We performed a comparison between Microsoft Entra ID and Venafi based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Authentication Systems solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The security and infrastructure management features are the most valuable ones for us."
"With Azure Conditional Access you can specify network locations where you want some of the services in the organization to be available to users, and where you don't want users to have access."
"Privileged Identity Management and Privileged Identity Management make controlling access considerably easier and ensure that authorized access is achieved."
"It has given us the ability to be able to establish single sign-on identities in which we can establish credentials no matter where we are, whether it is on-premises or in the cloud, in a hybrid cloud, or in an additional connection from another cloud where we share equipment or host."
"Microsoft Entra ID's valuable features include integration capabilities, a simplified Active Directory approach, scalability, conditional access, and privileged identity management."
"The boards for task tracking are a valuable feature."
"Overall, I think the support and the pictorial format of this web portal are very good."
"One of the most important is the Conditional Access. It helps affect a Zero Trust strategy positively."
"We use Venafi for PKI certificates."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is their certificate discovery."
"Automating anything, whether on-prem or cloud, is possible."
"There is no great solution in the cloud for Conditional Access authentication and RADIUS-type authentication."
"I hope, in the roadmap, Microsoft eventually offers the same features as Okta. It will take some more time to mature."
"Sometimes, the notifications and alerts are not delivered properly, and we end up missing them. Also, the overall graphical user interface needs to be improved."
"I had some issues with the Azure Active Directory on Windows XP. However, it worked well on Windows 7."
"Certain aspects of the user interface can be rather clunky and slow. It can sometimes be circular in terms of clicking a link for a risky user sign-in and seeing what the risky login attempts were. It takes you in a circle back to where you started, so drilling down into details, especially if you are not in it every day and it is one of many tools that you use, can be difficult. It can be difficult to track down the source of an issue."
"In terms of stability, sometimes the more applications you integrate, the more it becomes a little bit unstable."
"Azure Active Directory could improve by having an authentication service for laptops or desktop computers running Mac and Linux operating systems. They currently have authentication capabilities for Microsoft Windows. Having this capability would benefit people because in today's world everybody is working from the home environment."
"It would be an improvement if Authenticator made it easier to recover the app if you reboot your cellphone and lose access."
"I would like to see included in the next release of Venafi integration with the cloud HSM's, Hardware Security Module. Additionally, I would say other cloud services, because it's not only cloud that's essential. If you have a customer that has a lot of their IT moved into cloud, integration with different cloud services is always an area to improve."
"Currently lacks the capability to automatically download certificates in JKS."
"Venafi's overall installation could be made easier."
Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Authentication Systems with 190 reviews while Venafi is ranked 17th in Authentication Systems with 3 reviews. Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6, while Venafi is rated 8.0. 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 Venafi writes "The solution has some additional functionalities for managing PKI certificates compared to other products". Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Cisco Duo and Yubico YubiKey, whereas Venafi is most compared with DigiCert PKI Platform, AppViewX CERT+ and Entrust Identity Enterprise. See our Microsoft Entra ID vs. Venafi report.
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