Cisco Duo
By Cisco
The MFA product that made push-to-approve mainstream, now a Cisco product line sold in Essentials, Advantage, and Premier tiers. Pairs phishing-resistant and passwordless factors with device health checks, and remains one of the fastest MFA rollouts for protecting VPNs and legacy apps.
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- Product type
- Software
- Deployment
- SaaS
- Organization size
- SMBMid-marketEnterprise
- Pricing tier
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Capability checklist
MFAHow Cisco Duo measures up against the full MFA & Passwordless Authentication taxonomy.
- Phishing-resistant factors — supported
- Supports FIDO2 security keys and passkeys that can't be relayed or phished.
- Push & one-time-passcode factors — supported
- Offers mobile push approval and time-based one-time codes as second factors.
- Adaptive step-up authentication — supported
- Requires stronger verification only when the login looks risky.
- Biometric authentication — supported
- Uses fingerprint or face recognition built into user devices.
- Device trust signals — supported
- Factors device health and enrollment status into the authentication decision.
- Admin enforcement policies — supported
- Lets admins mandate MFA or passwordless methods by group, app, or risk level.
Alternatives
Other MFA & Passwordless Authentication tools with overlapping capabilities, sized for similar teams.
Appears in stacks
Real-world stacks that include Cisco Duo.
50-person SaaS startup
A 50-person SaaS startup with a small, generalist IT/security team (no dedicated SOC), a remote-friendly engineering culture, dozens of third-party SaaS tools in daily use, and a budget that favors managed and freemium options over heavyweight enterprise suites.
Mid-market SOC
A 500-2,000-employee company with a small, dedicated security team of perhaps three to eight people running a real, if lean, security operations function — a mix of in-house analysts and outsourced help, moderate compliance pressure from customers and regulators, and a budget that has to stretch across the whole security program rather than concentrate on one area.