We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiAuthenticator and Tools4ever HelloID based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, Auth0 and others in Single Sign-On (SSO)."The feature I value the most is the one-time passwords because it helps to authenticate users so you know the timing of their usage."
"It integrates very tightly with the rest of the Fortinet ecosystem."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the OTP on the mobile phone."
"The product's on-premise version doesn't have recurring costs."
"The initial setup is a valuable point on Fortinet products. Most of the time, putting the theory into practice on the devices is quite friendly and straightforward. As long as you can read English you can find your way around the solution and make it work. This is a high value point on Fortinet - the way everything is laid out in the web UI is user-friendly and quite straightforward. The UI is quite simple."
"Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is an easy-to-use solution."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is easy."
"The most valuable feature is the option to use SSO from different sources such as Microsoft AD, ADFS, Azure AD, SAML, form-based, etc."
"The Single Sign-On capabilities are endless and we haven't found a single app so far that couldn't be set up for SSO."
"Now we can easily control who has access to which client or client application."
"You don't need to be a specialist in Identity and Access Management solutions to understand the software and configure it."
"The speed of deployment on the cloud could be improved. It took a few days when it should have been just two days"
"The product must provide full support for third-party FIDO security keys."
"Lacks a simplified two-factor authentication process."
"A better integration with other vendors."
"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."
"I would like to see more support from Fortinet with tech support people who have as much expertise on the authenticator as they do on their firewalls."
"We would like to see Linux-based operating systems be able to integrate with FortiAuthenticator to get two-factor authentication running on them. as well. This is a shortcoming that I have faced a few times already."
"We have issues with HA (high availability). These should be addressed in future releases."
"Integration with other Tools4ever applications such as SSRPM and IAM would be nice."
"Sometimes it generates a username that is not unique, but at the time of this writing, it is not possible to generate a new one that is unique."
"When something needs to be changed with the sign-on policies, we have to apply this manually to every client environment that we have."
"I would like to have the built-in provisioning module improved."
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Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is ranked 5th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 50 reviews while Tools4ever HelloID is ranked 22nd in Single Sign-On (SSO). Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is rated 8.0, while Tools4ever HelloID is rated 9.8. 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 Tools4ever HelloID writes "A flexible solution for application management, and facilitated centralization of our IAM". Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiToken, Microsoft Entra ID, Fortinet FortiNAC and Cisco Duo, whereas Tools4ever HelloID is most compared with Okta Workforce Identity, Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Entra External ID.
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