The Top 11 Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Solutions For Business

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Duo Security, acquired by Cisco in 2018, provides an access management solution that secures employee access to corporate accounts, helping businesses to reduce credential-based security risks and meet regulatory compliance. Duo’s solution supports a wide range of authentication methods, which makes it easy for all users to log into their accounts securely, no matter what device they’re using or where they’re working. Duo’s zero-trust solution is available via five plans, from a compact version for smaller teams right through to a comprehensive enterprise-grade version for larger businesses. This enables Duo to help organizations of any size to secure and monitor their account access.

Duo Security’s zero-trust MFA enables users to verify their identities via the Duo mobile app, which allows users to easily hit “approve” or “deny” for login attempts. Duo also integrates with universal 2^nd factor authentication tokens, hardware tokens, mobile passcodes, U2F USB devices, and biometric controls built into the user’s device, such as FaceID. This makes it a good option for companies who want to be able to enforce a wide range of authentication controls across a diverse device fleet or hybrid office environment. Duo’s integrated SSO means that users only have to verify their identity at the beginning of their session, ensuring a seamless login experience that causes the user little disruption. From the management console, admins can configure adaptive authentication policies based on factors such as user location, device and role. Duo checks user login data against these policies for anomalous access attempts, to ensure that further verification is only required for logins which are considered to be high-risk, increasing login efficiency.

Duo is cloud-based and integrates natively with existing applications. This makes it easy to roll out across an organization and gives the solution the flexibility to scale up as your business grows. Customers praise its user-friendly interface, and the multi-tenant dashboard makes it popular amongst MSP customers who can then manage Duo on their clients’ behalf. We recommend Duo as a strong MFA solution for organizations of all sizes looking for a user-friendly yet powerful MFA solution.

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HID Global is a market leading cybersecurity vendor that offers enterprise-grade, user-friendly identity verification solutions. HID’s Advanced Multi-Factor Authentication solution is a part of their Identity and Access Management (IAM) suite, sitting alongside identity and risk-based management products. The IAM suite enables IT teams to secure and manage access to both logical and physical assets, and HID currently secures over 85 million user identities globally with this offering. Advanced MFA enables secure access to corporate networks, VPNs and cloud applications such as Office 365. Additionally, the central management console features robust reporting capabilities, which administrators can use to gain insights into account usage and who is accessing which areas within the network.

HID Global’s Advanced MFA solution is centred around a zero-trust converged credential ecosystem. This system enables secure access to both physical corporate assets, like buildings, and logical assets such as networks. The system supports authentication via hardware tokens, PKI-based smart cards, digital certificates, mobile push notifications, and biometrics – which is particularly useful for organizations looking for a risk-based method. These methods support various digital protocols, including FIDO and OATH. Additionally, HID’s smart cards enable secure physical access to company sites. HID’s Advanced MFA supports single sign-on (SSO), so that users don’t have to remember multiple passwords. This saves IT resources from being spent dealing with password reset requests. HID IAM’s admin console also features powerful reporting and analytics tools, which leverage sophisticated AI to provide insights into who is accessing what parts of the network, as well as enable organizations to ensure security compliance.

Advanced MFA can be deployed on-prem or in the cloud. This makes it easy to set up, highly scalable and flexible. Because of this, Advanced MFA is a strong solution for organizations with plans for growth, those with remote or hybrid-remote environments, and those with multiple office sites. HID Global’s MFA solution is particularly popular among finance and government industries, due to its high level of security and its robust management features. We recommend IAM Advanced MFA as a strong solution for any mid-sized organization or enterprise looking to secure and verify user access to corporate assets across multiple business levels.

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Prove offers a comprehensive suite of MFA solutions ranging from SMS OTP to advanced frictionless identity authentication enabled through push authentication and behavioral biometrics. Prove’s Phone-Centric Identity™ technology is unique in that it leverages the mobile phone and phone number as the primary authenticator. Phones provide the unique “what you have” authentication factor, which enables Prove’s clients to deterministically authenticate customer identities with certainty (either yes or no) as opposed to just a probabilistic approach. More than 1,000 companies and over 500 banks including 9 of the top 10 U.S. banks use Prove to secure onboarding, digital servicing, and more.

With Prove’s Phone-Centric Identity, a consumer does not need to download a separate app or purchase a physical hardware token to authenticate themselves. The process can take place invisibly and seamlessly through their existing mobile device, improving the customer experience.

Prove provides strong identity security, going beyond traditional multi-factor authentication. As well as verifying that the phone number is possessed by the user, their Trust Score™ also looks at ‘reputation’ indicators from real-time signals, such as number activity, how long the number has been in use, and whether the phone number has been used by the customer in other places–enabling real-time, dynamic behavioral and contextual risk scoring. This helps build a holistic identity score, vastly improving account security without increasing complexity for security teams.

Prove is a recommended solution for organizations looking to deploy an MFA solution to secure their own applications and services. It provides strong authentication capabilities to prevent against digital account compromise and fraud, reduces the complexity of authentication for end users, and is an easy-to-manage solution for admins — automating key processes and providing many policies and features to secure account access.

