SecurID Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Reviews & Insights

Score9 out of 10

56 Reviews and Ratings

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TrustRadius Insights for SecurID are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Concise and Simple User Interface: Reviewers frequently mention that the user interface of RSA SecurID is concise and simple, with easily accessible buttons and no ambiguity. Many users appreciate the minimal screen space it uses, which allows for a clean and uncluttered interface.

Fast Pin Number Generation: Users highly praise the speed at which RSA SecurID generates pin numbers. There have been no reported issues of waiting, indicating that the process is quick and efficient.

Ease of Use and Setup: Multiple reviewers describe setting up RSA Authentication Manager as easy and straightforward, even for those who are not technologically inclined. They also find managing RSA tokens to be intuitive and user-friendly.

Reviews

8 Reviews

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

RSA SecurID - Improved Security

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 24, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SecuriID is used for external access to our company network. It enables multi-factor authentication and helps to secure the access. SecurID is preventing illegal access to the organization internal network and applications. SecurID address the need of adding a critical layer of protection since there are a high number of employees accessing network externally.

Pros

Multi factor authentication
Visibility and Control
Reduce unauthorized access risks
Manage trusted identities

Cons

Application APIs
Onboard new user method
Errors Troubleshooting

Likelihood to Recommend

SecurID is well suited for Employees to connect remotely and work from any location. After installation, end customers may simply use it for email or VPN connections. It is indicated for companies who have a high percentage of its employees accessing the network externally. It may not be indicated for companies who just need to provide access to e-mails or basic stuff to the employees.

Fabiano Moraes

Senior Consultant in Professional Services at SAP (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees)

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5 years of experience

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SecurID is streamlined, simple to use, and secure. Allows our users to remote into our servers with no downtime.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 23, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

For our VPN tokens, we use RSA SecureID for authentication purposes. We have been using this product for as long as I can remember, definitely longer than the 6 years I have been using it at my current company. The software boots up extremely quickly, is secure, and works well for our over 5000+ employee workforce.

Pros

Identity management
VPN Tokens

Cons

Additional verification methods other than just PIN number would be nice

Likelihood to Recommend

For VPN purposes, SecurID works great. It boots up quickly, does not take much system resources, and keeps our users secure when establishing a connection to our server. It works well regardless of connection type, whether it's ethernet, home wifi, or public wifi (such as the ones used in the mega-hotels/resorts).

Verified User

Strategist in Information Technology (Information Technology & Services company, 5001-10,000 employees)

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6 years of experience

Scalable and Secure 2FA solution manager

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 24, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using RSA Authentication Manager to manage 2FA (two-factor authentication) across the systems in multiple layers of the technology stack. We use it to ensure VPN security, application security and wifi security using both soft and hard tokens based on which use. For example, at our offshore premises where our security policies prevent people from bringing in smartphone inside the facility, those people are provided with hard tokens to support both onsite and remotely.

Pros

RSA Authentication Manager is easy to deploy and configure.
It is a scalable solution meant for a large enterprise.
Some of the key features of RSA Authentication Manager where it particularly does well are provisioning, mapping, and logging.
It has a very nice console with good administrative and troubleshooting options.
Reliable security for VPN, applications, and wifi.

Cons

The cloud-based 2FA needs improvement in terms of ease of management and performance.
There are some issues that have been reported by our team using MobilePASS authentication.

Likelihood to Recommend

RSA authentication manager is a one-point control over managing 2FA for VPN, application and wifi security. It is a highly scalable solution and works across the technology stack.

Ayub Khan

Project Delivery Manager in Information Technology at Cognizant (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)

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5 years of experience

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Most reliable system I ever used!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 27, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

To sign in to our local network and email accounts. Security is a must in our firm. The company is in constant development, hiring new employees and storing sensitive data. Our head attorneys and their executive assistants manage a lot of confidential information that needs to be protected. The perfect way to do it, in a time where passwords are not strong enough, is to use a SecureID.

Pros

Gives extra security in protecting the unauthorized access to our domain and email.
Helps the security administrators in policy enforcement. Even if a user password is weak the SecureID covers our companies back and let us focus on other threats that can harm our security.
Our customers feel that their information is well treated and secured rising our credibility and showing the level of commitment our company has in keeping data safe.

Cons

I've been a user for more than 18 years. Started with a little square like a pocket calculator, then a dongle, a smaller dongle, and the phone app. RSA is always improving so I'm pretty satisfied with the service.

