by T. Kent Elliott, CEO, ForeScout Technologies
Every viable security program must start with identifying real vulnerabilities in realtime. Speaking from the White House on the topic of his Cyber Security Plan, President Obama promised to make sure “…the nation’s core digital infrastructure is treated as a national asset.” A national asset, yes, but also a very personal one, the integrity of which affects our quality of life and confidence we hold for the future.
Obama properly pointed out: “Given the enormous damage that can be caused by even a single cyber attack, ad hoc responses will not do. Nor is it sufficient to simply strengthen our defenses after incidents or attacks occur…we have to have plans and resources in place beforehand, sharing information, issues warnings, and ensuring a coordinated response.”
Yes! And “we the people” must also understand what’s included in “America’s digital infrastructure” so we know:
• what systems and resources we are protecting and which are most critical
• who/what may and must not have access,
• the standards for protection and
• how to ensure realtime compliance to those policies
Common understanding leads to comprehensive defense against malicious cyber attacks, essential since everything in the IT infrastructure is interlinked. Everyone must do their part!
ForeScout’s CounterACT appliances safeguard against cyber attacks today, protecting more than 2.5 million devices in 700 of the world’s most secure enterprises, institutions, agencies, and military installations with global deployments spanning 37 countries. This unique position will help us assist the nation in answering and implement realtime solutions for setting and enforcing policies as well as directing remediating for violations to them – before an attach occurs.
Already we control and enforce access at federal, state and local government bodies as well as at highly competitive and at-risk enterprises within banking, trading, oil & gas, advertising, research, retail, manufacturing and entertainment sectors. We work with military counter-intelligence and security experts who operate within the most dynamic forefronts of cyber-surveillance and counter-surveillance today. And we continue to use information gleaned from these engagements to further equip CounterACT to be the industry’s leading anti-cyber-attack appliance.
Realtime visibility exposes realtime vulnerabilities and realtime attacks allowing CounterACT to enforce repair, disconnect or quarantine in a VLAN until repair, erect a realtime virtual firewall around a vulnerable device all through actually directing the switching fabric dynamically. CounterACT follows military countermeasure protocols – instead of only trying to stop every attack (only one needs to get through to destroy a site) – CounterACT identifies and destroys the capability of the himself itself – destruction of the attack point automatically stop all of their attacks – accurately – in real time – 24/7/365 – while continuously monitoring for changes so that real vulnerabilities can be detected and protected before a breach can occur.
CounterACT’s extensive plug-in library enables immediate and straightforward integration with an existing network without the need for wholesale replacement, thus speeding time (reducing cost) to protection.
CounterACT’s underpinning success comes from delivering Realtime Visibility to detect/treat Realtime Vulnerabilities preventing Realtime Violations & Exploits within government agencies and large enterprises.
Please accept our invitation to join us to learn more at our upcoming webinar, “Gaining Visibility and Control of the Dynamic Network with NAC .”
