Cisco Duo vs. WatchGuard AuthPoint

Cisco Duo

343 Reviews and Ratings

WatchGuard AuthPoint

401 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco Duo	Score9.5 out of 10	N/A	Cisco Duo is a two-factor authentication system (2FA), acquired by Cisco in October 2018. It provides single sign-on (SSO) and endpoint visibility, as well as access controls and policy controlled adaptive authentication.	$3 per month per user
WatchGuard AuthPoint	Score9.1 out of 10	N/A	AuthPoint Total Identity Security provides businesses with a solution to protect user accounts and credentials. With multi-factor authentication and dark web credential monitoring, AuthPoint mitigates the risks associated with workforce credential attacks. AuthPoint adds an extra layer of security by monitoring for potential credential exposure in the dark web for both personal and corporate accounts.	N/A

Pricing

Cisco Duo

WatchGuard AuthPoint

Duo Essentials: $3
per month per user
Duo Advantage: $6
per month per user
Duo Premier: $9
per month per user

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Pricing Offerings
Cisco Duo	WatchGuard AuthPoint
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Cisco Duo	WatchGuard AuthPoint
Considered Both Products	Cisco Dave Brown Computer and Information Systems Manager in Information Technology at Busch Systems (Renewables & Environment, 51-200 employees) Chose Cisco Duo Cisco Secure Access by Duo, against WatchGuard AuthPoint, is a broader tool with more applicability across applications to my knowledge. I also find it to be faster, and simpler for users to understand. For example, with Authpoint, the tokens that appear and "count down" seem … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Duo As we were on Cisco VConnect mobility client, we felt the ROI of using a Cisco auth client would be much better even though when we took this decision, remote working wasn't in vogue. That's the main business reason for going with Duo / Cisco Secure Access, by Duo--a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Duo Better brand awareness, compatibility. Incentivized Helpful?	WatchGuard Technologies Verified User Chose WatchGuard AuthPoint We use different 2FA providers to secure different things. We are actively using Duo now, as well as WatchGuard AuthPoint. Each provider has different strengths, and you must test the applicability of a service in your own environment. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WatchGuard AuthPoint The biggest reason we selected Watchguard was support. We already use Watchguard firewall products and have received excellent support from our third-party vendor, Watchguard. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WatchGuard AuthPoint WatchGuard AuthPoint offer'd functionalities that each of these fell short on. Rather that be pre login MFA or app based support or cost. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WatchGuard AuthPoint Because we have Watchguard Firewall it becomes easier to manage everything in the cloud. Incentivized Helpful? Michael Ruffolo IT Security Engineer and CTO in Information Technology at eSecurity Solutions (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose WatchGuard AuthPoint WatchGuard AuthPoint is less expensive than most competitors, easier to manage through WatchGuard Cloud, and the MFA solutions is rock solid and secure. We do not worry about vulnerabilities with WatchGuard AuthPoint. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WatchGuard AuthPoint We reviewed and tested Duo, but having already WatchGuard products, and WatchGuard AuthPoint also having more capabilities, we ended up with them. One less vendor to deal with and also knowing them for a long time and having a great relationship was the key factor to move … Incentivized Helpful? 𝗟𝘂𝗰𝗮 𝗩𝗼𝗹𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗼 ITS SRL - UNIPERSONALE in Information Technology at ITS SRL - UNIPERSONALE (Computer Networking, 1-10 employees) Chose WatchGuard AuthPoint Only one app tu manage password a MFA functionlity Incentivized Helpful? Max Cech Technical Services Manager in Information Technology at Consultnet, Inc. (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose WatchGuard AuthPoint AuthPoint integrates with our WatchGuard driven security stack, and is therefor the obvious choice. Competitive pricing. One vendor means streamlined implementation and management, streamlined support. Incentivized Helpful? Tyler Crookshank Computer and Information Systems Manager in Information Technology at Adams County (Government Administration, 51-200 employees) Chose WatchGuard AuthPoint We chose authpoint because we are already familiar with Watchguard and implementation was easy. