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Cybersecurity Solutions for Government Entities

Protect Government entities with Zero Trust Access and Assurance

Government agencies face nonstop pressure from adversaries, expanding attack surfaces, and increasing compliance requirements across IT, OT, and IoT environments. Forescout helps agencies strengthen their cyber resilience with agentless visibility and continuous assessment of every connected asset, paired with real-time east-west monitoring to expose lateral movement and hidden pathways. Using policy-based control and automated enforcement, agencies can contain threats quickly by restricting risky communications, isolating compromised devices, and reducing blast radius before an incident escalates. With the Forescout 4D Platform™ powered by UZTNA, Governmental agencies and departments can operationalize Zero Trust mandates and meet mission resilience goals.

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Cybersecurity Capabilities for Government Agencies

The Forescout 4D Platform™ helps government IT, OT and security professionals protect data, secure access to government resources, manage cyber risks and demonstrate compliance for Government and Public-sector Entities. Forescout provides a multi-layered defense capability for major Federal programs, such as Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM), Comply-to-Connect (C2C), and meeting Zero Trust Security mandates.

As a recognized technology collaborator in NIST SP 1800-35, Forescout empowers agencies with real-time asset discovery and enforcement capabilities, delivering actionable visibility into both managed and unmanaged assets.

Access Control

Ensure access to sensitive resources is granted only to authorized users and devices by enforcing policies based on identity, device posture, and risk. With Universal Zero Trust Network Access (UZTNA), access decisions are made per session and continuously re-evaluated as conditions change, not assumed based on network location. Real-time device intelligence and policy-based control adapt permissions dynamically, denying or limiting access for noncompliant or high-risk endpoints before they can reach protected systems.

Asset intelligence

Continuously discover and classify IoT, OT, and IT endpoints in real time to build a dynamic inventory of all connected devices. This visibility enables organizations to assess risk, enforce access policies, and detect unmanaged or rogue assets across hybrid environments.

Segmentation

Reduce the attack surface by implementing network segmentation policies and improving visibility and control across IT, OT, and IoT environments. Limit lateral movement and reduce the potential blast radius of a cyberattack through more granular segmentation policies. Add east-west monitoring to detect lateral movement patterns and validate that segmentation enforcement is working as intended. Contain threats faster by automatically restricting risky pathways, isolating high-risk assets, and enforcing least-privilege communications between segments.

Software Inventory

Identify inactive or under-utilized software for cost savings or consolidation and remove outdated software that poses increased threat from legacy vulnerabilities.

Incident Response

Eliminate threats quickly by automating incident response and mitigation actions across the enterprise. When risky behavior or compromise is detected, enforce controls to stop spread and reduce blast radius, including targeted blocking, segmentation restrictions, and quarantine, while coordinating remediation actions such as patching to restore compliance.

Compliance

Continuously monitor for the presence of required software, unauthorized software, rogue devices, configuration changes, etc. to meet NERC CIP
(North America), NIS2 (Europe) and other regulations.

Supply Chain

Gain insight into running embedded software and applications on managed and unmanaged devices.

OT/IoT Threat Detection

Identify and assess all connected OT/ICS and IoT assets and leverage 15+ years of OT-specific threat research to detect any threat to operational continuity, from operational issues to advanced cyberattacks, and use actionable insights to prioritize response.

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Secure Air-Gapped Networks with the Flyaway Kit

If connectivity is limited, securing critical assets doesn’t have to be. Deliver asset intelligence, detection, and control – anywhere – with our portable cybersecurity kit.

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Comply-to-Connect (C2C)

The U.S. Department of War (DoW) launched the Comply-to-Connect (C2C) program over a decade ago as a cybersecurity framework to improve the security of its networks. C2C calls for the identification and security compliance of every connected device prior to gaining access to government resources. The US DOW is transitioning the C2C framework to a Zero Trust Architecture that provides more dynamic and comprehensive security measures. Forescout’s successful implementation of the C2C program provides the foundation for the US DoW’s broader Zero Trust Security strategy.

