Top 10 User Authentication And Access Management Solutions

With LastPass, admins can enforce multi-factor authentication across cloud and legacy applications, as well as workstations. LastPass integrates these services with their own MFA solution, including an authenticator smartphone app that allows users to verify their identity with pin codes or face scans. LastPass supports adaptive authentication, only enforcing extra levels of security controls when the system detects something suspicious, such as a log-in at an unusual time or location. Admins can implement flexible admin policies to govern MFA and view reporting into login events from the admin dashboard.

LastPass also provide comprehensive single sign-on, allowing users to authenticate their identity without the use of passwords altogether. LastPass integrates with over 1,200 enterprise applications which admins can easily configure via the admin console, to support passwordless access to LastPass users. When logged into their LastPass accounts, users are authenticated and able to access all the accounts they need to, without the hassle of entering a password. Admins are able to manage access to these systems and implement role-based controls to accounts, as well as revoke access if needed, via the admin dashboard. LastPass is an ideal user authentication and access management solution for SMBs and mid-sized enterprises. The solution is easy to use for both end users and IT admins, and provides a comprehensive stack of features to make managing user access far easier for IT teams.

Duo MFA allows you to easily enforce multi-factor authentication across corporate accounts. Duo has a modern and easy to use authentication app, which allows for easy push notifications to verify user identities. Users can use their smartphone, watch or another token to gain account access. MFA is easy to set up and configure, with active directory syncs, bunk enrolment and user self-enrolment options. As well as MFA, admins can also simplify access to accounts with secure single sign-on, allowing for passwordless access to company accounts. With Duo Access, admin’s can also enforce contextual, adaptive authentication policies which grant or block user access based on multiple factors.

Duo Access provides multiple access policies which allow you to apply policies to certain groups and restrict logins based on location and other factors, allowing you to take more control over account security. A unique feature for Duo is their device management, which can prompt users to update laptops and mobile devices when logging into accounts, helping to ensure devices themselves remain secure against cyber-threats. Duo also gives IT teams visibility into all devices that are accessing company applications and servers, flagging up potential security risks. Duo is a powerful user authentication tool, praised by customers for its ease of use both for end users and IT admins.

Entrust offers SSO across corporate applications and cloud accounts, with location-based adaptive authentication. This allows users passwordless access to their accounts, while ensuring that accounts remain secure if any risks or unusual activity is detected. Entrust offers a multi-factor authentication app for identity proofing, allowing admins to control level of authentication access from biometric face scans right through to government issued identification to ensure user authenticity.

The platform offers granular authentication policies and reports, within a simple management console. Admins can edit risk-based authentication policies and configure user policies within a simple admin dashboard. From here they can also access numerous reports into user profiles and authentication events to monitor organization wide security. The service provides out-of-the-box integrations to make deploying the service and onboarding users easier. It integrates with on-premise applications, as well as Azure and with LDAP databases. Entrust is a powerful user authentication and access management platform, with granular controls and security policies.

Okta Single Sign-On provides reliable passwordless authentication, allowing users to easily access all of their applications. Okta integrates with all of your web and mobile applications, with a flexible access policy engine. Okta secures access with MFA and adaptive user authentication via Okta’s Verify application. Okta’s MFA platform supports a range of different authentication methods, including security questions, one-time passcodes, smartphone notifications and biometrics.

Okta secures users across your organization with integration to AD/LDAP across multiple domains. With the Okta Access Gateway you can integrate with your custom built and on-premise applications, ideal for organizations who need to secure access to custom portals and implement role-based controls. Okta provide a range of reports, including real-time systems logs with location tracking, and application specific access reports. Okta is a scalable identity management solution ideal for larger organizations, especially those with on-premise and custom applications.

Intelligent Adaptive Authentication provides real time analysis of user, device and transaction data to provide a risk score for each user login attempt. With this data, the machine learning systems are able to identify potential account takeover attempts, and enforce extra security controls, such as multi-factor authentication. Users are able to verify their identity with biometric controls using smartphone devices, with other verification options available if needed. OneSpan also provides risk scores based on the hygiene of devices themselves, with a specific focus on mobile devices. This solution is able to identify jailbroken and corrupted mobile devices, to ensure that appropriate security controls are enforced to protect against harmful account access.

OneSpan Intelligent Adaptive Authentication provides a range of features for admins to better manage account access and meet compliance regulations. This solution leverages pre-configured rule sets to enforce strict regulations around accent access. Admins can select multiple verification methods including hardware devices if needed. The solution provides IT teams with a deep visibility into user authentication and access, with continuous monitoring of users and devices as they access accounts, with a range of reports. OneSpan integrates with fraud platforms via API connection to provide protection across your cloud applications. OneSpan Intelligent Adaptive Authentication is a comprehensive identity and access management platform, praised by customers fin particular for its mobile device security controls.

PingOne is Ping Identity’s identity cloud access solution for enterprises. PingOne is designed to be an easy to use, API-based cloud solution that allows organizations to deploy and enforce single sign-on, multi-factor authentication and manage account access. PingOne allows admins to enforce passwordless access to all of their applications with secure single sign-on. This single sign-on is easy to deploy, integrating seamlessly with existing applications. Alongside single sign-on, admins can also enforce multi-factor authentication, to provide an extra layer of account protection when needed.

