Ping Identity Platform vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

Ping Identity and Broadcom are both solutions in the Single Sign-On (SSO) category. Ping Identity is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.2, while Broadcom is ranked #13 with an average rating of 6.6. Ping Identity holds a 7.8% mindshare in SSO, compared to Broadcom’s 2.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Ping Identity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

Ping Identity Platform

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91% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 22, 2025

Symantec Siteminder and Ping Identity Platform compete in the identity and access management sector, offering robust security solutions. The Ping Identity Platform appears superior due to its modern features and scalability.

Features: Symantec Siteminder is recognized for providing secure Web Single Sign-On, strong access control, and efficient session management. Ping Identity Platform offers seamless integrations, advanced multi-factor authentication, and strong API security, making it ideal for modern enterprise environments.

Room for Improvement: Symantec Siteminder could improve in simplifying its deployment process, enhancing integration capabilities with modern applications, and reducing the complexity of its configuration. Ping Identity Platform could improve its user interface design, offer more detailed reporting features, and enhance its customer support response times.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Symantec’s deployment model is complex and often requires experienced personnel for setup, slowing implementation. In contrast, Ping Identity Platform offers a straightforward deployment process with extensive documentation and support, enabling faster setup and integration into existing systems.

Pricing and ROI: Symantec Siteminder involves significant upfront costs but is reliable with long-term security benefits. Ping Identity Platform provides more competitive pricing suitable for modern budgets and offers a strong ROI by enhancing operational efficiency and security.

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Categories and Ranking

Ping Identity Platform

Ranking in Single Sign-On (SSO)

3rd

Ranking in Access Management

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Authentication Systems (7th), Data Governance (8th), Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) (5th), Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) (2nd), Directory Servers (1st)

Symantec Siteminder

Ranking in Single Sign-On (SSO)

13th

Ranking in Access Management

12th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Web Access Management (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Single Sign-On (SSO) category, the mindshare of Ping Identity Platform is 7.8%, down from 9.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Symantec Siteminder is 2.6%, down from 3.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Single Sign-On (SSO)

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MAHESHKUMAR7

Cyber Security Engineer at TECHMINDZ DIGITAL CONSULTING PRIVATE LIMITED

Offers multi-factor authentication and application support side of PingFederate but application only supports specific protocols

A lot of teams work with technical support, but I work with it for user issues only. You might need support with things like application swaps, application names, and application URLs. I didn't know where to find those in Ping Identity, so I contacted technical support for those issues. The support team is very clever and active. They provide end-to-end support once an issue is created. I have worked with most of the support team. I also work with the support team because I work with the operations team. I provide 24/7 support to production and non-production environments. I coordinate with application and network teams to troubleshoot critical tickets and issues related to Ping Identity solutions.

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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

"I find the auto-discovery feature the most valuable. It helps us automate a lot of things using a single password across applications."

"It's convenient for users to log in through Ping using the Kerberos adapter because it doesn't require them to authenticate again."

"From a security perspective, I highly value the product's biometric authentication methods such as FIDO, FaceID, YubiKey, and the mobile app."

"The most valuable feature is multifactor authentication."

"I work on the application onboarding process because we have multiple customers and get data from different sources."

"PingFederate is very flexible. We can do many customizations, and it also provides an SDK to tailor it to our specific requirements. There are also numerous plugins available. I've worked with tools like ForgeRock and Okta, but I find PingFederate to be the most customizable."

"It offers robust features and customization options that justify the cost."

"The soundness of the solution is its most valuable feature. For example, if you are in our corporate network, you can log on without any traffic interfering."

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"Ease of use is very good, for administrating it. It's very well known."

"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."

"It is very scalable. We have a very large customer base: 75 million customers."

"The most valuable feature is the integration with the Active Directory."

"It is pretty easy to learn."

"Siteminder allows us to manage identity and portability control efficiently."

"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."

"I liked the debugging part. There are only two files (trace file and log file) that you need to look into while performing debugging, and the logs give you the exact info on where and what needs to be fixed."

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Cons

"Sometimes, there are issues with its stability."

"It requires some expertise to set up and manage."

"PingID should put a little more effort into making a pretty self-explanatory deck about their tech features and the services they offer."

"The management console needs to be improved. PingID should revise it."

"The product's community has certain shortcomings that require improvement."

"It has a long way to go until it is a cloud-based solution."

"If the solution is going to compete with Microsoft, they need to offer more unique functionality to keep their current user base."

"They could use some bio-certification. It's just more user-friendly and more convenient than entering the one time passes. That would be an improvement."

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"The support team could work on their response time and overall competence."

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

"The technical support could be better."

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

"Some of the new protocols, like OAuth 2.0, could be improved."

"I would like to see a move towards the newer technologies, which is what we are doing right now. I think that's in the roadmap that's coming, in the 12.8 and 14 releases, but we would like to have it sooner than later."

"Symantec Siteminder needs to have adaptive authentication and multi-factor authentication as integrated features."

"Better documentation. I went through some sessions on single sign-on for version 12.7."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool is quite affordable."

"Ping Identity Platform is not an expensive solution."

"The platform's value justifies the pricing, especially considering its security features and scalability."

"Ping Identity Platform is not very expensive."

"Ping offers flexible pricing that's not standardized."

"The pricing is neither too expensive nor too cheap."

"PingID's pricing is pretty competitive."

"PingID pricing is a ten out of ten because it's a little bit cheaper than other tools, such as Okta and ForgeRock, and supports multiple tools."

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"The solution's pricing is competitive."

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

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

"The licensing is fair for this solution."

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

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

"The pricing is reasonable."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

24%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

32%

Insurance Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about PingID?

The mobile biometric authentication option improved user experience. It's always about security because, with two-factor authentication, it's always a separate device verifying the actual user logg...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PingID?

The pricing is neither too expensive nor too cheap.

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What needs improvement with PingID?

The management console needs to be improved. PingID should revise it.

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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

Ping Identity (ID), PingFederate, PingAccess, PingOne, PingDataGovernance, PingDirectory, OpenDJ

SiteMinder, CA SSO, Layer7 SiteMinder

Overview

IDENTITY DEFINED SECURITY PLATFORM delivers a unified, standards-based platform that can be deployed as SaaS, software or both and can scale to handle millions of identities. From multi-factor authentication and single sign-on to access security, directory and data governance, our capabilities work together to give employees, partners and customers secure access to cloud, mobile and enterprise applications, securing and streamlined everything from sign-on to sign-off and everywhere in between.

Ping Identity

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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Sample Customers

Equinix, Land O'Lakes, CDPHP, Box, International SOS, Opower, VSP, Chevron, Truist, Academy of Art University, Northern Air Cargo, Repsol

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

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