Portnox CORE software on Windows Server platform, directly connected to all elements of the network infrastructure and continuous monitoring of all devices connected to the network. Portnox supports many ways to interact with network equipment, including SNMP, telnet, SSH, always showing a complete and accurate picture of the network. Portnox polls every connected device it finds to verify its type, corporate compliance, authenticity, and even the identity of the user. All this is done without the involvement of agent software, using over 25 different profiling and authentication methods. Based on all the data found, Portnox makes a decision about the possibility of connecting each device by a specific user to a specific location, port, access point.
Portnox CLEAR is an affordable cloud-based NAC solution that is easy to deploy and easy to manage for businesses of all sizes. Portnox CLEAR can be installed, configured, and deployed in minutes — all the complexity of 802.1X deployments, continuous wireless management, and more is transferred to the cloud. Unlike most existing «cloud» NAC solutions, which are focused only on wireless communication channels, Portnox CLEAR works regardless of the access method. Portnox also supports agentless Active Directory authentication and MAC address management tools to support the growing number of IoT devices that cannot be as easily authenticated with an agent or AD.