Okta - SSO MFA and Authentication Management with one solution
April 01, 2026

Okta - SSO MFA and Authentication Management with one solution

Vanshul Chawla | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Enterprise Plus

Overall Satisfaction with Okta

Single Sign-On (SSO) - Employees were using weak passwords or writing them on sticky notes because they had too many to remember. This was a massive security hole. With SSO they don't have to remember multiple passwords.

Lifecycle management of Employee onboarding and offboarding and MFA based authentication. - From the time employee joins to the time he off boards, Okta provide all in support for software catalog and installations

Pros

  • Single Sign on - One stop password management for all tools and interfaces
  • Adaptive MFA - When a employee logs in from home vs office vs other location, we can identify his persona via MFA
  • New Employee onboarding and catalog management

Cons

  • Add on costs for every org
  • Hard to implement for first time
  • Integrations between different software products
  • User productiovity increases as we dont have to juggle between different portals to download softwares
  • Automated IT tasks for software catalog, installation requests., approval etc
  • Security psoture is improved due to SSO and MFA
Yes we have as we have a hybrid deployment model - multi cloud and on prem DC based servers. so access is a pain to manage., With Okta , the team can manage access via Org SSO and we dont have to remember multiple passwords and manage security risks across employees, vendors and contractors.
A TAM acts as an extension of the customer's internal team. When a critical business initiative—like a rapid global expansion—hits a technical wall (e.g., complex API rate limits or specialized MFA requirements), the TAM provides a direct line to Okta’s product engineering

By putting our IT teams through Okta Certification paths, our organization ensured our staff didn't just "use" the tool, but mastered it.
When authentication services are flaky, employees lose trust in their tools. A 99.99% uptime means that for a full year, the total allowed downtime is only about 52 minutes

Okta's Enhanced Disaster Recovery allows admins to automate failover processes. If a primary data center has an issue, the system can switch to a backup in seconds, making the failure completely transparent to the end user
  • PingOne from Ping Identity
Okta is Cloud-neutral, optimized for SaaS speed. Ping is Optimized for complex, multi-cloud and on prem environments

Okta has Best-in-class SaaS library for integrations. Ping is a legacy protocol and adapter master.

Okta has Low-to-Medium Complexity. Ping has a extensive implementation plan.

Okta has a lite version but Ping has enterprise versions only

Do you think Okta delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Okta's feature set?

Yes

Did Okta live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Okta go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Okta again?

Yes

The cloud-first medium through large enterprises which use multiple technology systems should choose Okta as their best solution because it provides optimal performance. Okta's main advantage exists in its extensive Integration Network, which enables IT departments to implement SSO together with automated lifecycle management across multiple third-party SaaS applications such as Slack and Salesforce and AWS. For fast-growing companies that need to deploy systems quickly while providing users with platform-independent access, this solution serves as their perfect "identity glue."

Okta licensing to small businesses with basic access needs which require access to three applications should use a different product because their low-cost requirements will exceed their expected benefits from the product.

The Okta Access Gateway creates operational difficulties for businesses that depend on legacy systems or have extensive "on-premise only" network requirements.

Okta Feature Ratings

ID-Management Access Control
10
ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)
10
Multi-Factor Authentication
10
Password Management
10
Account Provisioning and De-provisioning
10
ID Management Workflow Automation
10
ID Risk Management
5

Comments

More Reviews of Okta