The security fix that eliminates staff password sharing

Solve an enduring and costly security problem with a solution that's simple to deploy and manage

Any partner working with enterprise, corporate, or campus clients knows the secret security gap: staff WiFi.

Every organization struggles with the same problem: The Pre-Shared Key (PSK) for the "Staff WiFi" is written down somewhere—on a Post-it note, in a shared document, or simply passed verbally between employees.

While this shared password seems convenient, it creates a serious security problem and a massive administrative burden for your clients.

If the same password is used by dozens or hundreds of employees, you lose visibility into who is on the network. If a malicious actor gains access, the only fix is changing the password for everyone and interrupting daily operations across the organization.

This legacy approach to authentication breaks down in three key ways, costing your clients time and money:

Security blind spots: When everyone shares one password, you cannot trace network activity back to a specific individual.

Manual overhead: Staff turnover requires IT to manually manage and revoke access. If the answer to revoking access isn't "immediately and automatically," the client has a problem.

Frustrated users: Every time a security issue forces a password change, staff waste time reconnecting and IT spends time addressing support tickets.

The shift to identity-centric networks

The solution is not more complex network hardware; it's an identity-based networking model.

Purple provides the infrastructure layer that connects your client's existing identity systems (the source of truth) directly to their WiFi network. This deployment process is fast and removes the need for expensive, time-consuming on-premise RADIUS servers or complex certificate management projects.

Instead of asking, "Is this device on the right network?" the system asks, "Who is this person and what should they be able to access?".

This identity-first approach delivers three core benefits that eliminate the password sharing problem permanently:

1) Passwordless, secure provisioning

Your clients have already invested heavily in identity management tools like Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), Google Workspace, or Okta. Purple lets them actually use that investment to manage network access.

For your reseller team, this simplifies deployment. You provide enterprise-grade security without the typical administrative burden or user friction found in traditional WPA2/3-Enterprise rollouts.

2) Automated lifecycle management

The manual task of provisioning and deprovisioning access for staff is a major pain point and security gap for IT teams. Purple eliminates this gap by automating the JML (Joiners, Movers, Leavers) process:

Provisioning: New staff members simply sign in with SSO to get online. This removes the need for IT to manually configure devices.

Revocation: When a user is disabled in the IdP, their ability to authenticate to the network is revoked immediately.

This continuous synchronization means network access privileges always reflect the current state of the user directory without manual intervention. This dramatically reduces helpdesk tickets and closes a critical security loophole.

3) Unique security per user

By moving to an Identity-Based Network, every single user connection gets its own encryption key.

Individualized encryption: Unlike WPA2-Personal where everyone shares one key, our reliance on WPA2/3-Enterprise (802.1X) ensures that every session uses a unique, dynamic session key. This makes "sniffing" traffic virtually impossible for others on the same network.

Dynamic policies: Network policies—like specific VLANs, Access Control Lists (ACLs), or bandwidth limits—are applied dynamically based on the user's role in the IdP at the moment of connection.

This gives your clients the control of a Zero Trust network, ensuring that every user, device, and connection is verified and assigned the least privilege necessary.

A powerful partner advantage

Purple is an overlay solution, meaning it works seamlessly with any 802.1X-compatible access points, including Cisco Meraki, Aruba, Ruckus, and Juniper Mist.

When you partner with us, you're not just selling a new WiFi product; you're solving an enduring and costly security problem with a solution that's simple to deploy and manage.

This focus on simplifying complex enterprise security is a powerful advantage for your sales conversations and client retention.

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