We performed a comparison between Cisco Duo and Secret Double Octopus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, Fortinet and others in Authentication Systems."Multifactor authentication and secure two-factor authentication are the most valuable features. It's been around for a while, but now it's becoming an enforced behavior as opposed to something that you used to do as optional."
"The two-factor login is great. I receive a message and just have to press okay."
"The push notifications and the integrations they offer are valuable. Their mobile app is very useful. It is very easy to use."
"We get fewer threats to remediate due to the two-factor authentication, which does not allow as many threats through."
"I lead an IT organization that has a significant amount of technical debt, and we're not in a zero-trust architecture yet. I'm pushing in that direction. Duo helps me considerably with my identity in an environment where I don't have zero trust. It's helping me bridge the gap until I can build a zero trust architecture."
"We like the different ways that it allows you to push notifications to people. It can do text, a phone call, and email. We liked the versatility for all of our different end-users, regardless of their level of understanding of the technology."
"The two-factor authentication is valuable because that is the use case for which we are using it."
"It was a simple way of providing two-factor authentication for remote access when we hit the COVID pandemic. It was very easy and quick to get it going."
"This solution has a mobile application, which comes with multi-factor authentication; allowing for more flexible usage, without having to sacrifice system security."
"Reducing or eliminating the "telephony credits" system used by Duo would be great."
"Integration with a product such as Microsoft Sentinel would be great. As the product continually improves, I'm unsure if this feature is available."
"Duo Security should have more customized use cases. For example, if a client needs to have more customization, it would be better to connect directly with Duo's R&D to try to discuss the issues together in order to add customizations."
"The new smart license model doesn't always work. It's very complicated."
"Sometimes, it's a little harder for customers to adopt."
"There might be a little slowness, but that could be my connection."
"Integration between Duo Security and FTDs needs improvement. Integrating Next Generation Firewall safety with Duo Security currently requires a proxy agent between Active Directory and the appliance. It's an additional factor that we need to think about. It would be great to have direct integration with FTD so that we don't have to worry about middleware products. For the rest of the Cisco Secure solutions, the APIs need improvement."
"Its documentation must be in French because we are a French-speaking country. They should also provide more training documentation. Its management interface should also be improved. They should also improve its update period. If I compare its update period with other products such as Palo Alto firewalls, this solution is really slow in updates."
"The product suffers from frequent disturbances in service, that have impacted our end users when we deploy software updates."
Cisco Duo is ranked 2nd in Authentication Systems with 55 reviews while Secret Double Octopus is ranked 21st in Authentication Systems with 1 review. Cisco Duo is rated 8.8, while Secret Double Octopus is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Duo writes "Helps reduce the risk of a breach and is easy to deploy and onboard". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Secret Double Octopus writes "A solution with good capabilities across a wide range of platforms that comes with a useful mobile application, but upgrades cause issues". Cisco Duo is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, Fortinet FortiToken, Yubico YubiKey and Okta Workforce Identity, whereas Secret Double Octopus is most compared with HYPR and Thales Authenticators.
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