5 Reasons to Choose Duo Over Free Multi-Factor Authentication

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While free or low-cost multi-factor authentication (MFA) can be helpful for organizations with limited use cases and narrow security needs, many organizations find themselves in need of a more robust solution to fully secure their workforce.

Here are five reasons organizations choose Duo over free MFA.

Lower Total Cost of Ownership

Companies find Duo’s setup, management and support costs are often much lower than other security solutions. Our per-user licensing, which protects unlimited applications and access through Duo’s single sign-on (SSO), comes with no hidden costs. Customers like Sentara Healthcare reduced operational costs and administrative time by 75% or more with Duo.

It’s not uncommon for a company to roll out Duo to thousands of users and only receive a handful of help desk tickets. Other support needs, such as password resets, also often decrease after a Duo rollout.

Flexible for Complex Environments

Organizations that have complex environments find that Duo is a great fit, for example:

hybrid mix of cloud, on-premises and custom applications
multiple identity providers or VPNs
geographically distributed workforce
contractors and vendors
growth from mergers and acquisitions

We design security for the tough cases because rarely is a little security good enough. Our customers find access, productivity and security all improve immensely with Duo — a rare trifecta!

Integrates With Everything

Being system agnostic means we can integrate with the broadest range of platforms and applications. Customers like that they aren’t forced to pick and choose which applications to protect based on their security vendor.

You can easily protect cloud applications, VPNs, CRMs, on-premises and custom applications. We have many native integrations and are unique in our ability to protect RDP, Windows Offline and SSH logins. With Duo Single Sign-On, Passwordless abilities and […]
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