability of Keeper are great."
"Password sharing and SSO. These features almost become a necessity to make sure that company data is safe and reduce the possibility of data breach."
"We use this solution to organize and manage information, and it is our central repository that keeps individual knowledge bases in a better place."
"Keeper allows you to manage credentials in an organized way, with a secure password generator that incorporates random creation tools and good security practices, which allows for an easy, quick, organized update and sharing with a work team."
"I have a significant number of passwords and Keeper helps me manage them all for both work and personal accounts, for me and my whole family."
"Auto login across platforms allows for no copying and pasting."
"The possibility of assigning information to different groups and individuals has been the most valuable."
"It really improved the speed to market from account creation through provisioning and onboarding, and as users move from system to system, their account access follows them so you don't need to create new credentials every time."
"That seamless integration significantly improves user experience and efficiency."
"It puts the expertise around authentication and security on our organization where it belongs."
"It’s a secure product; we can make use of two factor authentication with the product and so from a security perspective, it gives us strong authentication."
"Security to protect digital assets is most valuable to us."
"SSO has impacted security on the whole and has provided a very good user experience."
"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 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?"
 

Cons

"Keeper does not provide password management for mobile apps."
"Its aesthetic needs improvement."
"The password rotation feature could be improved."
"If you purchase the premium, then after the subscription expires, you cannot edit your passwords any longer, even if you could before you purchased the paid subscription."
"Ability to store 'files' from IOS & Android devices. You can store pics from these devices currently. Most file formats can be uploaded from PC's/Macs"
"The organization of items needs improvement. For example, when I log onto the cloud version as well, everything is shown on my folder. It is hard to differentiate between files and documents in my list of items I have stored inside."
"Room for improvement in my eyes would be being able to share my credit cards and other types of information. The only thing they really share is passwords, and you can only do it with one password at a time. When you're trying to share it out or trying to remove it from being shared, you can't do multiple selections."
"Ability to set up password profiles that can predefine custom fields and password complexity."
"I think that one drawback to this product is that it's too big."
"We had some performance-related issues that caused some outages. Outages actually happened pretty frequently back then."
"Yes it can be complex, I think that's one area we have already given feedback to the product management, that is a little complex to get the set up and get it going and the upgrade process is very complex."
"I'd like to see the federation piece made a little simpler."
"The GUIs are not very clear, especially when integrating with other products from CA."
"It's a hit and miss thing, like all support organizations. For the most part, for simple problems they can get to a resolution fairly quickly, but if the problem is a little more complicated, they really struggle with getting us a solution."
"It's difficult to configure, and has a very old and challenging user interface."
"The policy store configuration, and tuning the policy store is a bit complex in ensuring it does not corrupt."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We chose their optional annual subscription; I believe we paid monthly — I thought it was a good deal."
"The pricing is available on the vendor's website."
"Its cost is relative to the value of the information stored in Keeper."
"ROI is hard to know, but it has to be several times the expense of the product."
"Pricing might be a little less, but with promo codes and family plan - best offer"
"Just buy the yearly subscription."
"Free works unless the paid is absolutely necessary."
"The more users, the better the price. Always opt for the live support."
"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."
"The solution's pricing is competitive."
"The licensing is fair for this solution."
"Symantec Siteminder is expensive; they could definitely do better on the price."
"The price is quite comparable to the other enterprise-level solutions in that market."
"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 pricing is reasonable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Construction Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Construction Company
13%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Marketing Services Firm
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business21
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise13
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise69
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Keeper?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing has been good. I am not particularly involved with that aspect, and the details were discussed during onboarding and managed by our accounts team.
What needs improvement with Keeper?
Keeper Enterprise Password Manager can be improved as some browsers have issues with password fills. Sometimes it's tough to fill in the password, and it asks for login every time. Some session man...
What is your primary use case for Keeper?
My main use case for Keeper Enterprise Password Manager is to save all my secrets and passwords within it. We have shared folders where we store all our secrets and shared secrets that everyone fro...
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 ...
What is your primary use case for Symantec Siteminder?
I deploy and support Symantec Siteminder ( /products/symantec-siteminder-reviews ). I have been a partner and reseller.
 

Also Known As

Keeper Security
SiteMinder, CA SSO, Layer7 SiteMinder
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

At&t, Wells Fargo, Disney, GM, Chase, Honeywell, Samsung, Dow
British Telecom, CoreBlox, DBS, HMS, Itera ASA and Simeo
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