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Top 7 RSA Alternatives 2024

Team Zluri

28th November, 2023

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RSA allows trusted identities to freely and securely access applications, data, and systems. Also, it verifies each employee's credentials before granting them access. However, it may not fit the requirements of every IT team.

RSA Identity and Access Management (IAM) helps IT teams automate the process of granting and revoking access, improving productivity and efficiency. It provides various identity and access management solutions, including identity governance, access management, and identity assurance.

Its identity governance solution provides a centralized platform for managing user identities and access rights across the organization, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and minimizing the risk of data breaches.

Also, it allows IT Teams to control access to their digital resources, including applications, databases, and other sensitive information, by enforcing policies and authentication mechanisms.

Furthermore, its identity assurance feature helps to ensure that users are who they say they are, using various authentication methods such as passwords, biometrics, and multi-factor authentication.

Even though it offers such benefits, it still lags behind because of its limitations. For example, restoring once you forget the pin/password is very tough, which locks you out from accessing an app. Sometimes, the passcode expires without giving any indications, and you have to regenerate it and do the entire verification process, which consumes productive time. 

However, sticking to one tool is not necessary; you can always opt for other alternatives to avail full functionalities that will cater to your IT team's needs and streamline the identity access management process. 

In this blog, we'll list alternative tools that can be more suitable than RSA for your IT process. But before discussing that, let's introduce ourselves.

Zluri

Managing each employee's identity and access permissions manually can be chaotic for IT teams, impacting their productivity and efficiency. So what can be done? The best you can do to mitigate this challenge is to opt for an automated platform to help you streamline the identity access management process. 

If you are looking for one efficient platform, Zluri is the best choice. It is an intelligent automated platform that streamlines access management processes through automation. It allows IT teams to grant the right level of access permissions to the right employee at the right time and can monitor all the access activities from a single dashboard. 

How does it do that? Whenever new employees are hired, it verifies their identity, role, designation, or department they belong to before granting them secure access. You can create and customize onboarding workflow using pre-built templates to automate the process.

With just a few clicks, this will allow you to assign application access to the employees they require to start with their work, such as Slack, Grammarly, Google Docs, and more. While creating the workflow, you will also get an "in-app suggestions" option that enables you to add employees to different groups or channels. Once the workflow is created, you can save it in the "Playbook" for future use.

Similarly, with Zluri, you can create offboarding workflows for employees departing the organization, allowing IT teams to efficiently revoke access and suspend their accounts with just a few clicks, ensuring the former employees don't have any access to the company's data or application. Also, existing workflows can be edited or deleted as needed.

To learn more about Zluri, you can book a demo and check for yourself whether it can cater to your needs.

Pros 

• Zluri provides over 800+ APIs to connect with different systems, enabling custom integrations with a turnaround time of 36 hours and helping to streamline the various IT processes

• It simplifies the login process with the help of SSO capabilities that allow employees to use a single set of credentials to log in, which consumes less time and also enhances the employee experience

• It provides you with a single dashboard to monitor all the employee's access activities, preventing security breaches

• It gives IT teams real-time alerts on unauthorized access attempts so that you can take immediate actions to secure sensitive data from getting hampered 

• It provides you with the ability to customize actions to remove or restrict access to critical apps and users, ensuring that the organization's data remains secure

Customer Ratings

• G2: 4.8 /5

• Capterra: 4.9/5

Here’s the List of Top RSA Alternatives

Below is the list of efficient tools you can consider opting for as a substitute for RSA to streamline your identity access management process.

1. Sailpoint Identity IQ

SailPoint Identity IQ is custom-built for complex organizations, as it seamlessly automates access requests, access certification, and provisioning processes. Also, IT teams can use SailPoint IdentityIQ with its own library of connectors and integrations to govern access to applications.

It conducts timely audits, generates reports on which employees can access which applications, and keeps track of their access activities to avoid security breaches.   

Pros

• It provides you with the flexibility to create custom integrations using SCIM (System for Cross-Domain Identity Management) and REST (Representational State Transfer) connectors 

• It manages all application access in one place for all employees so that they don't have to waste time searching for apps which they have access to

• It allows you to view all access an employee has within the organization, making it easier to monitor employee access activities like logins and logouts and what level of permissions they have 

Cons

• Absence of transparency on request status. It does not notify employees or provide updates on the status of application access requests

• You require a code level of knowledge to debug or troubleshoot issues, so organizations need to make the additional investment in experts which increases Saas expenses

Customer Rating

• G2: 4.4/5

• Capterra: 4.2/5

2. ForgeRock

ForgeRock IAM (Identity and Access Management) is a comprehensive identity management platform that allows IT teams to securely manage digital identities and control access to the apps and systems. It provides a set of tools and capabilities for managing user identities, authentication, authorization, and access control in a centralized manner.

With ForgeRock IAM, IT teams can manage access to applications and data across the entire enterprise, including on-premises, cloud, and mobile environments. It offers a range of authentication mechanisms, including SSO, MFA, and adaptive authentication, which uses risk-based analysis to determine the appropriate level of authentication for each user.

Pros

• ForgeRock offers you the flexibility to customize the authentication/verification process as per your requirement 

Cons

• ForgeRock doesn't provide robust reporting functionalities, you cannot use it for audit purposes

• Its OpenAM certification is quite costly, so it’s not apt for businesses with budget constraints 

Customer Rating

• G2: 4.4/5

3. Jumpcloud

JumpCloud is a centralized identity access management platform that allows IT teams to manage one set of credentials per user and one identity. Its open directory platform enables access to all of your organization’s applications and data from a single platform, no matter where users, applications, or devices are located. It creates a unified authorization and authentication experience across web and password-based apps, also diverse resources such as RADIUS and LDAP. 

