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What do you like best about FortiAuthenticator?

In the case of your enterprise having multiple Authentication Server (Such as Multiple Active Directory Domain Controller, user authentication can be verified by multiple Servers), It's impossible to set up Single Sign-On on FortiGate with this scenario. With FortiAuthenticator, we can set up FortiAuthenticator as a Central User Management server; FortiAuthenticator can collect user logon events from Multiple DC then provide this information to FortiGate.

Then we can set up Fortinet Single Sign-On on FortiGate to verify domain users that authenticate in multiple DC through FortiAuthenticator. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FortiAuthenticator?

The Fortinet Single Sign-On from FortiAuthenticator can work with only FortiGate, other Fortinet Product can not use this feature from FortiAuthenticator. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FortiAuthenticator solving and how is that benefiting you?

Centralized SSO Authentication Server by collecting User Logon Event from multiple DC. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Fortinet
Year Founded
2000
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Sunnyvale, CA
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@Fortinet
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14,397 employees on LinkedIn®
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NASDAQ: FTNT
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$2,594
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Fortinet makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey.

Recent FortiAuthenticator Reviews

KT
Kelvin T.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"FortiAuthenticator is a great security tool"
FortiAuthenicator allows my users to quickly self-authenticate using the mobile app when connecting to our internal Citrix infrastructure from exte...
Smruti R.
SR
Smruti R.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"A powerful Fortinet authenticator tool!"
-Various authentication methods are supported -easy to set up and understand -security policies can be changes as per requirements. - light-weig...
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Michael M.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"Great for MFA"
Secure and reliable MFA for a Windows AD domain.
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What do you like best about FortiAuthenticator?

we use fortiauthenticator for sslvpn management with active directory and MFA.

this gives us centralized management of Ad and MFA accounts.

link to another fortinet product or other manufacturer.

we can also do 802.1X for PC and laptop authentication Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FortiAuthenticator?

the product can do many things and in a different way that can become complex in the follow-up.

the licensing system is also complex because depending on the choice of implementation it can quickly become very complex Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FortiAuthenticator solving and how is that benefiting you?

this allows us a centralized management of the authentications of the different systems we operate, such as VPNSSL authentication, web portal, 802.1X, SAML and MFA for all types of accounts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FortiAuthenticator?

FortiAuthenicator allows my users to quickly self-authenticate using the mobile app when connecting to our internal Citrix infrastructure from external endpoints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FortiAuthenticator?

Sometimes there's a lag after a user authenticates before they get a response in the app. But that's a pretty minor nag, and security is rarely convenient! So not a big deal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FortiAuthenticator solving and how is that benefiting you?

FortiAuthenticator helps prevent non-trusted parties from hacking into our internal resources using our external Citrix gateway. So mainly security peace-of-mind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FortiAuthenticator?

If you are exposing Fortinet product authentication services or building a zero-trust architecture with Fortinet's stack, this is not optional.

WAN-facing services should maintain a single posture around password and MFA rules, access policies (geo, exposed services), etc. FortiAuthenticator is an easy lift compared to integrating a 3rd party product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FortiAuthenticator?

Google and Microsoft provide a large built-in TOTP user base.

The push to use the Forti app for MFA is an adoption hindrance. I now have one more MFA app to deploy, whereas previously adopted cloud services provide a pre-installed option on BYOD mobile devices.

I'd rather have a configurable option to incorporate an existing TOTP token-generating app that can easily be paired with FortiAuthenticator services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FortiAuthenticator solving and how is that benefiting you?

Security is not an optional feature. If Fortinet product authentication is exposed to the WAN, this should already be deployed.

If your Fortinet product stack is used for network-based access rules into the LAN, this should already be deployed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Smruti R.
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What do you like best about FortiAuthenticator?

-Various authentication methods are supported

-easy to set up and understand

-security policies can be changes as per requirements.

- light-weight in terms of file size hence takes less space Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FortiAuthenticator?

A bit expensive with these features. It contains so many bugs and needs frequent updation by Forti which seems annoying at times. Rest apart, it is a great authenticator Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FortiAuthenticator solving and how is that benefiting you?

Users under our organisation's network are autheticated by FortAuthenticator. So, it helps us there to maintain security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rafael F.
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What do you like best about FortiAuthenticator?

Simple and reliable to use. One push of a button and the code is there Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FortiAuthenticator?

It is difficult to integrate to other SAML platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FortiAuthenticator solving and how is that benefiting you?

Remote, secured and auditable access Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brizaira M.
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What do you like best about FortiAuthenticator?

It allows the double authentication factor to the users to the VPN of the company in a secure way; as well as you can configure the security policies of access to the network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FortiAuthenticator?

Sometimes the connection process can be a bit long using the double factor but it is something that can be improved in the future, improving the generation times of the Fortitoken codes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FortiAuthenticator:

If you are looking for an administrative tool that helps you maintain the security of access to your networks, this tool is the ideal one and it´s work for PCI certificates, for the double authentication standard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FortiAuthenticator solving and how is that benefiting you?

With this tool I have been able to efficiently and correctly manage access to my organization's network, establishing policies that help increase the security of incoming connections, which has helped to satisfactorily comply with the guidelines of the Technology management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Michael P.
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What do you like best about FortiAuthenticator?

Easy to understand. Easy to teach others about this Application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FortiAuthenticator?

To understand the behavior of the application, we need to know first basic networking fundamentals. Also, learning about FortiAutenticator is expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FortiAuthenticator solving and how is that benefiting you?

Knowledge sharing via video on demand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MM
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What do you like best about FortiAuthenticator?

Secure and reliable MFA for a Windows AD domain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FortiAuthenticator?

Can be difficult to uninstall the client. Have had to run a repair before getting the option to uninstall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FortiAuthenticator solving and how is that benefiting you?

Need to have MFA for compliance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Blake R.
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What do you like best about FortiAuthenticator?

The fortiAuthenticator supports many different authentication methods, RADIUS, LDAP and captive portal, to name a few. I like the fact you can use this platform as a physical or virtual device. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FortiAuthenticator?

The support around this product is lacking because the product supports many different authentication options; the documentation doesn't cover half of these. To get captive portals working, I had to contact support and have them walk me through the setup process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FortiAuthenticator:

Ask for a trial before you purchase. This is an extremely complicated device. It's very feature-packed however the interface is a bit outdated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FortiAuthenticator solving and how is that benefiting you?

Fortigate itself doesn't support radius accounting sessions therefore, we had to purchase the Fortiauthenticator to handle these requests. While this was an extra cost it removes this overhead from the Fortigate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

TN
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What do you like best about FortiAuthenticator?

The FortiAuthenticator helps IT Team to centralize management for User Identity and FortiToken.

In the case of Enterprise has multiple FortiGate Units at multiple sites, and those FortiGate need to do Authenticate for User and Two-Factor Authentication via FortiToken. Without FortiAuthenticator, Each FortiGate must have unique FortiTokens to do two-factor authentication and we can not reuse those Fortitokens on the other FortiGates. With FortiAuthenticator and same scenario, we can add FortiToken to FortiAuthenticator, and all the FortiGates of Enterprise can point to FortiAuthenticator to do User Identity and Two-factor Autehntication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FortiAuthenticator?

Currently, the SSO, IAM and Two-Factor Authentication of FortiAuthenticator only work with Fortinet Product.

With other systems (non-Fortinet), those features are not fully integrated. For example, it can not provide two-factor authentication for webmail access by integrate FortiAuthenticator and Mail Server/Mail Gateway. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FortiAuthenticator solving and how is that benefiting you?

Centralized FortiToken Management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.