We performed a comparison between Netskope Private Access and Okta Workforce Identity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two ZTNA as a Service solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Netskope enables users to securely access private applications remotely without a VPN."
"The base features have been fantastic. The ability to be able to granularly assign application access to end-users has been really good."
"The most valuable feature is being able to see who is accessing the application, whether it is a managed device or a bring-your-own-device published by Netskope."
"It is a stable solution."
"In the firewall, we don't have a user-based policies list, and we can't create them. Netskope helps us to create user-based policies. For example, if there are specific teams like HR or more than nine teams, and we want logs from access over particular URLs, and we don't want to allow that specific URL for certain users, we can create these policies in Netskope. It's handy, easy to use for new users, and has a cool GUI interface. We can create multiple policies, and as for the proxy, it's a leading solution."
"With private access or next-gen VPN, they are able to keep you secure, but they are invisible in terms of how they do it. Anybody working from home and trying to bring up VPN quickly can pretty much get VPN up and running in a matter of minutes because this doesn't require any VPN technology on-prem. All the VPN technologies that you're using to access applications on-premise can be eliminated by using their software. If you're accessing Microsoft 365 or salesforce.com, you can go straight out from your home office or home internet to that application rather than having to come through a VPN. It still has all the policies enforced, and it mitigates any business risks in terms of how that user is accessing that application and what they're doing inside of it. VPN piece is really critical, especially at this time of Covid, and your latency also goes down. Your latency gets better by using the platform because they're intercepting your traffic, routing it through their local data center, and then sending it to whichever SaaS service or whatever you're going to. It does it better, faster, and quicker with all your governance policies enforced, rather than you having to go through your data center. So, all the traffic gets hauls there, and then that traffic has got to route somewhere else, and then it has got to go up to the cloud. Your latency actually goes down. They can guarantee 15 milliseconds or less pretty much across anywhere on the planet for about 95% or 90% of it."
"Even without extensive training, if you're a proficient IT professional, you can easily configure it."
"We can block and alert the ports and allow the public traffic software in our environment."
"We can automate the process of adding users to Okta if they are activated in Active Directory, or if they are added to the database of applications or Active Directory in the last couple of days."
"The ease of deployment, ease of use, and speed of delivery is what I like about Okta Workforce Identity. It is very easy to use. For a lot of software, you need to be trained extensively and have a very technical background. Okta Workforce Identity is quite simple. You can integrate any software into Okta. They've got a network of 7,000 applications that easily integrate into it."
"It's easy to use and straightforward."
"The provisioning functionality has been the most valuable. This solution has good performance, fast integration and is very responsive."
"This solution has a lot of capabilities and features."
"First of all, the solution is very simple."
"Workforce Identity's best features include its user-friendliness and easy setup."
"The support for YubiKey is really good because you don't actually have to type in your username and password."
"I would like to see them go down the path of including SD-WAN. Currently, they don't do SD-WAN. If they could somehow natively do that inside of the platform, that would be amazing. I don't know if they're going to do it, but it would be amazing if they do."
"We faced certain issues with China users as it can be rather challenging for them due to the presence of Great Firewall."
"The product is not easy to use."
"Netskope Private Access allows mapping only one DNS server. If a user uses a secondary DNS on-premises, Netskope fails to disconnect them. This is an issue that needs to be addressed."
"Netskope detects certain data or contents, but there are some limitations on how we can customize those policies for DLP."
"The solution needs to develop faster features. Its interoperability feature is not working. It takes six months to one year for any product to implement the improvements. However, the process should be faster to implement the changes quickly."
"Netskope needs to provide some kind of data protection strategy as well because, currently, if you connect through private access, we don't have any data protection policies or implementation."
"There could be an ability to access one server from another when we have console access to the first server."
"Therefore, if you have 10 million users, that's almost 100 million, so it is costly."
"The guest user access could be improved."
"The only area of concern in the solution stems from the fact that my company needs some help regarding the setup phase from a partner."
"RESTful Web Service calls and their response seem a bit slow."
"The solution can be quite expensive."
"The solution is very expensive."
"The pricing could be improved."
"Application updates are lacking. Customer support needs to be improved."
Netskope Private Access is ranked 7th in ZTNA as a Service with 14 reviews while Okta Workforce Identity is ranked 6th in ZTNA as a Service with 54 reviews. Netskope Private Access is rated 8.6, while Okta Workforce Identity is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Netskope Private Access writes "Provides network visibility, infrastructure protection and advanced security protections, especially the DLP (Data Loss Protection)". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Okta Workforce Identity writes "Extremely easy to work with, simple to set up, and reasonably priced ". Netskope Private Access is most compared with Zscaler Private Access, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Appgate SDP, Google BeyondCorp Remote Access and Cloudflare Access, whereas Okta Workforce Identity is most compared with Google Cloud Identity, Microsoft Entra ID, SailPoint IdentityIQ, Saviynt and Auth0. See our Netskope Private Access vs. Okta Workforce Identity report.
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