ForeScout Technologies

ForeScout enables organizations to continuously monitor and mitigate security exposures and cyber attacks. The company’s flagship CounterACT™ appliance dynamically identifies and assesses network users, endpoints and applications to provide visibility, intelligence and policy-based mitigation of security issues. ForeScout’s open ControlFabric™ technology allows a broad range of IT security products and management systems to share information and automate remediation actions.

Enterprise IT Security Challenges

One challenge for today’s enterprise is how to provide greater network accessibility while enforcing security standards. Attempting to maintain security policies for various types of devices and users connecting through numerous access mechanisms can be very difficult without more automated intelligence and management.

Another challenge is how to make better use of traditional IT security systems given today’s dynamic and complex network and an evolving threat landscape. Traditional IT controls are based on the reliance on endpoint security software, periodic vulnerability scans, and multitude of security products. This defense-in-depth model is a best practice, but results in a huge amount of data and often-isolated controls.