We performed a comparison between Okta Workforce Identity and Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two ZTNA as a Service solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Enabled MFA to access federated applications as well as increased user satisfaction through improved provisioning times and more reliable processes."
"The most valuable feature in Okta Workforce Identity is the single sign-on, universal directory, and lifecycle management."
"Valuable features include UD, SSO functionality, MFA and Adaptive MFA functionality, ability to link multiple Directory databases with UD."
"Other than Okta being an easy and awesome integration tool, one of the best features it has is the provisioning and deprovisioning, which makes management way easier. You don't need to be too technical to understand how it works."
"The feature that is most valuable to me is the automated user provisioning that we set up using Okta as a major part of that process."
"It is dependent on the evolution of your user base. It depends on usage per user, so the more sign-ins there are, the more expensive it becomes, so it works best for smaller companies from a financial perspective."
"A solution that's easy to use, stable, and reliable."
"The support for YubiKey is really good because you don't actually have to type in your username and password."
"It is easy to use."
"The scalability of the solution is great."
"The most valuable feature of Zscaler Private Access is we do not have to connect to a VPN, it is seamless. It is more convenient for us because we use one agent to cover the internet and VPN access."
"With SASE, we have a single platform that covers multiple task services with which we need to control access. All the features are equally valuable."
"The Live Logs are a cool feature. We can directly identify issues and divert user traffic."
"The most valuable feature is the manageability of the micro tunnels."
"I like its ease of use. It has a single pane of glass for the ZIA and ZPA pieces. It is very manageable. It is also very easy to deploy for secure access, and it gives half-decent coverage for visibility in terms of what the users use and what data is being proxied through the access gateway."
"The most valuable features of Zscaler Private Access are its ability to integrate with multiple IDPs and application segmentation."
"The only area of concern in the solution stems from the fact that my company needs some help regarding the setup phase from a partner."
"The solution's user interface needs to be improved and made easy."
"We experienced some technical glitches that need to be resolved."
"The guest user access could be improved."
"Okta Workforce Identity could improve the support system, they are too slow."
"We had some implementation issues."
"Therefore, if you have 10 million users, that's almost 100 million, so it is costly."
"Okta Workforce Identity could improve the way passwords are reset and how it interfaces with Microsoft."
"Zscaler Private Access needs to improve its collaboration with applications without compromising security."
"Conflicts arise if you do not have the same management teams on the product."
"There are latency issues with the solution. They are small, however, they are there when you compare it to other vendors."
"The granularity in blocking is not sufficient, as new domains are automatically blocked for 30 days without further information."
"There could be more DLP-related features. Additionally, there needs to be flexibility for integrating ISP features."
"We'd like to have two-factor authentication that is quite simple."
"The stability could be improved."
"Sometimes applications crash on some machines, and we’d like Zscaler to give us some information as to why that may have happened. We’d like more detailed reports."
Okta Workforce Identity is ranked 6th in ZTNA as a Service with 59 reviews while Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is ranked 1st in ZTNA as a Service with 34 reviews. Okta Workforce Identity is rated 8.4, 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 Microsoft Entra ID, Google Cloud Identity, SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, Saviynt and Auth0, whereas Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is most compared with Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Cato SASE Cloud Platform, Axis Security, Cloudflare Access and Perimeter 81. See our Okta Workforce Identity vs. Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange report.
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