FortiAuthenticator Reviews & Product Details

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

-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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.