We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiAuthenticator and Fortinet FortiNAC based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, Auth0 and others in Single Sign-On (SSO)."FortiAuthenticator is really good software that integrates very well with Fortinet products."
"Fulfilled our requirement at a good price."
"We have a perpetual license for 2FA."
"It keeps track of users and their IPs no matter where they are in the network. When users roam, we don't have to worry about not mapping them to an IP."
"The product enables SSO."
"This is a scalable product."
"For someone concerned with multifactor authentication, I'm satisfied with the product."
"It is very stable. We have never had any issues with this solution."
"With FortiNAC, we don't need to configure the mass client site or access points. For example, we don't need to configure the switching site for a client's site. With Persistent Agent, it makes it much easier."
"The network segmentation is the most important part of the solution. The integration with the Zero Trust Access solution is a crucial part of segmenting your network."
"It's easy to connect to a VPN without any hassles."
"The most valuable features are usability and security."
"Fortinet FortiNAC is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiNAC is its integration with all other Fortinet solutions."
"It's a very good solution and one thing I have noted is its simplicity and the ease of the set-up process."
"I like FortiNAC's integration with other Fortinet devices. They work together well, but the solution also works with other network devices."
"We have issues with HA (high availability). These should be addressed in future releases."
"The product must provide full support for third-party FIDO security keys."
"I would like to see more support from Fortinet with tech support people who have as much expertise on the authenticator as they do on their firewalls."
"The price of the solution could improve, it is expensive."
"The GUI has some shortcomings and can be made better. The GUI is not great."
"The integration with third-party tools must be better."
"I don't have any issues with this solution, but it may need a better, more user-friendly interface or better design of the platform."
"Fortinet FortiAuthenticator provides only authentication. It should also enable authorization services"
"The technical support is bad. We've had to escalate to Tier 2 and Tier 3. My customer relationship manager on the other side of this has stopped returning phone calls and emails, because there has been such a constant back and forth."
"The training documentation needs to be more transparent."
"We have some stability issues with the solution, the network drops out too often."
"Fortinet FortiNAC's documentation should be improved because there's not much debugging or troubleshooting documentation for the Fortinet FortiNAC."
"The interface works fine, but it could be better."
"The deployment of Fortinet FortiNAC could be better. When we are deploying the solution we have some level of dependencies with other vendors for their connection to Fortinet FortiNAC. Without these dependencies, it would be better."
"The user interface and the product's intuitiveness could be improved."
"Its technical support needs improvement."
Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is ranked 5th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 52 reviews while Fortinet FortiNAC is ranked 4th in Network Access Control (NAC) with 43 reviews. Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiNAC is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiAuthenticator writes "A reasonably priced solution that can be scaled toward different functionalities and offers flexible SMS messaging". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiNAC writes "I like the solution's native integration with other devices from the same vendor". Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiToken, Cisco Duo, Microsoft Entra ID and CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, whereas Fortinet FortiNAC is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Aruba ClearPass, Forescout Platform, Fortinet FortiClient and Portnox CORE.
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