We used to use an authenticator called Duo, but we're a small rural hospital, and that solution is a lot more expensive. It was probably at least three times the cost of Fortinet. The other thing was that I already had a Fortinet firewall, so I wanted something in conjunction with that to work alongside it.

I use Sophos, along with Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, since most of our company's clients find it hard to find something in their price range that they want as they are price-conscious. Many of our company's clients go for Sophos since it is a cheap product compared to Fortinet FortiAuthenticator. Some of our company's clients go for Fortinet FortiAuthenticator as it provides value for money.

We used Duo before. It is a cloud solution and has recurring costs. Thus, we switched to Fortinet FortiAuthenticator as it is an on-premise solution and comparatively inexpensive without recurring costs. They only charge a nominal fee for support.

We used Cisco SSO authentication system before switching to Fortinet FortiAuthenticator. It was mainly because of economic aspects. 

This is the first authentication platform that I have worked with.

Our organization has a diverse portfolio of products, including Check Point and hardware such as switches, Xfinity Networks, Juniper, HP, and Dell.

We have used Cisco's firewall products before. In comparison, Fortinet is more user-friendly and easy to configure.

We used a different method as a solution, primarily SafeNet, but there are others. It all depends on a customer-to-customer and case-to-case basis. It depends on the budget and what the customer asks for in the contract. 

At the end of the day, it all revolves around the money, i.e. how many dollars you pay for the solution.

Compared to Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, Cisco is a complicated tool to use. It is difficult to configure as it has many features. It is scalable but needs to be a more stable product.

We had another authentication solution, but we switched to FortiAuthenticator because it integrates with our Fortinet products.

We needed to use Fortinet FortiAuthenticator because we wanted to use the identity-based policy so that FortiAuthenticator can help us to pass the identity to the Fortinet FortiGate.

Before implementing our FortiAuthenticators, we used our main FortiGate as a way to push out two-factor codes to our users. After a while, this option was not working. As we continued to grow, we needed something more substantial and manageable.

I have worked on most of the Fortinet products, as well as with products from Palo Alto. At this time, the only single sign-on product that we use is FortiAuthenticator.

We haven't used a different solution.

We used RSA SecurID before Fortinet. We switched because of the high costs associated with RSA. I believe that with RSA you need to pay a token license every three years but with Fortinet, once you buy it, you own it. Even if a token is lost, you can always reposition the token and that will not come at any extra cost. It's cost-effective for us. We also have several channels we can use for authentication with FortiAuthenticator. With RSA, users are stuck with either carrying the dongle, the hardware token, or maybe having the mobile application token on their phone. With Fortinet you can decide whether to use a hardware token, soft token, email token, push notification, or SMS. It gives us flexibility and comfort.

We have always used Fortinet products.

We are a Fortinet reseller and integrator so there were no "switches" per say.

I have tried Cisco ISE as a NAC solution. Cisco ISE is the "Terminator" of NAC solutions, which has numerous features to prevent unauthorized access. However, its integration with FortiGate firewall is not great. When I use the SSLVPN service from FortiGate, it fails to authenticate with two-factor authentication. For this, using FortiAnthenticator would be a good choice for its genuine integration.

This was the first of this type of solution that we implemented.

Before using FortiAuthenticator we were not using anything else. We just were controlling everything from our Fortinet firewall. That was the only equipment which we had at that point in time. Now, we have got FortiAuthenticator.

Going forward we might go for FortiNAC. That might be in the cards for us. However, we're not immediately going to make the switch as it offers access control.

We used FreeRADIUS. It had limited authentication protocols (only RADIUS), no GUI, and very complicated management.

We used FortiGate to manage tokens and user identities but FortiAuthenticater includes more features.

I've previously used WatchGuard. Fortinet is better for what is there, even though their prices are quite similar.