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    Cloudflare Access

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/ACloudflare Access is a Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solution that secures internal applications by verifying identity, device posture, and context for every request. It replaces legacy VPNs with a faster, more secure alternative that lives at the network edge.N/A

    Microsoft Entra ID

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Entra ID (formerly Microsoft Azure Active Directory or Azure AD) is a cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solution supporting restricted access to applications with Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) built-in, single sign-on (SSO), B2B collaboration controls, self-service password, and integration with Microsoft productivity and cloud storage (Office 365, OneDrive, etc) as well as 3rd party services.

    $6

    per user/per month

    Pricing
    Cloudflare AccessMicrosoft Entra ID
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Premium P1
    $6.00
    per user/per month
    Premium P2
    $9.00
    per user/per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cloudflare AccessMicrosoft Entra ID
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Cloudflare AccessMicrosoft Entra ID
    Considered Both Products
    Cloudflare
    No answer on this topic
    Microsoft
    Chose Microsoft Entra ID
    EntraID performs better than Okta for digital workload IAM and endpoint security, in particular we went with EntraID due to the CloudSync feature.
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    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    227 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    206 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    225 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    155 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    183 Answers
    Features
    Cloudflare AccessMicrosoft Entra ID
    Identity Management
    Comparison of Identity Management features of Cloudflare Access and Microsoft Entra ID
    Feature
    Cloudflare Access
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Microsoft Entra ID
    8.6
    123 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Multi-Factor Authentication10.02 Ratings9.2121 Ratings
    ID-Management Access Control00 Ratings9.1122 Ratings
    ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)00 Ratings9.5119 Ratings
    Password Management00 Ratings8.2113 Ratings
    Account Provisioning and De-provisioning00 Ratings8.5114 Ratings
    ID Management Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.290 Ratings
    ID Risk Management00 Ratings7.797 Ratings
    Endpoint Security
    Comparison of Endpoint Security features of Cloudflare Access and Microsoft Entra ID
    Feature
    Cloudflare Access
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Microsoft Entra ID
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    Ratings
    Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threat Intelligence
    Comparison of Threat Intelligence features of Cloudflare Access and Microsoft Entra ID
    Feature
    Cloudflare Access
    8.7
    2 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Microsoft Entra ID
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    Ratings
    Network Analytics4.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threat Recognition10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Vulnerability Classification10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated Alerts and Reporting6.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threat Analysis10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threat Intelligence Reporting10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated Threat Identification10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Zero Trust Security
    Comparison of Zero Trust Security features of Cloudflare Access and Microsoft Entra ID
    Feature
    Cloudflare Access
    9.2
    2 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Microsoft Entra ID
    -
    Ratings
    Continuous Verification10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Secure Web Gateways10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network Flow Control10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network Traffic Analysis6.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Segmentation Leveraging10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin Access Control7.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network Data Encryption9.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network Topology Mapping10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    JumpCloud
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score9.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Forescout Vistaro Platform
    Score6.6 out of 10
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    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cloudflare AccessMicrosoft Entra ID
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    8.9
    (241 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.8
    (16 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.6
    (57 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    7.1
    (21 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.4
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cloudflare AccessMicrosoft Entra ID
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cloudflare
    I wanted to securely connect to my servers without getting tracked by malicious attackers, even though I was on public Wi-Fi. Security was my top priority, and I also wanted a setup that was easy and quick to start and provided great network performance. Cloudflare's Zero trust matches my criteria for becoming my first choice.
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    Microsoft
    Overall, the Microsoft Entra ID platform is best utilized by people looking to have one platform that manages all interactions between other platforms. The Microsoft Entra ID platform allows for a seemless SSO integration, and can also integrate with Intune for MDM. Additionally, and probably the most easy to understand integration, is the integration with Active Directory, and controls associated with that.
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    Pros
    Cloudflare
