Fortinet FortiAuthenticator vs LastPass comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Fortinet FortiAuthenticator
Ranking in Single Sign-On (SSO)
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
52
Ranking in other categories
Authentication Systems (3rd), Identity Management (IM) (7th), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) (3rd)
LastPass
Ranking in Single Sign-On (SSO)
22nd
Average Rating
7.4
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Password Managers (17th), AIOps (27th)
 

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Single Sign-On (SSO) category, the market share of Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is 10.6% and it increased by 8.5% compared to the previous year. The market share of LastPass is 1.6% and it increased by 11.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Unique Categories:
Authentication Systems
17.5%
Identity Management (IM)
1.9%
Enterprise Password Managers
2.6%
AIOps
0.3%
 

Featured Reviews

Jared Carmouche - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 28, 2023
An extremely stable and scalable solution that is affordable and easy to manage
We use the solution for different clients and how they authenticate for VPN and Wi-Fi. We also use it for the captive portal and single sign-on. We use it for quite a bit for authentication The product has become a central hub for how dozens of our clients authenticate to VPN and Wi-Fi. It has…
MK
Oct 21, 2021
Straightforward to set up, good support, intuitive to use, and offers good value for the cost
The most valuable feature is being able to use a single master password to access all of your other passwords. One feature that is really important to us is the ability to create secure notes. In our scenario, these are notes such as how to get some of our devices on the network. They are processes and procedures that we don't want anybody else to see, especially within the IT department. It's a small department and we have very many processes that we use, but not on a daily basis, so we aren't going to remember them. By using LastPass and secure notes, we can go back to those notes in a secure fashion and remind ourselves how to do certain things. For instance, how to create a test database for accounting, which is something that we do once a year. We don't want that to be out in a non-secure fashion, where somebody in the public can see it.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The web feature is quite versatile. It serves as the sole server authenticator and is valuable not only with FortiGate products but also within the entire Forti system, making it highly useful for me."
"It keeps track of users and their IPs no matter where they are in the network. When users roam, we don't have to worry about not mapping them to an IP."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy. It is also easy to deploy."
"We have not had issues with Fortinet FortiAuthenticator. It is stable."
"Simple to deploy, simple to use, and user-friendly."
"The first valuable feature is being able to see everything on one platform. This includes logs and authentication failure."
"Fulfilled our requirement at a good price."
"The current version is stable...Scalability-wise, it is a fine solution"
"Tech support has been good. We haven't needed it much, because it is not a complex application. There is not that much you have to do with it."
"Increased security around password management for teams and collaborative efforts with external vendors."
"Until now, I haven't found anything like the dashboard. It gives you a security score. I find that to be really great. The Sharing Center is really great as well. And the Security Challenge is really great too."
"This product helps keep us secure."
"It's always hard to put a value on return on investment. You avoid one breach and it's paid for a million times over. We got a penetration test company internally, just to see how secure our network is, and there happened to be one bit of software that had been overlooked by an external company that managed it. It hadn't been upgraded so that managed to get them into the network. They would've been able to access through the test thing a file that we had previously. If that was a real-life scenario they would have been able to get into our network and get full access to our organization's passwords. If they did get in, they would have gotten access to the cloud. The ROI we see is that we are completely secured compared to what we had previously where there was a vulnerability."
"It's improved security; we don't have to worry about people storing password loosely and secure them."
"Reduction in number of sensitive passwords stored insecurely on local systems."
"The most valuable feature is the liberty of keeping encrypted passwords and elevated information in a sealed vault."
 