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Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM)

Identify and Mitigate Risk Through the CDM Program

The Forescout 4D Platform™ is the centerpiece of your CDM solution by helping you:

Mitigate vulnerabilities and quickly respond to incidents with automated, real-time visibility of endpoints as they connect to your network.

Establish a real-time inventory of devices, hardware, operating systems, applications, patch levels, open ports, peripheral devices, users and more.

Limit network access to authorized users and devices with or without 802.1X.

Assess the security and compliance posture of endpoints in real time, both pre- and post-connection.

Automate remediation of noncompliant endpoints by auto-updating endpoint configurations, patches and updates, and install, activate, or disabling applications or peripherals.

Produce real-time compliance reports and shorten detection interval latency (DIL) by initiating compliance scans as hosts connect, rather than waiting for time-based scans.

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Get Instant, Actionable Intelligence with Forescout and Microsoft

See exactly how the DoW uses eyeSight and eyeInspect within the Sentinel platform to discover, monitor, and remediate its OT and IT networks in real time.

NIST Frameworks

Enforce a unified network security policy to address the NIST Cybersecurity Framework family of controls, including:

Access Control

Detect all IP-based endpoints on the network, including unmanaged devices, IoT, rogue devices; assess their cybersecurity posture; and enforce access policies to the network and within network segments.

Configuration Management

Maintain consistent configurations across the enterprise. Maintain and control deviations from configuration policies. Enforce “least functionality” by identifying and removing unnecessary or insecure software.

Assessment, Authorization and Monitoring

Establish continuous monitoring to track system-level metrics and inform risk-based decisions.

Supply Chain (NIST 800-53 Rev 5)

Identify and segment critical systems components for tracking through the supply chain.

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Secure Critical Infrastructure

Fortify cyber resilience and manage security and operational risk with OT/IoT-specific threat intelligence and automation.

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Healthcare
Manufacturing

Government Programs

US Government Certifications

Trust a solution with the highest levels of military-grade and government security certifications

Forescout has achieved the following U.S. Government certifications and compliances:

  • National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) Common Criteria Certification
  • U.S. Department of War Information Network Approved Products List ( DOWIN APL) (Search Forescout)
  • FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) 140-2
  • USGv6 Tested and Certified for IPv6
  • Authority to Operate (ATO) from Multiple DoD Services and Programs
  • U.S. Army CoN (Certificate of Networthiness)

US Government Contract Vehicles

Ease procurement of U.S. Government contracts

The Forescout 4D Platform™ is available through authorized Resellers and Distributors by the U.S. Government on the following contracts and purchasing schedules:

  • GSA Schedules (aka Multiple Award Schedules and Federal Supply Schedules)
  • NASA SEWP (Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement) GWAC (Government-Wide Acquisition Contract)
  • ITES/2H (Managed and used by U.S. Army. Also used by DoW and other federal agencies)
  • Encore II (Managed by DISA, Defense Information Systems Agency)
  • Enterprise Software Initiative Blanket Purchase Agreement (ESI BPA) (managed by NIWC Pacific)
  • Various State and Local contracts (NY OGS, TX DIR, SC, NC, CA SLP)

EU NIS2 Directive

Embarking on the intricate journey of NIS2 compliance isn’t merely a regulatory checkbox – it’s essential for businesses managing Industrial Control System (ICS) networks across Europe.

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UK NCSC 10 Steps to Cyber Security

Achieve Compliance with NCSC’s Top 10 Steps to Cyber Security

The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) provides10 Steps to Cyber Security as guidance to help medium to large organisations better understand and mitigate their cyber risk. Either natively or by coordinating automated actions among security tools, the Forescout 4D Platform™ supports this guidance by extending scarce IT and InfoSec resources with continuous, automated asset management, risk compliance, network segmentation, network access control and security orchestration across all connected assets, going above and beyond baseline security recommendations to provide a strong foundation for zero trust.

