Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network Boosts Network Health with Forescout CounterACT
CounterACT Two-in-One Intrusion Prevention and Network Access Control Solution Delivers More Bang for the Buck, Deploys in Less than a Week
Cupertino, Calif. – June 4, 2008 – Forescout Technologies, a market leader in clientless network access control (NAC) and policy management solutions for large enterprises, today announced that Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network (LVHHN), a premier academic community hospital and health services provider in Allentown and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, has deployed the CounterACT® family of appliances to mediate access to its health services network.
According to Brian Martin, Information Security Manager for LVHHN: “Our network users – including doctors, nurses, specialists, and visiting guests – were bringing their own, sometimes infected computers into work. Some of these computers weren’t compliant with our security policies and needed OS updates, security patches or anti-virus software installed. Others were hospital property that had been used off-site, picked up malware, and began setting off alarms when they reconnected to the Lehigh network. We wanted a way to control these conditions and let users self-correct the problems."
Martin and his colleagues began looking for a network access solution that would also detect and respond to malicious behavior that a simple intrusion detection solution would not pick up. After evaluating solutions from various NAC and infrastructure providers, the organization chose Forescout’s CounterACT.
“I was bowled over by the detection capabilities of CounterACT, " said Martin. “That you get a two-in-one intrusion prevention and NAC solution in CounterACT just makes it that much better. Plus, you hear about NAC being tricky and difficult to deploy: that hasn’t been the case for us. The deployment was one of our smoothest. It took under a week and is now protecting over 20,000 endpoints."
Today’s health enterprises – like Lehigh Valley – face a steady influx of vulnerabilities introduced by guests and employees who are able to bypass physical security and gain network connection inside the perimeter defenses. CounterACT addresses this problem by enforcing network security policies across all managed and unmanaged network devices, including desktops and laptops as well as non-OS devices such as VoIP phones, handhelds and network printers, without the need for a software agent of any kind.
“The Lehigh Valley Health deployment demonstrates, once again, that CounterACT over-delivers on its promise to ease deployment and deliver best-in-class network access control with built-in intrusion prevention, " said Ray Wizbowski, vice president, Forescout. “At Forescout, we continue to exceed our customers ‘ requirements, helping them buy into a NAC platform and strategy that fits their security requirements today, while giving them a cost-effective policy compliance platform they can rely on in the future."
CounterACT combines clientless network access control (NAC) and signatureless intrusion prevention to ensure all connected and connecting devices are in compliance with network security policies and are free of self-propagating threats. CounterACT seamlessly integrates into any network environment without requiring costly upgrades or infrastructure changes, and enables enterprises to tailor enforcement actions to match the level of policy violations, ensuring user disruption only occurs when it is warranted or required by the IT staff.
About Forescout Technologies, Inc.
Forescout enables organizations to continuously monitor and mitigate security exposures and cyber attacks. The company’s CounterACT appliance dynamically identifies and evaluates network users, endpoints and applications to provide visibility, intelligence and policy-based mitigation of security problems. Forescout’s open ControlFabric architecture allows a broad range of IT security products and management systems to share information and automate remediation actions. Because Forescout’s solutions are easy to deploy, unobtrusive, extensible and scalable, as of January 1, 2015, they have been chosen by more than 1,800 of the world’s most secure enterprises and government agencies in over 62 countries. Headquartered in Campbell, California, Forescout offers its solutions through its global network of authorized partners. Learn more at www.forescout.com.