ForeScout Mobile
Get real-time visibility and unified network access policy management for everything on your network—wired and wireless, managed and unmanaged, PCs and handheld devices.
ForeScout Mobile
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Overview
For IT security managers who are looking for a way to extend security controls to personal mobile devices (BYOD) when they are connected to the enterprise network, ForeScout Mobile provides a powerful, integrated and easily deployed solution. ForeScout Mobile is an add-on to ForeScout CounterACT, extending the capabilities of CounterACT to provide unified security management for everything on the network regardless of the type of device (PC, Mac, tablet, smartphone), the type of connection (wired, wireless, VPN) or the owner of the device (corporate or personal).
ForeScout Mobile comes in two different forms: ForeScout Mobile Security Module provides native integration and control for iOS and Android devices. ForeScout Mobile Integration Module provides rich integration between ForeScout CounterACT and your existing third-party MDM system.
ForeScout Mobile Security Module
The ForeScout Mobile Security Module for Android is a CounterACT plug-in and a lightweight app for Android devices. The app collects hardware, software and configuration information for each device on which it is installed and reports this to the CounterACT appliance. This allows CounterACT to determine the compliance of the Android device, restrict network access on the basis of that information, and send automatic notifications to users to help them remediate security problems.
ForeScout Mobile Security Module for iOS natively supports iOS devices such as the iPad and iPhone by employing the Apple Mobile Device Management API and the Apple Push Notification service (APNs), both of which are built into the iOS 4 operating system. Hardware and software inventory details are collected by the iOS device and delivered to the CounterACT appliance. From the CounterACT console, you can configure iOS policies and profiles and apply them to devices that are connected to the WiFi network or over VPN. Actions such as device lock1, password change, full wipe1, and selective wipe of corporate data can be pushed to the iOS device.
ForeScout Mobile Integration Module
The ForeScout Mobile Integration Module is a CounterACT plugin that allows you to leverage your existing MDM solution within the broader context of unified security control that CounterACT provides. CounterACT currently integrates with AirWatch, Citrix XenMobile MDM, Fiberlink MaaS360 and MobileIron – and more are on the way.
Take Charge of Mobile Security and Cost-Effectively Tier Your Service
To enable mobile security capacity for both corporate-provisioned and personal mobile devices, organizations can’t solely consider employing MDM solutions enterprise wide – it is costly, often is viewed by employees as a more intrusive application, only applies to smartphones and tablets, and is not suitable for guest management. The more efficient and cost-effective approach is to offer different levels of mobile security to different classes of users, devices and required application access by employing ForeScout CounterACT and ForeScout Mobile to cover basic mobile security requirements or as a necessary complement to MDM implementation.
1Over-the-air management, full data wipe, and jailbreak detection are expected to be available in Q4, 2012.
