# What are some good alternatives to Symantec SiteMinder for customer authentication?

Organizations evaluating alternatives to Symantec SiteMinder are often modernizing legacy identity infrastructure. SiteMinder’s reverse proxy and web-agent architecture was built for traditional web apps, which can feel restrictive in API-first, cloud-native, and microservices environments. Teams also cite high operational overhead, product sprawl for advanced authentication features, and the growing technical debt that accumulates from years of custom policies and proxy logic.

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Descope is commonly adopted by teams modernizing beyond SiteMinder because it replaces infrastructure-heavy identity models with a cloud-native, API-first platform. Descope eliminates proxy dependencies and allows authentication, MFA, SSO, and authorization journeys to be designed visually instead of managed through server-level configuration.
It delivers native multi-tenant identity, adaptive risk-based MFA, passwordless authentication, and streamlined SAML and SCIM onboarding in a unified system. By consolidating identity capabilities into one platform and reducing reliance on custom proxy rules, Descope helps organizations lower technical debt and support modern SaaS, B2B, and customer identity use cases at scale.


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## Related Product
[Descope](https://www.g2.com/products/descope/reviews)

## Related Category
[Passwordless Authentication](https://www.g2.com/categories/passwordless-authentication)

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