We compared Duo Security and Cloudflare Access across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: When comparing Duo Security and Cloudflare Access, Duo Security is praised for its simple setup process, extensive documentation, and seamless integration with other applications. Its most valuable feature is its two-factor authentication and trust establishment for access requests. However, users recommend improvements in terms of compatibility, user management, and technical support. On the other hand, Cloudflare Access is highly regarded for its effortless setup, DDoS protection, and adaptability. It provides protection, customizable rules, and secure solutions. Pricing and support for the free plan are areas of concern.
"Duo Security improved my organization by helping us secure all access points within the company infrastructure."
"We get fewer threats to remediate due to the two-factor authentication, which does not allow as many threats through."
"The most valuable feature is the ability for users to connect securely to the office using the VPN."
"Another feature is the single pane of glass management. That's important for analytics and also for troubleshooting. It means there's one place that you go to at least start the troubleshooting process."
"It meets our security needs very well. It is easy to use, and documentation is also available. It is also very stable and scalable, and its support is also very good. We are satisfied with this solution."
"The administrator tool in the dashboard is the most valuable feature. It's really easy to quickly see if users are locked out from their device, firmware code, or just all the little dashboards and reports I can run to give the security for monthly reports. The dashboard's really good."
"The most valuable aspect is the authentication and the SSO."
"It is a good solution for hybrid environments and VPN."
"It's the endpoint exposition. We don't need to expose our VPN server to the internet and need a zero-test solution. I can apply some conditional access to the endpoint that's connecting to our network to check their security policies or the security condition of their workstation. Once the workstation is trying to connect to my internal network, then I would like to check the discrete condition of these endpoints that are trying to access my internal network. We created some conditional access. We have CrowdStrike, to check if the CrowdStrike is installed, to check if it's updated, and to check for Windows updates. We created some conditional policies to check it."
"For Cloudflare Access, I am using the free plan...The most valuable feature is their protection."
"The tool also offers good scalability, and the dashboard, along with real-time analytics, is very good."
"Enables me to work from two locations."
"Cloudflare, in my opinion, was easy to implement."
"Technical support could be improved. I don't think all support should have to go through an agreement."
"I'm not a big fan of relicensing products every year or two years, but that's the model at the moment. I prefer to go back to licensing perpetually or permanent licensing."
"Duo Security should better organize its tile feature to organize applications better."
"I wish that the support would be a little bit more prompt and a little bit more flexible because there are certain things that they will do and certain things they won't do."
"We found it difficult to integrate it into our broader product family of Microsoft tools and other applications used across our organization."
"While two-factor authentication with mobile devices provides a high level of security, it's still not foolproof, as someone could potentially steal your phone. It would be beneficial to have information about the authentication location."
"Its documentation must be in French because we are a French-speaking country. They should also provide more training documentation. Its management interface should also be improved. They should also improve its update period. If I compare its update period with other products such as Palo Alto firewalls, this solution is really slow in updates."
"More automation and device insights would be helpful in achieving a seamless single pane of glass. Having the additional capability to streamline processes would also make things better."
"For the topic of improvement, providing some training material is one of my suggestions."
"When there are any dynamic changes in complex applications, the tool takes a lot of time, making its analytics-related area a major matter of concern where improvements are needed."
"They don't have a person to provide support for customers using the solution under their free plan."
"The pricing is an area that can be improved. Pricing, as far as I recall, was the source of our problems."
Cisco Duo is ranked 3rd in ZTNA as a Service with 55 reviews while Cloudflare Access is ranked 10th in ZTNA as a Service with 5 reviews. Cisco Duo is rated 8.8, while Cloudflare Access is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Cisco Duo writes "Helps reduce the risk of a breach and is easy to deploy and onboard". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cloudflare Access writes "Replaces traditional VPN and enables endpoint exposition ". Cisco Duo is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, Fortinet FortiToken and Yubico YubiKey, whereas Cloudflare Access is most compared with Twingate, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Auth0 and Akamai Enterprise Application Access. See our Cisco Duo vs. Cloudflare Access report.
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