We performed a comparison between Microsoft Entra ID and Thales Authenticators based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, Fortinet and others in Authentication Systems."The most valuable feature is that it is very easy to implement, you don't need a lot of effort to set up the solution. This is the most advantageous point, that you can do anything on Azure without taking too much time."
"This product is easy to use."
"We can centralize and manage everything much more effectively with this tool."
"Conditional Access is a helpful feature because it allows us to provide better security for our users."
"The solution is free to use and you can use it for every service."
"Privileged Identity Management (PIM), managed identities, dynamic groups, and extension and security attributes are all great features."
"Very stable and scalable IAM service with good SSO and authentication features."
"Just because I've been in the Azure space since it started out and in the Microsoft Cloud AD since the BPOS days in the early 2000s, and it's just a product that made life simpler for my clients to be able to integrate everything."
"Scalable and stable."
"The most valuable feature of SafeNet Authentication Manager is authentication."
"We use this solution to log into virtual machines like VMware and VMware Horizon."
"I like how the solution allows me to support different types of hardware tokens and integrate with OTP."
"Microsoft Entra ID's impact on access and identity management is relatively limited."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The security policy of Azure Active Directory should be based on a matrix so that we can easily visualize which users have access to what."
"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."
"Definitely, the price could be lower. When we moved from AWS to Azure, we started paying more."
"In a hybrid deployment, when we update a license by changing the UPN or email address of a user, it does not get updated automatically during normal sync. This means that we have to update it manually from Azure, which is something that needs to be corrected."
"We would like to see more system updates."
"I would like it if Intune could manage MacOS or iOS directly. Right now, we have to use a third-party solution."
"The stability could improve."
"Lacks integration with other platforms."
"The problem with SafeNet is that it's not integrated with Microsoft 365."
"The solution should allow for support of multi-tenant architecture."
Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Authentication Systems with 190 reviews while Thales Authenticators is ranked 17th in Authentication Systems with 4 reviews. Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6, while Thales Authenticators is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Entra ID writes "Allows users to authenticate from home and has excellent integrations in a simple, stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Thales Authenticators writes "Responsive support, effective authentication, but stability could improve". Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, Yubico YubiKey, Cisco Duo and CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, whereas Thales Authenticators is most compared with Yubico YubiKey, Cisco Duo, Atalla Hardware Security Module, Fortinet FortiAuthenticator and RSA Authentication Manager.
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