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ESET is a market-leading vendor in lightweight, user-friendly cybersecurity solutions. ESET Secure Authentication is their enterprise two-factor authentication (2FA) solution, designed to reduce the risks associated with stolen password by requiring users to verify their identity in two ways before being granted access to a system. Currently supporting over 100 million users worldwide, ESET’s solution supports a range of authentication methods, ensuring that it’s compatible for all users, no matter what device they’re using to authenticate. It supports not only on-premises applications, but also web and cloud services such as Office 365 and Dropbox via SAML protocol integration, ensuring compliance and data security across all business systems.

With ESET Secure Authentication, users can verify their identity via mobile authentication apps, hardware tokens, FIDO security keys or ESET’s own push notifications, which are compatible with iOS and Android systems. This ensures that all users can interact easily with the solution, no matter what device they’re working on. As well as on-premises and cloud applications, ESET Secure Authentication’s full-featured API supports access security for remote desktop protocols and most popular corporate VPNs, including Barracuda, Cisco, Citrix and Palo Alto.

ESET Secure Authentication is fully cloud-based. Admins can manage the solution via a single web-based console, where they can monitor authentication organization-wide, set authentication policies, and generate access reports for compliance purposes. According to ESET, the solution deploys in just ten minutes, no matter how many users are being onboarded. This makes it suitable for both smaller businesses without a dedicated IT resource, and large enterprises that need to onboard a lot of users quickly. We recommend ESET Secure Authentication as a strong, intuitive solution for organization that want to implement two-factor authentication across all of their business systems and applications, no matter where they’re hosted.

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Ping Identity is an identity management suite that offers several different identity management features. This includes Single Sign-On, Multi-Factor Authentication and Directory. Ping is distributed via the cloud, providing an identity-as-a-service model as well as a software based solution. Ping has focussed on providing easy integrations for enterprise customers, allowing admins to use APIs, SDKs and integration kits to streamline implementation with existing infrastructure.

Ping uses contextual based adaptive authentication, that provides a better user experience and more effective security controls, without impacting on business productivity. This means that users can choose authentication methods, and admins can be sure a user is who they say they are, with factors checked like geolocation, IP Address and time since last authentication. With Ping, users can even choose to leave passwords behind entirely, with stronger authentication methods like mobile push authentication, QR codes and other compliant authentication methods.

Customers praise how easy it is to build, secure and maintain application integration using Ping Identity. Customers also say Ping is a reliable and flexible authentication platform that meets compliance needs. End users also report that it’s easy to just log on and have access to all the applications that they need.  Ping is most suitable for larger organizations that need to be able to integrate MFA across all their applications, with flexibility in deployment and adaptive authentication policies.

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TypingDNA provides passive authentication technology that is designed to provide strong protection against account compromise, while minimizing user effort and friction. Verify 2FA is a 2FA authentication solution that replaces SMS OTP codes with just typing four words (similar to a CAPTCHA), which are verified in the background with typing biometrics authentication technology for an improved user experience that does not impede account security.

Verify 2FA records biometric data, also known as keystroke dynamics, to allow organizations to authenticate their users by recognizing the way they type, comparing how users are typing on their keyboards against previous recordings. The solution uses AI to recognise users based on how they type the four words they see on the screen. Users are granted access if their action matches their typical baseline typing behavior and can be sent an SMS OTP as a secondary method of authentication if they do not match, or if something like an injury impacts their ability to type. Verify 2FA uses SMS or email codes as Root of Trust (RoT), improving overall account protection and keeping SMS costs low by requiring them only when users fail TypingDNA’s verification. Verify 2FA requires integration with Twilio and Sendgrid to facilitate sending SMS and email OTP’s.

The Expert Insights Team, upon demoing TypingDNA’s solution, were particularly impressed with the user-friendly interface and seamless login experience. The solution provides plans at two levels; the Starter plan offering organizations with up to 100,000 users the option to sign up for free their first year, and the Pro plan able to accommodate any number of users at $0.01 per active user. We would recommend Verify 2FA to organizations of any size and from any industry who are interested in a less traditional, cost-effective, and secure solution with low user friction.

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Thales is a cloud data security provider that offers solutions for a number of user cases, including human and machine identity verification, access authorization, data discovery and encryption. SafeNet Trusted Access is Thales’ access management and authentication solution that enables organizations to manage user access to corporate applications and cloud services via a single, unified platform. To help ensure account security and protect against credential-based attacks such as account takeover, SafeNet Trusted Access features multi-factor authentication, adaptive and contextual authentication, integrated single sign-on and scenario-based access policies.

