We performed a comparison between Okta Workforce Identity and Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco and others in ZTNA as a Service."The ease of deployment, ease of use, and speed of delivery is what I like about Okta Workforce Identity. It is very easy to use. For a lot of software, you need to be trained extensively and have a very technical background. Okta Workforce Identity is quite simple. You can integrate any software into Okta. They've got a network of 7,000 applications that easily integrate into it."
"Having a single sign-on to all our applications."
"The initial setup is easy."
"We can automate the process of adding users to Okta if they are activated in Active Directory, or if they are added to the database of applications or Active Directory in the last couple of days."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"I find the provisioning features and the integration with other applications useful."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"It made things a lot easier, especially with passwords."
"The ZPA is a unique feature which offers VPN along with all the additional security needed."
"SASE's most valuable features are proxy and content filtering."
"The most valuable features are the File Type Control and SSL bypass policies. We"
"It is straightforward to set up."
"We don't need to connect anymore. It is automatically connected when you log on in Windows."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the CASB solutions, which is protecting their Office 365."
"The Live Logs are a cool feature. We can directly identify issues and divert user traffic."
"With SASE, we have a single platform that covers multiple task services with which we need to control access. All the features are equally valuable."
"Okta Workforce Identity can improve by having more features in governance."
"You can't hide the device when you're checking logs."
"It is challenging to obtain a comprehensive backup."
"UD attribute mapping, Okta group rules, and dynamic usage could use improvement. It also needs more in-depth functionality and features to integrate with RADIUS solutions."
"It would be pricing, which is a tough one because it goes against Microsoft. A lot of companies say they're a Microsoft partner, and they get all their software for free. Okta is like a luxury product, and it's not the most affordable one. I would say if they could work on pricing, it would help. Other than that, they've done great strides in developing a product that is really good. The companies that do see the value tend to invest in it."
"On the admin side, we can create our own passwords instead of generating one, which is usually difficult to explain to a user."
"The solution lacks an on-premises deployment model so it can't offer a hybrid solution. It would be ideal if clients had options that weren't just cloud-based."
"The training is too costly."
"The menu for the ZIA portal could be organized a little bit differently. The most-used modules should be at the top of the menus, not somewhere near the bottom, some of them are not organized well in my opinion."
"We'd like to have two-factor authentication that is quite simple."
"The DX layer could be better if it had improved visibility."
"Zscaler Private Access's reporting is poor. We should have more insight into the reports regarding what is blocked and allowed."
"SCMP support would be one of the biggest improvements in my opinion. More speed improvements are also required."
"More on-prem infrastructure is required when Zscaler Private Access is to be implemented as a single point of entry."
"While Zscaler supports client-initiated connections, it does not support server-initiated connections. This is a feature that Zscaler may consider adding in the future."
"Zscaler Private Access could improve by improving external access. If external parties want to access locally to my company's services, we need to onboard them into our domain, otherwise, it doesn't work. Additionally, if their company also has Zscaler Private Access, then it doesn't work. They need to log in with our domain ID, not their company ID."
Okta Workforce Identity is ranked 6th in ZTNA as a Service with 56 reviews while Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is ranked 1st in ZTNA as a Service with 34 reviews. Okta Workforce Identity is rated 8.6, while Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Okta Workforce Identity writes "Extremely easy to work with, simple to set up, and reasonably priced ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange writes "Allows for strict access control, granting access to specific applications at a URL level rather than at the physical IP level". Okta Workforce Identity is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Google Cloud Identity, SailPoint IdentityIQ, Saviynt and Auth0, whereas Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is most compared with Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Cato SASE Cloud Platform, Axis Security, Cloudflare Access and Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client.
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