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CA Siteminder Features
Features of CA SSO


CA Siteminder Single Sign-On is an Access management and not an identity management product.

It also provides a single sign-on access to all the application once authenticated into one application the system will allow you to access any application based on the first system authentication.

on desktop applications it provides single sign-on using Kerberos.

CA Siteminder provides Out of box 36 authentication schemes. Can be a time based authentication, application based authentication, form based authentication and many other policy based driven solutions.

also provide the role base access, senior software engineer, engineer, team lead, manager we can provide access based on the roles.

CA Siteminder SSO also allows a centralize policy management system and user management for example like having all policies configured in a centralized system rather than defining in each application.

Whenever we have to add or delete users or policies from siteminder console it will be all applicable in all the applications

SiteMinder can act like an identity providers and service provider all kind of federation features can be configured in siteminder. It also gives an open Id connect basically used for the social media integrations, for example you login to your social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) via your Gmail ids.

Certificates for SSL connections can be imported into siteminder and those can be used for all the applications.

Analysis or Audit Reports can be generated and monitored on regular basis from Siteminder itself.

We can also configure the tracing or profiling options from the siteminder management console.

12.7 version has introduced the feature of REST API, from the siteminder management console will help to authenticate via the administrator users.

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