Duo Essentials
Get everything you need to manage and safeguard your identities out of the box. Duo's security-first Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution includes Duo Directory, phishing-resistant Multi-factor Authentication (MFA), complete passwordless, single sign-on (SSO), AI Assistant, and Trusted Endpoints verification for every organization.


Identity security? Check. Access management? Duo check.
Duo Essentials instantly equips your organization with an Identity and Access Management solution that takes a security-first approach to managing and protecting your users’ identities, succeeding where traditional IAM solutions fail.
Duo Essentials Includes:
Simplify security for everyone in your organization
Duo Essentials includes our modern secure single sign-on solution and our popular complete passwordless authentication solution to help organizations take user productivity to the next level. With Duo, users don’t have to be inconvenienced at login, enabling strong security and high productivity.


Protect tens of thousands of users
With Duo Essentials, you can quickly protect every user with a range of user provisioning options, including Advanced Directory sync, bulk enrollment, and user self-enrollment. These options allow for accurate and frictionless Duo user enrollment, helping to ensure that all of your organization's users are protected.
Your admin’s best friend
Duo Essentials also offers advanced administrative management features, including Admin APIs that enable automated and scalable administrative management, providing a 360° view of users, devices, tokens, and applications with Duo.
Duo Essentials At-A-Glance
Identity security and access management simplified
Securing and managing identities across your organization doesn’t need to be challenging. Duo Directory, Duo’s IdP solution, can serve as your source of truth for user directory, primary authentication, attribute management, and more. Get zero trust identity and access management that reduces friction, increases security, and lowers costs for all.
Modern MFA that's phishing-resistant
Duo’s modern MFA solution prevents security breaches by stopping the use of stolen credentials and thwarting MFA bypass attacks. With Proximity Verification, Duo delivers phishing resistance without extra hardware or added complexity.
As simple as it is secure
The key to strong security is usable security. Duo users appreciate the simplified user experience that SSO provides them — login just once to access all approved applications, securely.


No more “I forgot my password”
Give your users a secure, end-to-end passwordless experience. With Complete Passwordless, organizations can completely eliminate passwords from the entire authentication process. Duo not only secures the login, but also protects other vulnerable steps of the identity lifecycle like enrollment time, fallback (when backup authentication methods are used), and when helpdesk requests are made. This helps reduce password-related IT costs while simultaneously boosting organizational security.
Micro-manage device trust
With Duo's Trusted Endpoints verification, administators can block access from unknown devices and allow only known, registered endpoints, whether they're company-issued or personal BYO devices, to access resources.
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