IT Cost Reduction with Effective Security Enforcement

ForeScout CounterACT saves you money by reducing security risk, improving operational efficiency, and introducing automated processes to help you manage your network more efficiently.

What are the Avoidable Costs?

If cybercrime disappeared tomorrow, our lives would be simpler and we could all save a lot of money. But let's face it: the constant treadmill of keeping security defenses up-to-date takes time. Manpower costs money. Have you ever calculated the costs?

Ask yourself these questions:
• How much of your helpdesk budget is spent remediating infected systems?
• How much time do you spend patching systems?
• How much time do you spend provisioning network access for guests and contractors?
• How many hours do you spend each year collecting data for compliance audits?
• How much would a data loss event cost your company?

Achieve Cost Savings with ForeScout CounterACT

ForeScout CounterACT saves you money in several different ways. A single CounterACT appliance consolidates and automates many operations you're currently performing today.

• Lower IT Support Costs.
  By identifying and reducing the number of unmanageable systems on your network, ForeScout CounterACT reduces the number of "house calls" your help desk needs to make to fix broken endpoint devices. By identifying and reducing the number of non-operative or out-of-date endpoint security agents (antivirus, anti-spyware, etc.), you can reduce the amount of time you spend chasing viruses.
  
  How much can you save? Microsoft reported a 70% reduction in security-related help desk calls after they implemented technologies similar to ForeScout CounterACT.
• Get full ROI of existing security tools
  You've already made substantial investments in endpoint security systems -- anti-virus, anti-spyware, personal firewalls, patch management, maybe encryption and data loss prevention (DLP). Is every one of these systems 100% deployed and operational? Unaware of their blind spots, these agent-based systems typically over-report their own level of deployment, often by 10% to 15%. Without full deployment, you're not getting what you paid for. ForeScout CounterACT lets you ensure full deployment and thus full ROI from these systems.
  
  How significant is the result? Microsoft reported that fewer than 50% of their end-user systems were compliant with the company's security policies before they implemented a similar technology as CounterACT. After deployment, Microsoft achieved over 90% compliance.
• Lower Remediation Costs
  With ForeScout CounterACT, you can identify systems that are out-of-date and automatically apply updates. This reduces the burden on your security team and brings endpoints back into compliance more quickly and easily.
• Lower Network Provisioning Costs
  With ForeScout CounterACT, you can automatically provision secure network access for guests and contractors, without compromising your internal network security. Automated procedures require no manual intervention by your IT staff. If you currently purchase dedicated lines for guest Internet access, you can decommission these and save more money.
• Lower Auditing Costs
  Inventory and compliance audits that used to take days or weeks can be automated and produced in hours with real-time accuracy.
• Avoid costs due to data loss
  Avoid expensive lawsuits, regulatory fines, loss of customers and damaged brand reputation by preventing data loss through real-time visibility and control of all devices, users and applications on your network.
• Minimize Hardware Costs
  CounterACT interoperates with any infrastructure. This means there is no need to replace switches or upgrade other network infrastructure to gain complete visibility and access control over your network.

Customer Testimonials

Interoperability and easy deployment drive lower costs
“In looking for a solution for NAC, we looked at several vendors, some of them requiring 5 or 6 appliances, and days or weeks to deploy. ForeScout was simple - one box, one day to install. It met all our needs, and we had to make no changes to our network. That's why we chose ForeScout - simple, cost effective, easy to use.”

John Shields, Patelco, Inc


ADO GL Trims Operating Costs
“CounterACT requires minimal maintenance...freeing IT resources and saving us several man hours per month in operational costs. We've found that CounterACT can help us pinpoint and eliminate idle energy-consuming appliances in the data center... enabling cost-savings and greener (more power-efficient) IT.”

Verne Lizano Povedano, CIO at ADO GL


UK Campus Gets Cost-Efficient NAC
“We made our decision to buy ForeScout's CounterACT as it performed exactly as we wanted, at a lower cost compared to the competition.”

Mark Gosden, Network Manager, Sutton Valence School


Contact us for more information on how ForeScout's CounterACT solutions can help you.