Compliance for Financial and Retail Industries

ForeScout helps financial institutions protect confidential data, demonstrate compliance with regulations, and prepare for IT audits in a cost-effective, efficient manner.

Challenges for Financial Institutions

Financial institutions cover a spectrum of institutions and transactions - banking (retail, commercial, investment), securities, credit card, public company financial reporting and more. Given the monetary stakes involved, these institutions face unique challenges: ensure network availability by eliminating threats, protect against data breaches, and demonstrate compliance with industry regulations for IT security.

These dynamic challenges can make it difficult for financial institutions to:


• Guard against targeted malware threats Cyber attacks have become more sophisticated and targeted in their efforts to steal profitable, proprietary information such as credit card data and financial records.
• Measure effectiveness of security policies
  Endpoint security agents block malware and protect confidential data, but they are often not deployed or operational.
• Comply with industry regulations
  Keeping up with ever-changing regulatory requirements and preparing for audits can be a challenging and time-consuming process.
• Control access to confidential data
  With employees, guests, and contractors on your network, it is a serious challenge to ensure that only authorized individuals are granted access to confidential information.
  
  
  

  ForeScout CounterACT for Financial Institutions

  With ForeScout, you can rest assured that only your authorized financial personnel will gain access to sensitive data. As a watchdog over endpoint security agents, ForeScout makes sure these are always up and running.

  CounterACT stops trouble in its tracks, reducing the risk of data breaches and malware attacks that would otherwise put your business at risk. And it helps monitor and improve the effectiveness of your security policies, so you can demonstrate compliance with industry regulations such as PCI DSS, SOX, GLBA, FINRA, BASEL II and more.

  ForeScout's CounterACT security platform gives financial services organizations complete control over their network:

  Greater security
  • Block unknown computers from accessing sensitive portions of your network.
  • Ensure that every endpoint is compliant with your security policies - antivirus, DLP, encryption, patch level, configuration, etc. Identify and block malicious traffic on your network.
  Visibility into everything on your network
  • CounterACT shows you everything on your network -- managed or unmanaged devices, wired or wireless.
  • Identify hidden infrastructure such as unauthorized wiring hubs and rogue wireless access points.
  • Gain deep visibility into connected systems - type of device, operating system, patch level, location, applications, and user name.
  Ensure compliance
  • Measure compliance with internal policies, best practices, and regulations like PCI DSS, SOX, GLBA, FINRA, SEC 17a-14, BASEL II and more.
  • Compliance audits that used to take days or weeks can now be produced in hours with real-time accuracy .
  • Integrated reports help you monitor your level of policy compliance and fulfill regulatory audit requirements.
  Control network access
  • Grant network access based on the user's identity and the roles that you have defined in your directory.
  • Create access policies that are appropriate for contractors who typically need access to specific corporate resources.
  
  
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