We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiAuthenticator and PingFederate based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We have a perpetual license for 2FA."
"The initial setup is a valuable point on Fortinet products. Most of the time, putting the theory into practice on the devices is quite friendly and straightforward. As long as you can read English you can find your way around the solution and make it work. This is a high value point on Fortinet - the way everything is laid out in the web UI is user-friendly and quite straightforward. The UI is quite simple."
"We use this product for SSL two-factor authentication and FortiToken management."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is RADIUS service and the social network integration feature."
"The current version is stable...Scalability-wise, it is a fine solution"
"Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is an easy-to-use solution."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiAuthenticator are easy to configure, secure, and the application has good performance."
"The most valuable feature is the OTP on the mobile phone."
"The most valuable feature is multifactor authentication."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"PingFederate gives you granular control over the settings. There are many options for fine-tuning policies."
"FortiAuthenticator's interface could be better."
"There is a room for improvement. The log is a bit difficult to access, and searching the log codes is also a bit difficult. So it would be much better if, when we open a log, it could provide detailed information about errors, reasons for failure, and such."
"Other features that would improve the product are a single sign-on where people can use their Gmail ID to log-in, etc."
"The solution could be more automated. It should be able to let me automate a lot of things so that what normally is done as a matter of manual processes can be handled quicker. Slow integrations can be taken up/out if there was more automation."
"I would like to see some email options for Fortinet FortiAuthenticator."
"It does the job I paid for, but the graphical interface could be improved."
"The technical support team is bad."
"Integration with some other enterprise applications could be improved."
"Notifications and monitoring are two areas with shortcomings in the solution that need improvement."
"PingFederate's UI could be streamlined. They have recently made several improvements, but it's still too complex. It's a common complaint. The configuration should be simplified because the learning curve is too steep."
"Currently, the main integration is SAML-based, but other integration methodologies need to be supported."
Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is ranked 5th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 50 reviews while PingFederate is ranked 10th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 3 reviews. Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is rated 8.0, while PingFederate is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiAuthenticator writes "A reasonably priced solution that can be scaled toward different functionalities and offers flexible SMS messaging". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PingFederate writes " A highly stable tool offering extremely helpful technical support to its users". Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiToken, Microsoft Entra ID, Fortinet FortiNAC and Cisco Duo, whereas PingFederate is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, PingID, Symantec Siteminder, Microsoft Active Directory and AWS IAM Identity Center. See our Fortinet FortiAuthenticator vs. PingFederate report.
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