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Symantec SiteMinder Case Study

Top 25 Global Bank

Introduction

This case study of a Global 500 banking company is based on an April 2021 survey of Symantec SiteMinder customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

What were the business challenges that led you to evaluate and ultimately select Symantec SiteMinder:

  • Performance of the system as the demand/load increases
  • Speed of their organization’s ability to apply the access management solution to new applications being developed
  • Strength of security of the access management solution itself (how resilient to hacking attempts)

Use Case

How large is your Symantec SiteMinder environment:

  • SiteMinder performs up to 1 million authentications and authorizations each month.

Which Symantec SiteMinder features/capabilities do you use in production today:

  • Access Gateway
  • Identity Mapping for gathering attributes from multiple repositories

Which Symantec SiteMinder features/capabilities are you planning to expand on or deploy new in the next 12-18 months:

  • Access Gateway
  • OpenID Connect (OIDC)

Which Symantec SiteMinder features/capabilities do you feel are strengths compared to competitive solutions:

  • Authentication
  • Authorization
  • Flexibility & customization
  • High availability & reliability
  • Scalability & performance

In fact, we rate Symantec SiteMinder as better than competitors in the following areas: Ease of Deployment & Use; Features & Capabilities; and Performance & Scalability.

Results

What were the most significant operational benefits you realized from your investment in Symantec SiteMinder:

  • Improving user experience through frictionless authentication and single sign-on
  • Providing appropriate access to legitimate users based on dynamic and adaptive policies
  • Delivering operational efficiencies through centralized access management and auditing

What can you say about Symantec SiteMinder after using the product:

  • Symantec SiteMinder protects our mission critical applications and services
  • Symantec SiteMinder provides flexible access controls that enables us to address emerging data privacy laws and regulatory and industry compliance mandates
  • Symantec SiteMinder is a reliable and solid solution and continues to deliver value to our organization
  • Symantec SiteMinder is easy to integrate with new applications and services
  • Symantec SiteMinder provides the flexibility and scalability we need from an enterprise solution




About This Data

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