Company Overview

Corporate Snapshot
Industry
Enterprise Security Infrastructure

Solution
Continuous Monitoring and Mitigation

Customers
As of January 1, 2015, more than 1,800
enterprise deployments in 62 countries

Markets
Financial services, federal government
and defense, healthcare, manufacturing,
education, retail, legal, entertainment
and service providers

Founded
2000

Employees
300+

CEO
Mike DeCesare

Key investors
Accel Partners, Amadeus Capital Partners,
Meritech Capital Partners and Pitango
Venture Capital

ForeScout Technologies is a leading provider of continuous monitoring and mitigation solutions

for Global 2000 enterprises and government organizations. With ForeScout, organizations can
accelerate productivity by enabling people to access corporate network resources where, how
and when needed without compromising security. Our platform fortifies enterprise defenses and
mobility while improving IT effectiveness and return on investment in other security tools.
The companys CounterACT appliance and software modules provide the ability to dynamically
discover, assess, prevent and resolve security exposures, such as: unknown and unwanted users;
devices and applications; unmanaged and unsecure systems; policy violations; and malicious
behavior. Our ControlFabric technology provides bi-directional interoperability between
CounterACT and a broad range of IT security products and management systems to share
intelligence and more efficiently mitigate a wide variety of network, security and operational issues.
ForeScouts solutions are known to be easy to deploy, flexible and scalable. As a result, ForeScout
solutions have been chosen by more than 1,800 enterprises and government agencies worldwide.
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Enterprise IT Security Challenges

One challenge for todays enterprise is how to provide greater network accessibility while enforcing
security standards. Attempting to maintain security policies for various types of devices (known
and unknown, managed and BYOD, PC and mobile, etc.) and different types of users (employees,
guests, contractors) connecting through numerous access mechanisms (wired, wireless, VPN) can
be very difficult without more automated intelligence and management.
Another challenge is how to make better use of traditional IT security systems given todays
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. When viewed as a whole, this conventional approach exhibits a
number of problems such as:
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Inadequate visibility and control over endpoints on the network, especially BYOD devices
Lack of real-time monitoring and continuous diagnostics
Lack of sharing of information between security products, diminishing control context
Lack of automation to respond quickly to exposures and to contain advanced threats

ForeScouts Answer
ForeScout provides solutions to both of the problems listed above. Our ForeScout CounterACT
platform allows IT security managers to see, monitor, and control various things on their network
devices, operating systems, applications and users. Armed with this intelligence, CounterACT lets
the organization automatically phase-in and enforce both network and endpoint security policies.
ForeScout CounterACT is easy to deploy, use and extend. Everything is contained within an
appliance that operates with or without agents and seamlessly integrates into an existing IT
environment. Multiple appliances can be centrally managed to support hundreds of thousands of
devices from a single console. A policy wizard streamlines administration with a built-in, extensible
knowledge base of device classifications, rules and reports to accelerate time-to-value.
Our ForeScout ControlFabric architecture helps solve the second set of problems listed above.
ControlFabric is technology that enables CounterACT and other IT solutions to exchange information,
gain greater operational context and automate actions. ForeScouts ControlFabric partner ecosystem
supports an array of popular network and security products. As a result, IT security managers can
achieve continuous monitoring and mitigation capabilities that better leverage their existing
investments, optimize their IT resources, and enhance their overall security posture.
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Recent Distinctions
Positioned as a leader in Gartner Magic
Quadrant for Network Access Control
2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014
Ranked as top performer in both
product strategy and execution by
Forrester
Earned Frost & Sullivan Global
Technology Innovation Award 2014
Achieved Common Criteria EAL L4+,
the highest level of Security
Certification for Network Access
Control
Secure Computing Magazine 2012
NAC Reader Choice Award; 2013 5-Star
Review and NAC Group Test Best Buy
The Tolly Group Certified 2012
Red Herring 2012 Global Top 100
Startup

Worldwide Offices
Headquarters:
900 East Hamilton Ave.
Campbell, CA 95008
+1-408-213-3191
EMEA: London +44-1256-843633
Israel: Tel Aviv +972-3-6449987
APAC: Hong Kong +852-2411-4388

Product Names
ForeScout CounterACT
ForeScout CounterACT Edge

ForeScout Integration Modules

ForeScout MDM Enterprise

Delivery
Physical and virtual appliance, service platform and cloud
Integrated Solutions
Network access control, mobile security/BYOD, endpoint compliance and threat management
Features & Benefits
Open, standards-based interfaces enable ForeScout CounterACT and other IT security
products to exchange information and automatically resolve a wide variety of IT security issues.
Agentless. CounterACT does not require agents, which means it can be deployed quickly
and works with all types of endpoints managed and unmanaged, known and unknown,
embedded and virtual, authorized and rogue. No client installation is required.
Guest management. CounterACT allows guests to enroll and access your network according
your security standards. Full discovery, authorization and policy-based control minimizes
administrative overhead.
Visibility. ForeScout CounterACT provides real-time, multi-dimensional network visibility,
allowing you to track users, applications, processes, ports, external devices and more.
Extensive mobile device control. CounterACT detects and manages hand-held mobile
devices connected to your Wi-Fi network via automated enrollment, network-based control
and MDM interoperability.
Seamless. CounterACT is an out-of-band, passive monitoring appliance which negates
network rearchitecting and single point of failure risks.
Non-disruptive. Unlike other NAC products that employ heavy-handed controls and disrupt
users, ForeScout CounterACT provides a full spectrum of enforcement options that let you
tailor the response to the situation.
Scalability. A range of CounterACT appliance models are available to accommodate local and
vastly distributed networks of all sizes. A CounterACT Enterprise Manager allows for multiple
appliances to be centrally managed.
IT infrastructure integration. CounterACT supports an extensive range of third-party
networking and security hardware and software such as network switches, wireless access
points, VPN, antivirus, patch management, ticketing, SIEM, vulnerability assessment and mobile
device management (MDM).
Extensibility. Advanced integrations, which are developed and supported by ForeScout, are
available as separately licensed modules that can be added to the CounterACT appliance. In
addition, ForeScouts Open Integration Module allows customers and partners to easily create
custom integrations based on common, standards-based protocols.

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ForeScout Technologies, Inc.
900 E. Hamilton Ave.,
Suite 300
Campbell, CA 95008
U.S.A.

Contact Us
T 1-866-377-8771 (US)
T 1-408-213-3191 (Intl.)
F 1-408-371-2284 (Intl.)
www.forescout.com

2015. ForeScout Technologies, Inc. is a privately held Delaware corporation. ForeScout, the ForeScout logo, ControlFabric, CounterACT Edge, ActiveResponse and CounterACT are trademarks or registered
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