Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (Discontinued) vs. FortiAuthenticator vs. Okta

If your solution falls within their standard use case or you have Office 365 - then it makes total sense. If you need a lot of customization or have a really specific business process that causes you to deviate from the standard flow it usually makes more sense to create a custom solution

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The cloud-first medium through large enterprises which use multiple technology systems should choose Okta as their best solution because it provides optimal performance. Okta's main advantage exists in its extensive Integration Network, which enables IT departments to implement SSO together with automated lifecycle management across multiple third-party SaaS applications such as Slack and Salesforce and AWS. For fast-growing companies that need to deploy systems quickly while providing users with platform-independent access, this solution serves as their perfect "identity glue."

Okta licensing to small businesses with basic access needs which require access to three applications should use a different product because their low-cost requirements will exceed their expected benefits from the product. The Okta Access Gateway creates operational difficulties for businesses that depend on legacy systems or have extensive "on-premise only" network requirements

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• Ease of use
• Interoperability
• Industry standard

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• Centralized control of enterprise passwords
• Extensive customization of acceptable password criteria
• One system for Identity and Access Management to learn
• Scalable throughout the university for all central services
• Uniform login experience for students, faculty, and staff
• Single point of response to address termination of access
• Ability to use FastPass for lower priority systems
• Excellent support of multi-factor requirements

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• It can be difficult to work with when deviating off the standard use cases

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• I do have to reset my password quite frequently. However, I don't think there is really a way to improve this, as it's a good security measure.
• It makes me re-sign in a couple of times a day, sometimes if I haven't used my laptop for a couple of hours, and sometimes just randomly throughout the day.
• It doesn't remember my devices, either my laptop or phone. so it always calls that out.

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Okta has a passion to provide secure and scalable identity solution. Their passion has come across as advocacy in a way that has deepened my knowledge of the field of authentication. I took identity for granted before but after seeing features such as external authentication I know that Okta can enable my business to reach new heights

Some of its features are great and some are slightly complex and not easy without vendor support.

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The Okta Identity Cloud advertises 4 9's of reliability and I would go as far to say that it may even do better than that. As a true Global organization that operates in just about every region of the world, we have yet to have an issue with The Okta Identity Cloud that has impacted our business operations.

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From my perspective, for the things that my group uses it for, Okta is very fast. It is as least as fast as the local password database methods that it replaces on our campus enterprise services. I do not believe that it slows anything down at all. In fact, not having to think too much about the login, because they all look the same, probably speeds things up somewhat.

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We've had a few support cases over the years and every case has been handled by the Okta support team beautifully. We received clear answers to questions we had regarding setup and even were provided simple to follow guides on how to setup their product to use with custom applications.

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Honestly, they are very similar as is much of their offerings. It really comes down to which ecosystem are you already invested in? It doesn't make a lot of sense to try and interop with every cloud vendor - pick one and use them. While there used to be substantial differences in the cloud platforms, they are at basic parity now

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Okta is far superior in terms of integrations, user interface, automation, and connectivity. Additionally, Okta offers better support and availability, and a more robust solution across every capacity Entra competes in. Okta simply works, whereas Microsoft Entra has a large overhead that is difficult to use when configuring things.

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Being a cloud native application, The Okta Identity Cloud is extremely scalable and easy to setup. By integrating into existing directories and applications via standard techniques and protocols, it is very easy to both initially setup and add additional users as required. Once all the necessary integrations are setup, it's a simple rinse and repeat process to onboard additional users (which can be automated with imports as well)

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• Overall, it's a really good value compared to building a custom solution that you have to maintain

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• Generally saves 1 hour for the various teams, effectively logging in to every application as Okta provides SSO.
• Password management is easier and owned by the user with multiple timely reminders.
• Saved time due to role-wise access creation with only limited application to various team members.

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