FAQs

Easy FAQ’s

We have a Juniper-Mist Wired and Wireless infrastructure. Do we need to purchase any hardware to enable Access Assurance? No need for any additional hardware to install and maintain. Just few click of buttons and NAC is ON! Note: Mist Auth support for Juniper EX switches requires Junos 20.4R3-S7 or above, 22.3R3 or above, 22.4R2...

Mist Access Assurance – Source IP Addresses

Mist Access Assurance is geographically distributed cloud authentication service. In some cases customers require to whitelist Access Assurance source IP addresses which are used to communicate with external Identity Providers. Juniper Networks recommends to leverage L7 based verification instead of IP based firewall rules, for example validating client certificates for LDAPS communication or validating OAuth...

Passwords vs Certificates for 802.1X

Passwords vs Certificates – TL;DR Understand your use-cases. Select the right authentication method (802.1X or MPSK) that has the right balance between security vs client and user capabilities. Certificates are always recommended especially as a long-term solution, current onboarding mechanisms provide good way to control cert provisioning at scale for all your client population. Use...