Both SecureAuth Identity Platform and F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) offer robust identity and access management solutions. Users tend to prefer the superior features of F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) due to its extensive integration capabilities.
Features: SecureAuth Identity Platform is praised for its multi-factor authentication, adaptive authentication capabilities, and pricing. F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) is appreciated for its comprehensive access policies, integration with existing infrastructure, and extensive support resources.
Room for Improvement: Users of SecureAuth Identity Platform often point to the need for better documentation, enhanced reporting tools, and improved usability aspects. For F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), improvements are suggested in terms of simplifying configuration processes, upgrading outdated components, and modernizing its platform.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SecureAuth Identity Platform is noted for its straightforward deployment process and responsive customer service. F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) has a more complex deployment but is backed by extensive support resources.
Pricing and ROI: SecureAuth Identity Platform is seen as cost-effective with a quicker return on investment. F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) is considered more expensive, but users feel the advanced features justify the higher cost.
F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) is an access management proxy solution for managing global access to the enterprise networks, cloud providers, applications, and application programming interfaces (APIs). Through a single management interface, BIG-IP APM consolidates remote, mobile, network, virtual, and web access.
BIG-IP APM can also serve as a bridge between modern and classic authentication and authorization protocols and methods. For applications which are unable to support modern authentication and authorization protocols, like SAML and OAuth with OIDC, but which do support classic authentication methods, BIG-IP APM converts user credentials to the appropriate authentication standard supported by the application.
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Reviews from Real Users
Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by BIG-IP APM users.
Mahmmoud Rabie, Senior Site Reliability Engineer, writes that BIG-IP APM is "A highly stable solution for load balancing, but the initial setup is complex."
Clyde Livingston, Senior Process Specialist at Telstra, says that BIG-IP APM is "Easy to use, useful access remotely, but lacking stability."
Chris Lam, Senior Solution Consultant at Macroview Telecom Limited, states that BIG-IP APM is "Useful for remote access VPN and VPI integration with VMware.
The SecureAuth® Identity Platform provides the flexibility required to meet the security and usability requirements for your diverse population of identities — workforce and customer. We offer the most multi-factor authentication choices, the most adaptive authentication risk checks, support all major federation protocols for single sign-on, and deliver self-service tools to keep your users productive while reducing help desk calls.
Whether you deploy hybrid, on-prem, or in the cloud, the Identity Platform delivers the strongest breach-preventing identity security available to protect everyone and everything that connects to your business.
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