We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiAuthenticator and Ping Identity Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Authentication Systems solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the flexibility in using the SMS messages."
"The ease of use is really nice. Using Authenticator, I've been able to actually work better on my authentication due to the fact that I have a single fabric to authenticate control from my firewall and on my access points. Authentication takes place from this area."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy. It is also easy to deploy."
"I appreciate its ability to provide multi-factor authentication, but it's primarily focused on this function."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiAuthenticator are easy to configure, secure, and the application has good performance."
"Valuable features include the robust SSO features, when you have more complicated authentication within an organization. We can mix AD, Radius, Portal, SSO Portals (Google, etc.), and build our own environment. It is very flexible."
"The solution is very easy to manage."
"The feature I value the most is the one-time passwords because it helps to authenticate users so you know the timing of their usage."
"What I like best about PingID is that it's very user-friendly. PingID is well-built as a developer tool and regularly upgrades and updates via patches. I also like that PingID has clear documents that will help you integrate it with other solutions."
"It gets a mobility portal in place in conjunction with Office 365. It provides very good possibilities and it's much better than other technology that we have used before which was unstable and slower."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"PingFederate is very flexible. We can do many customizations, and it also provides an SDK to tailor it to our specific requirements. There are also numerous plugins available. I've worked with tools like ForgeRock and Okta, but I find PingFederate to be the most customizable."
"The mobile biometric authentication option improved user experience. It's always about security because, with two-factor authentication, it's always a separate device verifying the actual user logging in."
"This is a user-friendly solution."
"We use the product to run different reports."
"The soundness of the solution is its most valuable feature. For example, if you are in our corporate network, you can log on without any traffic interfering."
"The speed of deployment on the cloud could be improved. It took a few days when it should have been just two days"
"We would like to see Linux-based operating systems be able to integrate with FortiAuthenticator to get two-factor authentication running on them. as well. This is a shortcoming that I have faced a few times already."
"I don't have any issues with this solution, but it may need a better, more user-friendly interface or better design of the platform."
"I would like to see integration and customization capabilities with the end-user portal to solve authentication issues with diverse implementation scenarios."
"The GUI has some shortcomings and can be made better. The GUI is not great."
"Integration with FortiGate could be more fluid."
"No SMS gateway from the ISP"
"The integration with third-party tools must be better."
"Currently, the main integration is SAML-based, but other integration methodologies need to be supported."
"PingID's device management portal should be more easily accessible via a link. They provide no link to the portal like they do for the service. The passwordless functionality could be more comprehensive. You can't filter based on hardware devices. Having that filtering option would be great. Device authentication would be a great feature."
"In the beginning, the initial setup was very complex."
"PingID classifies the type of environment into internal and external, which is an area for improvement because you need to take additional steps to trust internal and external users."
"The solution should allow for better integration with other platforms and the UBT."
"They could use some bio-certification. It's just more user-friendly and more convenient than entering the one time passes. That would be an improvement."
"If the solution is going to compete with Microsoft, they need to offer more unique functionality to keep their current user base."
"It requires some expertise to set up and manage."
Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is ranked 3rd in Authentication Systems with 52 reviews while Ping Identity Platform is ranked 5th in Authentication Systems with 19 reviews. Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is rated 8.0, while Ping Identity Platform is rated 8.4. 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 Ping Identity Platform writes " A highly stable tool offering extremely helpful technical support to its users". Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiNAC, Fortinet FortiToken, Cisco Duo and Microsoft Entra ID, whereas Ping Identity Platform is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Symantec Siteminder, ForgeRock, Microsoft Active Directory and SailPoint Identity Security Cloud. See our Fortinet FortiAuthenticator vs. Ping Identity Platform report.
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