Healthcare Network Security and Compliance Solutions

ForeScout understands the network security challenges you face in the healthcare industry. Protecting the confidentiality of patient data is of primary importance. Adding to the challenge of ensuring data privacy is the constant evolution of your applications, systems, and infrastructure to stay competitive. You also face the challenge of expanding network access to doctors, clinicians, research organizations, contractors, and institutions. Policy and regulatory compliance requirements also continue to evolve as well, as regulators, management, and auditors demand greater visibility into your operations.

Whether you are a small clinic or a global pharmaceutical firm, ForeScout can help. Whether you need to detect and disable rogue USB devices to prevent loss of patient data, or demonstrate compliance of "headless" medical devices across dozens of locations, ForeScout is the solution to use. We protect over 2 million devices in 500 of the world's most secure enterprises, institutions, agencies, and military installations with global deployments spanning 37 countries.

ForeScout's CounterACT solution addresses your business and technical challenges:

Business Challenges

• Protect data privacy of patient records and billing data
• Demonstrate regulatory and security policy compliance
• Improve security posture while reducing total cost of ownership

Technical Challenges

• Ensure only authorized access to critical systems and data
• Immediately detect and eliminate unauthorized applications and devices from network
• Ensure existing security products deliver expected protection

ForeScout's CounterACT security platform gives healthcare IT administrators complete control over their network:

Complete Network Knowledge

• Automatically detect any connected device, managed or unmanaged
• Pre- and post-connection vigilance that continuously monitors activity and devices

Total Access Control

• Quickly create and enforce access control policies with range of alerting, remediation and enforcement options
• Ensure that all devices meet current security policies for anti-malware, patches, and applications
• Detect and disable rogue devices like USB drives or WAP gateways
• Identify and fix non-compliant devices without user involvement

Ensure Compliance

• Policy wizards make creation and deployment of policies easy and fast
• Measure compliance with internal policies, best practices, and policy directives
• Create on-demand or scheduled reports for management and audit

Reduce Cost of Ownership

• Lowest TCO of any out-of-band NAC solution on the market
• Vendor-neutral, infrastructure-independence eliminates need for expensive upgrades and prevents vendor lock-in
• Maximize value of existing security products and functions by automatically re-enabling any user-disabled endpoint security tools

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