Duo vs miniOrange

How miniOrange can be the best alternative for securing your Workforce Identity

This detailed differentiating document will give you a great overview of why customers are looking for DUO alternatives and what are the major pain points, This is based on the feedbacks, reviews and customers stories on various review platforms like G2,Capterra, Peer Insight) and will help you make a decision and how miniOrange can be the best DUO Alternative.
This thorough comparison document also highlights how miniOrange can be the perfect alternative in terms of exclusive support, affordable pricing with additional MFA options, supported protocols, connectors for legacy applications and many other aspects.

"miniOrange is committed to making security accessible to everyone."

1. No external proxy is required to set up MFA in VPNs and other applications.

Feature-driven products, which can’t be set up easily, seem like a cumbersome task for organisation administrators. Organisations vouch for solutions that can be easily set up and where the migration process seems as easy as a single click.

miniOrange provides its MFA solution over the cloud as well as on-premise. With miniOrange’s cloud solution, no external proxy is required to set up MFA over VPN. With miniOrange, you can just set up your MFA over any VPN client like Cisco AnyConnect, Fortinet, Sonicwall, etc within minutes.

2. More options to choose your MFA method, 15+ MFA methods with miniOrange MFA solution

Compared to DUO's four MFA methods, miniOrange offers 15+ MFA options, including OTP through SMS/Email, Microsoft/Google Authenticator, and Push Notifications via the miniOrange Authenticator app, and many more, compared to DUO's four MFA methods.

Restricting access to a few MFA methods may become a problem in a global organisation. miniOrange solves this problem and ensures you a seamless MFA experience.

3. Effective Pricing

In comparison to DUO, miniOrange offers the greatest in-house price for its SSO/MFA solution, as well as the best features and support.

miniOrange cracks the pricing part as it has the most reasonable per-user rate for Workforce IAM solutions. For customer-specific IAM services, miniOrange maintains a tier-based structure which includes affordable pricing for user authentication.

"An additional steps are required to enable Microsoft MFA services. When it comes to MFA authentication, Duo only offers a few options; it misses out on popular authenticator-based techniques Authy and Google Authenticator, Push Notifications, Hardware Token, etc. Adaptive Authentication functionality is not in an optimum mode."

4. Supports all standard protocols for SSO and MFA, such as SAML, Oauth, JWT, and Radius.

In comparison to DUO, you can secure your workforce identity with our SSO, MFA, and provisioning for 5000+ pre-integrated apps that can be configured in minutes. miniOrange supports all industry-standard protocols, including SAML, Oauth, JWT, Radius, and others.

With miniOrange, you can easily enable SSO for both Workforce and Customer Identity across numerous apps within a basic plan. You can integrate with any app with all modern protocols like SAML, OAuth/Open ID, JWT, and TACACS. On the other hand, it offers on-the-fly user creation with real-time sync for all integrated directories and databases, along with Azure (no need for manual intervention). Users and groups can be easily managed, with the option of temporarily disabling users.

5. Easy to Navigate End-User Dashboard

miniOrange provides an easy-to-use end-user dashboard via which your administrator can configure all of the applications utilised inside the organisation for SSO and MFA that can be easily accessed by its employees/users.

Along with specific features and functionality, the easy GUI is the first initial source for admin. Proper navigation with high-level features at a single glance is the must-have functionality every network administrator demands.

6.Enhanced Concierge Style Customer Support

When the talk is about having an overall Identity and Access Management implementation for organisational security, receiving timely and effective support is a must. Organisations don’t just look for help to resolve an issue when something stops working, they also need guidance and advice on best practices or options to address business challenges.

"Being forced to search high and low for a telephone number to speak to someone who can help or being funnelled to an unhelpful 1st line support are the biggest complaints we hear from Duo Users"

1. Dedicated Focused Support (24*7)

   
   

   miniOrange has a dedicated Customer Experience support team to ensure every customer interaction is of the highest level. Each call is routed directly to experienced technical engineers, so calls are resolved quickly without having to navigate time-consuming and sometimes frustrating faceless chatbots.

   
   

   We strive to maintain continuity in customer communications by routing calls to engineers who have previously worked with the customer. This provides a greater perspective and a deeper understanding of the customer environment to ensure optimum call closure times and customer satisfaction.

   
   

   Along with providing high levels of support, and working closely with our experienced development team, customers often benefit from our unique consultative service regarding solving business issues.

   
   

7. Handling Multiple Directory Environments

Organizations maintain multiple sorts of directories for different sorts of users and employees. Acquisitions and mergers are one of the major reasons that organisations are required to maintain multiple directories. Managing all these multi-domain environments makes it burdensome, takes a long time to manage and maintain, and becomes costly. If not well thought out, it can lead to security issues.

1. miniOrange Directory Integration

   
   

   miniOrange Unified Directory Integration, one of the core services of miniOrange, provides real-time synchronisation in a bidirectional way against multiple directories. A wide range of directories- Microsoft AD, Azure Active Directory, Google Workspace, etc. with additional integration with any of the local databases.

   
   

   miniOrange acts as an IDP, acting as a single source of truth, creating a single view for all digital user identities and what access they have to applications and resources. Clearer and concise reporting means the admin’s audits are satisfied. This approach then allows for Joiners, movers and leavers (JML) to be handled on an automated basis too with the Unified approach: if a user is disabled somewhere, ALL their access from other directories is also disabled, in real-time, thanks to the bidirectional synchronization capabilities.