We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiAuthenticator and Tools4ever HelloID based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, Auth0 and others in Single Sign-On (SSO)."The most valuable features are the performance and ease of use."
"Valuable features include the robust SSO features, when you have more complicated authentication within an organization. We can mix AD, Radius, Portal, SSO Portals (Google, etc.), and build our own environment. It is very flexible."
"This is a scalable product."
"FortiAuthenticator is easy to use."
"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."
"Intuitive interface and easy to deploy."
"The product enables SSO."
"The product’s most valuable feature is integration with FortiGate, FortiToken, FortiTalk, and multi-factor authentication."
"The Single Sign-On capabilities are endless and we haven't found a single app so far that couldn't be set up for SSO."
"You don't need to be a specialist in Identity and Access Management solutions to understand the software and configure it."
"The most valuable feature is the option to use SSO from different sources such as Microsoft AD, ADFS, Azure AD, SAML, form-based, etc."
"Now we can easily control who has access to which client or client application."
"Lacks a simplified two-factor authentication process."
"We had issues trying to integrate the keys properly during the initial setup."
"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."
"The GUI has some shortcomings and can be made better. The GUI is not great."
"There are multiple areas that are in need of improvement. It is not a mature product."
"We would like to see Linux-based operating systems be able to integrate with FortiAuthenticator to get two-factor authentication running on them. as well. This is a shortcoming that I have faced a few times already."
"The user interface and clustering are areas with shortcomings that need improvement."
"The integration with other products, for example, some SAML authentications, would make it more flexible."
"When something needs to be changed with the sign-on policies, we have to apply this manually to every client environment that we have."
"I would like to have the built-in provisioning module improved."
"Sometimes it generates a username that is not unique, but at the time of this writing, it is not possible to generate a new one that is unique."
"Integration with other Tools4ever applications such as SSRPM and IAM would be nice."
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Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is ranked 5th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 52 reviews while Tools4ever HelloID is ranked 23rd in Single Sign-On (SSO). Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is rated 8.0, while Tools4ever HelloID is rated 9.8. 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 Tools4ever HelloID writes "A flexible solution for application management, and facilitated centralization of our IAM". Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiToken, Fortinet FortiNAC, Microsoft Entra ID and Cisco Duo, whereas Tools4ever HelloID is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Okta Workforce Identity, Microsoft Entra External ID and Imprivata OneSign.
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