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ForeScout Continues To Deliver Innovative Security Technology by Offering Clientless Network Access Control as a Part of Its Intrusion Prevention Platform

CUPERTINO, Calif.—August 29, 2005—ForeScout Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of network-based Intelligent Intrusion Prevention™ security solutions, today announced the release of CounterACT 5.0, a major new version of its security appliance for suppressing malware and espionage anywhere inside an enterprise network. In addition to its intrusion prevention capabilities, CounterACT 5.0 now offers Active Network Integrity™ (ANI), a clientless access control module that allows administrators to create and enforce granular network access policies that provide an extra layer of security and regulatory compliance for enterprise networks.

With version 5.0, CounterACT reaches a new level of automation and security by being the first product to combine network intrusion prevention with clientless network access control. The appliance improves network security through the following new tools:

Active Network Integrity
A powerful engine that lets administrators create and enforce granular security policies governing network access without the need for software agents or any prior knowledge of the endpoint. Once network access rules are defined, the engine immediately propagates policy across the network automatically, blocking or quarantining endpoints that do not meet the security policy criteria.
Network Information Portal
Gives help desks and security/network/IT personnel a state-of-the-art search engine for leveraging network information correlated by CounterACT and CounterACT plugins. In addition to streamlining security event management, the portal satisfies regulatory compliance requirements including event/employee correlation of security events and network security incident reporting.

CounterACT is the industry's most trusted solution for protecting networks against self-propagating threats in real-time. Its patented Active Response™ module employs a unique methodology that detects and protects networks from the ever growing threat of self-propagating malware, hackers and internal espionage.

This is accomplished without human interaction or any form of signature/pattern file update. Combining real-time prevention of "zero-day" threats with Network Access Control provides an additional layer of protection against self propagating threats unknowingly carried by legitimate end users.

"CounterACT 5.0's new capabilities add a significant security layer that improves enterprise network protection and ensures business continuity," said T. Kent Elliott, chief executive officer of ForeScout Technologies. "By setting and enforcing policy to the furthest reaches of a network, administrators can create a consistent, well-defined infrastructure that guarantees business continuity and protects from unknown endpoints. Because the new Active Network Integrity policy engine is clientless, there is no need to install software on network clients or affect end user behavior."

CounterACT 5.0's new network control components come with a variety of plug-ins that support seamless integration with network infrastructure devices. This enables administrators to leverage existing network elements such as routers and switches, by enabling them to dynamically block threats. The appliance deploys easily within any existing infrastructure and with no disruption of network operations; its minimal administrator requirements ensure low TCO (Total Cost of Ownership).

Improved Active Assessment
Active Assessment, the vulnerability scanning and prevention module of CounterACT 5.0, has been improved with scheduled as well as real-time vulnerability scanning. In addition to running scans in the background, administrators can now institute a network policy rule that immediately responds to vulnerable machines detected during the scan.

Active Assessment also provides automatic protection of vulnerable hosts, as well as contains the vulnerabilities at the switch or router to prevent the threat from penetrating protected network segments. Security policies protect the network from non-compliant hosts by using CounterACT's connection blocking, and enforce remediation of the discovered weakness.

New Console Control Center
CounterACT 5.0 features an upgraded Control Center user interface to provide a unified, intuitive display of all three CounterACT modules: Active Response, Active Assessment, and Active Network Integrity. A network policy view provides information about hosts that have violated policies, while the vulnerability assessment view provides detailed information about vulnerable hosts. Administrators also have single-click control over active sources, vulnerable hosts, and hosts that have violated policy rules.

Availability
CounterACT 5.0 is currently installed at several beta locations and will be generally available on August 29, 2005.

About ForeScout Technologies, Inc.
ForeScout's clientless network access control (NAC) solutions enable customers to implement and enforce network access policies of both managed and unmanaged devices in both a pre and post connect mode to gain complete control over network security without disrupting end-user productivity. ForeScout's flagship product, CounterACT, combines network access control and signature-less intrusion prevention in a single network appliance that interrogates and enforces controlled access of every device while seamlessly integrating with any existing IT infrastructure. ForeScout's NAC is completely transparent and enables enterprises to tailor enforcement to match the exact level of each policy violation, eliminating disruptions during device interrogation. Today, Fortune 500 corporations and government agencies have deployed ForeScout appliances globally controlling access to their networks and resources, defending against hackers and self-propagating malware, and ensuring business continuity. ForeScout's headquarters are located in Cupertino, California.

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