SafeNet Trusted Access verifies user identities via risk-based or “adaptive” multi-factor authentication. It analyzes the context of each users’ login for anomalous behavior and increases authentication requirements only if the login is considered unusual or risky. This ensures security without impacting end users’ login experience unnecessarily. SafeNet Trusted Access supports a wide range of authentication methods, including traditional password- and token-based authentication, certificate-based smart cards and integrated Kerberos authentication as well as modern authentication technologies such as SAML and OIDC. As well as MFA, SafeNet Trusted Access offers in-built single sign-on, which enables users to access all of their cloud applications via one set of login credentials (and one authentication process where necessary). Admins can manage MFA, adaptive authentication and SSO policies via one central policy engine. All policies can be configured at a user, group or application level.

Delivered as-a-Service, SafeNet Trusted Access deploys quickly in the cloud and offers the flexibility to easily scale as your organization grows. The platform supports authentication across Windows, MacOS, iOS and Android operating systems, as well as VPNs and cloud services. End users praise Thales’ solution for its ease of use, while admins praise its consistency and customer support. We recommend Thales SafeNet Trusted Access as a strong MFA solution for organizations who want to secure user access to cloud and web-bsaed applications and VPN usage, and particularly those who want integrated SSO combined with strong authentication capabilities.

Via their 2FA solution “Authy”, Twilio provides a 2FA smartphone app for consumers, a 2FA Rest API for developers and a full authentication platform for enterprise. Each time a user attempts to log into an account, or a transaction is made, Authy creates a unique token code. Authy then authenticates all users’ identities using a mobile application, helping to reduce the risk of account compromise and theft.

Twilio Authy provides users with an intuitive 2FA experiences, automatically working on new devices, backing up data in the cloud and it works anywhere, even if your device is offline or has a poor internet connection, as codes are generated on the device itself.

Twilio Authy is popular with customers, especially small businesses. Customers feedback that the Authy service is convenient and quick to use, helping to prevent any breaches of information and giving peace of mind. Twilio Authy is a good option for businesses looking for 2FA across their accounts, especially smaller teams that need every user to authenticate their identity.

OKTA’s multi-factor authentication solution secures access for all your business accounts by authenticating all of your employees, partners and customers’ identities. OKTA’s service is designed to be secure, simple and intelligent. They’ve focussed on creating an easy to use admin portal that enforces MFA across the organization, with policies that enforces contextual based login in challenges.

What this in effect means is that users are prompted to verify their accounts based on contextual factors, so that user productivity is only impacted when it’s necessary for security reasons. For example, you may be prompted to authenticate your identity when you log in at a new location, on a new IP address, or on a new device. OKTA also support a range of different authentication methods, including security questions, one time passcodes sent via SMS, voice and email, a mobile app and biometrics.

Customers praise OKTA for it’s feature-rich offering, with an intuitive user interface. Customers report that it’s easy to sign in quickly, with different options for verification that means you can get into accounts even if you don’t have your phone to hand. OKTA is a good option for mid-market and larger enterprises, who need multiple authentication options and policies, without compromising user experience.

RSA is an enterprise-focussed multi-factor authentication and access management solution that allows admins to easily enforce risk-driven authentication policies across your organization. It provides a range of authentication methods, including push notifications, biometrics, one time passwords and SMS messages, as well as supporting hardware and software tokens to ensure maximum security for corporate accounts. However, RSA has focussed on convenience for end users.

While supporting legacy hardware and software tokens, RSA makes it easy for companies to move their users to new authentication options, such as mobile authentication options. This makes life easier for employees, meaning that they can easily use their cell phone to authenticate access to on-premise and cloud applications. RSA allows admins to enforce policy driven MFA and Single-Sign On across all of their custom and third party applications, as well as supporting more than 500 cloud and on-premise applications.

RSA is built for larger enterprise, with granular authentication features and policies. Customers praise the choice that users have between using token based authentication, or using the mobile app. Authentication using RSA is not as streamlined as some of the other authentication solutions on this list, but it provides a very high level of security, which customers argue gives them peace of mind, especially when dealing with very sensitive data. RSA is a good authentication option for enterprises, especially those that need to meet compliance regulations because they deal with private data.

SecureAuth’s identity platform provides a flexible, secure and easy-to-use identity management platform for businesses. SecureAuth provides organizations with a range of identity management benefits, including adaptive authentication risk checks, single sign-on protocols, and of course multi-factor authentication. The SecureAuth Identity Platform supports multiple deployment options, including on-prem, cloud based and hybrid models.

SecureAuth’s Adaptive Authentication provides multi-factor, risk based authentication for all employees. SecureAuth uses intelligent authentication policies, analyzing device, location, IP Address and behaviour, which determines the legitimacy of every login attempt. When something looks wrong, SecureAuth can then authenticate users identities. This helps to save users’ time, as only suspicious log-in attempts need that extra verification step. SecureAuth state that they processed over 617 million log-in attempts last year, and using their adaptive risk checks, 90% didn’t need any additional multi-factor authentication steps.

Customers compliment the SecureAuth identity platform for its secure authentication platform that supports multiple applications in multiple environments, including cloud, on-premise and hybrid configurations. Customers also report that SecureAuth provides a good MFA user experience, helping to minimize the time it takes to get access to important accounts. SecureAuth has a focus on partners, with a global partner network distributing their authentication solutions.