Data Center and Cloud Security
Solution Brief
You are probably interested in realizing the benefits of private and public cloud computing. But as your workloads move to the cloud, how do you assess, classify and control devices and VMs that you can’t see? How do you protect cloud-based workloads that are running on infrastructure not owned and operated by your enterprise? What about security of unmanaged and IoT devices?
How Forescout Helps
Extend visibility and control from the campus to your private and public clouds
Do you confidently discover and control your cloud workloads as they as are created or moved? Can you easily discover, classify and monitor users and devices connected to cloud resources? How can you verify that VMs and cloud instances are assigned to the right security or port groups? Forescout helps you address these challenges, as well as true-up your VM asset inventory in your CMDB.
With Forescout, you can extend visibility and control from the campus to your private and public clouds—all with a single pane of glass. Hybrid cloud security becomes a logical extension of how you secure managed, unmanaged and IoT devices in the physical world. We help you improve security and compliance of your virtual assets, regardless of where they reside, using your existing security teams and processes.
Forescout helps you:
Secure Cloud Computing Solution Brief
Extend visibility and control from your campus to your private and public cloud environment. This brief explains why it makes sense to use the same platform and tools.
OUR OPERATIONAL ADVANTAGE
We help you secure your data center and hybrid cloud using your existing security principles and processes, leveraging the products and architectural flexibility that made us a leader in campus cybersecurity. Our physical and virtual appliances let you:
SECURE YOUR PUBLIC CLOUD
The Forescout platform provides out-of-the-box integration with Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure. You can now centrally manage and enforce consistent security policies across campus and cloud environments using the same Forescout solution and management interface.
Among other things, Forescout policy-based controls let you:
SECURE YOUR PRIVATE CLOUD
Forescout platform integrates with the VMware® vSphere® Suite and NSX® platform to provide unified, cross-platform endpoint visibility and automated policy-based enforcement across your virtual and physical infrastructure.
This allows you to:
ENTERPRISE SCALE, PERFORMANCE AND RESILIENCE
Manage up to two million physical or virtual devices spanning your campus, data center, cloud and OT networks with a single installation.
Forescout’s Enterprise Manager enables you to:
Additional Resources
Secure Cloud Computing Solution Brief
Extend visibility and control from your campus to your private and public cloud environment. This brief explains why it makes sense to use the same platform and tools.
Securing Software-Defined Data Centers Solution Brief
Discover how to extend visibility and control to your private cloud and software-defined data centers.
ESG: Forescout and the Software-defined Perimeter
Enterprise Security Group explains how software-defined perimeter technologies can close the risk gap that exists with perimeter-centric security solutions.
Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW) Solution Brief
Learn how Forescout Extended Modules for NGFWs improve defenses with context-aware access policies and granular network segmentation.
IDC Perspective: Internet of Things Security Considerations in a Multicloud Environment
Multicloud environments face serious challenges to ensure security—especially IoT security—across disparate public and private clouds as well as campus and branch assets. See the recommendations.
