We performed a comparison between Aruba ClearPass and Impulse Point SafeConnect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, HPE Aruba Networking, Forescout and others in Network Access Control (NAC)."What I like best about Aruba ClearPass is its 802.1X certificate-based authentication feature."
"Aruba ClearPass has complete NAC features."
"It has an easy to learn web GUI and command lines."
"The solution has been working well."
"It is a very stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"ClearPass's best feature is its comprehensiveness."
"We find that at the end of the projects we manage, all functionalities perform quite well. We've tested it a lot and find it to be overall a very good solution."
"Gives us network access control, visibility, scalability, security, and control in what is becoming an uncontrollable, inundated BYOD and IoT world."
"It is very easy to scale the product."
"I would like to see is “AAS”. Not only Aruba APs with central, but NAC/ClearPass, AirWave, and everything licensed as a Service. This way, like AWS, they can spin up what they need when they need it and vice versa."
"The user interface could be more polished and modern. It would be useful to have more options for automation."
"The implementation can improve because it is challenging to explain some of the concepts to the client."
"The improvement can be in the cloud area. They can improve it for the cloud so that we can deploy it on the cloud."
"There is room for improvement in the support."
"Like most security products, ClearPass is difficult to deploy. You need to use the CLI to implement security products from any vendor, so configuring the authentication is complicated."
"Configuration should be more easy to understand between the link of two topics."
"The solution needs to upgrade its user interface. Right now, it's not so user friendly, and it's an aspect that my clients' wish was improved upon."
"The solution would be much better if it offered self-service onboarding."
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Aruba ClearPass is ranked 2nd in Network Access Control (NAC) with 75 reviews while Impulse Point SafeConnect is ranked 17th in Network Access Control (NAC). Aruba ClearPass is rated 8.6, while Impulse Point SafeConnect is rated 8.0. 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 Impulse Point SafeConnect writes "Easy to scale, enforces policies well, and has responsive technical support". Aruba ClearPass is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiNAC, Forescout Platform, Microsoft Intune and Ruckus Cloudpath, whereas Impulse Point SafeConnect is most compared with Forescout Platform.
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