Vendors & Competitors

Question 1

What does Cloudflare do in the realm of zero trust?

Answer 1

Zero Trust Network Access, Secure Web Gateway, DNS Filtering, Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)

Question 2

What does Sophos do in the realm of zero trust?

Answer 2

Zero Trust Network Access. Do more research on this.

Question 3

How old is Portnox?

Answer 3

16 years old as of October 2023

Question 4

Where do we stand with Microsoft as a vendor?

Answer 4

We’re a MS Gold partner and the preferred NAC vendor on the Azure Marketplace.

Question 5

What compliance certifications does Portnox have?

Answer 5

SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001

Question 6

What Operating Systems does the Portnox Agent option support?

Answer 6

Windows, Linux, MacOS, Andriod, iOS

Question 7

How can prospects start a free 30-day trial?

Answer 7

Go to portnox.com/free-trial/ and inter information about their organization. It creates a cloud tenant for their organization.

Question 8

Where is Portnox SaaS data hosted?

Answer 8

Microsoft Azure Storage Service and Azure Cosmos DB in the West Europe Availability Zone for European customers.

Question 9

What’s the first thing you do to set-up Portnox CLEAR?

Answer 9

Set up your Cloud Radius Service, and gather the generated Cloud Radius IP, Authentication Port and Accounting Port to plug into the customer switches or access points to redirect authentication requests to the Portnox RADIUS cloud server.

Question 10

What is LDAP?

Answer 10

Light-weight Directory Access Protocol. Portnox supports:

Question 11

What’s IAM?

Answer 11

Identity and Access Management. Portnox supports:

Question 12

What’s MDM?

Answer 12

Mobile device management. Products include Kanji, JAMF, Microsoft InTune

Question 13

What is SCEP?

Answer 13

MDMs use this protocol as a way to push down certificates to managed devices.