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Axiad Conductor vs WatchGuard AuthPoint MFA comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Axiad Conductor
Ranking in Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
8th
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Authentication Systems (23rd), Identity Management (IM) (59th), Privileged Access Management (PAM) (40th), Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) (27th), Passwordless Authentication (9th), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) (41st), Insider Risk Management (25th), Non-Human Identity Management (NHIM) (15th)
WatchGuard AuthPoint MFA
Ranking in Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
5th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Authorization Software (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) category, the mindshare of Axiad Conductor is 1.5%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WatchGuard AuthPoint MFA is 0.0%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
WatchGuard AuthPoint MFA0.0%
Axiad Conductor1.5%
Other98.5%
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
 

Featured Reviews

Eric Brown - PeerSpot reviewer
The day-to-day tasks, running the servers, and making sure that everything is patched is all handled by the platform
The most valuable feature is the overhead management of the platform. There is less for my team to worry about. The day-to-day tasks, running the servers, and making sure that everything is patched is all handled by the platform. We just consume the service and work with them to refine it, making it even more valuable. Aside from Active Directory, anything that is a multi-factor platform is handled through Axiad Cloud. It is critical for helping to enforce usage of authentication devices across our organization. One of our requirements to continue some of our contracts is to have multi-factor authentication across all devices accessing the network. It is extremely easy to enroll a user with “One Click Issuance”. I have had very few calls to the service desk regarding enrollment. It takes a couple of minutes to enroll a user with "One Click Issuance". Deploying and managing authenticators is very easy, either done by a mobile application or enrollment of an OTP token. It is very simple. This is important to my userbase, which makes it important to me. Functionality-wise, it is pretty solid.
RuiBarbosa - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides authentication with simple deployment and tutorials
We use the solution for MFA.  Integration with mobile application is working fine. It's so simple to configure. We have integration with the WatchGuard firewall. I have been using WatchGuard AuthPoint for two years. I rate the solution’s stability an eight out of ten. 50 users are using this…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Aside from Active Directory, anything that is a multi-factor platform is handled through Axiad Cloud. It is critical for helping to enforce usage of authentication devices across our organization."
"It's very user-friendly. We're issuing YubiKeys for our corporate users and they just plug it in, go to the Axiad Cloud portal, and click the issue button. It's a couple of steps."
"And when it comes to enrolling a user, it's super easy with One Click Issuance... It's so easy now that we can offload the process to our clients who can self-enroll. Previously, we would have to do the enrollment process because it was so complicated."
"What I have found most valuable is the overall way Axiad listened to our problems and helped us solve them. They provided guidance and expertise, with their experience, that enabled us to be successful in a very challenging space."
"The solution has also saved us time by having end-users troubleshoot issues through the MyCircle feature, and has definitely reduced the efforts of our administrators. It is saving us five to 10 minutes per incident."
"The life cycle management of credentials is the aspect that we have found to be the most useful... The differentiator that Axiad provided was the ability to provide users a way to self-serve the updating of their credentials on their private keys. That was the feature we were most interested in and Axiad does an excellent job of it."
"The integrations are good."
"Personal notifications are very easy to use."
"The approvals feature of this solution is very good; it is operated by just one button, and can be controlled from a mobile device if needed."
"The WatchGuard firewall includes many security features, such as UDP, block filters, web filtering, and GeoBlock."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"The token-based two-factor verification (2FA) for user logins is valuable. It's the primary reason we use AuthPoint, and I find it very effective."
"It can be implemented as an app on the phone, rather than with a hardware token."
 

Cons

"There are just some minor tweaks that could be made on the front end. It would be cool to have nicknames for authenticator devices. If you have more than one, it's hard to discern what you have."
"We would prefer that the solution be hosted in Canada because we're a Canadian entity. That would be nice to have. It's not a feature, as such, but it would really make us a lot happier if it could be located in Canada."
"I'm looking forward to seeing how they move to FIDO U2F as their primary authentication method across all of their solutions."
"I would like a more modern look to the portal."
"With their licensing model, it becomes hard to scale. For example, we couldn't roll it out enterprise-wide because if you scale it across more than 100,000 users, the cost becomes too exorbitant."
"macOS is notoriously ever-evolving and it's difficult to keep pace with it as it pertains to certain kinds of crypto authentication. That's really not even on Axiad. That's a decision by Apple, but it makes it a moving target."
"The product must enable administrators to restrict the privileges of remote users."
"Locking could be enhanced to be GDPR compliant."
"The solution should implement a tagging process, which will provide an extra layer of security for the devices connected to the VPN."
"It's not so simple to configure."
"My only concern is the segmentation of services, which I understand is common in SaaS."
"It has been really great. We don't have any complaints about it at all. We've only had one or two very minor glitches, and they were just in passing."
"We would like the zero trust feature of this solution to be completed, with more details added and more laptop management capability."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Don't just focus on the hardware or software costs of acquiring a solution, but look at it from the perspective that so much of what it takes to run a PKI environment has to do with the people who are running it.... look at the total cost of ownership and not just the cost of acquisition."
"Axiad's pricing was what we were expecting. It was at the right spot. They were competitive."
"The pricing is very competitive for what is offered at the level that we need. They are right there with what the industry standards are. They tend to be a little bit less, in terms of cost, when we are talking about security at government standards. So, I would say that they have a slight advantage on cost compared to the industry average. They are the lower cost solution and the best bargain out on the market today."
"It's very cheap on a per-year basis. The cards themselves last about three years and the license is on the order of double-digit dollars per user, and not hundreds of dollars per user, per year."
"The pricing, I believe, is around $3 a user a year. It is quite reasonable."
"We got the product at a low price."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Government
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Large Enterprise2
 

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What needs improvement with WatchGuard AuthPoint?
It's so simple to configure. We have integration with the WatchGuard firewall.
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Axiad Cloud
AuthPoint
 

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