2019-04-16T12:36:00Z

What is your primary use case for Duo Security?

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AO
Real User
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2023-11-17T12:17:00Z
Nov 17, 2023

On my end, Cisco Duo suits my account needs well. The application remains in place. We generally apply Cisco Duo across various use cases. Many customers, including banks and private organizations, use it for enhanced security, particularly in financial and general security tasks.

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TB
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2023-08-03T14:56:00Z
Aug 3, 2023

My background is in electrical engineering. I have roughly almost thirty years in the industry, mostly in telecom, but the last ten years or so in enterprise. I'm currently in Anchorage, Alaska working for an organization that's Alaska-native company, which is more or less a conglomerate of different business lines. They work on everything from government contracts with NASA to construction to oil field operations, it's a lot of different businesses. Our Duo Security implementation was done about a little over three and a half to four years ago. It was about six months before I joined the company. It was done in response to a breach in the company that involved compromised credentials. I have personally been using Duo for as long as I've been in this company, so about three years.

TL
Real User
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2023-08-03T13:39:00Z
Aug 3, 2023

I work in an institution with about 6,000 people. I'm a telecommunications engineer. I use Duo Security as my access point when working remotely. Because I'm a telecommunications engineer, I have to have access to my systems remotely, and our VPN client requires that we go through second-level verification, for which we use Duo Security. Ours is on-prem. We have on-prem Duo Security. We do not use cloud at this time.

RL
Real User
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2023-06-15T13:05:00Z
Jun 15, 2023

We use it for user logins for Windows workstations and Office 365. We have certain requirements for doing two-factor authentication.

JR
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2023-06-15T12:53:00Z
Jun 15, 2023

We use Duo Security for multi-factor authentication for our VPN.

JS
Real User
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2023-06-15T12:43:00Z
Jun 15, 2023

We use Duo Security for multi-factor authentication.

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Sayantan Chatterjee - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-06-15T12:33:00Z
Jun 15, 2023

We actually partner with Duo Security. We use the API to send a step-up on your phone for granting access to normal doors. You can tap your physical fob card or any other device at the door, and then receive a push notification. Depending on the success or failure of the authentication, we can either grant or reject access at the door. So it provides two-factor authentication. We use Duo for that purpose, as well as for an API and our internal VPN. However, with our product, we use Duo Security end-to-end. Duo Security has a blind spot when it comes to physical security. It doesn't cover scenarios where someone gains physical access to our network room, which involves different technologies outside of its scope. From my perspective, it can't be considered truly end-to-end in that regard. Nonetheless, Duo Security offers significant value for network security and VPN access. If we combine our product with Duo Security, then we can achieve comprehensive end-to-end security.

RyanDeppe - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-06-15T10:34:00Z
Jun 15, 2023

We have been using Duo Security for authentication in our in-house sales operations technologies. Therefore, as a Cisco partner, we regularly recommend Cisco Duo Security to our customers to help secure their VPN environments or connectivity to business-critical systems.

AndyChen7 - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-06-15T10:26:00Z
Jun 15, 2023

We use Duo Security for multi-factor authentication.

JP
Real User
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2023-06-15T10:07:00Z
Jun 15, 2023

We use Duo Security for authentication for all of our SaaS applications. We also use it for RADIUS authentication.

Mike Troop - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
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2023-06-15T10:02:00Z
Jun 15, 2023

We use it for multifactor authentication for getting in with cell phones and PCs.

SP
Real User
2023-06-14T12:25:00Z
Jun 14, 2023

We try to use the solution for pretty much everything that we can use with it. The tool helps us to get into our dashboard APIs, and log into Citrix, VPN, and servers.

KG
Real User
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2023-06-14T12:17:00Z
Jun 14, 2023

We use Duo Security to level up security and access to internal systems.

AV
Real User
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2023-03-29T10:41:00Z
Mar 29, 2023

Our primary use case is multifactor authentication for our VPN users. We didn't have multifactor authentication before. After we integrated Duo Security with our systems, everyone has been using it, and it has given us peace of mind when dealing with VPNs.

RV
Real User
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2023-02-13T13:28:00Z
Feb 13, 2023

Our primary use case for Duo Security is all user access to email.

Homer Martinez - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
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2022-08-05T05:43:00Z
Aug 5, 2022

We were really looking for two-factor authentication to secure our applications. We are basically looking for it to reduce risk. I am in the retail space at a company with more than 2,500 employees. It is SaaS. For VPN, we have our on-prem RADIUS servers, and there is an agent on our servers for RDP.

