We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiAuthenticator and LastPass based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiAuthenticator are easy to configure, secure, and the application has good performance."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is easy."
"The ease of use is really nice. Using Authenticator, I've been able to actually work better on my authentication due to the fact that I have a single fabric to authenticate control from my firewall and on my access points. Authentication takes place from this area."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility in using the SMS messages."
"It integrates very tightly with the rest of the Fortinet ecosystem."
"Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is an easy-to-use solution."
"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 initial setup is so easy and there is no problem in the implementation."
"It's always hard to put a value on return on investment. You avoid one breach and it's paid for a million times over. We got a penetration test company internally, just to see how secure our network is, and there happened to be one bit of software that had been overlooked by an external company that managed it. It hadn't been upgraded so that managed to get them into the network. They would've been able to access through the test thing a file that we had previously. If that was a real-life scenario they would have been able to get into our network and get full access to our organization's passwords. If they did get in, they would have gotten access to the cloud. The ROI we see is that we are completely secured compared to what we had previously where there was a vulnerability."
"Off-boarding of people is easy without changing shared account passwords."
"Reduction in number of sensitive passwords stored insecurely on local systems."
"One feature that is really important to us is the ability to create secure notes."
"Until now, I haven't found anything like the dashboard. It gives you a security score. I find that to be really great. The Sharing Center is really great as well. And the Security Challenge is really great too."
"It is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the liberty of keeping encrypted passwords and elevated information in a sealed vault."
"The stability has been rock solid. A couple of years ago, they were breached. However, if you had two-factor authentication enabled, it didn't affect you. We did, so it has been good."
"The solution could be more automated. It should be able to let me automate a lot of things so that what normally is done as a matter of manual processes can be handled quicker. Slow integrations can be taken up/out if there was more automation."
"The GUI is on the older side but I'm sure that it will be upgraded soon. It works, but it looks a little dated."
"The technical support team is bad."
"They could expand FortiAuthenticator's capabilities to accommodate a broader range of environments."
"The GUI has some shortcomings and can be made better. The GUI is not great."
"The hardware aspect of the solution could be improved. We are not really able to understand the hardware capabilities of the device."
"If you want some other FortiAuthenticator from one site to another site, you should have requirements, but really if you have authentication and directory or another solution, you should change the password of the authenticator between the solution and the directory and other things. So transfer of data and other information should be simpler."
"There are multiple areas that are in need of improvement. It is not a mature product."
"I would like to be able to reduce the log out time of the session."
"LastPass has a problem syncing the passwords to all of the users."
"Our biggest issue over the years was around the stability of the LDAP sync to AD."
"The management through the plugin is poor. It consumes tons of client resources especially as an administrator."
"We have issues from time to time where, for some reason, it just keeps auto logging-out the user and then, the next day, they'll come in and it will work just fine."
"The ability to set up an account expiration limit/date would be very useful."
"Right now we have two products; there is the password manager and there is the authenticator app. Ideally, these should be fully integrated and support better handling of two-factor authentication or any other authenticator data."
"One thing I wish LastPass had is an integration with Active Directory, not for synchronizing users but to actually manage, in some way, privileged accounts by replacing the password of LastPass itself."
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Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is ranked 6th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 52 reviews while LastPass is ranked 22nd in Single Sign-On (SSO). Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is rated 8.0, while LastPass is rated 7.4. 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 LastPass writes "Straightforward to set up, good support, intuitive to use, and offers good value for the cost". Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiNAC, Fortinet FortiToken, Cisco Duo and Microsoft Entra ID, whereas LastPass is most compared with Azure Key Vault, BeyondTrust Password Safe, HashiCorp Vault, Keeper and CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault. See our Fortinet FortiAuthenticator vs. LastPass report.
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