Use Cases

See how you can deploy HPE Mist Networking Access Assurance for managed devices, guest devices, IoT devices, and BYOD use cases.

HPE Mist Networking Access Assurance supports several uses cases including:

Table 1: HPE Mist Networking Access Assurance Use Cases
Use Cases	Examples	Types of Access	Access Management Features
Managed devices	Corporate-owned user devices such as mobile devices, PCs, laptops, wireless access points and other devices.	Corporate network and public Internet	Access management through policy enforcement on devices and users of corporate networks
Guest devices	Visitors such as vendors, partners, customers, and sponsored guest devices	Public Internet and limited intranet	Self-registration through captive portal and sponsor-controlled access Limited access to a selected area of the network to ensure appropriate network segmentation and to restrict network access to internal resources
Unattended devices (Internet of Things (IoT))	IoT and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) devices deployed in corporate environments	Very limited intranet access	Access policy based on discovered or profiled device category Network segmentation and restriction of network access to internal resources
BYOD	Employees who use their own devices such as smartphones, tablets, or laptops or use company devices from remote locations	Job-related company resources and the public Internet	Self-provisioning portal for the end user to get personal preshared key (PSK) through single sign-on (SSO)