UserLock and Amazon Cognito are identity and access management solutions. UserLock offers competitive pricing and solid support, while Amazon Cognito is preferred for its comprehensive features.
Features: UserLock is praised for ease of use, effective access control, and solid support in Windows-based environments. Cognito is valued for robust integration capabilities, support for both web and mobile applications, and an extensive feature set. Both offer strong security features, but Cognito's scalability and integration with AWS services make it a versatile option.
Room for Improvement: UserLock needs enhancements in multi-factor authentication options, broader platform support, and user interface improvements. Cognito could improve its documentation, ease of setup, and reduce its complexity for users.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: UserLock is recognized for straightforward deployment in Windows environments and reliable customer service. Cognito's deployment is more complex and can lack responsive support.
Pricing and ROI: UserLock has reasonable setup costs and good ROI for Windows-only environments. Cognito’s pricing reflects its feature set and scalability, offering good ROI for businesses with broader identity management needs.
Amazon Cognito is a simple user identity and data synchronization service that helps you securely manage and synchronize app data for your users across their mobile devices. You can create unique identities for your users through a number of public login providers (Amazon, Facebook, and Google) and also support unauthenticated guests. You can save app data locally on users’ devices allowing your applications to work even when the devices are offline. With Amazon Cognito, you can save any kind of data in the AWS Cloud, such as app preferences or game state, without writing any backend code or managing any infrastructure. This means you can focus on creating great app experiences instead of having to worry about building and managing a backend solution to handle identity management, network state, storage, and sync.
Two Factor Authentication & Access Management for Windows Active Directory.
UserLock helps administrators to manage and secure access for every user, without obstructing employees or frustrating IT.
Two Factor Authentication on Windows logon, RDP, IIS and VPN connections. UserLock supports 2FA using authenticator applications which include Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator and LastPass Authenticator, or programmable hardware tokens such as YubiKey and Token2.
Single Sign-On: Secure and frictionless access to Microsoft 365 and other Cloud Applications, using on-premise Active Directory credentials.
Access Restrictions: Using the contextual information around a user’s logon, UserLock will authorize, deny or limit how a user can access the network, once authenticated.
Access Monitoring: Track and alert on all users’ logon and logoff activity in real-time. Interact remotely with any session and respond to login behavior.
Access Auditing: Record and report on all user connection events to provide a central audit across the whole network.
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