CyberArk Workforce Identity vs. Oracle Access Management

Centrify Identity Service is well suited for nearly any organization, especially ones utilizing Active Directory for user management. It is especially well suited for organizations looking to reduce internal resource use, because it's easy to maintain and manage. Its features also allow you to free up resources previously dedicated to the provisioning and deprovisioning of Office 365/Salesforce users (as well as other applications).

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OAM is designed to be scalable, and it can handle large-scale deployments with thousands of users and applications. It provides a centralized framework for managing access to web applications and resources, enabling organizations to define and enforce security policies across their entire IT environment. OAM offers a range of authentication and authorization mechanisms, including multi-factor authentication and OAuth-based authentication, making it suitable for organizations that need to meet different security and compliance requirements.

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• Single Sign-on Integration is easy and complete configuration is UI driven with lots of help tips
• RESTFul APIs for Multi-factor Authentication is easy to use and implement. Also, Centrify supports all new Security features for Multi Factor Authentication and hence you can easily select and configure different challenges based on the policies and roles for the user.
• Lots of Built-in reports available for normal day to day auditing.

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• Oracle Access Management allows superior session management capabilities. It can maintain and terminate session states using access engine and endpoint cookies or security tokens.
• It allows for automated single sign-on as well as protocol translation.
• The suite allows for real-time fraud detection and prevention capabilities. This is especially useful where our applications are accessed by tens of thousands of users simultaneously.

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• Occasionally, I get logged out of Gmail, sometimes in the middle of an email. I'm not sure why it happens, but I think it has something to do with timing out. Which is strange because I'm on email all day. Not sure why.

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• The interface can be tricky or confusing
• It lacks helpful intuitive tutorials and walkthroughs (lots of figuring out on your own)
• The product can be pricey for small businesses
• Software was sometimes very buggy
• Creating your own scripts and templates is quite challenging
• Tech Support was not at all helpful aside from simple set up

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Centrify is central to creating efficiency and safety for our clients and internally. To remove it would cause a massive disturbance in the lives of our employees and our clients.

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Usability with this and any Oracle product is a hit or miss. Over the years things are significantly better and I had users feeling better about training and usability. It shows Oracle have taken customer feedback and made the improvement. What is I would say however it requires a bit of training upfront.

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The support staff thus far has been very helpful. At times I feel they are driving the process forward without my intervention or constant reminder, which is nice to have in a company for a change. Most support seems to be a hassle but so far Centrify appears to treat your project as their own project.

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We started off using ADFS from Microsoft, which took most of a day to get fully functional and nearly a week to get fully optimized. The documentation was inconsistent with ADFS and there was no real support without opening a Microsoft Premier Support ticket. At the time, if you turned on Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for Office 365, it turned it on for everything without any granularity. Our Information Security department said that MFA was a requirement for offsite access to our email systems, but users didn't need MFA when onsite. We looked at Okta, OneLogin, and Centrify at the same time. Centrify was the only one that responded quickly and offered a free POC with support included. We tried to deploy the Okta solution on our own, but ran into issues due to some of our non-standard AD configuration. We never received a return call from OneLogin. The Centrify POC took about 15 minutes to complete for basic functionality and a couple of hours to work out the issues related to our environment. We have been very happy with the Centrify solution and went live with our POC.

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I don't have must of a reference to compare and contrast Oracle Access Management to. I have used smaller systems before and a comparison is like apples to oranges. Oracle Access Management, in my view, is at a bigger scale as opposed to smaller customized able systems I have used before which generally has a few positives vs negatives based on how you look at it.

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• CyberArk Workforce Identity provides secure access to on-premises and cloud applications. The platform is highly scalable and works well for companies of any size.
• I can classify and label data. Also keep track of activity in shared applications and data, to know exactly who accesses each of the files.

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• It is difficult to tell what the exact return on investment is. The product saves time and increases security. These are the benefits.
• Provides centralized, policy-based authentication and single sign-on for Web applications of the agencies.
• A single place for authentication and session management for all users and their applications.

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