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UK NCSC Cyber Essentials Plus

Align Your Organisation with the NCSC Cyber Essentials Plus Requirements

The Cyber Essentials certification scheme from the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) is a simple but effective scheme that will help you protect your organisation from the most common cyberattacks. The Forescout 4D Platform™ helps you align with the framework by continuously automating cyber security across your environment.

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UK Telecoms Security Regulations

Achieve Compliance with the UK Telecoms Security Regulations

The UK government, alongside NCSC and Ofcom, is developing new regulations and code-of-practice proposals that would require telecoms providers to take measures to protect their networks and services, including risk and compliance analysis, traffic and incident monitoring, and log retention reporting.

The Forescout 4D Platform™ supports the TSR draft regulations 6, 9 and 12 in particular.

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Australian Essential Eight Maturity Model Compliance

Achieve Maturity Level 3 with all Essential Eight controls

The Australian Cyber Security Centre’s (ACSC’s) Essential Eight Maturity Model is a set of mitigation strategies designed to improve cybersecurity posture by making it hard for adversaries to compromise networks. With three maturity levels, even organisations with scarce IT resources can achieve baseline compliance and protection from increasing cyber threats. And with continuous visibility, compliance assessment and automated workflows using the equipment and security tools you already have, your network can adapt to your ever-changing digital terrain.

The Essential Eight is a set of mitigation strategies, not a single solution or technology that can be bought through a single vendor. They address three areas that require not only different security tools but tight communication and coordinated actions. Either natively or by coordinating automated actions among security tools, Forescout enables you to achieve Maturity Level Three for all eight controls, with continuous visibility into granular compliance status.

 

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Canadian Centre for Cyber Security Top 10 IT Security Actions

Achieve Compliance with all Top 10 IT Security Actions

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security maintains a list of the Top 10 IT security actions it recommends organizations take to protect connected networks and information1. The Forescout 4D Platform™ extends scarce resources with continuous, automated asset management, risk compliance, network segmentation, network access control and security orchestration across all assets – cloud, IT, IoT, IoMT and OT/ICS – going above and beyond baseline security recommendations to provide a strong foundation for zero trust.

 

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See how Forescout helps streamline compliance with various regulatory standards and frameworks in the Compliance Center

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Flexible. Versatile. Rapid Deployment.

Forescout offers unmatched deployment flexibility to meet the diverse hardware and cloud requirements of modern environments. We ensure compatibility with existing infrastructures while minimizing operational disruption. This versatility makes it an ideal choice for your organization. If you seek robust, scalable solutions tailored to your unique operational and regulatory landscapes, look no further.

The Forescout 4D Platform™ adapts seamlessly with options for on-premises installations, virtual machines and Docker-based containerized deployments, including:

  • Air-gapped systems for high-security needs
  • Forescout appliances that deliver maximum visibility and control
  • Hybrid configurations to connect distributed sites
  • Fully cloud-based operations for scalability

…and Sensors that can be deployed as:

  • Standalone appliances
  • Installed directly on routers and switches for quick implementation without production disruption
  • Or configured as active sensors to query network infrastructure

Deploy Forescout on Phoenix Contact Security Solutions Industrial Switching Platform for enhanced security and simplified deployments

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Deploy Forescout on Keysight packet brokers for efficient and scalable deployments

Leverage the Dell Validated Design for Energy Edge to deploy in substations with ABB and Forescout

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Government Customer Confidence

I could see clearly that every one of my direct reports would have an application for the Forescout 4D Platform™. There’s no question it would help dramatically in security, compliance and desktop support.

Michael Hussey Chief Information Officer State of Utah
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Forescout has helped immensely with knowing which devices are on the network, understanding where they are located and their security posture, and being able to ensure that they adhere to our internal controls.

Chief Information Officer Large U.S. City
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Our engineers have been very pleased with the Forescout 4D Platform™. It’s been very easy for them to use and adopt, and they enjoy working with it. It’s a great product, and we have only scratched the surface of what it can do.

Ryan Morris Chief Technology Officer California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development
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