The Benefits of Network Monitoring for Industrial Digitalization

Govern

The Forescout Vistaro^™ platform gives organizations comprehensive across all device types and Purdue levels closing gaps and reducing blind spots across teams and environments. With this broad coverage and easy integration into the existing security stack, we streamline the design and enforcement of cybersecurity policies across the entire industrial infrastructure. We provide the insights you need to track risk exposure, measure progress with clear KPIs, and support accountability across both technical teams and business leadership.

• Enterprise-wide visibility across IT, OT, IoT, and BAS with 30+ active and passive discovery methods, adaptable to any environment.
• Flexible deployment options to meet diverse operational needs and maturity levels, from cloud to image containers, including support for air-gapped or highly segmented networks.
• Seamless integration with the existing security stack, acting as a force multiplier rather than another siloed tool.
• Centralized policy management engine to define, enforce, and audit cybersecurity policies across all asset types, technologies and networks.
• Unified view of IT and OT risk with built-in KPIs and AI-enhanced reporting to support governance, accountability, and strategic decision-making.

Identify

When threats hide in blind spots, visibility becomes your first line of defense to identify vulnerabilities and exposures. Forescout builds and maintains a real-time inventory of assets, systems, and services across IT and OT environments, mapping communications, exposing dependencies, and tracking changes over time. Powered by proprietary threat intelligence and a combined security and operational risk score, the Vistaro^™ platform makes identifying exposure and prioritizing remediation by impact or exploitability faster and more effective.

• Native support for IT and OT systems, both managed and unmanaged, eliminates silos, reduces hidden threats, and avoids costly third-party integrations, data duplication and false positive.
• Combined security and operational risk scoring provide a more accurate view of exposure based on impact, likelihood, and business criticality.
• Enriches asset and threat data through integration with third-party tools, enhancing vulnerability detection, tracking configuration changes, and monitoring device risk posture over time.
• Leverages over 150 classification attributes to build a more accurate view of asset risk, streamline remediation, and share enriched insights in real time across your security ecosystem.
• Retains historical risk data to support compliance reporting, monitor security trends, and provide evidence for KPIs and audit requirements.

Protect

How can you secure what you can’t control? As connected assets grow and identities move beyond traditional boundaries, organizations need more than a static approach. Forescout enables dynamic, policy-based control over access, identity, and behavior, making sure that only trusted users and devices can interact with critical systems. This real-time enforcement enhance data protection, supports least-privilege access, and builds the foundation for a resilient, zero-trust architecture. Most importantly, it works with your existing security stack, maximizing current investments while extending control across the entire enterprise.

• Identity and access management with risk-based policies, dynamic segmentation, and least-privilege principles to limit exposure and lateral movement.
• Asset and communication baseline with continuous posture and compliance validation to monitor behaviour, configuration, and integrity changes that could indicate compromise or policy drift.
• Zero trust segmentation and data flow visibility to restrict access based on trust boundaries and detect unauthorized communication, exfiltration attempts, or policy violations.
• Device lifecycle management to track configuration changes, block unauthorized software, and enforce security baselines across asset types.
• Infrastructure monitoring, configuration, bandwidth, system load, and resource usage to identify weak spots, operational issues and improve resilience.
• Security stack integration and orchestration to enforce policies and trigger automated remediation through existing tools and workflows.

Detect

Finding and analyzing cyber threats requires more than passive monitoring, it demands broad visibility, deep context, and precise classification. Unlike OT-only security tools, Forescout delivers enterprise-wide detection coverage across IT, OT, IoT, and BAS by correlating over 200 different data sources. Combined with deep packet inspection, anomaly detection, and proprietary threat intelligence from Vedere Labs, the platform uncovers hidden threats others miss and gives security teams the clarity to act faster and with confidence.

• Intelligence-driven detection powered by deep packet inspection, anomaly detection, and proprietary threat intelligence from Vedere Labs to identify known and unknown threats across IT and OT.
• Event classification and triage using high-fidelity data, filters, customizable rules, and detailed asset context to reduce false positives and streamline analyst workflows.
• Assisted response for OT with 24/7 expert support, threat analysis, and remediation guidance tailored to industrial environments.
• Runtime extensibility to fine-tune detection logic, integrate custom IoCs and IoAs, and adapt to evolving threats or operational edge cases.

Respond

For many organizations, incident response is still a slow, manual, and fragmented process, relying on overloaded teams to piece together actions across disconnected systems. As threats move faster, and environments grow more complex, even wellfunded security teams struggle to keep up. Forescout shifts response from reactive to proactive, orchestrating and automating containment, remediation, and escalation across your existing security tools. The result: faster incident resolution, reduced downtime, and a stronger security posture, without increasing headcount.

• End-to-end incident response workflow that spans detection, analysis, containment, and recovery, executed from a single, integrated platform.
• Automated response orchestration across your existing IT and security tools to accelerate remediation, reduce manual effort, and ensure consistent execution.
• Detailed incident timelines and root-cause analysis, backed by asset history, PCAPs, and data retention for foresting investigation, reporting and compliance.
• Built-in prioritization and classification based on tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to focus resources on the most critical and highest-impact threats.

Recover

Restoring operations after an incident isn’t just about turning systems back on, it’s about making sure everything is restored safely and without residual risk. The Forescout Vistaro^™ platform helps organizations validate the integrity of assets and systems post-recovery by providing access to detailed historical data, configuration baselines, communication flows, and behavioral patterns. This visibility supports comparison against known-good states, helping teams assess the success of recovery efforts, validate backup systems, and prevent reinfection.

• Baseline and historical insight into asset configurations communications and dependencies to verify system integrity, detect deviations.
• Recovery validation with comparison of restored environments with known-good baselines, system performance and behaviour and identification of anomalies or gaps.

Why Choose Forescout

The Forescout Vistaro^™ platform provides complete asset intelligence and control across IT, OT, IoT, and IoMT environments. For more than 20 years, Fortune 100 organizations, government agencies, and large enterprises have trusted Forescout as their foundation to manage cyber risk, ensure compliance, and mitigate threats with seamless context sharing and orchestration across more than 180 fully featured security and IT product integrations. With Forescout, every cybersecurity investment is more effective.