Additionally, it uses group-based access control, including automated group suggestions, which enables IT teams to rapidly offer new employees access to applications and data based on their position or department. 

Furthermore, when an employee leaves, it suspends their account and terminates their access to any apps or data with it, enabling IT professionals to protect sensitive information.

Pros

• With the use of Jumpcloud app integration and SSO capabilities, you can significantly minimize the number of passwords that employees need to manage, streamlining the employee experience while simultaneously improving security by reducing password fatigue

• It has the ability to suspend employees from multiple groups when they leave the organization with a single click which is a major time-saver for IT admins. This makes it easier for the IT admins to revoke access to specific applications, ensuring security policies are enforced efficiently and consistently

Cons

• It doesn't have the ability to run a command or a batch of commands on one time basis for automating certain tasks due to which IT teams manually manage it, costing productive time and effort

• At times it locks you out from your own device, and you have to verify/authenticate your identity multiple times to regain access to apps

Customer Rating

• G2: 4.5/5

• Capterra: 4.7/5

4. Rippling

Rippling is an intuitive platform for setting up, securing, and managing users' devices and apps with effective IAM solutions. It facilitates the onboarding automation of employees to the application based on their position and division within the company. Similarly, Rippling also revokes employees' access to all Internal systems after official termination or resignation.

By providing accessible, one-click access to all organization's apps from a centralized dashboard, Rippling SSO boosts efficiency and security across the board. Its functionality allows IT administrators to monitor and analyze the user's app activity in real-time. 

Pros

• It provides you with a centralized dashboard where you can view all the access-related activities from one location, enabling you to monitor the entire access management process thoroughly 

• You can customize alerts as per your requirement like it will notify you when an access request has been raised

Cons

• You cannot update data in bulk, slowing the entire process and impacting productivity and efficiency

• It doesn't allow you to restrict what the employees can view, which increases the risk of security breaches as employees will be able to view crucial data and critical applications that they might try to access

Customer Rating 

• G2: 4.8/5 

• Capterra: 4.9/5 

5. Okta

Okta is a cloud-based Identity and access management platform that helps IT teams grant secure access to apps, devices, and data to employees. IT teams can manage user authentication, authorization, and Single Sign-On (SSO) across different systems and applications.

Also, with Okta, IT teams manage user identities and access to resources from a central location, simplifying identity management and improving security posture. Furthermore, it integrates employee identity seamlessly across your security stack with features like Directory integrations, FastPass, Okta's Risk Engine, and workflows. 

Pros

• With Okta, the verification process gets quite secure. It verifies employees' identity multiple times before granting them access, reducing the chances of cyberattacks and unauthorized access attempts

• You can seamlessly set permissions for employees, and with customization features, you can even modify the access permissions with changes in employees' roles during their mid-lifecycle change

Cons

• Sometimes the notifications are multiplied, like for a single login, you get multiple login notifications, which creates confusion and delays the login or approval process

• It's a complex process to integrate Okta with other applications and requires the involvement of technical expertise. Also, you need to integrate it with each application separately, which is a time-consuming process

Customer Rating

• G2: 4.4/5

• Capterra: 4.7/5

6. Oracle Identity Management

Oracle Identity Management  (OIM) is a security software solution offered by Oracle that provides access entitlement controls functionalities for both cloud and on-premises. With its microservice support, it discovers common access patterns, automates the identity access management process, and optimizes role-based access control. 

Furthermore, it minimizes the complexity of the process for IT teams by providing an easy-to-use access catalogue that suggests provisioning and access requests based on entitlements and roles. Also, for employees, it offers self-service features integrated with Rest APIs and an extensive set of connectors, allowing them to gain quick access to cloud and on-premises apps. 

Pros

• You get the flexibility to customize the OIM platform as per your IT team's specific needs

• You can easily edit and transfer data from one place to another and access all the data with few clicks, enhancing productivity and efficiency as there aren’t any manual intervention 

Cons

• Lacks the capability to assign application certification tasks to multiple users, leading to time-consuming processes

• The data transferring process is slow, due to which users face difficulty transferring data in bulk. For instance, at the time of exchanging data of the new employee from HR to the IT system

Customer Rating

• G2: 3.7 /5

• Capterra: 4.4/5

7. PingIdentity

PingIdentity is an IAM solution with centralized adaptive authentication that offers a seamless user experience. It enables connecting to any application on any device/system simpler for IT teams. This tool provides seamless access to employees that enhance their employee experience. 

Also, it follows a zero-trust security strategy that helps maximise connectivity and minimise friction. It verifies the employee's role, designation, or department during provisioning and accordingly grants authorized access to SaaS apps and data. 

During deprovisioning, it deactivates the employee's account and revokes all access to applications, preventing security breaches or unauthorized access attempts. 

Pros

• Ping utilizes open standards, which increases its interoperability with other SaaS applications. This use of open standards and overall stability makes it a suitable platform to streamline the authentication process 

• This platform ensures employees can safely and securely access organizations' data and applications without the need to remember multiple passwords/usernames by integrating with SSO and MFA

Cons

• Login times out very fast, it doesn't give you enough time to verify your identity or set of credentials, which gets very annoying and disrupts the flow of work 

• At times, the app automatically unpairs from your device, and you have to again setup from the start, wasting time and effort and also delaying your daily IT tasks

Customer Rating

• G2: 4.4/5

• Capterra: 4.7/5

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