PingOne provides enterprise IT departments and developers with a comprehensive platform to enforce user authentication. IT teams are able to easily embed user authentication into any web, mobile or single page application. The platform supports multiple environments, including in the cloud, on-premise and hybrid applications. Admins can configure multiple authentication policies which can vary from application to application. Ping provides flexible user management, allowing teams to store user identities in multiple places, including PingOne’s own directory, or in existing stores like Active Directory. This also includes easy deprovisioning when a user leaves the organization. Alongside user management, Ping provides in-depth reporting, with complete visibility and multiple pre-defined reports into user behaviours. Ping is a robust and reliable user authentication platform, especially for enterprises and development teams.

RSA SecureID Access provides secure and convenient access to enterprise accounts and applications. Admins can enforce multi-factor authentication across on-premise applications including VPNs and cloud and mobile applications like Office 365, Salesforce and Workday. End user are able to authenticate their sign-ins through smartphones, biometrics, SMS and more. This ensures that each user can verify their identity in the most convenient way, without sacrificing account security. RSA uses machine learning, behavioral analytics and business threat intelligent to create risk profiles of users in order to support adaptive authentication. Each user is assigned a risk score upon login, meaning organizations can automatically challenge high-risk authentication attempts. Multi-factor authentication can replace passwords entirely, creating a frictionless log-in experience for end users.

Alongside multi-factor authentication, RSA provides identity governance and access management to verify users and ensure account security. This includes a centralized dashboard to manage user access to corporate applications and resources. Admins are able to set customizable rule sets, governing employee access management, from the admin dashboard. Admins can add policy-driven secure access and single sign-on to applications through SAML, reverse proxy or password vaulting. RSA also provides visibility and context for IT teams to be able to manage user authentication. RSA SecureID Access is a powerful authentication platform for the enterprise, suited to large organizations that need to protect access to multiple cloud or on-premise applications.

SecureAuth supports adaptive authentication, using a broad set of risk checks and behavioral indicators in order to evaluate the log-in attempts, including device health, location, IP address and user behaviours, such as repeated failed log-ins. SecureAuth supports nearly 30 different methods of authentication checks, including mobile push notifications, biometrics and desktop one-time passwords. Augmenting MFA is Single Sign-On, which gives SecureAuth users a seamless, passwordless way to access accounts without sacrificing account security.

SecureAuth provides a range of admin controls and tools to make managing user authentication and account access easier for IT teams. Users can access self-service resources to help reduce the support burden on IT teams, including self-service password resets, enrolment and updates. SecureAuth supports multiple different deployment options and integrates with easy to use APIs, for simplified deployment and account integration. SecureAuth also provides a number of editable templates, policies and settings that help to simplify access management and improve the user authentication experience. SecureAuth offers a comprehensive user authentication and access management platform with a number of strong features. In particular, customers praise the multiple deployment options and granular policies this platform offers.

Symantec VIP is extremely easy to use from an end user perspective. Users can simply download the Symantec VIP Access App, from where they have one secure place to manage credentials for all enterprise applications. Here, they can verify their identity when logging into accounts, with push notifications, face scans or OTPs. Symantec provides risk-based adaptive authentication, leveraging both device and user behaviours to detect and respond to potentially suspicious user activity and block account access. With VIP Access Manager, admins can also enforce secure single sign-on, helping to make account access more seamless for end users. End users can provision their own accounts and reset passwords with the self-service portal.

Symantec is fully cloud-based, integrating with popular VPNs, cloud and web applications, as well as user directories for easier integration with corporate accounts. The service conducts device hygiene checks to identify compromised devices, alongside adaptive authentication. This service also supports physical hardware tokens for enterprise organizations needing an extra layer of security or to meet compliance regulations. VIP integrates with Symantec’s Global Intelligence Network to deliver threat information and content classification, providing an extra layer of visibility and protection across corporate accounts. Symantec provides a number of activity logs that integrate with third party analytics platforms for your team to gain actionable insights into security activities. Symantec VIP is an easy to use and manage platform that’s scalable for mid-market and enterprise organizations.

Secret Server provides multiple features for user authentication, including a secure password vault that stores encrypted account passwords. After confirming their identity with a two-step verification process, users can access this vault to gain access to corporate applications securely and efficiently. Once logged in, users can only see the passwords they need based on admin permissions and role-based controls. Admins are able to manage and monitor access to all of the accounts in this secure vault, as well as revoke access when needed. Thycotic tracks all password access, making it easy to trace the source of an account breach if fraudulent activity is detected.

Thycotic is more focused on account management over user authentication than some of the other vendors on this list, but they do provide an extensive range of PAM features to secure access to corporate accounts in one easy to manage platform. Admins have access to multiple policies to manage account access and role-based controls, with automatic provisioning and deprovisioning. Admins can set password complexity and rotate credentials to maximize account security. The platform also provides a deep range of reports and audits to ensure all access to corporate accounts is accounted for and logged; important for maintaining legal compliance. Thycotic Secret Service is a powerful PAM solution, suited to enterprises looking for a centralized way to manage privileged user access to enterprise accounts and applications.