Cons

"They could expand FortiAuthenticator's capabilities to accommodate a broader range of environments."
"The GUI has some shortcomings and can be made better. The GUI is not great."
"The integration with other products, for example, some SAML authentications, would make it more flexible."
"I would like to see more support from Fortinet with tech support people who have as much expertise on the authenticator as they do on their firewalls."
"If you want some other FortiAuthenticator from one site to another site, you should have requirements, but really if you have authentication and directory or another solution, you should change the password of the authenticator between the solution and the directory and other things. So transfer of data and other information should be simpler."
"The customization capability of Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is not very flexible."
"I would like to see more security features in reference to identity login or identity identification."
"I don't have any issues with this solution, but it may need a better, more user-friendly interface or better design of the platform."
"The ability to set up an account expiration limit/date would be very useful."
"Its user interface should be better, and there should probably be more information about scalability."
"LastPass has a problem syncing the passwords to all of the users."
"I also don't like the add-in for Internet Explorer and Google Chrome, because when you do the add-in, you can actually save that to your credentials in your IE, and the problem is, if I left my screen open, or any of the IT people leave their screen open someone could come up and access all their credentials in LastPass without having to put a password in within your own network. I don't like that functionality. We've banned that from any of our staff adding that as an add-in because we see that as a security risk."
"We have issues from time to time where, for some reason, it just keeps auto logging-out the user and then, the next day, they'll come in and it will work just fine."
"I struggle a little bit with the mobile app. As a browser extension, it works really well, and we are able to get to what we need to. However, on the phone, it's not quite as easy to navigate."
"I would like to be able to reduce the log out time of the session."
"Right now we have two products; there is the password manager and there is the authenticator app. Ideally, these should be fully integrated and support better handling of two-factor authentication or any other authenticator data."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I would rate the pricing a four out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive. It is not that costly. It is cheap, easy to manage, easy to install, and easy to configure."
"We pay for licensing on a yearly basis."
"The solution is not very expensive."
"I price of the solution is expensive."
"It costs more to license the high-availability option."
"Between paying them to help with the configuration, the box itself, and the support, it came to like $12,500, including a three-year service agreement."
"It is usually cheap. Without a license, you can use some basic features. You can buy a 20-year license and implement the solution once."
"When we buy the Fortinet FortiAuthenticator device there is a comparison between price and security."
"In terms of pricing, my feeling is that they are all roughly the same. LastPass is in line with its competitors, plus or minute a dollar or two per month."
"If you import from sources like XML, keepass, CSV files be sure to clean the import files, this reduces the adjustments in the slow tool itself."
"The pricing and licensing are okay. Basically, at the last contract negotiation, they attempted to jack the rate up and we just said, "No." We still did negotiations with them, but they bumped everything up quite a bit."
"It would be nice to do a quarterly true-up process with them versus having to buy 50 licenses at a time when we realize we're out, then we have to buy more. So far, they have been nice about letting us exceed our allotment and just letting us true-up on our own, but a more robust quarterly true-up process would be good."
"The subscription model is rated at a fair price."
"I have been involved with many password managers. Passportal, Secret Server, CyberArk, and BeyondTrust. I chose LastPass for our organization because of the pricing. The organization didn't want to implement something really expensive. LastPass, for what it's offering, for the price that it's offering the service, is unbeatable."
"LastPass was cheap as chips. It was very cheap, hence one of the reasons we went with it. If you're a small organization and you're after something that'll do 90% of your requirements, it's very good. Licensing and all that was really cheap and simple to understand."
"I was not terribly alarmed with the pricing, and am pleased with the fact that a home license is included with each business license."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
20%
Government
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Computer Software Company
14%
Insurance Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fortinet FortiAuthenticator?
The price is fine. I rate the pricing an eight and a half out of ten.
What needs improvement with Fortinet FortiAuthenticator?
The security space is changing. The product must provide passwordless and seamless connectivity. If a particular user is identified automatically, they should not be authenticated repeatedly with t...
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Also Known As

FortiAuthenticator
LastPass Business, LastPass Enterprise, Lastpasss
 

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Black Gold Regional Schools, Amadeus Hospitality, Jefferson County, Chunghwa Telecom, City of Boroondara, Dimension Data
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