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 the ability to deploy and make changes to every workstation that I need to. We use it to control policy and I can apply the right policies to all our 1,500 workstations, notebooks, et cetera."
"The boards for task tracking are a valuable feature."
"The single sign-on of the solution is the most valuable aspect."
"It helps with privacy control of identity data. It makes security very easy."
"Privileged Identity Management (PIM), managed identities, dynamic groups, and extension and security attributes are all great features."
"The most valuable features are the Conditional Access policies, SSPR, and MFA. Another good functionality is registering enterprise applications to provide access to external parties. These four features are precious and are the most used across different use cases for various clients and projects."
"Azure is the leading market solution because of its history, features, and maturity."
"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 feature of SafeNet Authentication Manager is authentication."
"Scalable and stable."
"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."
"The synchronization with the local Active Directory and synchronization with all of the users on the local and cloud could be better."
"Active Directory could always be more secure. Right now, we've got two-factor authentications. All services based on Active Directory have a username and password. If somebody hacked our username, they could easily get all the data from our side. So I want two-factor authentication and a stronger password policy from Active Directory. The domain controllers should be more secure as well."
"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."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"We have a custom solution now running to tie all those Azure ADs together. We use the B2B functionality for that. Improvements are already on the roadmap for Azure AD in that area. I think they will make it easier to work together between two different tenants in Azure AD, because normally one tenant is a security boundary. For example, company one has a tenant and company two has a tenant, and then you can do B2B collaboration between those, but it is still quite limited. For our use case, it is enough currently. However, if we want to extend the collaboration even further, then we need an easier way to collaborate between two tenants, but I think that is already on the roadmap of Azure AD anyway."
"The robustness of the conditional access feature of the zero trust strategy to verify users is adequate but not comprehensive."
"The integration between the Azure active directory and the traditional active directory could be improved upon."
"The management interface has some areas that need improvement."
"The solution should allow for support of multi-tenant architecture."
"Lacks integration with other platforms."
"The problem with SafeNet is that it's not integrated with Microsoft 365."
"The stability could improve."
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, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Yubico YubiKey and Cisco Duo, whereas Thales Authenticators is most compared with Yubico YubiKey, Cisco Duo, Atalla Hardware Security Module, Utimaco SecurityServer and Fortinet FortiAuthenticator.
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