Case Study: Schuman Cheese achieves unified wired and WiFi access control with Portnox

American Dairy Company Leverages Hybrid NAC Services from Portnox

Schuman Cheese, an American dairy company with more than 400 employees and $500M+ in annual revenue, needed better control and visibility across dozens of wired ports and a busy WiFi environment used by over 200 people daily. After evaluating legacy on‑premise options like Cisco ISE, the company chose Portnox, deploying Portnox CORE for wired network access control and later testing Portnox CLEAR for cloud‑delivered WiFi NAC to solve inconsistent visibility and difficult management.

Portnox implemented a hybrid NAC approach—CORE on‑premises for per‑port visibility and CLEAR in the cloud for WiFi—delivering immediate, measurable benefits: unparalleled port-level visibility, simplified administration compared with ISE, and a CLEAR WiFi test that took “literally ten minutes” to set up with Portnox support. The Portnox deployment enabled Schuman Cheese to enforce consistent access policies across sites during the pandemic, reliably support 200+ daily wireless users, and streamline ongoing NAC management.

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Andrew Sayegh

IT Infrastructure Administrator