The cybersecurity industry has always been one of constant change. However, the pace of change  in the last 3 months has been at warp speed. And it’s all being driven by AI. Before going any further, let’s make one thing clear:  Security teams don’t need more work. They need AI that does the work.

The volume of threats hitting organizations today isn’t a new problem; it’s the same problem that has been exacerbated. AI-augmented attacks are growing and moving at machine speed. Hybrid environments spanning IT, OT, IoT, and IoMT are expanding rapidly, driven by connected-device growth projected to exceed 40 billion by 2030, while security teams have limited visibility into these environments. . Consequently, the pace of change is creating an ever-widening gap between security fundamentals and AI-based response.

No one need another tool. Heck, most organizations are actively trying to reduce the number of tools they have. When AI is brought into the conversation, security leaders are looking for AI that reduces the burden on their teams, not AI that adds to it.  “Do more with the people and technology you already have.” That’s the promise.

The challenge is that most of the AI flooding the security market right now requires users to be prompt engineers and agent builders to use it even remotely effectively. It’s AI layered on top of existing platforms, promising transformation but delivering complexity.

Security leaders have seen this movie before, and frankly it rarely ends the way it was promised.

Forescout VistaroAI: What Purpose-Built AI Looks Like

We’ve been building something different, and the feedback  from customers is that we’re on the right track.

VistaroAI™ isn’t a layer on top of Forescout solutions. It’s natively embedded in the platform, combining skills-based agentic AI, generative AI, and machine learning to help security teams work faster without working harder. ‘Skills-based’ means it’s designed around the specific workflows security teams actually use, not generic AI capabilities retrofitted for a cybersecurity use case.

The human-in-the-loop design is intentional. The goal isn’t autonomous AI making decisions without oversight. It’s AI that automates and amplifies what your team can do while keeping humans in control. That distinction matters when the stakes are high, like protecting critical infrastructure, disconnecting a network segment, or preventing specific devices from connecting to your network.

So What Does This Have to Do With a Name Change?

That’s the context behind an announcement we’re making today: the Forescout 4D Platform™ is becoming the Forescout Vistaro™ platform.

The world class capabilities that underpin the platform remain the same. From asset inventory and intelligence across disparate environments to segmentation and access control, through automated compliance reporting, we continue to do what we’re best at … We’ve changed the name to reflect what’s most important about how the platform works, and where it’s going. VistaroAI is the reasoning engine that underpins everything. Forescout Vistaro makes that connection explicit. For anyone already using the platform: everything you rely on stays the same. Same technology, same capabilities, now with a clearer name.

The Problem We’re Built to Solve

The organizations winning the security fight right now aren’t the ones with the most tools. They’re the ones who have the fundamentals customers need to see everything and act quickly to contain threats before they spread.

The Forescout Vistaro platform delivers comprehensive visibility and control across managed and unmanaged assets in IT, OT, IoT, and IoMT environments. It lets security teams continuously manage exposure, limit lateral movement, and automate response across complex hybrid environments with VistaroAI accelerating every step.

The Bigger Shift

AI is  defining which security platforms organizations trust over the next decade. The question is not whether to adopt AI in your security operations (you’ve probably already decided); it’s whether the AI you’re betting on is purpose-built for the problem and does it work. — That’s the question we built VistaroAI to answer. And Forescout Vistaro is the platform it lives in.

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