We compared Okta Workforce Identity and Cloudflare Access across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Based on the comparison of Okta Workforce Identity and Cloudflare Access, Okta Workforce Identity is highly praised for its user-friendly interface, integration capabilities, and valuable features like single sign-on and multi-factor authentication. However, users have suggested improvements in password management and customer support. On the other hand, Cloudflare Access is valued for its DDoS protection and connectivity to data centers, along with its customizable access control and user-friendly interface. Pricing is a concern for both products, with Okta Workforce Identity considered expensive and Cloudflare Access having mixed opinions. Customer support for both products has generally received positive feedback.
"For Cloudflare Access, I am using the free plan...The most valuable feature is their protection."
"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."
"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."
"They have good push authentications."
"Okta Workforce Identity is easy to use and has a lot of components."
"It is dependent on the evolution of your user base. It depends on usage per user, so the more sign-ins there are, the more expensive it becomes, so it works best for smaller companies from a financial perspective."
"A solution that's easy to use, stable, and reliable."
"I am able to authenticate my users on cloud and SaaS applications such as Workday through Okta workflows."
"The support for YubiKey is really good because you don't actually have to type in your username and password."
"First of all, the solution is very simple."
"The product requires very little maintenance."
"They don't have a person to provide support for customers using the solution under their free plan."
"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."
"The pricing is an area that can be improved. Pricing, as far as I recall, was the source of our problems."
"We experienced some technical glitches that need to be resolved."
"They also have single sign-on (SSO). When we bought Okta Workforce Identity a year and a half ago, I was also looking at SSO, but not much documentation was available for SSO. The documentation for SSO should be a little more robust for somebody who is implementing it for the first time."
"In some setup cases, there are issues with attributes not going in properly."
"The solution is very expensive."
"A room for improvement in Okta Workforce Identity is its price. It could be cheaper. The biggest benefit of the solution is that everything works securely without extra steps, so you're saving on your workforce's time and effort because your applications work smoothly and securely, but you'd need to pay some amount of money for that. Another area that could be improved, though not necessarily regarding Okta Workforce Identity, is the SSO applications because so many of the source applications charge extra money to put the SSO to work, which means you have to buy a more expensive license. Nowadays, SSO is a mainstream functionality and it should be out-of-the-box in those applications because it's so easy to set up."
"RESTful Web Service calls and their response seem a bit slow."
"The solution’s policies are difficult to understand due to the policy methods. They use authentication. The solution’s workflow is also difficult and not very active. They need to have proper documentation on it. In the next release, I would like to see the workflows being more digestible."
"The solution can be quite expensive."
Cloudflare Access is ranked 10th in Access Management with 5 reviews while Okta Workforce Identity is ranked 4th in Access Management with 59 reviews. Cloudflare Access is rated 8.8, while Okta Workforce Identity is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cloudflare Access writes "Replaces traditional VPN and enables endpoint exposition ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Okta Workforce Identity writes "Extremely easy to work with, simple to set up, and reasonably priced ". Cloudflare Access is most compared with Twingate, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Auth0 and Cisco Duo, whereas Okta Workforce Identity is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Google Cloud Identity, SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, Saviynt and Auth0. See our Cloudflare Access vs. Okta Workforce Identity report.
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