Cisco Duo vs. OpsCompass

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cisco Duo
Score 9.4 out of 10
N/A
Cisco 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
OpsCompass
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
OpsCompass is an enterprise-ready cloud security management software that drives multi-cloud operational control, visibility, and security to Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform. Its UI is designed to provide clear data visualization for resource management, remediation, and configuration drift management. OpsCompass utilizes CIS SecureSuite benchmarks as industry-accepted system hardening standards, and are used by organizations in meeting compliance requirements for FISMA, PCI DSS,…
$0
Pricing
Cisco DuoOpsCompass
Editions & Modules
Duo Essentials
$3
per month per user
Duo Advantage
$6
per month per user
Duo Premier
$9
per month per user
Free Tier
$0
Pro
Starts at $500/month
Number of cloud resources
Enterprise
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cisco DuoOpsCompass
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
Cisco DuoOpsCompass
Cloud Management
Comparison of Cloud Management features of Product A and Product B
Cisco Duo
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Ratings
OpsCompass
7.5
2 Ratings
14% below category average
Cloud Management Security00 Ratings7.32 Ratings
Cost Management00 Ratings7.72 Ratings
Cloud Management Performance Monitoring00 Ratings5.92 Ratings
Governance and Compliance00 Ratings8.22 Ratings
Resource Management00 Ratings8.62 Ratings
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User Ratings
Cisco DuoOpsCompass
Likelihood to Recommend
9.6
(136 ratings)
8.2
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.2
(10 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.5
(76 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.9
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.4
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.6
(91 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.7
(10 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
10.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.6
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.6
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.7
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.7
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Cisco DuoOpsCompass
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco
Cisco Duo is extremely well-suited for someone wanting to add MFA to an on-premise Active Directory environment. Some of the other vendors in this space do provide this feature, but they do not natively support it. One of the top competitors in this space requires signing up with another third-party service to make this integration possible. Less moving parts for something as crucial as this is a huge benefit and having only one vendor to point fingers at makes troubleshooting much simpler.
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OpsCompass Inc
We previously had separate products to manage Azure and AWS, each with different capabilities, and it was very complex for our team to go back and forth and try to make sense of each environment. OpsCompass is very well suited to give you a single view of our entire cloud environment. OpsCompass also brings excellent compliance policies. We were not highly skilled with these policies, but the product made it easy to perform an assessment of our current state and identify areas where we had non-compliance issues. CIS policies were a great area to start and we later tried the Microsoft 365 policies, which were also helpful. More policies would be great to see.
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Pros
Cisco
  • Speed - it's fast with almost no delay between triggering the MFA request and receiving the notification on an iPhone
  • Security - in addition to the added MFA layer, a simple, 4-digit passcode can be added to the authentication request
  • Ease of use - it doesn't scare users. It's simple to install, configure, and use.
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OpsCompass Inc
  • Quick inventory of all my cloud resources
  • Detects changes to my cloud resources--including the source of the changes (user or system)
  • Cost impacts of changes to my cloud infrastructure
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Cons
Cisco
  • If you need to integrate some legacy applications to Cisco Secure Access by Duo, it's not easy.
  • If you want to have more detailed information and reports, you need to pay more for the licensing. The basic option is not enough.
  • A constraint could be that each employee has to install it on their personal smartphone, which some don't like. But, there is an alternative using SMS, although sometimes it takes too long to receive the message.
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OpsCompass Inc
  • I would like to see more integrations to help surface alerts. Slack would be great, as an example.
  • An imbedded tour or onboarding would help our new users, but overall, the product is pretty easy to figure out
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Likelihood to Renew
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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OpsCompass Inc
No answers on this topic
Usability
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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OpsCompass Inc
No answers on this topic
Reliability and Availability
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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OpsCompass Inc
No answers on this topic
Performance
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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OpsCompass Inc
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Cisco
Since it’s a reputable company, I have received technical support when needed and I trust that if anything else happens I can contact them with any issues. I haven’t experienced bad customer service and I totally feel supported while using this authentication method. No complains so far and the high rating!
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OpsCompass Inc
No answers on this topic
In-Person Training
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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OpsCompass Inc
No answers on this topic
Online Training
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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OpsCompass Inc
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Cisco
Implementation was straight forward and you can isolate different scenarios in order to test new application setup or add to an existing setup. Gui interface is pretty easy to understand and follow. I had no experience with Duo and still manage to easily set up new policies and rules.
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OpsCompass Inc
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Cisco
Our school is based in Microsoft 365. Azure has a product built into their licensing (provided you have purchased the appropriate level or the add-on product.) The MFA in Azure is a work in process and doesn't offer broad integration options as Duo does. We didn't look into any other commercial products.
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OpsCompass Inc
In this price range, we didn't find any other tools that provide this degree of cloud resource visibility. It's been an efficiency game-changer. I hope we'll see new modules as they expand their features to include active resource management policies. They've done such a good job of anticipating the needs of our CloudOps team, I plan to evaluate those new features (if/when they arrive).
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Scalability
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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OpsCompass Inc
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Cisco
  • Very positive ROI given it is inexpensive for a small group and helps us secure our most valuable IT assets.
  • Lack of extreme policy granularity results in higher administrative overhead, as there is no middle ground (i.e. MFA every time or not at all).
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OpsCompass Inc
  • Our team was able to do roughly 30% more with the product. The automation helps us spot issues without a lot of manual work
  • We identified changes that would have had a massive cost impact--spinning up or forgetting about infrastructure we didn't need.
  • OpsCompass prevents configuration drift and maintains a healthy state across multi-clouds.
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ScreenShots

OpsCompass Screenshots

Screenshot of The OpsCompass Dashboard
- Snapshot of your key cloud inventory data points to understand your cloud inventory
- Configuration drift changes stand out by category
- Our proprietary cloud compliance score drives urgency for remediation, supported by CIS and NIST frameworks
- View cloud resource type breakdowns at a glance
- Quickly gain valuable insights into cloud accountsScreenshot of Visibility to cloud changes
The OpsCompass UI, data visualization, and cloud score make it very clear what's working and what's not.Screenshot of Scale Productivity
OpsCompass drives workflow efficiencies to redeploy critical resources where you need them.Screenshot of Cloud Misconfigurations are Real
OpsCompass is a true multi-cloud and SaaS monitoring tool that does exactly what it's supposed to: alert you to security and compliance issues, with remediation all baked in.Screenshot of Cost Anticipation
See the projected cost of a cloud action before you've already spent the budget.