We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiAuthenticator and Thales Authenticators based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, Fortinet and others in Authentication Systems."It integrates very tightly with the rest of the Fortinet ecosystem."
"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 ease of use is really nice. Using Authenticator, I've been able to actually work better on my authentication due to the fact that I have a single fabric to authenticate control from my firewall and on my access points. Authentication takes place from this area."
"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."
"The solution is very easy to manage."
"FortiAuthenticator is really good software that integrates very well with Fortinet products."
"The product’s most valuable feature is integration with FortiGate, FortiToken, FortiTalk, and multi-factor authentication."
"The two-step authentication provides a higher level of security."
"The most valuable feature of SafeNet Authentication Manager is authentication."
"I like how the solution allows me to support different types of hardware tokens and integrate with OTP."
"Scalable and stable."
"We use this solution to log into virtual machines like VMware and VMware Horizon."
"We had issues trying to integrate the keys properly during the initial setup."
"For improvement, Fortinet needs to ensure that they provide quick support to users...Fortinet sometimes needs to respond to users facing issues within an hour."
"The product must provide 2FA for applications."
"I would like to see integration and customization capabilities with the end-user portal to solve authentication issues with diverse implementation scenarios."
"I don't have any issues with this solution, but it may need a better, more user-friendly interface or better design of the platform."
"Lacks a simplified two-factor authentication process."
"Integration with some other enterprise applications could be improved."
"We have issues with HA (high availability). These should be addressed in future releases."
"The problem with SafeNet is that it's not integrated with Microsoft 365."
"Lacks integration with other platforms."
"The solution should allow for support of multi-tenant architecture."
"The stability could improve."
Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is ranked 3rd in Authentication Systems with 50 reviews while Thales Authenticators is ranked 17th in Authentication Systems with 4 reviews. Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is rated 8.0, while Thales Authenticators is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiAuthenticator writes "A reasonably priced solution that can be scaled toward different functionalities and offers flexible SMS messaging". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Thales Authenticators writes "Responsive support, effective authentication, but stability could improve". Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiToken, Microsoft Entra ID, Fortinet FortiNAC and Cisco Duo, whereas Thales Authenticators is most compared with Yubico YubiKey, Microsoft Entra ID, Cisco Duo, Atalla Hardware Security Module and RSA Authentication Manager.
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