Network Access Control for Secure, Policy-Driven Infrastructure

Ensure Secure Access To Your Private Networks With Access Controls

Modern enterprise networks must securely support employees, contractors, guests, and an expanding universe of IoT and BYOD devices connecting across wired, wireless, and VPN environments. Without centralized policy enforcement, organizations quickly lose visibility into who and what is accessing critical systems. Network Access Control (NAC) provides a security framework that authenticates users and devices, evaluates their posture, and enforces policies before granting access to the network.

Aruba Networking ClearPass Policy Manager (CPPM) provides robust network access control with granular role-based policies for authentication, authorization, continuous monitoring and enforcement. Its highly interoperability feature helps customers to leverage their investment in earlier security products.

Aruba ClearPass gives you comprehensive and precise profiling, authentication and authorization for your users and guests, your systems, and devices trying to access your IT resources. It’s a rock–solid, affordable solution to control access to your network

HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Policy Manager provides role and device–based secure network access control for Internet of Things (IoT), BYOD, corporate devices, as well as employees, contractors, and guests across any multivendor wired, wireless and VPN infrastructure.

With a built-in context-based policy engine, RADIUS, TACACS+, non-RADIUS enforcement using OnConnect, device profiling, posture assessment, onboarding, and guest access options, ClearPass is unrivaled as a foundation for network security for organizations of any size.

Enterprise networks are rarely built on a single vendor’s infrastructure. Aruba ClearPass is designed to operate across heterogeneous environments, integrating with multi-vendor switches, wireless networks, firewalls, and identity providers. By acting as a centralized policy engine, ClearPass enables organizations to enforce consistent authentication, device profiling, and access policies regardless of the underlying network hardware. This allows security teams to maintain uniform access control across existing infrastructure while avoiding costly rip-and-replace network upgrades.

With ClearPass, organizations can deploy wired or wireless using standards-based 802.1X enforcement for secure authentication. ClearPass also supports MAC address authentication for IoT and headless devices that may lack support for 802.1X. For wired environments where RADIUS based authentication cannot be deployed, OnConnect, offers an alternative using SNMP based enforcement.

HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass is the only policy platform that centrally enforces all aspects of enterprise-grade access security for any industry. Granular policy enforcement is based on a user’s role, device type and role, authentication method, UEM attributes, device health, traffic patterns, location, and time of day.

Hararei can implement Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager to deliver identity-driven network access control across a multi-vendor infrastructure, enabling precise device profiling, role-based access policies, and continuous monitoring of every connection. The result is a secure, policy-driven infrastructure that ensures only authorized and compliant devices can reach corporate resources while maintaining seamless connectivity for legitimate users.

Aruba ClearPass provides device posture control to ensure endpoints meet defined security standards before network access is granted. Using its OnGuard capability, ClearPass evaluates device health during authentication by checking attributes such as operating system version, antivirus status, firewall configuration, and overall compliance with corporate policies. These checks can be applied across wired, wireless, and VPN connections. If a device fails validation, ClearPass can restrict access, place the device into a remediation network, or apply limited access policies until the issue is resolved. This approach prevents vulnerable or noncompliant endpoints from reaching sensitive resources while maintaining seamless connectivity for trusted devices.