We performed a comparison between Okta Workforce Identity and Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco and others in ZTNA as a Service."Okta integrates well with other solutions. Once you have integrated an application into Okta and onboarded a user, they will be onboarded for just-in-time provisioning."
"Its simplicity and its integration with various vendor-agnostic platforms are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable features of Okta Workforce Identity are MFA, and SSO, which have high security."
"We face no challenges in integrating the product with our legacy systems."
"The solution so far has been very stable."
"The most valuable features depend on a customer's needs. Our customers generally find multi-factor authentication very useful."
"I like the tool's workflows, which is user-friendly. It can integrate with different applications. I particularly like that users are delighted to access their applications without the hassle of entering their username and password each time. It truly enhances user-friendliness."
"It has a wide range of MFA options. I prefer "Okta Verify" out of them all."
"The most valuable features are the File Type Control and SSL bypass policies. We"
"I find all Zscaler Private Access features valuable because each replaces flawed technologies, such as EPAs being replacements for VPN and PR as a replacement for PAM, so I can't mention only one valuable feature. Overall, Zscaler Private Access is a good solution."
"It is straightforward to set up."
"The scalability of the solution is great."
"I like the web filtering capabilities."
"The most valuable features of Zscaler Private Access are its ability to integrate with multiple IDPs and application segmentation."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to establish connectivity for remote users and remote endpoints. It offers a high level of granularity compared to typical VPNs, which also encapsulate a lot of I/O."
"Zscaler Private Access is a platform that eliminates the complexity of VPN configuration."
"In my country, there's a lot of stealing of mobile phones, and mobile phones are the authentication device through the Okta application. If someone should steal my mobile phone, which is very common in my country, he or she might have access to my company account. That's my concern."
"We have experienced some challenges in integrating this solution with Scope and Cognito."
"The ability or the options in the solution for changing the look and feel are not good enough because in our partner portal, essentially what they have is an ugly admin interface."
"We experienced some technical glitches that need to be resolved."
"This user integration with the Okta integration network could be simplified."
"Therefore, if you have 10 million users, that's almost 100 million, so it is costly."
"In some setup cases, there are issues with attributes not going in properly."
"It can have more API integrations."
"The area that requires improvement is their support. The current support is lacking."
"There are latency issues with the solution. They are small, however, they are there when you compare it to other vendors."
"It's an expensive solution."
"Zscaler Private Access could improve by improving external access. If external parties want to access locally to my company's services, we need to onboard them into our domain, otherwise, it doesn't work. Additionally, if their company also has Zscaler Private Access, then it doesn't work. They need to log in with our domain ID, not their company ID."
"We often face performance and latency issues with Zscaler SASE."
"There is improvement in enhancing proper manageability, policies, and logs. So, log management could be improved."
"More on-prem infrastructure is required when Zscaler Private Access is to be implemented as a single point of entry."
"We would like to extend the SASE applications for Zscaler."
Okta Workforce Identity is ranked 7th in ZTNA as a Service with 56 reviews while Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is ranked 1st in ZTNA as a Service with 34 reviews. Okta Workforce Identity is rated 8.6, while Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Okta Workforce Identity writes "Extremely easy to work with, simple to set up, and reasonably priced ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange writes "Allows for strict access control, granting access to specific applications at a URL level rather than at the physical IP level". Okta Workforce Identity is most compared with Google Cloud Identity, Microsoft Entra ID, SailPoint IdentityIQ, Saviynt and Auth0, whereas Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is most compared with Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Cato SASE Cloud Platform, Axis Security, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and Cloudflare Access.
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