Managed Service Providers


IT organizations are coping with growing demand for greater and more varied access to network resources while at the same time managing the inherit risks of personal and mobile devices in their enterprise… We believe ForeScout’s NAC deployment and management advantages as well as service provider packaging assure MSPs greater opportunity to successfully deliver NAC-as-a-Service”

-Robert Ayoub, Global Program Director, Frost & Sullivan Information and Communications Technology Practice.

Download Frost & Sullivan Whitepaper: The Business Advantages, Considerations and Requirements for NAC-as-a-Service

 

“ForeScout CounterACT represents a highly valued offering within our portfolio of network and security solutions.”
- Ade Omotomilola., head of managed service, Axial Systems



“Our customers have had great success with ForeScout CounterACT and we are pleased to offer NAC-as-a-Service, which well complements our managed offerings.”
- Oscar Perez, manager of IT Services, DTXT

ForeScout Service Provider Advantage, Differentiation and Opportunity.

Q. In a world of managed firewall, IPS, VPN, web filter, anti-malware and logging services, how can service providers securely and profitably extend their service portfolio to provide greater value to their current customers and attain new business opportunities?

A. ForeScout CounterACT

NAC-as-a-Service Challenge

Network access control (NAC) solutions have eluded the service provider mainstream due to deployment limitations, operational disruptions and service complexity. Most approaches have infrastructure restrictions, agent management and enforcement overhead, long implementation cycles and heavy capital commitments – all of which impact success and add costs for both the service provider and their customers.

The Solution

All the enterprise-class features that make ForeScout the leading NAC platform with over 1000 commercial, government and military installations worldwide, make it the best-in-class solution to be implemented as a hosted or managed service.

ForeScout CounterACT meets and exceeds the requirements of IT organizations and service providers for NAC-as-a-Service.

ForeScout Advantages for IT Organizations

  • Out-of-band physical and/or virtual appliance architecture
  • One integrated appliance – asset inventory, guest account management, automated registration, enforcement, user self-remediation and auto-remediation
  • Agentless scanning and enforcement with optional persistent and dissolvable agents
  • Access authentication; users and guests as well as managed, mobile and unmanaged devices
  • Real-time device profiling and auto-classified inventory
  • Flexible policy creation, application and management
  • Wide breadth of enforcement options
  • Post-admission monitoring

ForeScout Enables Service Providers

  • A broad range of physical and virtual appliances models supporting rapid implementation and on-demand scalability
  • Fully integrated – all functionality in one appliance means less CPE equipment to deploy, manage and maintain
  • Robust interoperability – works with a customer’s existing environment to yield faster and less costly implementation and greater addressable market
  • Agentless discovery with device and user monitoring allows for non-disruptive deployment and policy testing
  • Support for 802.1x and non-802.1x environments to enable broader device coverage even for unmanaged devices and legacy infrastructure
  • Built-in and extensible device fingerprinting, policy templates and reporting accelerates time-to-value and service customization
  • Broad enforcement options that support monitor-only, alerting and logging, phased activation and workflow logic to respond to a variety of violation and security issues
  • Semi-to-fully automated controls and remediation options to optimize security personnel, streamline response, and assure meeting SLAs
  • Scalable – manage multiple appliances from one RBAC-enabled administrative console; end-to-end configuration, policy management, operational visibility, control and auditing
  • Subscription licensing with on-demand model upgrade
  • Broad marketing, training and technical support
  • MSPAlliance Vendor Accreditation

Contact us today to learn about ForeScout CounterACT NAC-as-a-Service, and to be connected with our network of authorized service provider partners. Email msp@forescout.com.

ForeScout Service Advantage, Differentiation and Opportunity.