More than just MFA
July 24, 2024

More than just MFA

John Lee | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • WatchGuard AuthPoint

Overall Satisfaction with WatchGuard AuthPoint

We use WatchGuard AuthPoint to provide additional security to administrator access to workstations and servers. All servers and workstations are now protected with multi-factor authentication when logging in with an administrator account. With the 3.2.x version, User Account Control has also been added, greatly increasing the protection of our infrastructure by preventing unwanted control from compromised admin accounts. Originally requested by our insurance broker for us to have a cyber insurance policy, WatchGuard AuthPoint has become an indispensable tool in protecting our environment.

Pros

  • Step by step documentation making the whole process easy to install and configure
  • Providing MFA security for a wide variety of platforms
  • Cloud based monitoring and logging
  • Advanced policies such as location, time schedules, and geokinetics

Cons

  • In a competitive market with many free offerings from major players, a paid subscription is hard to justify.
  • Having MFA security on our administrator logins to our servers and workstations was a hard requirement for our cyber insurance policy.
By protecting our administrators with AuthPoint, we reduce the fatigue caused by frequent password changing. We have less concerns for leaked credentials found in the dark web report as we are now alerted by WatchGuard AuthPoint and can also easily monitor our logins through their cloud platform.
The costs to implement MFA for entire workforce through WatchGuard's AuthPoint is not feasible when our users are already configured to use Microsoft's free MFA solution. Password management and dark web credential monitoring may be worth looking into but for our company right now, it does not seem worthwhile to invest in.
We have not yet started to use the password manager. As for the dark web monitoring
capabilities, we check whenever major breaches get reported on the news.
Thankfully for us, there has not been any leaked credentials for
several years. We have not had to worry about any compromised
credentials in a very long time.

Do you think WatchGuard AuthPoint delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with WatchGuard AuthPoint's feature set?

Yes

Did WatchGuard AuthPoint live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of WatchGuard AuthPoint go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy WatchGuard AuthPoint again?

Yes

Amongst providing an MFA solution to a variety of platforms, WatchGuard AuthPoint works amazingly well to provide MFA security to Windows and Mac logins. However if you are looking at enabling MFA for other platforms, there are other free solutions from major players that make it hard to justify the costs involved with WatchGuard AuthPoint.

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