We performed a comparison between Microsoft Entra ID and Secret Double Octopus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, Fortinet and others in Authentication Systems."Syncing with our on-prem Active Directory is valuable because we do not have to keep multiple identities for each of our staff members. We can easily evaluate login risks and provide access for SSO via 365 into applications, such as Salesforce, and other things that we run our business on."
"It has made our work easier in that it’s simplified everything for us."
"A use case that we did for an end user in a manufacturing organization: We used WVD with biometric authentication because 1,500 processes need to happen in a process. The user didn't want to use a login using their credentials. They wanted to use fingerprinting or tap their ID. That is where we integrated with the authentication. Now, they can process in a couple of hours, and they run those 1,500 processes every day. This changed their login process, which improved the manufacturing process. This helped a lot for their high deployment."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Entra ID are the login and the conditional access pieces."
"The two-step authentication is the most valuable."
"It's an easy product to maintain."
"We can have an audit and we can easily audit logs."
"Being able to easily authenticate yourself on the MSA app is valuable. It is easy to use. Rather than receiving a code in an SMS, you can just verify that it is you. You don't have to punch in any password or any six-digit code. That's the feature that I like the most."
"This solution has a mobile application, which comes with multi-factor authentication; allowing for more flexible usage, without having to sacrifice system security."
"I would like it if Intune could manage MacOS or iOS directly. Right now, we have to use a third-party solution."
"Documentation I think is always the worst part with what Azure's doing right now across the board."
"I faced difficulties from Micorosft's end and during the transition from Microsoft Active Directory to Microsoft Entra ID. Sometimes, some of Microsoft's documentation could be a little outdated."
"We have a lot of freedom in using the Group Policy Objects and, although Group Policy Objects are part of Azure Active Directory, there are still a lot of things that can be improved, such as providing local admin rights to a user. There are various, easy ways that I can do that in the on-premises version, but in the cloud version, it is a bit difficult. You have to create a bunch of policies to make it work."
"Compared to what we can do on-prem, Azure AD lacks a feature for multiple hierarchical groups. For example, Group A is part of group B. Group B is part of group C. Then, if I put someone into group A, which is part of already B, they get access to any system that group B has access to, and that provisioning is automatically there."
"The solution has certain limitations. For example, it has very little governance functionality."
"Something that can be improved is their user interface"
"I would like to see a better delegation of access. For instance, we want to allow different groups within the company to manage different elements of Azure AD, but I need more granularity in delegating access."
"The product suffers from frequent disturbances in service, that have impacted our end users when we deploy software updates."
Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Authentication Systems with 190 reviews while Secret Double Octopus is ranked 20th in Authentication Systems with 1 review. Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6, while Secret Double Octopus is rated 7.0. 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 Secret Double Octopus writes "A solution with good capabilities across a wide range of platforms that comes with a useful mobile application, but upgrades cause issues". Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Cisco Duo and Yubico YubiKey, whereas Secret Double Octopus is most compared with Cisco Duo, HYPR and Thales Authenticators.
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