Press Releases
December 13, 2011 
ForeScout Technologies Recognized as a Leader in the 2011 Magic Quadrant for Network Access Control
"Key Report Highlights:
-A consistent record of growing faster than the NAC market, and proven ability to win large deals
-The highest visibility among pure-play NAC vendors, particularly in the government and financial sectors
-Strong marks for scalability, with some of the largest active deployments of all vendors
-Clientless approach that eases the support for a wide variety of endpoints, particularly in BYOD environments
-Users continue to cite ease of deployment and flexible enforcement methods as a primary selection criteria"
December 1, 2011
ForeScout Sponsors Network World CISO Webcast “Mitigating Modern Attacks”
"Cyber criminals are more advanced and organized – outgunning traditional countermeasures. What can commercial and government IT organizations do to alleviate risks, coordinate defenses and protect themselves from modern cyber-attacks? This Network World “CISO in the Know” webcast, sponsored by ForeScout, presents proven process and technology considerations that InfoSec professionals can put to immediate use to mitigate modern attacks."
November 22, 2011
ForeScout CounterACT Achieves Common Criteria EAL 4+ and Offers the Industry’s Highest Level of Security Certification for Network Access Control Solutions
"ForeScout has achieved the industry’s highest level of security certification for a NAC solution involving assurances from the EAL 4+level... provides ForeScout’s government and other clients with high confidence in the implementation of security mechanisms in CounterACT."
November 16, 2011
ForeScout CounterACT Named SC Magazine 2012 Reader’s Trust Award Finalist
"ForeScout CounterACT helps IT organizations optimize end user productivity and network accessibility through security automation....Our automated security control platform affords IT organizations unfettered yet secure network connectivity while reducing operational costs associated with guest networking, endpoint compliance, mobile security and remediation tasks.”
November 1, 2011
ForeScout Introduces NAC-as-a-Service Platform for Managed Service Providers
“IT organizations seek the speed, expertise, resources and predictable expenditure advantages that managed security service providers can offer, but until now, did not have enough confidence to consider NAC as a managed service. ForeScout’s CounterACT platform, proven in hosted and private cloud environments, enables service providers to extend their security portfolio with necessary deployment and service level confidence.”
ForeScout Introduces NAC-as-a-Service Platform for Managed Service Providers (UK)
“Axial Systems recently designed a robust managed NAC solution for Traveloge, the fastest growing budget hotel chain in Europe, using ForeScout CounterACT... ForeScout CounterACT represents a highly valued offering within Axial Systems’ portfolio of network and security solutions... packaging offers service providers a well-grounded opportunity to market NAC.”
ForeScout Achieves MSPAlliance Vendor Accreditation
“MSPAlliance is the world’s largest Professional Association and Certifying Body for the Managed Services Industry… VAP is a benchmark for vendors who sell to the MSP community… vendors are assessed in areas such as financial stability, positive channel practices, product research and development, and MSP customer satisfaction.”
October 26, 2011
ForeScout Sponsors SANS Analyst Webcast: “Your Pad or Mine?” – Enabling Personal and Mobile Device Use on the Network
How do you design, measure and enforce the necessary policies, procedures and countermeasures needed to allow personal mobile devices on your network?
What are the key technical and business considerations in order to manage security, accessibility and risk? Join our interactive panel, led by security expert Mark Kadrich, to examine real-world issues and critical success factors with regards to employing NAC to apply guest networking, BYOD (bring your own device) and endpoint security policies.
October 11, 2011
ForeScout Extends Technology Alliance with McAfee and Achieves ePO Certification
"ForScout CounterAct is McAfee ePO certified... Customers are fervently seeking solutions that will provide visibility and automated control over managed devices, and now, personal mobile devices including laptops, netbooks, tablets and smartphones… tightly integrating ForeScout CounterACT with McAfee ePO offers a combined approachthat closes the gap on a variety of endpoint security and compliance challenges that plague IT organizations."
September 28, 2011
headtechnology Distributes ForeScout CounterACT in Eastern Europe, CIS and Central Asia
“The main objective of this partnership is to extend ForeScout’s presence and solutions across different markets throughout our CEE and Central Asian region. headtechnology will be actively expanding and building upon its existing channel network by recruiting local partners, and providing regional expertise and know-how. headtechnology also brings to ForeScout its strong industry reputation and established relationships, and a proven track record of working with key decision makers in the enterprise and corporate sectors,”
September 12, 2011
ForeScout Teams with HP ArcSight to Further Automate Risk Management, Compliance and Remediation Processes
“From a single HP ArcSight ESM console, customers can now dynamically gain rich endpoint configuration, access, identity and security information, as well as readily enforce security policies and mitigate threats enterprise-wide by leveraging ForeScout CounterACT. This will empower enterprises to further automate risk management, compliance and remediation processes.”
September 7, 2011
ForeScout Named “Best Buy” in SC Magazine Group Test of Network Access Control
"A great number of administrative and NAC-related features with choice of hardware or virtual appliance... An intuitive and slick reporting dashboard with many useful features and granular options under the hood... A good amount of flexibility in the deployment considerations including using existing 802.1x features... Easy asset classification which makes reporting and filtering the data easy."
August 24, 2011
City of Guelph Fortifies PCI Compliance & Mobile Security with CounterACT
"One thing that stood out is that ForeScout blended easily with our infrastructure, which is mainly Microsoft, Cisco and HP. Other NAC vendors required changes such as new switches, in-line devices and agents on desktops. We were able to implement the ForeScout NAC without making changes to our infrastructure," said Network Security Specialist, Shibu Pillai.
