Competition Kill Points

Question 1

Amazon Cognito

Answer 1

• Okta can support advanced requirements such as API Access Management, Adaptive MFA or B2B integrations.
• Okta is the most complete B2C/B2B/B2E identity provider which can service all your needs, whereas Cognito is primarily built for a single one off per app use case
• Okta allows you to seperate security policy administration from app dev
• Okta has prebuilt the most out of the box flows and offers more MFA factors
• OIN supports over 5.5K integrations
• Okta guarantees high availability and Cognito does not publish an SLA

Question 2

Auth0

Answer 2

Auth0 requires security policies to be written using custom code in their rules engine, which puts security at risk and in the hands of a developer.

Question 3

Microsoft B2C/Azure AD B2C

Answer 3

Low security CIAM use cases. Their sweet sot is where security is an afterthought and basic authentication (not authorization) is foundational. Their weaknesses revolve around expensive per-auth MFA, a diverging product from their main B2B/B2E offering, and no integrations with O365 and others.

Question 4

Duo

Answer 4

• Okta as an identity platform
• Simplify administration by consolidating SSO and MFA authentication with Okta
• Okta is an open platform which allows you to integrate with more than just cloud apps while duo does not have the breadth of Okta
• World class directory services. Duo can connect to AD and other directories but they do not have a cloud hosted directory to act as the source of truth

Question 5

MSFT internal

Answer 5

• MSFT is heavily biased on their own technology and services, Okta provides an open ecosystem to allow for best in breed
• Okta’s UD provides a single identity platform for both customer and workforce, offering simple and fast deployments and Time to Value
• Okta provides maximum security with the best user experience and lowest TCO

Question 6

OneLogin

Answer 6

Okta wins on

• Ability to execute
• Company viability
• Security and reliability
• Proven success
• Future proof/long term vision

Question 7

Ping Identity

Answer 7

• Paint the modern vision for digital transformation
• Deposition ping as a legacy solution
• Gaps in ping’s offerings: deprecated password vaulting
• Take off PingOne - too little too late for cloud product
• Ping Federate not suitable for digital world
• Okta is an end to end solution for all identity use cases