We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiAuthenticator and Symantec Advanced Authentication based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, Fortinet and others in Authentication Systems."We have a perpetual license for 2FA."
"The first valuable feature is being able to see everything on one platform. This includes logs and authentication failure."
"This is a scalable product."
"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."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it easy to install. The user experience is very good."
"Simple to deploy, simple to use, and user-friendly."
"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."
"It is very stable. We have never had any issues with this solution."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is that it's a strong authentication solution that's able to integrate with applications."
"Rules on Risk Authentication are very good."
"It tells us exactly what we want in terms of authentication to various applications and provides protection for users who access them."
"One of the most valuable aspects is its remarkable stability."
"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."
"They could expand FortiAuthenticator's capabilities to accommodate a broader range of environments."
"Other features that would improve the product are a single sign-on where people can use their Gmail ID to log-in, etc."
"It can not use SQL to query FortiAnalyzer directly."
"Improvements in the product could start from the dashboard, overall customization, and configuration."
"The solution could be more automated. It should be able to let me automate a lot of things so that what normally is done as a matter of manual processes can be handled quicker. Slow integrations can be taken up/out if there was more automation."
"Lacks a simplified two-factor authentication process."
"Integration with some other enterprise applications could be improved."
"This solution could be improved with risk-based authentication. I think that this product has everything that most customers are looking for, but modern technology has people looking for security tools with risk-based authentication, which they have a separate tool for. If they could integrate this, it would improve Symantec Advanced Authentication. They have to look at what's newly trending and how things are moving forward, and then adapt and adopt those features. Symantec's technical support should also be improved, in terms of response time."
"We have seen quite a few issues with bugginess. It is indeed pretty buggy and we have had to install some fixes."
"Advanced Authentication talks about the Device ID. But how the device ID is captured, I want to know more about that."
"Urgent improvement is necessary to ensure that support responses are faster and more effective, aligning with the demands of MFA implementation."
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Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is ranked 3rd in Authentication Systems with 52 reviews while Symantec Advanced Authentication is ranked 18th in Authentication Systems with 9 reviews. Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is rated 8.0, while Symantec Advanced Authentication 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 Symantec Advanced Authentication writes "Ensures robust security features and ease of deployment, although it may lack some of the more modern authentication options ". Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiToken, Fortinet FortiNAC, Cisco Duo and Microsoft Entra ID, whereas Symantec Advanced Authentication is most compared with Thales Authenticators and OneSpan DIGIPASS.
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