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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Bitwarden

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/ABitwarden headquartered in Santa Barbara offers open source password management solutions for individuals, teams, and business organizations.

    $48

    per year per user

    Cisco Duo

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/ACisco Duo is a two-factor authentication system (2FA), acquired by Cisco in October 2018. It provides single sign-on (SSO) and endpoint visibility, as well as access controls and policy controlled adaptive authentication.

    $3

    per month per user

    Pricing
    BitwardenCisco Duo
    Editions & Modules
    Teams
    $4
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Enterprise
    $6
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Duo Essentials
    $3
    per month per user
    Duo Advantage
    $6
    per month per user
    Duo Premier
    $9
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BitwardenCisco Duo
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    BitwardenCisco Duo
    Considered Both Products
    Bitwarden
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    Cisco
    Chose Cisco Duo
    When we were researching Multi-Factor Authentication platforms we also looked at Okta. Okta is also a decent product overall, but we just were not as impressed. It’s definitely not as slick as Duo. It didn’t let us in the server the first time, but that could have been a timing …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    BitwardenCisco Duo
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.7
    (8 ratings)
    9.4
    (196 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (76 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (8 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.8
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (89 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (9 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (8 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    9.8
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    BitwardenCisco Duo
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Bitwarden
    Bitwarden supports various forms of two-factor authentication, including time-based one-time passwords (TOTP), Duo, YubiKey, and other hardware-based tokens. This integration enhances the security of the Bitwarden account and allows to store and manage their 2FA credentials for other applications within Bitwarden itself.
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    Cisco
    For secure access to apps and business data, I recommend Cisco Duo. It offers SSO, MFA, and Passwordless access, ensuring teams can securely access business data. It is easy to customize and comes with top-tier security features. It protects business data, apps, and users.
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    Pros
    Bitwarden
    • Their Browser extension seamlessly integrates into your workflow
    • Collections keep information very organized within your Vault
    • Vault Health Reports help identify weak or reused passwords
    • Their built-in password generator is quick and easy to use
    • UI is very user-friendly
    • Video tutorial's are very helpful on their website
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    Cisco
    • We use Cisco Duo with different type of device and application, but we never face any difficulties to integrate Cisco Duo with any of them.
    • We integrated Cisco Duo with some of our active directory and some of the OS are quite old but Cisco Duo works totally fine with them.
    • The end user application is very easy to use. We never had any complain from non tech team members of having trouble of using Cisco Duo.
    • There are several authentication methods available rather than passcode. I personally like the push notification which is always on time and quite fast.
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    Cons
    Bitwarden
    • Bitwarden has great functionality all around, however, I would in the future like to see this product as an SSO/IDM distributor.
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    Cisco
    • Should have device to device connection ability whereas internet is not met.
    • Changes of device can be sorted and easily made using a second email address or any other identification method.
    • Troubleshooting should be easy to sort out. One time, a Duo admin deleted the authentication group, and some employees were not getting push notifications. It was very hard to find out the cause. Duo should have some troubleshooting finder.
    • Sometimes push notifications are delayed, and the code does not work. At that time, we need to enroll the device again. Not sure why it happens. Duo should give reasons for the error.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Bitwarden
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    There are a lot of competing solutions on the market; however, Duo "just works", and there is little to no learning curve for the new members to be acclimated to it. As long as that continues I see it as the preferred option moving forward
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    Usability
    Bitwarden
    Easy to use, just missing a few quality of life features. Nothing to suggest it's not awesome as it is, just bells and whistles to make it more convenient.
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    Cisco
    La interfaz es intuitiva y fácil de navegar, lo que permite a los usuarios administrar sus dispositivos y acceder a las políticas sin problemas. La integración con las aplicaciones SSO y SaaS facilita aún más el proceso de acceso, mejorando la experiencia del usuario.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Bitwarden
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    In the last 5+ years we've been using Duo, there may have been 1 outage that impacted us. We do receive periodic notifications of issues but, for the most part, they impact carriers or functionality that we either don't use, or do not care about.
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    Performance
    Bitwarden
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    We do not see any degradation of performance of the protected applications. There are occasional lags in receiving the push but no show stooppers.
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    Support Rating
    Bitwarden
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    I have not needed direct support for Cisco Secure Access by Duo as I have not had a problem with it, but I have full confidence that the support is outstanding. It is now a core component of the corporate technology stack - a problem would mean a serious degradation in the ability of the company to function.
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    In-Person Training
    Bitwarden
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    There was no in person training but checking the box was the only way I could complete all of the questions.
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    Online Training
    Bitwarden
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    This was not organized training but the videos that Duo provides to teach you how to install a particular integration are top notch.
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    Implementation Rating
    Bitwarden
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    Documentation could have been better. I had to piece together different KB/admin guides to make certain things work and I also had to use third-party guides to get bits of information that were missing from Cisco Duo documentation. Support was also engaged multiple times to figure out an issue and after some back and forth it was usually determined that the information I needed was hidden somewhere else and had no direct correlation with the document that was linked from the platform.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Bitwarden
    Other solutions felt more clunky or were significantly higher priced. Bitwarden seems to straddle the consumer/prosumer/SMB fence more than adequately by designing their user experience to feel welcoming but also trustworthy and reliable. The other tools seem to assume that users are ok with struggling in their onboarding process.
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    Cisco
    Ultimately we ended up going with Cisco Duo because we are a Cisco shop. All of our networking infrastructure, our phones, our wireless environment is Cisco based. It made logical sense to stay with a product that we already have a line of support with. With a smaller support / tech group we depend on outside Cisco support. That support is already here for us, so we stayed with a Cisco product.
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    Scalability
    Bitwarden
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    So far, the only limits we've encountered were tied to our imagination. Duo's strong list of supported integrations is amazing.
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    Return on Investment
    Bitwarden
    • Gives employer the piece of mind knowing that passwords are safely stored in one place
    • If an employee leaves, you don't have to go searching for passwords, they should all be in one place in Bitwarden.
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    Cisco
    • Cisco Duo has saved us from automated attacks on VPN. We had an instance is 2024 where our VPN was being brute force attacked, and we had several users' weak passwords compromised; however the VPN security groups, and the MFA kept the attacks from gaining access. We've since replaced our firewall with capabilities for limitations on country access for VPN, and beefed up our password complexity settings,
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    ScreenShots

    Bitwarden Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Bitwarden Vault, where users can generate, autofill, and share unlimited credentials and other sensitive data from any browser, mobile device, or desktop application.Screenshot of the Bitwarden browser extension that protects passwords and digital secrets in a vault, auto-fills them, and generates new passwords that are fully encrypted end-to-end (even the Bitwarden team can’t access them).Screenshot of Bitwarden's password generator, used to generate strong and unique passwords, including usernames. It also integrates with email alias services for additional security. Using the strong generator tool keeps personal info like anniversaries and pet names out of your passwords, out of the dark web, and out of hackers’ hands.Screenshot of Bitwarden Send, a feature that lets users quickly share encrypted files and text with another individual via a private link. It can also be used to automatically share vault items using collections in a Bitwarden organization.Screenshot of Bitwarden's sync feature, that syncs passwords and other sensitive data (like identities, addresses, and credit cards) across devices, including mobile devices.Screenshot of where Bitwarden can auto-fill login information into websites. Autofill can be used across browsers, mobile apps (Android and iOS), and other places using associated URIs.