We performed a comparison between PingFederate and Thales Authenticators 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."PingFederate gives you granular control over the settings. There are many options for fine-tuning policies."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature is multifactor authentication."
"PingFederate is very flexible. We can do many customizations, and it also provides an SDK to tailor it to our specific requirements. There are also numerous plugins available. I've worked with tools like ForgeRock and Okta, but I find PingFederate to be the most customizable."
"I like how the solution allows me to support different types of hardware tokens and integrate with OTP."
"We use this solution to log into virtual machines like VMware and VMware Horizon."
"The most valuable feature of SafeNet Authentication Manager is authentication."
"Scalable and stable."
"It requires some expertise to set up and manage."
"Notifications and monitoring are two areas with shortcomings in the solution that need improvement."
"PingFederate's UI could be streamlined. They have recently made several improvements, but it's still too complex. It's a common complaint. The configuration should be simplified because the learning curve is too steep."
"Currently, the main integration is SAML-based, but other integration methodologies need to be supported."
"Lacks integration with other platforms."
"The solution should allow for support of multi-tenant architecture."
"The problem with SafeNet is that it's not integrated with Microsoft 365."
"The stability could improve."
PingFederate is ranked 10th in Authentication Systems with 4 reviews while Thales Authenticators is ranked 16th in Authentication Systems with 4 reviews. PingFederate is rated 8.2, while Thales Authenticators is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of PingFederate writes " A highly stable tool offering extremely helpful technical support to its users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Thales Authenticators writes "Responsive support, effective authentication, but stability could improve". PingFederate is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Symantec Siteminder, PingID, Microsoft Active Directory and CyberArk Identity, whereas Thales Authenticators is most compared with Yubico YubiKey, Microsoft Entra ID, Cisco Duo, Atalla Hardware Security Module and Utimaco SecurityServer. See our PingFederate vs. Thales Authenticators report.
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