Duo / Cisco Secure Access, by Duo vs Univention Corporate Server (UCS)

Likelihood to Recommend

Great for organizations that need to deploy a solution that is used by a small group, given that Duo charges per account; however, be careful if you have a lot of service accounts that you want to set to bypass MFA, as you will have to pay for each one of them, as you would for any human user. Also good for small IT teams that need a solution that has a very straightforward and easy-to-use GUI. Finally, while it has a decent amount of features and functionality, don't expect it to be able to do every permutation of policy that you can think of, though Cisco is promising future updates and solutions (e.g. an adaptive product) that will address some very specific use-cases, such as MFA bypass based on user and IP.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Univention Corporate Server is well suited:

If an Organization would like to use it as a complete Active Directory Server.
If an Organization wants to deploy other applications which are important like SSO, Mail Server, 2FA etc., as with one click all these Apps will be integrated magically thus reducing the Admin job considerably.
Web based management which will be quite useful for the Admins who are from Windows background only.
Univention as a company which has close to 2 decades of experience.

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Ravi Kumar Tenneti

Head - Operations & Sales

Computer Port IT SolutionsInformation Technology & Services, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Duo / Cisco Secure Access, by Duo

Univention Corporate Server (UCS)

ID-Management Access Control

ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)

Multi-Factor Authentication

Account Provisioning and De-provisioning

Pros

Duo Security has a convenient mobile app, so all our employees can implement it and login when and where they need to.
The app is streamlined and simple, and doesn't contain ads or unnecessary features.
Duo Security allows our employees to not only use it for their company login, but for external logins as well, so all of their dual-factor authentication data is in one app.

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Verified User

Professional in Product Management

E-Learning Company, 501-1000 employees

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Complete replacement for MS Active Directory Server.
Univention App Center - awesome concept with which Apps can be installed for the Domain.
App Center can be compared to Google Play Store or Apple Play Store - Organizations can gain tremendous advantages.
Plethora of Apps which are both free and paid and excellent apps for the Organizations.

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Ravi Kumar Tenneti

Head - Operations & Sales

Computer Port IT SolutionsInformation Technology & Services, 11-50 employees

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Cons

An extra step to configure when setting up with things like O365 products whereas the native client would have been easier.
At the time of implementation it did not integrate with the rest of the cisco security suite.
Documentation was light or lacking for any lesser known products.
Had to configure ManageEngine as a "generic app" when doing SSO. Really need to build out the prebuilt app's base quicker for us lazy IT people.

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Ryan Lee

Enterprise Infrastructure Supervisor

KLJCivil Engineering, 501-1000 employees

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As Univention is from Germany, lot of informative articles are in German but English articles are also good but less in number.

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Ravi Kumar Tenneti

Head - Operations & Sales

Computer Port IT SolutionsInformation Technology & Services, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Duo / Cisco Secure Access, by Duo 9.1

Based on 1 answer

It’s best in class

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Verified User

Manager in Corporate

Telecommunications Company, 10,001+ employees

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No score

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Usability

Duo / Cisco Secure Access, by Duo 9.1

Based on 59 answers

This is a very easy application to use. The installation is simple, the user interface is user friendly. If you have been reading my review to this point, you should understand very well that I have said that this is a good product to use for multi-factor authentication. From an administrative point of view, deployment was easy as well.

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Randy Palmer

Manager, Training & Learning Development

DHI Computing Service, Inc.Computer Software, 201-500 employees

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No score

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Support Rating

Duo / Cisco Secure Access, by Duo 9.0

Based on 93 answers

Overall the support that Duo and a great company like Cisco provides has been excellent. With the initial setup and integration of Duo, the tech people we dealt with were super helpful and walked us through the whole process. They provided adequate training and resources for our internal IT team to set up and run the application. We haven't had any major issues with our end-users.

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Project Manager in Product Management

Biotechnology Company, 201-500 employees

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Implementation Rating

Duo / Cisco Secure Access, by Duo 9.1

Based on 1 answer

Rich documentation was provided by Duo team.

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Manager in Corporate

Telecommunications Company, 10,001+ employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Alternatives Considered

Duo is easier to use since it is an app and only needs your phone for authentication. The other products I have used in the past require a separate device. Everyone carries their phone with them so there is no need to remember to carry around another device.

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Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 10,001+ employees

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We have evaluated Zentyal and ClearOS but we found out that UCS is more suited to every Organization.

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Ravi Kumar Tenneti

Head - Operations & Sales

Computer Port IT SolutionsInformation Technology & Services, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

Duo Security has been a positive ROI in that it has prevented unwarranted access to confidential information.
Duo Security has been a positive ROI in that it keeps me informed of what's going on with my devices.
Duo Security has been a negative ROI in that it costs money that I'm not sure is well spent all of the time.

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Thomas Young

CEO (Chief Executive Officer)

Econometric StudiosFinancial Services, 11-50 employees

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As a partner, we have gained lot of respect from our customers as UCS is rock solid.
UCS is truly Open Source.
UCS has surpassed our expectations.

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Ravi Kumar Tenneti

Head - Operations & Sales

Computer Port IT SolutionsInformation Technology & Services, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Duo / Cisco Secure Access, by Duo Editions & Modules

Edition

MFA	$3.00¹
Access	$6.00¹
Beyond	$9.00¹

Per User Per Month

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

—

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

Univention Corporate Server (UCS) Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition

UCS Core Edition	$0.00¹
UCS Base Subscription	$382.00¹
UCS Standard Subscription	$1295.00¹
UCS Premium Subscription	$2250.00¹

per installation

SaaS Edition

UCS Core Edition	$0.00¹
UCS Base Subscription	$382.00¹
UCS Standard Subscription	$1295.00¹
UCS Premium Subscription	$2250.00¹

per installation

Additional Pricing Details

The core edition of UCS is free, but does not offer a great deal of support. There are three different subscription options (for either On-Premise- or SAAS deplyoment) which include the installation of UCS and apps, support and maintainance via phone, security updates and hotfixes, domain services and much more.

Rating Summary

Duo / Cisco Secure Access, by Duo

Univention Corporate Server (UCS)

Duo / Cisco Secure Access, by Duo

Univention Corporate Server (UCS)

Duo / Cisco Secure Access, by Duo

Univention Corporate Server (UCS)

Duo / Cisco Secure Access, by Duo

Univention Corporate Server (UCS)

Duo / Cisco Secure Access, by Duo

Univention Corporate Server (UCS)

Likelihood to Recommend