We performed a comparison between Duo Security and Fortinet FortiAuthenticator based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Users of both solutions would like more integration options.
Comparison Results: Duo Security is the winner in this comparison. It received high marks for its ease of deployment and support. In contrast, some FortiAuthenticator users say that the initial setup is complex and feel that the support needs to improve.
"The product is reliable and easy to use."
"Duo Security gives us an additional layer of security that would give us added confidence that our network will be less likely to get hacked, compromised, or otherwise."
"The app has greater stability than rival solutions such as Google Authenticator, and Duo Push authentication is a valuable feature."
"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."
"It's a lot easier for our end users to connect to our network. You don't have to type in a code. You get push notifications, that's probably the best thing about it. The fewer clicks they have to do to be online, the better it is. They can easily get into the network and do remote work."
"Cisco Secure solutions are great for detecting and remediating threats across our infrastructure from end to end. The integration of Talos in SecureX is great. Everything is clear in one dashboard. You have a dashboard there, your dashboard, and now you can have one look in your dashboard and see everything. It's on one pane of glass."
"I love Duo Security's push notifications. It's simple, fast, and secure. From the user's perspective, the solution is seamless. The security aspect is great."
"Duo Security improved my organization by helping us secure all access points within the company infrastructure."
"Intuitive interface and easy to deploy."
"The solution is easy to learn and makes it easy for our users to add FortiToken. It's very easy to integrate if you have other Fortinet devices."
"FortiAuthenticator is easy to use."
"The solution is very easy to manage."
"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."
"Enables easy integration, allowing for 2FA with our VPN."
"It reduces the need for network administrator intervention by allowing the user to perform their own registration and resolve their own password problems and issues."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it easy to install. The user experience is very good."
"We have users who move throughout the world, and their levels of connectivity change. It can be a challenge, if someone is in Bahrain, to authenticate via Duo."
"Reducing or eliminating the "telephony credits" system used by Duo would be great."
"The technical engineers in the first line of support should improve their knowledge."
"Smart Licensing needs improvement. It's terrible. We have problems with it every year and we need to involve support to fix it."
"One area that might be improved is that setting up SMS texting is not as easy as using the app, even though it does support it."
"Most of my colleagues from other companies use the Microsoft MFA solution because it's included in Office 365. Few people are considering Cisco Duo. That's the primary problem in our area. It's a solution mostly adopted by Cisco users."
"Duo Security should better organize its tile feature to organize applications better."
"We found it difficult to integrate it into our broader product family of Microsoft tools and other applications used across our organization."
"The price of the solution could improve, it is expensive."
"If you want some other FortiAuthenticator from one site to another site, you should have requirements, but really if you have authentication and directory or another solution, you should change the password of the authenticator between the solution and the directory and other things. So transfer of data and other information should be simpler."
"Other features that would improve the product are a single sign-on where people can use their Gmail ID to log-in, etc."
"The customization capability of Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is not very flexible."
"They could expand FortiAuthenticator's capabilities to accommodate a broader range of environments."
"I would like to see more security features in reference to identity login or identity identification."
"There is a room for improvement. The log is a bit difficult to access, and searching the log codes is also a bit difficult. So it would be much better if, when we open a log, it could provide detailed information about errors, reasons for failure, and such."
"The product must provide full support for third-party FIDO security keys."
Cisco Duo is ranked 2nd in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 55 reviews while Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is ranked 5th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 52 reviews. Cisco Duo is rated 8.8, while Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is rated 8.0. 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 Fortinet FortiAuthenticator writes "A reasonably priced solution that can be scaled toward different functionalities and offers flexible SMS messaging". Cisco Duo is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Fortinet FortiToken, Yubico YubiKey, UserLock and Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, whereas Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiToken, Fortinet FortiNAC, Microsoft Entra ID and CyberArk Privileged Access Manager. See our Cisco Duo vs. Fortinet FortiAuthenticator report.
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