We performed a comparison between Aruba Clearpass vs Fortinet FortiNAC based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Aruba ClearPass seems to be slightly more favorable because users consider it to be more scalable and stable than Fortinet FortiNAC. Aruba ClearPass users are also very satisfied with the technical support, and report an ROI as well.
"The support is top notch, expert, and very friendly. "
"The interface is very easy to use and the workflow is quite straightforward."
"What I like best about Aruba ClearPass is its 802.1X certificate-based authentication feature."
"It is a robust product."
"The most valuable features of Aruba ClearPass are the GUI and its ease-to-do configuration. Additionally, we can troubleshoot many things in one window."
"I like the integration options with a multitude of other vendors and Aruba applications."
"The customized modules for guests, the self-registration and login, one license for all, no license for guest users, and the self-integration of sandbox integration are the most valuable features."
"It's a great solution with multi-vendor support. That's always useful."
"It's easy to connect to a VPN without any hassles."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiNAC are access control, automation, artificial intelligence, analysis, and security, and it is a unified solution. You can combine a lot of features within the solution."
"It's a very good solution and one thing I have noted is its simplicity and the ease of the set-up process."
"Fortinet FortiNAC is both scalable and stable."
"The features are more expandable."
"Provides containment and security and and carries out file analysis for cyber theft."
"The product offers good profiling features and can support various vendor products."
"All the features of Fortinet FortiNAC are valuable."
"The implementation can improve because it is challenging to explain some of the concepts to the client."
"ClearPass isn't hard to set up, but it takes a long time."
"I would like to see better integration with the firewall for zeroing out blacklisted users."
"The scalability could improve."
"The setup of ClearPass can be a bit convoluted at times."
"There is room for improvement in terms of scalability."
"The solution should be more precise for VMs and allow for management of the entire system."
"They should include SMP functionalities."
"Classifications and visibility need to be improved a lot. They have to start work on being agentless. Agentless means they need to have strong integration with Windows."
"The user interface and the product's intuitiveness could be improved."
"They need to change or upgrade the technology in the product."
"This solution could be more agile."
"The product could be more user-friendly in terms of GUI."
"The training from Fortinet FortiNAC could improve. Fortinet has to plan for better training for its partners. Additionally, device management should have more integration with other devices, such as new and third-party devices."
"Fortinet FortiNAC could improve its hardware for use with cloud-based firewalls."
"The technical support is bad. We've had to escalate to Tier 2 and Tier 3. My customer relationship manager on the other side of this has stopped returning phone calls and emails, because there has been such a constant back and forth."
Aruba ClearPass is ranked 2nd in Network Access Control (NAC) with 75 reviews while Fortinet FortiNAC is ranked 3rd in Network Access Control (NAC) with 44 reviews. Aruba ClearPass is rated 8.6, while Fortinet FortiNAC is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Aruba ClearPass writes "Easy to use, multifeatured, and reliable policy management platform for identity authentication and new device onboarding". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiNAC writes "I like the solution's native integration with other devices from the same vendor". Aruba ClearPass is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Forescout Platform, Microsoft Intune, Ruckus Cloudpath and macmon Network Access Control, whereas Fortinet FortiNAC is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Forescout Platform, Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, Fortinet FortiClient and Portnox CORE. See our Aruba ClearPass vs. Fortinet FortiNAC report.
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