Ronnie Scott - PeerSpot reviewer
Reseller
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2022-06-26T15:26:00Z
Jun 26, 2022

Primarily, it was used as remote access for VPNs. It expanded our security posture, due to the increase in people working from home.

RL
Real User
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2022-06-26T15:18:00Z
Jun 26, 2022

We use it for two-factor authentication for end-user and administrator login. We wanted to secure our endpoints.

Jeff Naperski - PeerSpot reviewer
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2022-06-23T16:21:00Z
Jun 23, 2022

We have implemented it in our organization, and we also implement it for our clients. Duo Security is used to push multi-factor authentication while signing onto computers. We have integrated it with on-premises Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, and Office 365. We have also integrated Duo Security with Mimecast and Mac devices. We have a couple of other use cases, but predominantly, it is for multi-factor authentication. It verifies the identity of a user through a token or a mobile phone app.

AD
Real User
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2022-06-15T23:47:00Z
Jun 15, 2022

We wanted multi-factor authentication across a variety of platforms.

Carl Smith - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
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2022-06-15T23:30:00Z
Jun 15, 2022

We use it for MFA to secure our Outlook webmail and some other applications as well. We use Duo for pretty much anything that uses MFA. We were looking for increased security. We wanted to make sure that the person who is trying to log in to our services is actually who they claim to be. We wanted to lock down our applications more and provide extra security. We have some on-prem servers for the gateways and it's in the cloud as well.

Hugo De Vries - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
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2022-05-19T19:26:00Z
May 19, 2022

Our web developers use Duo Security as a WordPress plugin to provide security for our websites.

KK
Real User
2022-02-21T18:58:13Z
Feb 21, 2022

Duo Security is multi-factor authentication, specifically a two-factor authentication. It authenticates users so that you can know they're legitimate in the network. It can be used for mobile banking. For example, when you're doing mobile or internet banking with your phone, when it uses OTP, it is using Duo Security.

SM
Real User
2021-05-19T12:01:18Z
May 19, 2021

When our users are connecting to our Cisco VPN, Duo effectively ensures that they are who they say they are by taking a second factor into account, such as the cell phone that was used to create their profile. To do this, it sends them a second mode of authentication, such as a PIN or push confirmation. It also geo-locks who is allowed to actually log into our systems. We have it locked to the continental United States and Puerto Rico, and one outsourcing firm that we work with. Once you have it set up, all you really have to do is add people to a group in the active directory and send them the instructions on how to do it. If you have a lower technical user base, you may have to walk them through it. But once it's set up, it really is automatic. Not a single person from our IT staff really needed anything other than the instructions. Of the 15 people in our test group, nobody actually needed instructions on how to use it either — beyond what I just wrote up and sent them. As we get to the older population in our company, the less technical population, we're probably going to have to walk them through it or hold their hands a little bit. Within our organization, there are currently 15 employees using this solution. Eventually, we will have all 221 office staff users with it set up. Still, we'll probably top out at about 80 users a day. We will increase the overall usage as our users increase. So, if we hire another 10 people, then we'll buy another license.

FW
Real User
2021-03-30T15:08:19Z
Mar 30, 2021

Duo Security provides multi-factor authentication for anything that requires multi-factor authentication. It could be our internal corporate services, such as a single sign-on portal, or applications, such as Google Cloud.

YS
Real User
2021-02-08T20:16:48Z
Feb 8, 2021

We are using it for perimeter protection.

BK
Real User
2021-01-08T11:36:23Z
Jan 8, 2021

We use Duo Security to access databases, which are in the cloud. It's two-factor authentication mostly.

AS
Real User
2020-09-03T07:49:43Z
Sep 3, 2020

In my job, we are using the 365 cloud service and there is a VPN solution. We are providing solutions to other enterprise-level customers, like banks. We do not require much cloud-based security because many clients need to have solutions on-premises. We already use RSA (Rivest, Shamir, and Adelman data security). We wanted to try to add some other cloud security options for the VPN and so we tried this product.

Amit Lavi - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
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2019-11-26T05:44:00Z
Nov 26, 2019

I am VP of product in our company and we are a customer of Duo Security.

FM
Real User
2019-04-16T12:36:00Z
Apr 16, 2019

This solution provides MFA (Multifactor authentication) to protect access to the ERP system for a diverse population of employees at a public higher-education institution.

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