We compared Okta Workforce Identity and Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Okta Workforce Identity is commended for its user-friendly interface, simple setup process, and strong integration capabilities. However, it lacks certain functionalities such as password vaulting management and could improve its customer support. On the other hand, Prisma Access is highly regarded for its extensive security features, accessibility for users, and ability to safeguard all types of app traffic. Nevertheless, it can be challenging to use and configure, and its pricing is considered relatively high.
"Valuable features include UD, SSO functionality, MFA and Adaptive MFA functionality, ability to link multiple Directory databases with UD."
"Workforce Identity's best features include its user-friendliness and easy setup."
"Having a single sign-on to all our applications."
"The most valuable features are ease of operation and visibility."
"Enabled MFA to access federated applications as well as increased user satisfaction through improved provisioning times and more reliable processes."
"This solution has a lot of capabilities and features."
"We can automate the process of adding users to Okta if they are activated in Active Directory, or if they are added to the database of applications or Active Directory in the last couple of days."
"The solution so far has been very stable."
"It supports auto-scaling for mobile users. It auto-scales depending on the mobile user traffic. For example, if 1,000 people are working from home today, and tomorrow, the number increases to 2,000, it is not going to be an issue."
"Overall, the cost savings, ease of deployment, and better VPN user experience and performance are valuable."
"The most valuable features of the solution are in the areas of the secure remote access it provides while also being user-friendly."
"I like it because it's very easy to use. You install the client and you have to know your gateway, but that's something we give to our users. Beyond that, it takes about three seconds to train them on how to use it. And it just works well. That's great for us because it means less administrative time."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to join your network and provide access through the VPN."
"Prisma Access protects all app traffic, so that users can gain access to all apps and that's very important because we need to be able to access everything. It also allows us to access non-web apps; anything internal that we need access to, we can access."
"We're now able to go after contracts that require a Zero Trust solution and Prisma's other technology solutions."
"Prisma SaaS is very easy to use; it's common sense — it's the best-in-class."
"Okta Workforce Identity can improve by having more features in governance."
"This user integration with the Okta integration network could be simplified."
"There should be automated aggregation and complete classification processes included in it."
"The lifecycle management part can be improved. It should also have identity governance and the ability to choose a specific factor authentication at the application level. Its licensing and pricing can also be improved."
"On the admin side, we can create our own passwords instead of generating one, which is usually difficult to explain to a user."
"UD attribute mapping, Okta group rules, and dynamic usage could use improvement. It also needs more in-depth functionality and features to integrate with RADIUS solutions."
"The solution should have greater on-premises availability, not just cloud and more package customization in its processing."
"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."
"Palo Alto Prisma 10 came out over a year ago. Palo Alto added this identity management feature. The legacy way Palo Alto selected which user is sitting on an IP address it passes through has been clunky."
"We would like to see improvements in the licensing; currently, Palo Alto provides 500 to 1000 licenses for users, and we want to see 1500 to 2000 licenses for one version."
"The price can be reduced to make it more competitive."
"One area for improvement is for them to stay on top of keeping their CVEs on their platform up to date."
"I would like the solution to support a different type of authentication. We can't configure a secondary method for our portal."
"The BGP filtering options on Prisma Access should be improved."
"Dependencies of applications sometimes is a bit confusing."
"There is room for improvement in the multi-environment visibility, especially around containers."
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Okta Workforce Identity is ranked 6th in ZTNA as a Service with 58 reviews while Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 2nd in ZTNA as a Service with 57 reviews. Okta Workforce Identity is rated 8.4, while Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.2. 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 Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks writes "Integration with Palo Alto platforms such as Cortex Data Lake and Autofocus gives us visibility into our attack surface". Okta Workforce Identity is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Google Cloud Identity, SailPoint IdentityIQ, Saviynt and Auth0, whereas Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Netskope , Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access and Prisma SD-WAN. See our Okta Workforce Identity vs. Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks report.
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