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Cisco Duo

Overview

What is Cisco Duo?

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.

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Video Reviews

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Cisco Secure Access by Duo Review: Used As A Simple Tool To Provide Safe Access to Accounts
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Pricing

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Duo Essentials

$3

Cloud
per month per user

Duo Advantage

$6

Cloud
per month per user

Duo Premier

$9

Cloud
per month per user

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://duo.com/pricing?utm_source=trus…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $3 per month per user
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Product Details

What is Cisco Duo?

Duo is a multi-factor authentication (MFA) solution acquired by Cisco in October 2018. It protects user identities by providing single sign-on (SSO), identity protection, access controls, and risk-based authentication. Cisco Duo is a solution that protects applications by using a second source of authentication, like a user’s device or token, to verify user identity before granting access. Duo is engineered to provide a simple, streamlined login experience for every user and application, and as a cloud-based solution, it integrates with existing technology.


Editions

Duo Essentials
A full-featured access management solution that includes strong Multi-factor Authentication (MFA), Passwordless, Single Sign-On (SSO) and Trusted Endpoints verification for every organization. It serves as a cloud-based two-factor authentication and multi-factor authentication solution that can be used to secure access to unlimited applications at no additional cost to ensure security coverage as the organization’s application inventory grows.

Duo Essentials Includes:
  • MFA (Flexible options including FIDO2 and Verified Duo Push)
  • Single Sign-On
  • Passwordless Authentication (Using FIDO2 or Duo Mobile)
  • Trusted Endpoints Verification
  • Device Visibility
  • Authorized Networks
  • Unlimited Application Integrations
  • User Group Policies


Duo Advantage
Added security, with adaptive and risk-based authentication policies, device health checks and machine learning-driven attack detection. Duo Advantage provides organizations with stronger, multi-layered defenses with capabilities designed to improve security for organizations and enables higher productivity for administrators and end-users.

Duo Advantage builds upon the Duo Essentials suite capabilities and adds:
  • Cisco Identity Intelligence
  • Duo Passport
  • Risk-based Authentication
  • Device health checks
  • Adaptive access policies
  • Machine-learning driven threat detection
  • Full-featured dashboards with comprehensive reporting


Duo Premier
A complete access management suite with VPN-less remote access. Duo Premier expands on Duo’s rigid security access solutions to cover private resources and private applications. Duo Premier gives access to all of the capabilities provided by Duo Essentials and Duo Advantage plus VPN-less remote access with the Duo Network Gateway.

Duo Premier protects organization with all of Cisco Duo's offerings, including:

  • Multi-factor authentication (MFA) with Duo Verified Push and FIDO2 support
  • Single Sign-On
  • Trusted Endpoints Verification
  • Passwordless Authentication
  • Device Visibility
  • Unlimited Application integrations
  • Risk-Based Authentication
  • Device Health Checks
  • Adaptive Access Policies
  • Machine-Learning Driven Threat Detection
  • Full-Featured Dashboards and Comprehensive Reporting
  • VPN-less Secure Remote Access
  • Endpoint Protection Check



Cisco Duo Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Cisco Duo starts at $3.

Google Authenticator, WatchGuard AuthPoint, and Okta are common alternatives for Cisco Duo.

Reviewers rate Availability and Implementation Rating and Ease of integration highest, with a score of 9.9.

The most common users of Cisco Duo are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Securing our IT environment with Cisco Duo.

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 03, 2025
OG
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Duo
1 year of experience
Cisco Duois is well suited in all kinds of scenarios where you need to ensure proper security measurements, I think. We can't just rely on our passwords only, as they can be easily stolen through phishing or data breaches thus keeping multi factor authentication is quite essential. I always prefer MFA or at least 2FA for any critical system.

Cisco Duo is a must for RAVPN

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 21, 2024
TO
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Duo
8 years of experience
Cisco Duo is well suited for application authentication. We use Cisco Duo primarily as an authentication proxy for our Cisco AnyConnect VPN source. Users will input their AD credentials. This is bundled and securely sent to the Cisco Duo proxies. Cisco Duo has a backend LDAP integration that performs the authentication, then prompts the user for MFA. After Cisco Duo handles all of this, it prompts the ASA for a successful authentication.

Cisco Duo

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 11, 2025
LP
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Duo
7 years of experience
It is well suited for 2FA security for VPN connections for remote users.

Securing access made easy with Cisco Duo

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 21, 2024
RH
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Duo
3 years of experience
For our cyber security insurance we needed to add multi factor authentication (mfa) for remote access per vpn. With Cisco Duo it was very easy to implement this requirement and from there also tried to use Duo for everything that supports SAML for authentication.
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