We compared Okta Workforce Identity and Perimeter 81 across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Okta Workforce Identity and Perimeter 81 are both praised for their user-friendly interfaces and ease of use. Okta Workforce Identity stands out for its comprehensive integration capabilities, single sign-on, and multi-factor authentication features. Perimeter 81, on the other hand, is highly valued for its single sign-on for businesses and strong customer support. Okta Workforce Identity has room for improvement in areas like user interface and customer support, while Perimeter 81 needs enhancements in connectivity and user interface customization. Okta Workforce Identity is considered expensive, while Perimeter 81 offers more affordable and transparent pricing.
"It's reliable and it does what it is advertised to do."
"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."
"First of all, the solution is very simple."
"The MFA part is the best. MFA provided most of the security that we were looking at with respect to the second level of authentication. Okta Workforce Identity provides a number of options with respect to multifactor authentication, such as the app, phone call, and text. These options provide different ways of logging in for users, and they were a lot more than what we needed. This is certainly a very good feature of Okta Workforce Identity."
"The most valuable features of Okta Workforce Identity are SSO, MFA, and beneficial feature sets."
"Its simplicity and its integration with various vendor-agnostic platforms are the most valuable features."
"Enabled MFA to access federated applications as well as increased user satisfaction through improved provisioning times and more reliable processes."
"The most valuable features are ease of operation and visibility."
"Scaling Perimeter 81 was easy to do."
"The ease of use not only translates to quick adoption rates - it also ensures that our employees remain compliant with our cybersecurity protocols, enhancing the overall security posture of our organization."
"The solution provides us with an easy way to configure and join the VPN with Perimeter 81."
"Perimeter 81 provides a very secure and non-disruptive experience."
"The benefits are really built into the underlying protocol, however, Perimeter81 makes these available in a user-friendly way."
"The setup is really easy...I rate the support team a ten out of ten."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Providing access and security allows our company employees to work from home and remotely."
"In my country, there's a lot of stealing of mobile phones, and mobile phones are the authentication device through the Okta application. If someone should steal my mobile phone, which is very common in my country, he or she might have access to my company account. That's my concern."
"Okta Workforce Identity could improve the support system, they are too slow."
"A room for improvement in Okta Workforce Identity is its price. It could be cheaper. The biggest benefit of the solution is that everything works securely without extra steps, so you're saving on your workforce's time and effort because your applications work smoothly and securely, but you'd need to pay some amount of money for that. Another area that could be improved, though not necessarily regarding Okta Workforce Identity, is the SSO applications because so many of the source applications charge extra money to put the SSO to work, which means you have to buy a more expensive license. Nowadays, SSO is a mainstream functionality and it should be out-of-the-box in those applications because it's so easy to set up."
"The solution should have greater on-premises availability, not just cloud and more package customization in its processing."
"We still had to write several internal programs/scripts to complete the user-provisioning process. Okta does not have the ability to provision mailbox accounts for on-premise Exchange or in a hybrid O365 environment. The Group Push function from Okta to AD did not work reliably in our environment."
"The lifecycle management part can be improved. It should also have identity governance and the ability to choose a specific factor authentication at the application level. Its licensing and pricing can also be improved."
"The solution lacks an on-premises deployment model so it can't offer a hybrid solution. It would be ideal if clients had options that weren't just cloud-based."
"Okta Workforce Identity could improve provisioning it can be made simpler."
"I have found that the log-in/out process takes quite some time."
"In the future, maybe P81 can improve the network traffic balancing and redundancy."
"One of our challenges is ensuring the security of our cloud-based operations."
"There are a few areas where the solution could be improved. For instance, we sometimes encounter connectivity issues, which can be problematic. Recently, I experienced a connectivity issue while trying to move to Azure. Connectivity issues can be quite frustrating."
"The overall UI could be improved and updated to bring a simpler feel to the application."
"I'd love to learn more about all of the features. Maybe a monthly spotlight of features or having a banner that explains more ways certain features could be used would be helpful."
"Currently, I am not able to define a different country or location, which can result in negative experiences as the tool is being recognized by websites and this can make it difficult to access them or force me to disable the program temporarily."
"What would be useful would be a notification/warning that a session is due to timeout after exceeding the default connection limit."
Okta Workforce Identity is ranked 7th in ZTNA as a Service with 56 reviews while Perimeter 81 is ranked 5th in ZTNA as a Service with 22 reviews. Okta Workforce Identity is rated 8.6, while Perimeter 81 is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Okta Workforce Identity writes "Extremely easy to work with, simple to set up, and reasonably priced ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Perimeter 81 writes "Great SAML and SCIM support with the ability to deploy site-2-site tunnels with specific IP restrictions". Okta Workforce Identity is most compared with Google Cloud Identity, Microsoft Entra ID, SailPoint IdentityIQ, Saviynt and Auth0, whereas Perimeter 81 is most compared with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Cato SASE Cloud Platform, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Cloudflare Access and Tailscale. See our Okta Workforce Identity vs. Perimeter 81 report.
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