Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager For Secure Network Access
The most advanced Secure NAC platform available
Authenticate, authorize, and enforce secure network access control with role-based network policies based on Zero Trust Security.
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Simplify Network Access and Security
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CPPM Product Features
Implement reliable network access control based on Zero Trust Security.
AI-powered Visibility
ClearPass Policy Manager has built in device discovery and profiling features that can be complemented with AI-powered ClearPass Device Insight or Aruba Central Client Insights.
Robust Authentication
ClearPass authenticates the user or device identity against a wide variety of identity sources such as Microsoft AD, LDAP, ODBC-compliant SQL database, token servers, and internal databases.
Secure Authorization
ClearPass provides authorization based on a user's role, device type and role, authentication method, UEM attributes, device health, traffic patterns, location, and time of day.
Reliable Policy Enforcement
When a security compromise is detected ClearPass can be signaled to take a response action from a wide range of security, network and IT sources.
Powerful Integrations
ClearPass is a vendor agnostic solution and seamlessly integrates with more than 140 security-based partner solutions to provide robust authorization and enforcement.
SSO Support
Single sign-on (SSO) support works with Ping, Okta, and other identity management tools to improve user experience of SAML 2.0-based applications.
Details and Specifications for Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager
| Appliances | ClearPass is available as hardware or as a virtual appliance. Virtual appliances are supported on VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), Microsoft Hyper-V, CentOS KVM, Amazon EC2 & Microsoft Azure. |
| Platform | Deployment templates for any network type, identity store and endpoint; 802.1X, MAC authentication and captive portal support; ClearPass OnConnect for SNMP-based enforcement on wired switches; Advanced reporting, analytics and troubleshooting tools. |
| Framework and Protocol Support | RADIUS, RADIUS Dynamic Authorization, TACACS+, web authentication, SAML v2.0; RadSec (TLS encoded RADIUS); 802.1X-2010, 802.1X-2020; TEAP (Tunneled EAP); EAP-FAST, PEAP, TTLS, EAP-TLS; WPA3; OAuth2 |
| Supported Identity Stores | Microsoft Active Directory; RADIUS; Any LDAP compliant directory; MySQL, Microsoft SQL, PostGRES and Oracle 11g ODBC-compliant SQL server; Token servers; Microsoft Azure Active Directory; Google G Suite |
| Profiling Methods | Active: Nmap, WMI, SSH, SNMP; Passive: MAC OUI, DHCP, TCP, Netflow v5/v10, IPFIX, sFLOW, 'SPAN' Port, HTTP User-Agent, IF-MAP; ClearPass Device Insight; Integrated & 3rd Party: Onboard, OnGuard, ArubaOS, EMM/MDM, Cisco device sensor |
| Certifications | FIPS 140-2 – Certificate #2577; Common Criteria NDcPP + Authentication Server (ClearPass); USGv6 approved |
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