We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiAuthenticator and Fortinet FortiNAC based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, Auth0 and others in Single Sign-On (SSO)."FortiAuthenticator is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is RADIUS service and the social network integration feature."
"The product is good, cost-effective, and functionally efficient."
"It is very stable. We have never had any issues with this solution."
"We have a perpetual license for 2FA."
"The solution is very easy to manage."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is easy."
"FortiAuthenticator is a very good solution. It is all jury-based. FortiAuthenticator is very easy for anyone to understand how it works and be able to take action."
"The interface is good and simple to use."
"Fortinet FortiNAC offers several valuable features, including data security, 99 percent uptime with VPN connections, MAC filtering, and traffic prioritization."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the user-friendliness, the graphical interface, and the technical support. The interface is very nice and the customization is good."
"The device fingerprinting feature allowed for easy creation and enforcement of access policies."
"It's a very good solution and one thing I have noted is its simplicity and the ease of the set-up process."
"Provides containment and security and and carries out file analysis for cyber theft."
"Fortinet FortiNAC is a stable solution."
"When it works, it's great. It keeps things off the network which are supposed to be off the network."
"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."
"The product must provide full support for third-party FIDO security keys."
"The speed of deployment on the cloud could be improved. It took a few days when it should have been just two days"
"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."
"FortiAuthenticator's interface could be better."
"The customization capability of Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is not very flexible."
"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 ways to authenticate, such as adding facial recognition to the two-factor, where you log into your phone or another device."
"For our organization and our clients, the price is the main concern. They should work to make it more competitive."
"Technical support could improve their response times."
"The training from Fortinet FortiNAC could improve. Fortinet has to plan for better training for its partners. Additionally, device management should have more integration with other devices, such as new and third-party devices."
"There could be better integration with legacy equipment. It integrates perfectly with all Fortinet solutions, but if you look at other third-party integrations—not on the networking part; but more on the security infrastructure part—it's more limited."
"Classifications and visibility need to be improved a lot. They have to start work on being agentless. Agentless means they need to have strong integration with Windows."
"Fortinet's local support could be improved."
"Its technical support needs improvement."
"Admin UI could be better matched and easier to use; it cannot work as a RADIUS server."
Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is ranked 5th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 52 reviews while Fortinet FortiNAC is ranked 3rd in Network Access Control (NAC) with 43 reviews. Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiNAC is rated 7.6. 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 Fortinet FortiNAC writes "I like the solution's native integration with other devices from the same vendor". Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiToken, Microsoft Entra ID, Cisco Duo and CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, whereas Fortinet FortiNAC is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Aruba ClearPass, Forescout Platform, Fortinet FortiClient and Portnox CORE.
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