August 3, 2011
ForeScout Names Sam Davis Vice President of Business Development
Sam Davis, vice president of business development, fortifies ForeScout’s investment in strategic and channel partnerships. Davis, a proven industry veteran, brings 25 years of experience with a wealth of business development experience in global channel development, as well as strategic and revenue-bearing partnerships from companies both large and small.
July 20, 2011
ForeScout Launches Access Partner Program to Accelerate Channel Sales and Service Opportunities
Read the release for: US | UK | Australia | Germany | Korea | Singapore | Spain
ForeScout's new Access Partner Program features additional sales incentives, consulting services and a new self-service, interactive portal for channel partners designed to facilitate sales enablement and demand generation. It empowers resellers, systems integrators and service providers with the means to successfully market and deliver services around ForeScout’s award-winning automated security control platform.
July 13, 2011
ForeScout Sponsors SANS Webinar on What Works to Prevent Network and Host-based Attacks
Hosted by the SANS Institute, join speakers Alan Paller, director of research for the SANS Institute, and Waqas Akkawi, senior manager of global information security at SIRVA Inc., as they discuss drivers, technology tradeoffs, and implementation considerations with regards to automating controls across network access, endpoint compliance and threat prevention. Security practitioners are encouraged to register for the July 22nd (11am EDT) SANS What Works webinar at: https://www.sans.org/webcasts/whatworks-blocking-network-based-attacks-automating-network-access-endpoint-compliance-thr-94593
June 29, 2011
ForeScout Offers Network Access Control Competitive Trade-In
In conjunction with the recent report, “The Forrester Wave™: Network Access Control, Q2 2011,” which ranked ForeScout Technologies the top rated performer in both strength of current product offering and strategy, ForeScout invites IT organizations to trade in their current NAC product and take advantage of ForeScout’s award-winning CounterACT Virtual Appliance at an attractive discount.
June 14, 2011
ForeScout Positioned as a Leader in Network Access Control Industry by Independent Research Firm
ForeScout Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of automated security control solutions for Fortune 1000 enterprises and government organizations, has been confirmed as a leader in Network Access Control (NAC) solutions in the June 2011 report “The Forrester Wave™: Network Access Control, Q2 2011.” The report ranks ForeScout as the industry’s top performer in both strength of current product offering and strategy. ForeScout has been chosen by more than 1,000 of the world’s most secure enterprises and military installations for global deployments spanning 37 countries.
June 6, 2011
ForeScout Delivers Network Access Control (NAC) Virtual Appliance
Award-winning CounterACT™ Network Access Control (NAC) solution is now available as a virtual appliance. The integrated solution delivers real-time visibility and comprehensive control over who, how, when and what devices, including guest VMs, are connecting to enterprise networks. With ForeScout CounterACT Virtual Appliance, organizations can readily deploy and scale-out CounterACT leveraging their VMware investment.
May 18, 2011
WhiteConcierge Chooses ForeScout CounterACT to Achieve Continued PCI DSS Level 1 Compliance
Europe's leading B2B lifestyle management and concierge service has selected the ForeScout CounterACT platform to help it achieve continued PCI DSS Level 1 compliance — the highest level of civilian data security in the world. "Unlike the other NAC products we looked at - including Cisco - ForeScout CounterACT provided the flexibility we demanded to fit our network environment and was easy to administer, which kept staff training time to a minimum. It has also helped us enormously in automating security policies and allowing us to draw excellent reports, which clearly explain, and demonstrate, our level of compliance."
April 14, 2011
ForeScout CounterACT Wins Bench Tested Product of the Year at Network Computing Awards 2011
ForeScout was awarded "Bench Tested Product of the Year" by Network Computing. Judged on the product's capability and application, ForeScout CounterACT version 6.3.4 surpassed 12 other vendors in this prestigious category that gauges technical merit and suitability for purpose.
March 22, 2011
ForeScout Gives Organizations Real-Time Visibility and Control Over Smartphones, Tablets and Wireless Devices
ForeScout CounterACT™ platform delivers real-time visibility and control when employees and guests use mobile and wireless devices, such as smartphones and tablets like Apple iPad, to access corporate networks. With ForeScout CounterACT, organizations gain productivity by enabling people to use the mobile devices they like while keeping network resources and data secure. ForeScout CounterACT overcomes the complexity, administrative burden and constraints of conventional network infrastructure and endpoint protection approaches. Enhanced release features include: mobile security, real-time, agentless visibility and endpoint control, greater guest registration options, and increased scalability.
February 23, 2011
Info Security Products Guide names ForeScout Best Overall Security Company of the Year at the 2011 Global Excellence Awards
Security Products Guide, the industry's leading information security research and advisory guide, has awarded the company, Best Overall Security Company of the Year. More than 50 judges from a broad spectrum of industry voices from around the world participated and this industry recognition was due in part to ForeScout market leadership, growth and innovation.
February 10, 2011
ForeScout Announces New Vice President of Worldwide Marketing
Scott Gordon, 20-year hi-tech marketing veteran, joins team to extend ForeScout's leadership in Network Access Control (NAC), threat prevention and endpoint compliance.
January 26, 2011
ForeScout Reports 2010 Bookings Growth of 44 Percent
NAC market leader credits rapid Rise in Threats, Demand for Greater Access Enablement and consumerized IT as factors driving 44 percent year-over-year bookings growth, as well as profitability achievement for the second half of 2010. The announcement comes after seven continuous quarters of strong expansion across a number of industries, especially financial services and government, which are using network access control to fortify security, compliance and access agility.
