We performed a comparison between Microsoft Entra ID 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."The most valuable feature is the ability to set up conditional access, where you can enforce users to connect using multifactor authentication."
"Azure is the leading market solution because of its history, features, and maturity."
"Azure Active Directory provides us with identity-based authentication, which secures access at the user level and also integrates with conditional access policies and multi-factor authentication helping to increase the identity security for that person. So, the hacking and leaking of passwords is a secondary problem because you will not authenticate a person with one factor. There is a second factor of authentication available to increase the security premise for your company."
"The most valuable feature is Conditional Access, and we use it extensively."
"Microsoft Azure AD is easy to install and is a stable solution."
"Azure AD has features that have helped improve our security posture."
"I like that you can run it on-premises. I also like that I can use Azure at any time as the main one."
"The ability to see and control PCs and mobile devices is the most valuable. I can see where they are and how many we have. I can also see the age and retention of PCs."
"We use this solution to log into virtual machines like VMware and VMware Horizon."
"Scalable and stable."
"The most valuable feature of SafeNet Authentication Manager is authentication."
"I like how the solution allows me to support different types of hardware tokens and integrate with OTP."
"It would be awesome to have a feature where you can see the permissions of a user in all their Azure subscriptions. Right now, you have to select a user, then you have to select the subscription to see which permissions the user has in their selected subscriptions. Sometimes, you just want to know, "Does that user have any permissions in any subscriptions?" That would be awesome if that would be available via the portal."
"I had some issues with the Azure Active Directory on Windows XP. However, it worked well on Windows 7."
"The solution can improve the educational portion because it is an administration cost."
"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."
"The B2B Federation functionality is not perfect and could be improved. It is not on the same level that we could have if it were being used on-premises. It offers a different experience, which is a bit complicated and has some additional drawbacks."
"I hope, in the roadmap, Microsoft eventually offers the same features as Okta. It will take some more time to mature."
"Microsoft services and most familiar third-party applications are currently supported, but we can't find many other platforms that integrate with Office 365 or Azure Active Directory. Microsoft should develop connectors for different applications and collaborate more with other vendors to cover a broader range of applications."
"The workflow management for registering new applications and users could be improved."
"Lacks integration with other platforms."
"The problem with SafeNet is that it's not integrated with Microsoft 365."
"The stability could improve."
"The solution should allow for support of multi-tenant architecture."
Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Authentication Systems with 190 reviews while Thales Authenticators is ranked 16th in Authentication Systems with 4 reviews. Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6, while Thales Authenticators is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Entra ID writes "Saves us time and money and features Conditional Access policies, SSPR, and MFA". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Thales Authenticators writes "Responsive support, effective authentication, but stability could improve". Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Okta Workforce Identity and Cisco Duo, whereas Thales Authenticators is most compared with Yubico YubiKey, Cisco Duo, Atalla Hardware Security Module, Utimaco SecurityServer and RSA Authentication Manager. See our Microsoft Entra ID vs. Thales Authenticators report.
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