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Forescout Platform

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What is Forescout Platform?

Forescout Technologies headquartered in San Jose actively defends the Enterprise of Things by identifying, segmenting and enforcing compliance of every connected thing. Forescout boasts a widely deployed, enterprise-class platform at scale across IT, IoT, and OT managed and unmanaged devices. Forescout arms customers with device intelligence, in order to allow organizations across every industry to classify risk, detect anomalies and quickly remediate cyberthreats without disruption of critical business assets.

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A great compliance solution with an edge.

Incentivized
Pauline HarrisView profile
Account Specialist in Finance and Accounting at Northwestern Mutual (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize its visibility capabilities to monitor and protect our network from unauthorized devices as it segregates rogue devices and ensures only company-owned assets are connected. Also it makes sure it can recognize what versions of applications are running on what devices at all times and mitigate risks that may come by.

Pros

  • Rogue devices detection and segregation.
  • Guests registrations.
  • Visibility of devices that are connected to our system.

Cons

  • They should have more training for the versions of applications they update.
  • It would be great if the GUI would be more aesthetic in appearance.
  • Nothing else as the application is amazing.

Most Important Features

  • Guests registrations.
  • Visibility capabilities
  • Compliance management.

Return on Investment

  • We have been able to achieve deeper levels of security.
  • It has been able to counter most threats through the detection of rogue devices and segregating them.
  • Fostered accountability as guests' devices is signed in by employees so as to track activities they may be undertaking.

Alternatives Considered

Aruba ClearPass

Other Software Used

Pexels, Avanan, Bitwarden

A complete network access control solution

Incentivized
Shirleen MurayaView profile
Branch Manager at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It has helped with protecting our organizations data from unauthorized devices that may try to connect to our network.
It has also enabled us in keeping separate devices not owned by the organization that connect to our network by putting them in a guest network where the guests registrations are signed by the employee they are visiting.

Pros

  • Great in monitoring what applications versions are running and on what devices.
  • Good identification of unmanaged devices and segregating them.
  • Endpoint visibility.

Cons

  • It can be quite complex in initial configurations.
  • Would be great if the GUI were more interactive.
  • Everything else works great.

Most Important Features

  • Threat detection
  • Intergrated appliance
  • Guests registrations

Return on Investment

  • Security of our data by blocking out unauthorized access to our network
  • Deeper understanding of endpoint compliance
  • Efficiency in action due to faster detection of threats from rogue devices.

Alternatives Considered

Aruba ClearPass

Other Software Used

OpenText Alloy (formerly Liaison), Webex Meetings, QuoteWerks

CounterACT the best central manage solution for NAC needs

Incentivized
Eduardo RamirezView profile
Senior Cyber Security Engineer in Information Technology at Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc. (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use CounterACT to manage all other NAC across all our sites, and we used this for detection and mitigation on Layer 2 switches only at this time but the plan is to start to use it for remediations also!

Pros

  • Internal Early detections for threats
  • Mitigation across all our Layer 2 networks

Cons

  • Definitely Netflow V9 integration

Most Important Features

  • Mitigation for sure

Return on Investment

  • So far, ROI has been positive as we can avoid more significant security issues for internal networks.

Alternatives Considered

Forescout Platform (CounterACT)

Other Software Used

Vectra Cognito Platform, ExtraHop Reveal(x)

Forescout Continuum Review

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Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are giving greater triple layer security to our networks within the company, Forescout Continuum generates recent support for what we do at a programmatic level, the biggest challenge we had with the company was to be able to stabilize the knowledge of dangerous points that had to be vilndar to avoid intrusions from other networks, separate sectors so that departments of a site cannot enter files of others without authorization, Forescout Continuum has allowed us to learn more and solve more than enough.

Pros

  • Particularly, it helps us to examine vulnerable network points with an exhaustive audit, and with that audit we can generate strategic plans to improve failures, start screening with new programs according to departmental sectors or at the company level.
  • It generates continuous developments in the field of networks, we can control in this sense the income and expenses, blockades and also notifies us of dangerous situations within the company, generates reports and alerts an email in charge of the appropriate personnel through alarms.
  • What I liked the most is that it can generate separation of devices on PCs, mobiles, android and linux operating systems, it can generate separation in that sense and generate a very good order.
  • It gives us a holistic look at what has problems and what doesn't.

Cons

  • I refuse to speak badly about the software, it is a software in continuous development, I think it is one of the best we have had, in this sense, according to the needs for extra security in networks, the program is capable of leading several areas within the company and generates a good administration in network security.

Most Important Features

  • The order is crucuail, it simply gives us the best order and management for our company.
  • In the sense of security and alerts by notification, it creates a quite friendly environment that allows us to always be relaxed.
  • Secret keys, and permissions to authorized managers, we can program this situation very well by department.

Return on Investment

  • Me still haven't fully paid for the software, but there are a few months left, in that sense I think we have saved costs by 20% avoiding repairing computers and losing information due to viruses or misconfigurations.
  • Much more time to devote to other tasks.
  • High notification plateaus to be able to repair.

Complete Compliance Officer - Forescout NAC

Incentivized
Harmesh Trivedi
Project Lead in Customer Service at Doyen Infosolutions (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Complete visibility of devices connected in your network
  • Non-compliant system managed by Forescout can be controlled by restricting access
  • Implementation with heterogeneous network infrastructure
  • Windows level processes running on endpoints can be identified
  • Restrict non-corporate domain/guests systems connecting to network
  • Integration with patch management tools

Cons

  • Grow the Forescout community to help in addressing concern for a larger audience via channels
  • More training and demos for latest FS versions released
  • GUI can be made more interactive and aesthetic in appearance

Return on Investment

  • Visibility - where we estimated x number connected in the network but in reality, it was more like 2x on the network.
  • Gives complete breakup of assets identified in segments of the organization. Helps to understand the number of computers, printers, VoIP's, CCTV's, etc
  • Risk of non-domain systems connecting on the network is reduced and the operational tasks can be focused elsewhere.

Alternatives Considered

Aruba ClearPass and Pulse Policy Secure

Other Software Used

Netskope Public Cloud Security, McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, Microsoft Teams