We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiAuthenticator and One Identity Safeguard based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, Auth0 and others in Single Sign-On (SSO)."The first valuable feature is being able to see everything on one platform. This includes logs and authentication failure."
"The product's on-premise version doesn't have recurring costs."
"FortiAuthenticator is a very good solution. It is all jury-based. FortiAuthenticator is very easy for anyone to understand how it works and be able to take action."
"FortiAuthenticator is easy to use."
"For someone concerned with multifactor authentication, I'm satisfied with the product."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is easy."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy. It is also easy to deploy."
"The two-step authentication provides a higher level of security."
"One Identity Safeguard is stable and provides great performance."
"The technical support is tremendous."
"We use the solution’s “transparent mode” feature for privileged sessions. It is very easy because it is only a simple configuration for our users. We don't have to modify our network. We install it, configure it, and it works. So, it is super easy. The rollout for our users is seamless."
"It has greatly helped improve our security posture. Safeguard has an option where it will reset passwords on service accounts, then go out to those servers where that service account is running as a service and update the password on it. That makes password changes very easy. We can regularly change passwords now and are planning on making it an annual activity, where all the people who own service accounts will go in and make sure all their passwords get changed, updated, and reset."
"It offers high availability and enables end users to deploy the solution with 99.999 percent uptime, which is crucial in an enterprise environment with a large number of endpoints."
"The solution's most valuable features are the efficiency and the quality of the recording."
"Safeguard can define and update processes and procedures into the security framework of a company, including mobile. It allows us to change the policies and configurations on a mass scale in regards to security."
"I like that One Identity Safeguard lets you configure the maximum number of connections to the target, a configuration I didn't find in its competitor."
"For improvement, Fortinet needs to ensure that they provide quick support to users...Fortinet sometimes needs to respond to users facing issues within an hour."
"The only issue I encounter is that when not using FortiAuthenticator for an extended period, it's typical to encounter some obstacles in the configuration process that you need to address."
"Improvements in the product could start from the dashboard, overall customization, and configuration."
"We had issues trying to integrate the keys properly during the initial setup."
"The customization capability of Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is not very flexible."
"The GUI is on the older side but I'm sure that it will be upgraded soon. It works, but it looks a little dated."
"Fortinet FortiAuthenticator provides only authentication. It should also enable authorization services"
"I would like to see more security features in reference to identity login or identity identification."
"Some of the out-of-the-box reporting isn't that rich. We spoke to our Safeguard reps who have acknowledged that some of the reporting features can certainly be improved and that we're not the only customer who has cited this. There are very little out-of-the-box reporting capabilities. You have to build the queries and the report. I believe in the next release they're going to be addressing this."
"There is a lack of documentation and many problems with the plugins."
"We currently have a problem with the Active Directory integrations on Windows. Some of our users need to be logged with Active Directory, but we are having communication issues between One Identity and Active Directory. It seems that Active Directory is not well-integrated."
"For some users, the physical appliance has been a bit buggy."
"Monitoring of the platform should be easier and more functional so that you can have a clear picture of the running service."
"The main thing that needs improvement is the slowness. Apart from that, the change password check-in feature also needs improvement because it is not working perfectly accurately."
"The automated change of the passwords, which is now integrated, could be improved to be more flexible regarding different systems."
"There is room for improvement in the launch module. They built in a launch button but they don't have effective instructions for configuring it to allow it to launch an RDP session. They're working on that, but the button is in the live product. If they were going to install something that wasn't useful, they should have just disabled it and not rolled it out with the product."
Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is ranked 5th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 52 reviews while One Identity Safeguard is ranked 4th in Privileged Access Management (PAM) with 38 reviews. Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is rated 8.0, while One Identity Safeguard is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiAuthenticator writes "A reasonably priced solution that can be scaled toward different functionalities and offers flexible SMS messaging". On the other hand, the top reviewer of One Identity Safeguard writes "Provides us with centralized storage of secrets and credentials, and visibility into the use of privileged access". Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiToken, Fortinet FortiNAC, Cisco Duo and Microsoft Entra ID, whereas One Identity Safeguard is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, WALLIX Bastion, Delinea Secret Server, BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access and Delinea Privileged Access Service.
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