Network Access Control

 

Forescout Network Access Control (NAC) offers advanced, agentless, and flexible network security solutions that extend beyond traditional NAC. These solutions provide comprehensive, resilient, and compliant access control for diverse networks, including IoT/OT environments.

 

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Next-Gen NAC and Network Security

Forescout Network Security solutions leverage synergies between network access control, security, and Zero Trust to create a holistic, compliant, and data-centric framework for the business. This approach reduces attack surfaces and aligns with cybersecurity best practices, including highly-regulated industries.

Our next-gen network access control offers a comprehensive, flexible, and non-disruptive approach that provides essential capabilities for enterprises to maintain robust security postures and implement Zero Trust principles effectively.

Unified Cybersecurity Fabric

Forescout’s Network Security Solutions, including Network Access Control, provide unified visibility and control over all network assets, ensuring effective cybersecurity monitoring, threat detection, and incident response. In addition, the solution integrates with IT tools, ticketing systems, and SIEM to deliver coordinated threat responses and automated remediation actions, which support an adaptive approach to Zero Trust.

Agentless Visibility

Comprehensive Device Visibility

Asset discovery and inventory capabilities use active and passive techniques to maintain complete visibility of all IP-connected assets, including IoT/OT devices. The Forescout Device Cloud, with over 12 million device fingerprints, provides high-fidelity device classification, ensuring coverage across all locations and device types without blind spots.

Enforce Secure Network Access

Granular Network Access Control

Forescout ensures least privileged access by dynamically assigning devices to appropriate VLANs or applying access control lists based on predefined policies. Agentless controls enforce these policies without requiring software installations on devices.

Continuous Monitoring

Automated Policy-Based Enforcement

Continuous monitoring and validation of connected devices allow Forescout to dynamically adapt access privileges and automate threat responses based on behavior, posture, or compliance deviations. Non-compliant assets are automatically subjected to the correct security policies.

150+ Classification Attributes

Intelligent Segmentation

These capabilities enhance access control by managing who can access different network parts and when. This function supports the principle of least privilege and helps analyze network traffic from a dynamic zone perspective, informing planning, deployment, and automated policy enforcement. Network segmentation also restricts traffic flows between assets, reducing the potential blast radius of threats.

Forescout Network Security Solutions and Zero Trust

Forescout’s next-gen network access control helps you create a foundation for implementing Zero Trust principles from any starting point to align with business resources and budgets. Forescout Network Security Solutions also integrate with existing IT and security tools, such as Microsoft Azure, ServiceNow, CrowdStrike, and Palo Alto, enabling content sharing, automated workflow orchestration, and comprehensive response measures. This supports the enforcement of Zero Trust principles by ensuring only authenticated, compliant assets access the network.

Visibility into every
IP-connected device

Discover and classify every workstation, laptop, printer, IP phone, camera, access point, IoT device, OT device, medical device and more.

Real-time
asset inventory

Quickly build a detailed inventory of every device’s configuration and compliance state to streamline asset management, security operations and IT support

Automated security posture assessment and remediation

Assess device security posture in real time, without agents, and remediate noncompliant devices upon connection.

Policy enforcement across heterogeneous networks

Improve security and business uptime by preventing unauthorized, rogue and impersonating devices from connecting.

We Know NAC

Forescout Customer implementations

3000+

Customer implementations

Gartner Peer Insights

4.4/5

Average rating on Gartner Peer Insights

Consequences of an attack/breach are growing

30%

Average increase in devices discovered (IDC study)

20+

Active and passive discovery and assessment techniques

Customer Success with Forescout Network Access Control

“With Forescout, it was easy to see not only how many assets needed attention but exactly which ones and who they belonged to. The depth of asset information available is incredibly useful and saves us time in multiple ways.”

Jan-Erik Strauss System and Network Administrator Winkelmann Group
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“As soon as we saw and understood the power of the Forescout platform to bridge visibility and control security gaps – and of eyeSegment to noninvasively rectify segmentation shortfalls – we knew that it was what we were looking for.”

Jeff Haidet Director of Application Development and Architecture South Central Power Co.
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“I could see clearly that every one of my direct reports would have an application for the Forescout platform. There’s no question it would help dramatically in security, compliance and desktop support.”

Michael Hussey Chief Information Officer State of Utah
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“The ability to remotely find the infected device and immediately neutralize or quarantine it to keep the network safe has been a game changer. Now we get an alert in our Splunk SIEM and, via Forescout integration, we know details such as whether or not the infected device is critical. If it is critical, it is immediately quarantined; if not, the incident is escalated for review. Our SOC typically responds to a ransomware incident in under 30 minutes, versus four, six, eight hours or more.”

