Aruba ClearPass Exchange
Open third party integration for endpoint controls, policy and threat prevention
ClearPass Exchange supports a wide range of third-party IT systems, giving you the benefit of a coordinated defense where all components operate as one fully-integrated system.
Why ClearPass Exchange?
While billions of Wi-Fi enabled smartphones and tablets connect to enterprise networks, it's a major challenge to ensure security while also delivering an exceptional user experience without creating a provisioning nightmare.
That challenge is complicated by the fact that IT still relies on multiple, disparate systems like network access control (NAC), enterprise mobility management (EMM), policy management, firewalls, guest management, single sign-on solutions, helpdesk and trouble-ticketing systems. IT needs a better way to secure the mobile enterprise. More importantly, the security products and management systems that have been deployed must be able to exchange contextual data and work together to provide increased visibility from top to bottom.
Aruba ClearPass Exchange supports a wide range of third-party IT systems, giving you the benefit of a coordinated defense where all components operate as one fully-integrated system.
Make Better-Informed Decisions
ClearPass collects valuable contextual data for policy decisions
As the gatekeeper for incoming access-layer traffic, Aruba ClearPass performs profiling, authentication and authorization of users and devices. In this role, ClearPass Policy Manager collects a wealth of valuable and authoritative contextual data such as:
User Identity
The identity of users connecting to your network
Device Status
The current status and posture of a device
Location
The location of the connected user and device
This data is gathered from numerous internal and third-party systems through one-way and bidirectional communication. To simplify the sharing of context, ClearPass supports data exchange methods via APIs, Syslog messaging, and the use of an integrated repository called ClearPass Extensions.
Integration Partners
ClearPass integrates with a wide range of third-party systems
Key Integrations
Seamless integration with enterprise systems
Integrating EMM with a NAC system is critical as BYOD and Internet-of-things (IoT) proliferate in the workplace. EMM systems share contextual data about devices and makes it easier to enforce network policies using attributes gathered by an EMM agent.
ClearPass offers rich bidirectional integration with multiple Tier 1 EMM vendors, including MobileIron, AirWatch by VMware, Citrix XenMobile, JAMF Software, IBM, SOTI, and SAP Afaria.
Next-generation firewalls feature traffic classification that natively inspects all apps, threats and content. ClearPass integration extends the policy enforcement capabilities of these firewalls beyond simple IP address and directory-based user identity information.
Now you can enforce policies based on user and device, guest network, and non-directory identity information. This is crucial to handle the volume and diversity of devices that connect to enterprise networks.
SIEM systems let you aggregate all security events for data correlation and possible coordinated enforcement actions with other systems. Sharing NAC/AAA data with these solutions is essential to any access layer security strategy.
ClearPass integrates with SIEM systems like LogRhythm, ArcSight and Splunk to share session logs, audit events, event records and other syslog data. Contextual data shared by ClearPass enables SIEM systems to rapidly pinpoint security threats and policy violations.
Building an Adaptive Defense
Coordinated security for the mobile enterprise
Integration between best-of-breed IT systems, including the sharing of contextual information, is the key to a coordinated defense. It's the type of security that is needed in today's mobile enterprise, where more and more Wi-Fi-enabled mobile devices are connecting inside and outside of your enterprise security perimeter.
Instead of taking a siloed approach where your existing systems are blind to each other's actions, ClearPass Exchange provides bidirectional visibility through the power of integration. With ClearPass, it's easy to integrate a variety of systems – from access layer, EMM and network security products to hospitality, payment and messaging systems – and trigger http-based workflow actions with the open platform of your choosing.
IT benefits from greatly enhanced workflow automation. End users benefit from self-service and a vastly improved user experience. And above all, your enterprise benefits from coordinated, adaptive security that's purpose-built for today's dynamic and highly mobile environment.
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