Aruba ClearPass Primary Use Case
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PratapDhali
Network Support Engineer at HDFC Life
Right now we are using Aruba ClearPass as a Network Access Control (NAC) solution. The primary purpose is resource service authentication, posture check, and rule enforcement.
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We use Aruba ClearPass as a network access control solution. It prevents unauthorized access and allows access for users in the internal environment, performing checks and onboarding.
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Adrian Samareanu
Chief Digital Officer at Clarity AI
I use the solution primarily for network access control. I have worked massively with Cisco over the last year, and I have also started to use Aruba.
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Aruba ClearPass
July 2025

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David Field
Owner at Channelserve
Device onboarding is quite a significant part of our use, primarily for wired devices. We are also using it for a wireless portal. The focus has been on securing the wired ports.
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I work as a consultant for Aruba ClearPass, and I do not manage it directly. My primary use cases include onboarding, posturing, and guest management.
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Mahesh Sankhe
Project Manager at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
I used Aruba ClearPass for guest access, BYOD, and other network access controls. I installed it at various client locations, including an enterprise where the clients were not fully utilizing the solution.
View full review »We have network access control in our field and a contract with a local company that supports many implementations and makes changes, not that we start from scratch. Having local support makes it much easier.
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Dawit Berhanu
Network Engineer at a outsourcing company with 11-50 employees
Three passes work better than other NAC products on identifying the VoIP devices and IoT devices with built-in features. On Guard and agent-based On Guard features are included under the use case.
View full review »We use Aruba ClearPass for network access control, managing authentication, authorization, and policy enforcement. It ensures secure and compliant access across diverse organizational environments and supports integration with existing network infrastructures.
View full review »It provides network access management.
View full review »I use the solution for automatic authentication. We purchased access license 1K and use it with our WiFi networks and user LANs. Our company domain uses authentication through Active Directory. We also have a central MSP account from where we are managing 53,000 devices.
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MuhammadNaeem
Network & Information Security Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have a wireless network for guests and employees. That is one of the biggest use cases for ClearPass.
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NaveenKumar21
Senior IT Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 1-10 employees
We use the solution for security.
View full review »My prior company used the solution to integrate multiple environments such as Cisco, Aruba wireless or wired devices, and BYOD cases.
View full review »We're using Aruba ClearPass for policy management, security health check, and authorization, as well as assistive network by Active Directory or Google mail.
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Arun Giri
Unit Nos at Orange
I mainly use ClearPass to issue and authenticate certificates.
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Eddie Khogal
Subject Matter Expertise for Aruba Mobility at VELASPAN, INC
I've used the solution in the retail industry. We use it in hospitality as well. It's very secure in terms of authentication.
View full review »We use Aruba ClearPass for customers to ensure that whatever devices are entering the network have the correct posture. For example, they have the correct operating system and antivirus, and the firewalls turned on.
View full review »Aruba ClearPass is used for managing and identifying users.
View full review »I'm not the one who deployed this solution. However, there are many use cases.
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Ajith Mathew
Network Team Leader at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
It is a network access control solution used to authenticate users. We use it for wifi certificate-based authentication. It is also good for automatic onboarding and fingerprinting, like automatic device classification. This allows us to control devices automatically and have role-based authentication. For example, for Windows and Mac, we can define a specific role, and it will automatically go to that role. We can also enable free wifi guest authentication.
There are so many features in Aruba ClearPass that our company hasn't even utilized all of them. It is beneficial from a security perspective because not everyone can connect to our wifi without going through an authentication process using a corporate device or a corporate email ID. The solution confirms the credentials before they can connect to the wifi.
View full review »Our clients use Aruba ClearPass for identity authentication on their local area network and their Wi-Fi. For one of our clients, we're using the OnGuard function for health checks, and we're also using the Guest Captive portal.
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Heraldo Conceicao
Network Administrator at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
We use ClearPass to authenticate users and have a product in development that will use NAC solutions. In addition to these, we also use ClearPass for network access control and guest management.
View full review »We are using Aruba ClearPass for authentication purposes.
View full review »Our clients use Aruba ClearPass since it is a NAC solution.
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Moshiur RahmanKhan
CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The primary use case of ClearPass is for network access control, wireless access and policy enforcement. We use it for authentication, verification and authorization, and then patch it to our users. We are system integrators.
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Patrik Sjöberg
Senior konsult at IT-Total Sweden AB
I have a few customers that are using Aruba ClearPass.
View full review »We use Aruba ClearPass for our authentication server and also integrate it with our active directory. We also use the endpoint function of the solution.
View full review »We have Aruba ClearPass installed on a VM.
We are using Aruba ClearPass for our data needs, and authentication for local networks. We are adding some additional features to control clients using agents. We installed an agent for clients and it controls many things such as if the firewall is enabled or the antivirus is up-to-date.
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ASHRAF ALI HASSAN
Senior Manager Network Design at MEEZA, Managed IT Services Provider
Aruba ClearPass is used for enforcing certain security policies all around the organization, it covers certain security policies, which is in turn, is deducted from the business requirements. You start with a security policy, then you need technology to enforce it, this is where Aruba ClearPass is used.
View full review »We mainly use it for 802.1X authentication.
View full review »My company uses Aruba ClearPass mainly for the initial goal we set during the initial setup of the solution, which includes Network Access Server (NAS) and backup. We use the application in our company with almost all the features it provides.
I use this solution for securing company-wide logs.
I'm using the latest version. It's deployed on the public cloud. Microsoft Azure is the cloud provider.