Kashif Parvaiz Chief Information Security Officer University Health Network
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NAC Solution Awards and Recognition

Forescout is Recognized as a 2021 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Network Access Control

“Implements well, and has an outstanding agentless visibility that is unmatched.” – Customer review

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Frost And Sullivan 2023 Radar SM

Forescout Named 2023 Frost Radar™ NAC Innovation Leader

“The company’s network security platform offers complete visibility of connected devices, continuous compliance, network segmentation and NAC. Through the Forescout 4D Platform™, customers gain data-powered intelligence for accurate cyberthreat risk detection and remediation without disrupting critical business assets.” – Frost & Sullivan

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Unveiling Vulnerabilities and the Role of Network Access Control

Explore how 44% of vulnerabilities without a CVE ID can be exploited for unauthorized system access. Delve into “Exposing the Exploited,” a Forescout Research Report highlighting these risks and the importance of robust network access control. With nearly 90,000 vulnerabilities lacking a CVE ID and over 21,200 issues discovered in 2023 alone, understanding and implementing effective network access control measures is paramount.

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Network Access Control FAQ

What is the difference between traditional NAC and Next-Gen NAC?

  • Traditional NAC systems use trusted approaches like 802.1X protocol, VLAN quarantining, ARP-based control, and port mirroring for access control.
  • Next-gen NAC solutions like Forescout for Network Security are not just security solutions, but comprehensive ones. They deliver complete asset visibility and control across the network, including BYOD and OT/IoT devices without stringent requirements on 802.1x. This level of coverage can provide a sense of security and confidence to network engineers and security teams, who can implement these technologies as part of a robust ecosystem that leverages hundreds of integrations for advanced features and functions across the IT stack.

What compliance standards do Next-Gen NAC solutions such as Forescout Network Security Solutions help meet?

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publications (NIST SP) includes a set of recommended security and privacy controls for federal information systems and organizations to help meet the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) requirements.
  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)- modern NAC helps enforce access controls and security policies for protecting sensitive health information.
  • Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)- modern NAC helps maintain and report on internal controls.
  • Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Modern NAC supports compliance by controlling access to cardholder data environments and enforcing security policies.

How does Forescout for Network Security help me implement Zero Trust?

  • Forescout for Network Security continuously discovers, identifies and maintains accurate asset inventories, enabling classification and assessment that organizations can use to verify the identity and integrity of everything attempting network access. The solution then automatically applies the most granular, least-privilege access controls and security policies. This granularity helps enforce Zero Trust principles by ensuring that only authenticated, compliant assets access the network.

What are the benefits of the Forescout 4D Platform™?

  • Every organization is made up of Cyber Assets and Users accessing resources via a network fabric. Regardless of the type of asset, these are systems with Network Interface Cards, MAC addresses, IP addresses, TCP/IP stacks, operating systems and they are providing a service. What that service IS, determines the criticality and role of that asset. Many organizations have established a cyber eco-system of products that communicate through or makeup the network fabric layer to provide security of cyber assets. The function or service that assets provide, and the cyber ecosystem of tools may vary, but there is one constant. Complete security starts with cyber asset awareness and an accurate inventory of ALL assets and where they are.
  • Forescout actively integrates with the network fabric out-of-the-box and passively monitors asset communications to DISCOVER which assets are on the network and where they are. This network integration is a critical step that most vendors overlook. While passive monitoring is quick and simple, it isn’t holistic, won’t discover devices that aren’t communicating through chokepoints, doesn’t scale well, and ultimately won’t address the challenges we’ve discussed.
  • Once Forescout has identified all connected assets, it ASSESSES what they are through a collection of active and passive methods that we will discuss shortly. The information is enriched through Forescout’s Cloud services. The Forescout Cloud consists of billions of datapoints to accurately assess device types, associated risks, and potential threats.
  • Then, Forescout integrates out-of-the-box with your existing cyber ecosystem to enrich these investments by making sure they are configured properly on assets. It also orchestrates sharing of insights and data between investments. Lastly, Forescout takes its collection of assets and insights gained through discover and assess to CONTROL your digital terrain. This comes in the form of workflow automation to remediate assets directly, control access via the network, automate ticketing, automate CMDB updates, and a whole myriad of other 3rd party workflows.

Flexible. Versatile. Rapid Deployment.

Forescout offers unmatched deployment flexibility to meet the diverse hardware and cloud requirements of modern environments. We ensure compatibility with existing infrastructures while minimizing operational disruption. This versatility makes it an ideal choice for your organization. If you seek robust, scalable solutions tailored to your unique operational and regulatory landscapes, look no further.

The Forescout 4D Platform™ adapts seamlessly with options for on-premises installations, virtual machines and Docker-based containerized deployments, including:

  • Air-gapped systems for high-security needs
  • Forescout appliances that deliver maximum visibility and control
  • Hybrid configurations to connect distributed sites
  • Fully cloud-based operations for scalability

…and Sensors that can be deployed as:

  • Standalone appliances
  • Installed directly on routers and switches for quick implementation without production disruption
  • Or configured as active sensors to query network infrastructure

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