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.
"Aruba ClearPass's most valuable feature is dynamic segmentation."
"What I like most about Aruba ClearPass is its access tracker that serves as its monitoring feature. The access tracker is really helpful when you want to troubleshoot authentication failures."
"The most valuable features of Aruba ClearPass are the authentication mechanisms and the integration with Active Directory(AD)."
"Support is decent."
"The most valuable features of Aruba ClearPass are its ease of use and the general network access controls."
"Access Tracker is invaluable for troubleshooting access control incidents and quickly getting to the root cause."
"It's a great solution with multi-vendor support. That's always useful."
"It is a very stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Compliance checks are a good feature. Compliance check is for windows updates and for antivirus updates, etc."
"This solution is very easy to implement and use. The interface is user-friendly."
"The product offers good profiling features and can support various vendor products."
"Compared to other NAC vendors, Fortinet’s user interface is more user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is having visibility over the IoT devices on the network."
"I like FortiNAC's integration with other Fortinet devices. They work together well, but the solution also works with other network devices."
"It's a very good solution and one thing I have noted is its simplicity and the ease of the set-up process."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the user-friendliness, the graphical interface, and the technical support. The interface is very nice and the customization is good."
"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."
"TLS authentication onboarding in Aruba ClearPass needs to be improved. The biggest problem we've seen in our environment is Huawei not being able to get onto Google Play. No Huawei device can be onboarded via Aruba ClearPass easily."
"I would like the area of managing wired technology to be improved. Wireless is very good but I'm still struggling a bit to do my end to end configurations in the wired technology area."
"Configuration should be more easy to understand between the link of two topics."
"We have had some issues with the installation of Aruba ClearPass."
"I would like to see better integration with the firewall for zeroing out blacklisted users."
"The scalability could improve."
"Licensing cost is extremely high."
"The platform must enable troubleshooting."
"The product could be more user-friendly in terms of GUI."
"I hope that Fortinet can add a feature with a remediation mechanism when you find a broken piece so that you can click on something and download the needed update or resolve the firewall issue more easily. Currently, we have to use an external remediation server to download updates."
"One of the biggest issues with Fortinet FortiNAC is that it is not intuitive and has a high learning curve."
"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."
"They need to change or upgrade the technology in the product."
"Keeping the hard disk on the one series will be easier for the distributor and will keep the prices lower for the customer."
"Fortinet FortiNAC's documentation should be improved because there's not much debugging or troubleshooting documentation for the Fortinet FortiNAC."
Aruba ClearPass is ranked 2nd in Network Access Control (NAC) with 75 reviews while Fortinet FortiNAC is ranked 4th 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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