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WatchGuard AuthPoint Duo was a great product, but us having already Watchguard endpoints deployed was the reason with went with Authpoint. Simple as that. Incentivized Helpful? Fahd Kaleem Project Manager in Information Technology at MSP (Building Materials, 501-1000 employees) Chose WatchGuard AuthPoint WatchGuard is easily managed and has different features like DHCP within it, which can be managed easily Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WatchGuard AuthPoint WatchGuard Authpoint performs well, integrates with their Fireboxes, as expected, and can be managed in the same GUI as their Firebox. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WatchGuard AuthPoint Duo Secure works in a very similar way. We utilize WatchGuard routers & access points in all our offices. We use the WatchGuard Mobile VPN software too. We knew that the WatchGuard AuthPoint would integrate well with our current equipment. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WatchGuard AuthPoint AuthPoint has better integration with the product stack. Simpler to implement. Less complex of a setup. Easier to explain to customers and easier training for the engineering/support team. Licenses per user are good value and affordable for the majority of our small and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WatchGuard AuthPoint AuthPoint was a clear choice when comparing these products. With a mixed OS environment, Cisco Duo did not seem to work well. Azure MFA does not work with MAC OS. Watchguard AuthPoint met what we needed. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WatchGuard AuthPoint The product works great but needs more control on the device itself (no jailbroken device, check the local update, etc). The GUI is more clean and simple on the Authpoint side. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WatchGuard AuthPoint We have implemented both Azure VPN Gateway & Cisco Duo in our environment alongside AuthPoint. Each has a different use case. Azure VPN client (we are using this with O365 MFA) is a split tunnel solution, relatively cost-effective and easy to use - the beauty of the solution … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WatchGuard AuthPoint Works best with the WatchGuard family of products Incentivized Helpful? Zachary Child Tier 3 Network Engineer in Information Technology at Pacific Office Automation (Computer Networking, 1001-5000 employees) Chose WatchGuard AuthPoint Watchguard Authpoint is a good competitor to Duo in environments that run the Watchguard ecosystem as it has seamless integration and can be managed using the existing platform. Cisco Secure Access is more vendor-agnostic and is a better fit in my opinion for larger … Incentivized Helpful? Icer Vaughan CIO (Chief Information Officer) in Information Technology at Newman University (Higher Education, 201-500 employees) Chose WatchGuard AuthPoint AuthPoint was acquired at a much lower price point than similar competing products. Let's face it, price is king, especially when you need to increase security without a real budget. AuthPoint was also easy to integrate using the same vendor and support techs from the firewall … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WatchGuard AuthPoint FortiAuthenticator is less compatible than Authpoint, for other players and is needed to have a virtual machine to deploy FortiAuthenticator image, if you think in high availability of MFA services you should have two or more servers. The licensing of FortiAuthenticator is more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WatchGuard AuthPoint Duo is a great alternative however we chose to go with AuthPoint because we were already using other products from Watchguard including the firewall, DNS filter and it uses the same cloud dashboard like the other products. From my understanding Duo has much better integration … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WatchGuard AuthPoint WatchGuard AuthPoint has similar or more features than both Duo and Microsoft 365 Azure MFA. Its setup guides are much more fleshed out than Microsoft's and it is priced lower than both options. As long as your options for the 3 years licensing. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose WatchGuard AuthPoint Watchguard has better management tools for MSP's and is cheaper. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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User Ratings
	Cisco Duo	WatchGuard AuthPoint
Likelihood to Recommend	9.4 (150 ratings)	8.7 (220 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.8 (10 ratings)	8.5 (20 ratings)
Usability	9.9 (76 ratings)	7.1 (27 ratings)
Availability	9.8 (9 ratings)	9.1 (4 ratings)
Performance	8.7 (4 ratings)	9.1 (4 ratings)
Support Rating	9.9 (90 ratings)	7.0 (52 ratings)
In-Person Training	- (0 ratings)	6.4 (1 ratings)
Online Training	10.0 (1 ratings)	8.7 (2 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.8 (10 ratings)	7.5 (13 ratings)
Configurability	10.0 (2 ratings)	7.3 (3 ratings)
Ease of integration	9.8 (9 ratings)	8.2 (3 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.3 (4 ratings)	9.1 (4 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	9.3 (3 ratings)	9.1 (4 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.3 (3 ratings)	9.1 (4 ratings)