Everyone in our organization uses this solution. It's about 300 people. There are four people who specifically operate the solution, do daily checks, check for errors, and help users who are having trouble with their login sessions.
If for example, a user in my office received a particular VLAN for the USA and relocated to the UK, they will not get the same access. This is the challenge that we are trying to achieve through the CPPM.
View full review »We use ClearPass for access points. We are primarily working on hospitality projects, including some major hotels in Saudi Arabia. They only allow Aruba and Cisco, so we need this product.
View full review »We recently implemented ClearPass for a ministerial-level government agency with 2,500 users.
View full review »We are a system integrator, and we are a prized reseller and a partner of Aruba and Fortinet. Usually, our clients send a request for network access control type of issues. So, we are fulfilling these types of requirements with the help of Aruba ClearPass and Fortinet FortiNAC.
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George Branis
Business Develop Manager at Cosmos Business Systems
ClearPass provides authentication solutions for endpoints.
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Raimundo Falque
Technical Department at Telenor Comunicaciones
Our primary use case is for security.
View full review »My clients primarily use the solution to control access to the network or their sites. If a computer is not recognized by ClearPass, it won't be able to gain access.
View full review »We use the solution for basic user authentication, authorization, and accounting purposes.
View full review »I use ClearPass for network access control, profiling, and security.
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DANNYLEE
Head Of Consulting Services at Eastech Systems Limited
Aruba ClearPass could be deployed on-premise in the cloud.
View full review »I am using Aruba ClearPass for 802.1X and backup indication.
View full review »I mostly use ClearPass for network separation.
View full review »We are a gold partner of Aruba. We have deployed it in different educational institutions. It is mainly being used by the students. They onboard their mobile devices on ClearPass so that they can use them securely, and the IT team can have more visibility on the product. This is the main use case for ClearPass.
View full review »We are using Aruba ClearPass for network access, such as system authentication, user authentication, and some post-checking.
View full review »We use Aruba ClearPass for Nutanix and TECHx.
View full review »I use this solution when I need deep authentication regarding security issues, passwords and so on. ClearPass is also available on the Captive Portal. We're also finding that customers with many IOT devices are interested in the product. We are customers of Cisco and deploy this solution for our customers.
Our primary use is network access control at the endpoints.
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Marius Matijošius
Networking Architect at Telia Lietuva, AB
Our primary use case is providing services for this solution. We've done a big proof of concept for Clearpass in our company. And another recent case I prepared was a proposal for one of our biggest customers regarding a solution for network access control. Clearpass was practically the heart of that solution.
My position in the company is independent. The company sells end products and services from various vendors and Aruba is one of them. We do the implementation.
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AlejandroLison
Project Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
We are a solution provider and this is one of the products that we implement for our clients.
View full review »We use this solution mainly for NAC, network access control.
View full review »Our primary use case for Aruba ClearPass is to use it in IoT services.
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David Kariuki
Manager, Systems Technology at Ketraco
1. To improve overall security by segmenting the Guest and Corporate Vlan.
2. To Manage BYOD in the organization.
3. To provide visbility on my corporate network using one management dashboard environment for the devices
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Morris Chen
Technology Manager at MediaTek
We use this solution for controlling the security of our wireless network.
View full review »We used ClearPass for wireless 802.1x Authentication in a large campus deployment (more than 10,000 access points).
We are also going to use it for our guest WiFi access solution. I would like to promote its use for wired network authentication as well.
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John LeBrun
Solution Design Engineering at Cigna
OnBoard, OnGuard, SSO and IntroSpect UEBA, including Palo Alto integration. These are valuable from engineer to C-level executives, who want visibility, performance, statistics, and a platform which can take action for them without manual intervention, saving time and money.
View full review »ClearPass is the best Network Access Control "Swiss army knife" out there right now. It can do 802.1x (WPA2-Enterprise) for WiFi and LAN. It also has one of the slickest guest captive portal experiences and workflows out there, along with an easy, drop-in BYOD application.
I have not had too much experience with OnGuard, the endpoint integrity feature, but it does that too. With all of the ClearPass integrations and RADIUS Change of Authorization (CoA), it is possible to login wired or wireless endpoints based on a variety of identity stores, then create and associate security policies, e.g., DACLs, based on a device.
Dynamically provision VLAN assignments, i.e., no more "color-coded ports", write Palo Alto Networks (PAN) NGFW policies that are associated with a specific user (rather than IP address), and quarantine or drop an endpoint off the network in an automated manner if an incident is detected.
All of this, naturally, comes with a lot of details in implementation, but my experience was, like all things InfoSec, implementing the controls is easy if you already have a clear, documented, executive-supported policy that you are using as the control to enforce. Otherwise, the control gets blamed for what is really a lack of clarity and leadership regarding the underlying business policy.
View full review »We use the platform to improve network security.
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Dmitry Spomza
Consultant at Lantec
We use Aruba ClearPass for our network access system, particularly for authentication.
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Suhaib Al-Khatib
System Engineer at Neogenesis technical solutions
The solution is used for integration with the third party. If you are not selective of the switches in Juniper or Huawei, then the third-party scan integration of ClearPass is distinct.
View full review »Our primary use case for Aruba ClearPass is network access control at various levels, from the base to the highest level. Most of our customers deploy it on-premises.
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Aruba ClearPass
July 2025

Learn what your peers think about Aruba ClearPass. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: July 2025.
860,825 professionals have used our research since 2012.