We performed a comparison between Google Cloud Identity and Okta WorkForce Identity based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Okta WorkForce Identity is the preferred choice when it comes to Identity and Access Management solutions. Okta is easy to use, offers great integrations with numerous solutions, and is a safe, secure, and robust solution. Additionally, it is very fast, responsive, and has great performance. The SSO, MFA, and other beneficial feature sets make it a complete and reliable product. The only downside is the price.
"The security features are great. They will report in advance to you in the case of suspicious activity."
"Microsoft Azure AD is easy to install and is a stable solution."
"It's something we have to deal with every day. It is present. If you're in a domain environment, you'll need it to log in. If you work in a Microsoft-centric environment, you can't avoid it."
"Multi-factor authentication (MFA) has improved our customers' security posture. Multi-factor authentication has two layers of authentication, which helps in case you input your credentials into a phishing website and then it has access to your credentials. So if they use your credentials, then you have proof on your phone that was sent to the end user."
"It is easy to manage. I can manage systems with policies and automate our systems. Any professional system can be easily integrated with Azure Active Directory. It is widely used with Windows versions."
"The most important things of Azure Active Directory are the security and the facility to manage all the services and users. It is very easy to manage users and assign roles, permissions, and access. At the same time, it is a very secure environment. Microsoft takes security very seriously. They take care of all the security and all the factors to prevent any kind of data or information compromise."
"The security and infrastructure management features are the most valuable ones for us."
"It is a central point where we provide the cloud lock-in for our company. We focus the multi-factor authentication within Azure AD before jumping to other clouds or software as a service offerings. So, it is the central point when you need to access something for our company within the cloud. You go to Azure AD and can authenticate there, then you move from there to the target destination or the single sign-on."
"I think the first thing that is great is that it gives you a lot of features, like login, and then vaulted passwords and secure LDAP. It becomes easier for the end customer to leverage all those features without going to a higher SKU of G Suite."
"One of the most useful features was the single sign-on. You can use it as an identity provider or service provider. And you can use their organization unit feature to enable or disable some of the features for a specific group of users."
"The solution is moderate to difficult to use. I found the approach was practical. Following the steps made it very easy to use."
"Cloud Identity is scalable enough for our needs. It's serving more than 3,000 users in our organization."
"Google is always on its own. Google Cloud Identity is pretty good on every point."
"It's easy to set up."
"The most valuable features of Okta Workforce Identity are MFA, and SSO, which have high security."
"This solution has a lot of capabilities and features."
"The most valuable feature in Okta Workforce Identity is the single sign-on, universal directory, and lifecycle management."
"The support for YubiKey is really good because you don't actually have to type in your username and password."
"The initial setup is easy."
"One of the features that I have found to be very valuable is its interoperability and compatibility with all types of resources, whether it's networking, infrastructure, or applications. That is, it is compatible as well as interoperable, as far as the federated authentication is concerned."
"Its integration components are most valuable. It integrates with everything in some way. There are some products, such as O365 or AD, with which it completely and 100% integrates. So, you can seamlessly create accounts across the board with some of these products. For some of the products with which it doesn't completely integrate, you can do some kind of interfacing."
"The product requires very little maintenance."
"The solution was difficult to scale because the group's configuration was complex. I would rate the scalability level of Azure Active Directory a five out of ten."
"Its price should be improved. It is very expensive for Turkish people."
"Overall, it's not a very intuitive solution."
"I would like it to be easier to integrate third-party applications."
"Azure AD needs to be more in sync. The synchronization can be time-consuming."
"I think something that is key would be the group policies replication over the cloud, in order to prevent or to avoid relying on the on-premise Active Directory servers and to manage group policies."
"We would like to have more granularity in the Azure conditional access in order to be able to manage more groups for devices and for applications."
"The solution could be improved when it comes to monitoring and logging as these are the most critical areas in case something was to go wrong."
"If you want to set up some alerts, you don't have much control over the configuration. You have to use their default alerts. And they only provide alerts for certain activities, so you cannot customize those. Monitoring isn't very helpful either."
"Technical support is slow."
"They are going ahead and adding a few more things to the Google Cloud premium edition. Their stock management and remote computer management can be improved."
"Google Cloud Identify could make the technology used easier to understand as a layman making it more user-friendly."
"The one place it could be improved is the password vaulting. The password vaulting does not prevent the admins from reading users' passwords, and that's a debate."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"The solution should have greater on-premises availability, not just cloud and more package customization in its processing."
"The guest user access could be improved."
"We've not had any problems with Okta."
"It can have more API integrations."
"The only aspect in which it can be improved is that the interface could be cleaner. I found this even when I was trying to do my certification exam because the certification is hands-on. You find yourself fumbling around a little bit to find simple things. This happens even when you start to get familiar with the product."
"Okta Workforce Identity can improve by having more features in governance."
"Application updates are lacking. Customer support needs to be improved."
"The integration with third-party tools needs to be improved."
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Google Cloud Identity is ranked 4th in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 6 reviews while Okta Workforce Identity is ranked 2nd in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 25 reviews. Google Cloud Identity is rated 7.8, while Okta Workforce Identity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Google Cloud Identity writes "You don't need much expertise or previous experience to work with it". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Okta Workforce Identity writes "Stable and reliable solution but the application updates are lacking". Google Cloud Identity is most compared with Microsoft Intune, VMware Workspace ONE, Cisco Meraki Systems Manager (MDM+EMM), Jamf Pro and ManageEngine Desktop Central, whereas Okta Workforce Identity is most compared with SailPoint IdentityIQ, Auth0, Duo Security, ForgeRock and Zscaler Private Access. See our Google Cloud Identity vs. Okta Workforce Identity report.
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