Ping Identity Platform and Fortinet FortiAuthenticator compete in the identity management solutions category. Ping seems to have an advantage with its pricing and customer service, while FortiAuthenticator is favored for its robust feature set.
Features: Ping Identity Platform excels with its seamless integration, advanced multi-factor authentication, and user-friendly mobile application. Fortinet FortiAuthenticator provides comprehensive identity management, centralized authentication, and integration with Fortinet products, offering strong network security and two-factor authentication.
Room for Improvement: Ping could enhance its vulnerability handling and improve support documentation clarity. Fortinet requires better social portal integration, improved log detail viewing, and expanded cloud capabilities to cater to evolving technology needs.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Ping Identity Platform offers a straightforward deployment process and highly responsive customer support. Fortinet FortiAuthenticator ensures efficient integration within network environments, but its customer support is comparatively less responsive than Ping's, affecting the overall experience slightly.
Pricing and ROI: Ping Identity Platform is known for competitive pricing with a flexible model offering a better perceived ROI. Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, despite higher initial costs, justifies its price with extensive features promising long-term benefits, particularly for those prioritizing depth and network integration in identity management solutions.
It enhances security by ensuring only the right person can access systems, even if their login credentials are compromised.
Customer service and support are excellent.
At times, some technical staff lack knowledge, which delays issue resolution.
When we send a ticket to Fortinet, they go into research mode as if they are hearing the problem for the first time.
The scalability of FortiAuthenticator is good, and I would rate it an eight on a scale of one to ten.
I find Fortinet FortiAuthenticator to be highly scalable, and I would rate it an eight out of ten for scalability.
It remains stable even when the number of concurrent users increases.
For example, authentication for wireless users expires after 24 hours, requiring re-authentication daily.
I recommend Fortinet make its images migratable between environments.
I would like to see more integration and inclusion of features for ransomware protection directly within the FortiAuthenticator without requiring additional devices.
Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is not overly expensive compared to other Fortinet subscriptions.
The integration with FortiToken is outstanding, adding a layer of security for authentication.
We use multi-factor authentication for enhancing security.
The most valuable feature I find in FortiAuthenticator is web filtering.
Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is the primary secure point of approved access into the Fortinet network, authorizing users, reviewing access permissions, and relaying the information to all Fortigate devices for comparison with identity-based protocols. Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is a top-ranked authorization and SSO solution.
Appropriate secure access is fundamental to every role in an enterprise ecosystem. It is an integral function of every organization to ensure that every access and privilege is secure and to mitigate any possible risk to an organization. Approved users should only have access to the necessary information when they need it, from the appropriate location(s) to safeguard an organization's security at all times.
Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is available as an appliance, virtual machine, or in the cloud.
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Ibrahim M., Senior Network & Security Engineer at a tech services company, relates, "The initial setup is a valuable point on Fortinet products. Most of the time, putting the theory into practice on the devices is quite friendly and straightforward. As long as you can read English you can find your way around the solution and make it work. This is a high value point on Fortinet - the way everything is laid out in the web UI is user-friendly and quite straightforward. The UI is quite simple."
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