CCNP Security Identity Management SISE 300-715 Official Cert Guide

Chapter 4

Non-802.1X Authentication

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Describe supplicants and devices without a supplicant

• MAC Authentication Bypass

• Describe the MAB process within an 802.1X framework

• Centralized Web Authentication

• EasyConnect

As described in Chapter 3, “Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) over LAN: 802.1X,” the IEEE standardized on 802.1X as a solution for port-based network access control in the early 2000s. Many predicted that 802.1X would revolutionize networking as we knew it, and no device would be able to plug in and communicate on a network without users identifying themselves and being authorized again. Well, here we are over a decade later, and 802.1X has caught on.

Some thought that all ports would ...