Product Brief
Overview
Key Benefits
• Improves digital experience.
Increases user satisfaction and
productivity with frictionless cross-
application access.
• Drives operational efficiencies.
Delivers centralized access
management and auditing across
multiple apps, devices, and
channels. On-premises, partner, and SaaS applications are critical for supporting
• Facilitates secure DevOps.
Accelerates innovation by enabling
secure access to cloud, mobile, and
Web apps.
Key Features
• Secure single sign-on provides
seamless access across multiple
cloud, mobile, and Web applications
from any device. experience. Organizations need a security tool that supports the right
• Identity federation facilitates access
to cloud, internal, or partner apps
through open standards, including
OpenID Connect, OAuth, SAML, and
WS-Federation.
• Social log-in supports dozens of
identity providers, allowing your
customers to leverage their social
identities to log in.
• Step-up authentication through
OpenID Connect (OIDC) lets you be
more responsive to authentication
requests that may require additional
security before an OIDC token is
issued.
• JSON Web token transforms
existing session tokens and shares
with other authorization providers
for a seamless login experience.
• Flexible architecture models
support a variety of architecture
and integration options to adapt to
any environment and use case.
Layer7 SiteMinder
Layer7 SiteMinder provides secure and flexible access management for
applications, regardless of where they are hosted or how they are accessed.
Highly scalable and proven in mission-critical deployments, Layer7
SiteMinder enhances security by identifying who the user is and what
they are attempting to do. Layer7 SiteMinder enforces appropriate access
policies using a standards-based framework that can be shared by IT and
application developers.
Business Challenges
the transactions that drive digital business. It is essential to secure access
to these applications. At the same time, your organization must make it
easy for consumers to quickly roll out new functionality and applications.
And you must provide a superior digital experience across all channels.
Organizations face some common challenges in balancing both security
and convenience.
• User experience. Organizations are replacing or supplementing
passwords with a variety of authentication mechanisms, which can
be frustrating for users who want a seamless and frictionless log-in
credential at the right time.
• Open enterprise. In today’s world, applications can reside on premises or
externally in the cloud. Organizations need a consistent and centralized
security tool that manages access to all these apps.
• Comprehensive access management. Organizations need a
comprehensive access management solution that can extend secure
digital app access and track activity across all channels, offering greater
consumer convenience and protection.
• Security costs. IT organizations are under constant pressure to reduce
the cost of security. Consumers and employees have different access
management needs, but maintaining multiple solutions for each results in
unnecessary costs.
Solutions Overview
Layer7 SiteMinder provides secure single sign-on and flexible access
management to applications on premises, in the cloud, and from a mobile
device or a partner’s site. Recognized worldwide as an industry-leading
solution, Layer7 SiteMinder provides the following benefits.
• Delivers modern access management and accelerates application
availability by offering an unparalleled range of options for managing
access to applications.
Layer7 SiteMinder
 Product Brief

Solutions Overview The Layer7 SiteMinder Environment

(cont.)
• Enhances security by providing a
common policy access layer.
• Reduces cost of ownership
by supporting traditional Web
applications, identity federation
standards, and Web services, all
from a single, integrated, high-
performance platform.

Critical Differentiators.
Layer7 SiteMinder delivers
unparalleled availability, scalability,
and manageability. For more than
two decades, Layer7 SiteMinder has
been a leader in enterprise-class
access management, providing
a comprehensive solution that
centrally manages access to
applications and cloud services.
Layer7 SiteMinder includes the • Interoperability. Provides For more information, please
following critical differentiators. validated integration and SSO visit ca.com/single-sign-on.
across hundreds of applications
• Flexible architecture. Supports on a broad range of platforms,
five different SSO architectures including app servers,
that can be used jointly or collaboration environments, cloud
independently to meet various apps, and ERP apps.
business needs. The architectures
are agent-based and gateway- Related Products and
based policy enforcement points, Solutions
open federation standards,
formattable cookies, and REST • Layer7 Advanced
and SOAP-based Web services. Authentication. Identify users
with two-factor credentials and
• Enhanced session assurance.
risk-based authentication.
Impedes hackers from hijacking
legitimate sessions with stolen • Layer7 API security solutions.
cookies through the patented Provide a trusted API security
DeviceDNA™ device validation solution for integrating
process. across apps, devices, and
businesses.
• Hybrid cloud. Integrates easily
to enable seamless access • Layer7 Directory. Meet
across cloud and on-premises demanding application needs
applications, optionally launched with highly reliable and scalable
by a simple-to-use integrated UI. directory services.

For product information, visit our website at: broadcom.com.

Copyright © 2019 Broadcom. All Rights Reserved. The term “Broadcom” refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. Broadcom,
the pulse logo, Connecting everything, CA Technologies, and the CA technologies logo are among the trademarks of Broadcom.
200-356050-0519 June 5, 2019