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.
"I lead an IT organization that has a significant amount of technical debt, and we're not in a zero-trust architecture yet. I'm pushing in that direction. Duo helps me considerably with my identity in an environment where I don't have zero trust. It's helping me bridge the gap until I can build a zero trust architecture."
"It's easy to use for the security part, and it helps to improve our security posture."
"Since Duo Security provides a single place to log in for our SaaS applications, we don't have to manage user accounts and remember passwords for each specific application."
"Duo Security improved my organization by helping us secure all access points within the company infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature is the ability for users to connect securely to the office using the VPN."
"We get fewer threats to remediate due to the two-factor authentication, which does not allow as many threats through."
"It's easy to deploy. It's easy to manage. It's easy to integrate with other applications."
"The most valuable feature of Duo Security is the ability for the user to easily approve access. The application prompts the user, and they can see the location and the IP address. This makes it easy for the user to approve it and go through the process of logging in to the VPN."
"The tool also offers good scalability, and the dashboard, along with real-time analytics, is very good."
"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."
"Enables me to work from two locations."
"Cloudflare, in my opinion, was easy to implement."
"Integration with a product such as Microsoft Sentinel would be great. As the product continually improves, I'm unsure if this feature is available."
"We were considering purchasing other products, like AMP for Endpoints, and it was not properly integrated with the firewall function. It might be better now with SecureX."
"Cisco can further enhance the integrations, as they possess exceptional integrations with various providers' products and feature sets."
"Technical support could be improved. I don't think all support should have to go through an agreement."
"It already integrates with lots of products, but it can integrate with more products. There should be easy integration with Cisco products because sometimes, it can be quite complicated."
"The only thing I can think of to improve for tech support is to have a dedicated engineer but then I would get an engineer that has priorities in one area or another and maybe not the scope I need."
"The product could be more intuitive on the app."
"For upgrades, there should be a better notification of when they're coming out. We always have a testing phase, so we need to be ahead of it. It takes us longer before we can upgrade to the newest version."
"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."
"For the topic of improvement, providing some training material is one of my suggestions."
"The pricing is an area that can be improved. Pricing, as far as I recall, was the source of our problems."
"They don't have a person to provide support for customers using the solution under their free plan."
Cisco Duo is ranked 3rd in ZTNA as a Service with 55 reviews while Cloudflare Access is ranked 9th 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, Yubico YubiKey and OneSpan DIGIPASS, whereas Cloudflare Access is most compared with Twingate, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Auth0 and Menlo Security Remote Browser Isolation. See our Cisco Duo vs. Cloudflare Access report.
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