Microsoft Entra External ID vs. SecureAuth IdP

It is not easy to calculate the actual ROI due to the difficult quantification of all factors, but it certainly contributed a lot in protecting, monitoring and controlling access to our system. It also made it much easier to detect vulnerable external users with simple and "easy to hack" passwords they use on multiple apps.

SecureAuth is a good solution for companies looking for an in-house solution that can be managed by your internal technical resources. It is a good solution for new companies that are looking for a more secure authentication application to deploy to their staff

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• Single sign-on simplifies access to your apps from anywhere
• Strong authentication for your customers using their preferred identity provider.
• Integrating with social accounts such as Facebook or Google+

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• Security token for Microsoft authentication.
• Single sign on enabled for our organization.
• Simplifies the log in for our employees.

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• Troubleshooting diagnostic logs effectively requires VS Code
• Group and role management requires additional effort
• The programming model (XML) could use some developer experience love

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• We had some difficulty enabling SecureAuth as our only authentication tool.
• The offline authentication feature was troublesome at times.
• Enrollment was a little cumbersome for some employees.

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Each one of these alternatives has pros and cons. PingOne from Ping Identity states they "help deliver the secure and seamless customer experience to win battles for customer acquisition, retention, revenue, loyalty, and trust." While that may be the case, they did not fit our needs. We have a complex system and it did not seem to fit into our business.

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SecureAuth was reasonable solution that enables our organization to securely manage our single sign-on and multi-factor authentication controls by our technology department. The product was easy to install and maintain, and provided our employees a layer of security that was on par with other industry leading solutions

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• Having monthly active users billing was cost-effective.
• Helped with the IT support that was already managing the Azure platform of the company; this helped to manage the costs better and optimize them.

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• Flexible terms allowed us to leverage SecureAuth over multiple years.
• SecureAuth allowed us to get into this area of security at a reasonable price point.
• SecureAuth was able to scale as our company grew at a reasonable cost.

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