Portnox Cites Forrester Study Showing 287% ROI and Major Breach-Risk Reduction From Cloud Access Platform

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Portnox is highlighting new independent research from Forrester Consulting that quantifies the business impact of its cloud-native access control platform for large enterprises. Based on interviews with Portnox Cloud customers and modeled on a $5 billion global organization with 50,000 managed devices, the Total Economic Impact study found a 287% three-year ROI, a net present value of $5 million, and payback in under six months.

For executives evaluating zero trust and access control investments, the study points to a 75% reduction in exposure to breach costs from addressable attacks, driven by passwordless, policy-based access and continuous device posture checks. The analysis also reports a 40% cut in networking technology costs through removal of on-premises NAC infrastructure and simplified licensing, alongside an 80% improvement in time to gain secure access, which boosts productivity for distributed workforces.

Operationally, customers cited 95% better network uptime, 90% faster time to value for new deployments, and materially lower dependence on centralized IT teams as they shifted from legacy NAC to Portnox Cloud. Interviewees described prior environments as complex, infrastructure-heavy, and poorly aligned with cloud architectures and diverse device types, which hindered consistent security policy enforcement and regulatory compliance.

By contrast, Portnox Cloud’s out-of-the-box visibility and unified management were credited with enabling faster expansion, including support for growth and M&A activity without proportional increases in security staff or complexity. Portnox’s CEO, Denny LeCompte, framed the findings as validation that replacing credential-based systems with a passwordless, zero trust model can simultaneously cut risk, reduce OpEx and CapEx, and ease regulatory and cyber insurance pressure.

For Portnox, the Forrester TEI results provide third-party economic proof points it can use in enterprise sales cycles and board-level security discussions, strengthening its positioning against incumbent NAC vendors. The company, which markets itself as eliminating the credential vulnerability behind most breaches, now has quantified evidence that its cloud-native platform can both harden security posture and deliver measurable financial returns at scale.