Based on Portnox’s commissioned Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study and third-party review data.
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Most access tools were built for a world with one kind of identity: the human user. Today, your network fields access requests from IoT devices, service accounts, contractor laptops, and AI agents, many of them unmanaged, and some trusted at login but risky minutes later. Portnox was built to evaluate and govern all of them, continuously, from a single enforcement layer.
Today’s Challenge
Modern networks span wired closets, wireless controllers, remote users, and cloud-managed infrastructure like Meraki, ExtremeCloud, and Juniper Mist. Most NAC was built for a single, on-prem network, so it sees a fraction of what’s actually connecting today.
The result is a patchwork of policies and blind spots. IT teams juggle multiple consoles, chase down unmanaged devices manually, and lose nights and weekends to on-prem NAC maintenance instead of actually reducing risk.
Portnox’s Solution
Portnox overlays your existing network infrastructure with one cloud-native access control layer. Every device, wired, wireless, remote, or guest, is discovered, evaluated, and governed under a single set of policies, no matter which cloud networking platform sits underneath.
Continuous risk monitoring replaces one-time login checks. When a device’s posture changes, Portnox acts automatically, restricting, re-segmenting, or remediating access without a ticket or a truck roll. Zero maintenance, zero on-prem footprint, and one dashboard for the entire network.
Portnox unifies access control across wired, wireless, remote, and guest networks, without adding hardware or headcount.
Layer unified access control on top of Meraki, ExtremeCloud, Juniper Mist, and other cloud networking platforms you already run.
See every device connecting to your network, managed, unmanaged, BYOD, or IoT, the moment it shows up.
Assess endpoint risk around the clock, not just at the point of login.
When a device falls outside policy, Portnox restricts or re-segments it automatically, with no manual response required.
No on-prem appliances, patching, or upkeep. Portnox scales and updates itself.
Apply distinct, policy-based access for guests and contractors without opening up the rest of the network.
Use a built-in certificate authority to move users and devices off passwords entirely.
Protect access to routers, switches, and other critical infrastructure with cloud-native TACACS+.
Common questions about cloud-native network access control
Unified access control brings network, application, and infrastructure access under one set of policies and one enforcement layer, instead of managing separate tools for each.
No. Portnox overlays your existing switches, wireless controllers, and cloud networking platforms like Meraki, ExtremeCloud, and Juniper Mist. There’s no rip-and-replace required.
Portnox discovers every device that connects, profiles it automatically, and applies policy before it can create exposure, whether it’s managed, unmanaged, BYOD, or headless.
Portnox can automatically restrict, quarantine, or re-segment a device the moment its risk posture changes, without a manual ticket.
Yes. Portnox applies distinct, policy-based access for guests and contractors, separate from your core network.
Most teams are live in hours. Portnox is cloud-native, so there’s no on-prem hardware to rack, patch, or maintain.
Yes. Portnox secures wired, wireless, and remote access under the same policies, so hybrid teams get consistent enforcement wherever they connect.
Yes. A commissioned Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study found a 287% three-year ROI and a 75% reduction in breach risk for organizations using Portnox.
Bring wired, wireless, and remote access under one policy, without adding hardware.