Likelihood to Recommend

In my humble opinion, if you have to protect your local network from intruders and most of your users are not computer savvy it is a must!

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (Law Practice company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

18 years of experience

RSA SecurID - Still has it's place

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

June 4, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

RSA is being used to add MFA to almost all resources. RSA SecurID provides a good agent which can be deployed to servers (Windows and Linux), workstations, and through RADIUS to just about any end system. The primary use case is to use token and time-based authentication for user-based access to support defense-in-depth. While RSA SecurID has its flaws when combined with other tools, it can help lower the chances for user-based compromise to assets - limiting the risk does not eliminate.

Pros

Token/time-based authentication
Standard admin console which is user friendly
Hard tokens

Cons

Secure-ID only provides token - additional tools are required for password
RADIUS encryption configuration is lacking
Support is difficult to obtain

Likelihood to Recommend

RSA SecurID is great where an agent can be used or for systems that support tiered authentication configuration (LDAP and RSA). For systems that need an authentication mechanism to support Password and Token, RSA SecurID is not right for you.

Alex Waitkus, CISSP-ISSAP, OSCP

Security Architect in Information Technology at Securicon, LLC (Computer & Network Security, 51-200 employees)

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3 years of experience

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The best Access System I've ever used!!!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 31, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use RSA SecurID throughout the organization as a two-way authentication tool for users in the company's multiple systems.
Due to the constant handling of confidential documents of the clients, it is a priority to know in a univocal way who has access to them.

We also use it to validate authorizations, remotely access the corporate network and certify the sender of the emails from the mail server of the organization.

Pros

The authentication of two factors allows the non-repudiation of the authorship of the company's emails, which serves to be used as electronic documentation before the local authorities
Access from the outside to the company network is always a double-edged sword if proper security measures are not taken, and the RSA SecurID allows a level of trust and non-repudiation for employees' VPN connections.
The company uses several other security technologies, but the practicality and ease of SecurID to add new users makes it definitely the best option as an authentication tool.

Cons

I really have no complaints about the tool, because I know its limitations and the best application scenarios.
As for improving, maybe you could improve with biometric authentication in the software token.

Likelihood to Recommend

Authentication of access, email, authorizations in management systems, and remote connections ...

Actually, it is one more layer of security that goes well with everything ...

Carlos Daniel Casañas Bertolo ஃ

Director in Information Technology at Leverage - Advisory & Consultancy (Computer & Network Security, 1001-5000 employees)

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5 years of experience

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RSA, tried and true

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 30, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am currently using RSA SecurID to provide two-factor authentication when connecting to my laptop, as well as servers and web applications. It is being used all across the company and helps increase security by providing a second factor for authentication.

Pros

The soft token allows for multiple tokens within a single application
Temporary tokens are easy to issue users when a token is lost
Configuring a server to use RSA SecurID for a second factor is simple and straightforward.

Cons

The Android application cannot be easily returned to the original code (if you chose to move to the next code).
If misconfigured, it can lock an administrator out of a server.
The look and feel of the RSA control center status bar application have a dated feel.

Likelihood to Recommend

RSA SecurID is well suited for any situation where a company is looking to implement multifactor authentication, whether the company has an internal push to increase security or are adding multifactor authentication to satisfy a particular compliance framework.

Joel Sprague, CCIE

Principal Systems Engineer in Information Technology at JWS Consult (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)

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12 years of experience

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RSA SecurID to enhance your company infrastructure security

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

August 22, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use SecurID to generate secure passwords when accessing company VPN accounts. The product is being used across the whole company.

Pros

Generates random pass codes.
All generated pass codes expire within 60 seconds.
The app requires a pin number to provide access to the pass codes generator for security purposes.

Cons

The UI/UX is very simple and can take some more improvement
There's a lot of room for improving error messages, esp. when the access PIN is not inserted correctly
The app needs to provide a way to reset the access PIN number when forgotten
Limiting the number of times a PIN number can inserted with a shown counter to disable any brute-force attacks

Likelihood to Recommend

SecurID is pretty much a good app to generate continuously changing secure passwords. I would recommend it to all my colleagues. However, I would like to see more UI/UX improvements that provide a more secured feeling to the app, like limiting the number of times you can insert the access PIN, and providing better error messages; in addition to the ability to reset your PIN from the UI.

Verified User

Engineer in Research & Development (Information Technology and Services company, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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