    • Block access to known bad, risky, or unwanted destinations at the DNS or HTTP level.
    • Excellent protection for remote users.
    • Best in class browser isolation techniques.
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    Microsoft
    • Application integration is really good for single sign-on and managing identity overall. The correlation with Active Directory on-prem is really good, so we can manage it in a single place. It's easy to manage the users and integrate other Microsoft products. It is the base of everything else.
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    Cons
    Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare still need to improve CASB direction to complete set of SASE tools.
    • More integrations with the third-party agents to check device posture in the Zero Trust framework.
    • More granularity in firewall rules for full replacement of on-premise solutions.
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    Microsoft
    • I would like more risk policy suggestions. I guess that situation where we had outsourced employees in a country where somehow their location was changing too often, that we would have room to go, “Hey, this needs to be a lower risk.” Or maybe having easier options to let people log in when they're deemed high risk. It’s tricky because I feel like it’s really easy to do that wrong, but it’s the main area that I think could be improved. I guess also a little bit tighter administrative integration with other Microsoft products.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cloudflare
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    MSFT Entra ID has been essential for managing our geographically dispersed team. We're confident that it will scale with us as grow, and we'll be able to take advantage of additional security and ID management features as they become necessary. Being able to centrally manage our user access from anywhere with a small support team is such a relief.
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    Usability
    Cloudflare
    Within a few hours, new engineers are trained in basic tasks and are quite happy they are able to resolve issues independently. After SSO is configured, onboarding is as simple as signing into m365 via a web browser popup.
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    Microsoft
    From a user perspective, 10. From an admin perspective, 7 or 8. From the user perspective, it's very easy to use, but from the admin perspective, there's a lot of things that are not easily clear, testable, or verifiable without just trying a whole bunch of scenarios.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cloudflare
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    There has been a handful of outages but they have been either minimal or rarely severe
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    Performance
    Cloudflare
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    I could probably rate this a 10 but I'm always conservative on giving out perfect scored bt performance has not been a problem for us using Entra ID.
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    Support Rating
    Cloudflare
    Good chat support from the portal for basic questions and minor issues. The enterprise support line is provided as well.
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    Microsoft
    I have not needed to engage support for anything at this time. I have been able to find the answers either online or in a knowledgebase. I tried to skip the question but it would not let me, so I rated a 9 based on other interactions with Microsoft support I have had
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    Online Training
    Cloudflare
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Most training was internally produced
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    Implementation Rating
    Cloudflare
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Make sure you use a good partner. Our implementation was a bit longer and more problematic than we expected. Our partner got it done, but, in my opinion, some of their inexperience and staffing issues were evident.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cloudflare
    Cloudflare was both the most feature-rich and cost-effective of comparisons. Presales engagement understood our challenges and was keen to solve them.
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    Microsoft
    We've done stuff with Okta for Identity and Duo. Those would probably be the two big ones that I would say that people would recognize and stuff. There's some other smaller players we've talked to, but those are the two big ones that we play with. We're still using it. So, because it was integrated into everything we've already done, it just made it almost indispensable.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Cloudflare
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    The features are getting addresses per requirements and their value for Money. The proposed ROI and actual ROI build confidence.
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    Scalability
    Cloudflare
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Scalability is pretty trival for Entra ID. It's not difficult to manage a few or many accounts.
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    Professional Services
    Cloudflare
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Professional Services' technical knowledge is appreciable as consultants design the solution as per customer requirements. Mapping of features per user specifications and assisting Customer IT engineers to implement so they can manage and administer the services.
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    Return on Investment
    Cloudflare
    • The cost of Cloudflare Zero trust is much lower, hence reducing spending on infrastructure security.
    • The Network performance is improved thanks to Warp protocol.
    • Requires less maintenance and hence saves time.
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    Microsoft
    • We are doing a lot of sign-ins and working on it, and it worked quite well. We do have Microsoft support, so yes, we can handle all of the small issues we are sometimes having. But if you want to define it, I would say yes, we like it. Overall positive.
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