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

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.

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.

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.

ESET provides an extra layer of security, which means passwords can be shared without the risk of accounts being accessed by attackers or unauthorized personnel. ESET is aimed primarily at larger teams and enterprises. It offers multiple corporate features, like a streamlined management console, with Active Directory integration, and full support for SDK and API included.

Customers praise it for being an easy way to authenticate logins, with convenient push notifications that confirm log-ins without being too time consuming. ESET’s range of business features and ease of use makes it a good option for larger organizations looking for multi-factor authentication.

Lastpass MFA combines biometric and contextual factors so that end users can easily access all of their accounts. When logging in, you can simply use the authenticator app, which then automatically verifies your identity without you needing to enter a code. This helps to ensure accounts are secure, without requiring users to go through a complicated authentication process. Lastpass helps to save admins time by streamlining identity management, with an admin portal where password sharing polices can be set, and automated identity authentication across accounts.

Lastpass is popular with customers. Customers praise the ‘painless’ set-up, and the range of authentication methods available. Users can verify their identity using any browser, or on their mobile device. Customers also praise the strong level of account security Lastpass provides, without making it difficult for users to access their accounts and passwords. Due to the low monthly cost and multiple tiers for different team sizes, Lastpass is a good multi-factor authentication option for any organization.

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.

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.

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 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.

The Silverfort platform utilizes adaptive authentication to improve security while minimizing disruptions. Silverfort deploys an AI-driven ‘Risk Engine’ which profiles and analyzes user behaviours to apply accurate MFA and access policies to users. Silverfort’s authentication can also be integrated with external threat indicators, including Palo Alto Networks, Check Point and Microsoft, to ensure that any suspicious users will be double checked before they can access any accounts.

Silverfort provides a fully agentless multi-factor authentication solution, with no software agents needed, making it very easy to deploy. Customers praise this aspect of the platform, with many arguing that the ease of use and easy set-up is a big strength. Admin teams also like the ability to add MFA to any authentication request, made by any user, from any device. It’s a good option for adaptive authentication, used by both smaller businesses and larger enterprise customers.

The Multi-Factor Authentication on offer from Symantec is comprehensive. Symantec support a wide variety of authentication methods, which allows organizations to choose the most convenient or most secure authentication methods for their users. Symantec provides a mobile and desktop app, which support one-time login passwords and push notifications. Symantec also supports fingerprint and face authentication, security cards, security tokens and FIDO security keys. Symantec also supports risk-based adaptive authentication, which profiles user behaviour so that legitimate users can continue to use accounts as normal without identity verification.

Symantec are a good option for corporate organizations with a large number of users. It’s an extensive service, with many features that are suitable to larger organizations, such as actionable identity insights, CloudSOC intergration and a user self service portal, which helps to save admins time managing several users. Larger customers have praised Symantec for it’s ease of use, although some have said initially installing up the service can be time consuming.