Cybersecurity Solution for the Education Sector

Maintain Security, Privacy and Compliance to Facilitate Learning

Forescout simplifies network access control, policy enforcement and segmentation for the most complex networks where students, faculty, staff and research colleagues continuously move on and off the network every second of the day, whether they are on campus, learning remotely or conducting research around the world.

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Capabilities

Students, faculty and staff are highly mobile and ultra-connected, using multiple devices to access learning materials, research and faculty. Additionally, campuses have an array of IoT devices (IP cameras, smart monitors, lab equipment, physical security, etc.) that must be maintained and monitored. The Forescout platform effectively manages risks across your educational ecosystem by:

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Orchestrating and Automating

Enforce device and segmentation policies across disparate security tools

Providing complete visibility

Visibility into unmanaged and managed devices, IoT and any IP-connected systems such as security cameras, vending machines, lab equipment, access points and more

Assessing and identifying devices

A focus on factory-default or weak credentials and automating policy actions to enforce strong passwords

Providing real-time insight

Insight into device or user traffic and risky behavior.

Segmenting devices into trusted zones

Enforcing Zero Trust/least-privilege policies.

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Customer Confidence

“With FireEye and Forescout, we know the details, security posture and activity of all devices on our network, and we can automatically isolate violations, malware and affected systems before anything gets out of hand.”
— Morris Altman, Director of Network Services and Internet Security, Queens College

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“With the Forescout platform, our need to reimage infected computers dropped from 20 to 25 each month to just 1.5. When you consider staff resources and user downtime, that’s a 240- to 300-hour productivity gain each month.”
— Ken Compres, Senior Network Security and Integration Engineer/CSO, Hillsborough Community College

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“The Forescout platform maximises our network security, has already saved us time – which equates to money – and helps us to mitigate potential security breaches. In the future, we plan on implementing most of its features.”
— Steve Banyard, Network Manager, Norwich School

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