Global protect: separate vendors and employees

[ChuckW]

Setup:

We have one GP portal and one gateway currently, used by employees and vendors.

All GP users are authenticated with Entra and Duo MFA.

We are using a public cert. for the FQDN and a single IP in the current setup.

Vendors are assigned to a different subnet than employees when connecting to GP.

Change:

We want to use the Entra authentication profile to force employees to only use AD-joined devices that are compliant, this feature is available as part of the Entra authentication configuration and would deny connections if the device did not meet the criteria.

If we turn this on, vendors would not be able to connect with their company's laptop or devices.

What is the best way to separate out employees and vendors?

Should we stand up a new portal and gateway just for vendors and copy the current settings over and create a new Entra profile that does not limit the device?

Can we assign by AD group membership, a new, different Entra profile (create a new one for vendors) and use the existing GP setup with minimal modification?

I am looking for the least complicated way of allowing vendors to connect to GP and restrict employees to the Entra restrictions for devices.

Thank you

[Claw4609]

Hello,

How are you currently identifying vendors within Entra? If you have a vendor group you should be able to add that group to the conditional access in Entra to allow them to still be "compliant".

[ChuckW]

Good day,

Thank you for the reply; vendors have AD accounts and are also setup with Duo and in a specific group to differentiate between employees and vendors.

I am not adept at Entra, I would need to get an NA involved for any configuration there, but it seems you are saying there should a way to enforce device compliance for employees and then allows the vendor group to connect by making it compliant?

Sorry if I worded that badly.

Thanks