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Side-by-side from public catalog data. 2 vendors.

These vendors overlap in only Identity & Access Management — the product rows below reflect that; you may be comparing vendors for different needs.

Trust profileHow to read thisFive separate questions, each answered from that vendor's own evidence. There is deliberately no overall score and no combined shape — a single number would mostly reflect how much of each vendor we have managed to scan, not how they compare. Not checked means we have not looked yet and is never counted against a vendor, so a row of "not checked" is not a tie-breaker. Full evidence for each vendor is on its own page.

DimensionOktaCisco
Independently verifiedHas anyone other than the vendor confirmed this?Limitedchecked 3 of 4Limitedchecked 3 of 4
Operating durabilityIs this a real, durable business?Strongchecked 3 of 4Strongchecked 3 of 4
Behaviour under stressWhat do they do when something goes wrong?Limitedchecked 2 of 3Limitedchecked 2 of 3
Disclosure postureDo they tell you the awkward things unprompted?Strongchecked 2 of 3Limitedchecked 2 of 3
MomentumAre they still shipping, or coasting?Limitedchecked 1 of 2Limitedchecked 1 of 2
AttributeOktaCisco
Websiteokta.com ↗cisco.com ↗
StatusUnclaimedUnclaimed
CategoriesIdentity & Access Management, MFA & Passwordless, CIAMEndpoint Detection & Response, Network Firewall (NGFW), WAF / DDoS / App Protection, Email Security, Identity Threat Detection and Response, Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems
Total products1410
Public materials (datasheets, whitepapers, case studies)6 found →867 found →
Certifications (compliance claims, keyword-matched)None foundNone found
Security headers (vendor's own website)4/54/5
Publishes pricing (vs. “contact us”-only)NoNo
Publishes a status pageNoNo
GitHub org (open-source presence)Yes →Yes →
Domain registered (RDAP, registry record)2004 →1987 →
DNSSEC (their own domain)NoNo
CAA (restricts which CAs can issue certs)Yes →Yes →
Trust center (live compliance portal)Yes →No
HSTS preloaded (HTTPS enforced from the first connection)NoNo
Strengths (neutral, vendor-sourced)
Identity & Access Management: Broad workforce and customer identity cloud with a large app-integration network and strong SSO, MFA, and lifecycle automation.
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Gaps / watch-outs
Identity & Access Management: Public materials emphasize access-management breadth; deep PAM and fine-grained governance are less central than SSO and lifecycle.
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Identity & Access Management
  • Adaptive MFA
  • Identity Governance
  • Identity Threat Protection
  • Lifecycle Management
  • Okta Customer Identity Cloud (Auth0)
  • Okta Single Sign-On
  • Okta Universal Directory
  • Okta Workforce Identity
  • Okta Workforce Identity Cloud
  • Privileged Access
  • Single Sign-On
  • Universal Directory
  • Cisco Duo
CIAM
  • Auth0 Platform
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Email Security—
  • Cisco Secure Email
  • Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense
Endpoint Detection & Response—
  • Cisco Secure Endpoint
  • Cisco XDR
Identity Threat Detection and Response—
  • Cisco Identity Intelligence
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems—
  • Snort Open Source
MFA & Passwordless
  • Okta Adaptive MFA
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Network Firewall (NGFW)—
  • Cisco Secure Firewall
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE/SSE)—
  • Cisco Umbrella
WAF / DDoS / App Protection—
  • Cisco Web Application and API Protection (WAAP)