UZTNA

Forescout delivers adaptive Universal Zero Trust Network Access for IT, IoT, IoMT, and OT — on-premises and remote.

Secure access without compromise. Forescout’s UZTNA delivers a unified, adaptive framework that applies Zero Trust principles to every connection, every device, and every user — without slowing down your business.

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Why UZTNA Matters

Modern enterprises face unprecedented complexity. Devices are everywhere – laptops, servers, medical equipment, industrial controllers – connecting from offices, homes, and cloud environments. Traditional Zero Trust approaches often stop at managed IT endpoints, leaving blind spots that attackers exploit. Fragmented visibility and inconsistent policies create security gaps, complicated compliance, and slow response.

The result? Increased risk, operational inefficiency, and exposure to insider threats.

The Forescout 4D Platform™

Complete Visibility

Comprehensive Visibility

Real-time discovery and classification of all devices—managed or unmanaged

Automate security policies

Dynamic Policy Enforcement

Adaptive controls based on identity, posture, and risk

Continuous Compliance

Automated evidence collection and policy validation for frameworks like CIS and NIST

manually initiated control actions

Adaptive Threat Defense

Behavioral analytics and anomaly detection to prevent insider risk and data loss

Business Outcomes

SOAR
Reduce risk with consistent Zero Trust enforcement across every device and location
Simplify compliance and audit readiness with continuous validation
Multifactor Risk
Accelerate incident response and minimize operational overhead
Enable secure innovation without slowing down the business

UZTNA: The Next Evolution in Secure Network Access

Modern enterprises operate across diverse environments: IoT, IoMT, OT, and CPS – requiring a unified security model that extends beyond traditional Zero Trust. UZTNA delivers this by consolidating access control, identity verification, and continuous monitoring into a single, adaptive framework. Rather than focusing solely on network segmentation, UZTNA enforces context-aware, least-privilege access across all users, devices, and applications, regardless of location. Every session is dynamically validated, leveraging identity, posture, and risk signals to ensure trust is never assumed.

40%

Growth UZTNA is expected to grow in 20271

96%

% security decision-makers who say zero trust is critical to their organization’s success1

70%

of new remote access deployments that will use ZT network architecture vs. VPNs by 20253

How Forescout Powers a UZTNA Architecture

In a UZTNA model, security decisions are not limited to isolated network segments — they span users, devices, and applications across hybrid environments. A centralized Policy Decision Point (PDP) continuously evaluates identity, device posture, and contextual risk signals to determine the appropriate access level. These decisions are then enforced dynamically across multiple Policy Enforcement Points (PEPs), ensuring consistent, least-privilege access everywhere. Forescout enables this unified approach by integrating visibility, risk-based access control, and orchestration across diverse vendors and technologies, delivering a seamless, adaptive UZTNA experience.

Your journey to Universal Zero Trust Network Access starts with the Forescout 4D platform™: the only platform for UZTNA powered by agentic AI.

Device Visibility & Classification

Network-based discovery produces a list of IP addresses – many vendors stop here. The Forescout 4D Platform combines intelligence sources to classify and group raw IP addresses into your business taxonomy.

Traffic Analysis & Visualization

An intuitive matrix of traffic among all connected assets facilitates segmentation compliance and policy design based on what should and should not be communicating.

Policy Impact Simulation

Simulating your ZTA designs using actual traffic flows allows you to validate controls, fine-tune policies and flag violations without causing costly business disruptions.

Central Policy Decision Point

The Forescout 4D Platform analyzes 800+ data points from activity logs, threat intelligence, compliance, identity management, SIEMs and more to orchestrate policy enforcement among your PEPs.

Reach Zero Trust Mandates with an Adaptive Approach

As organizations work to meet regulatory requirements, adopting Zero Trust Architectures can feel overwhelming, especially when managing expansive networks with millions of connected devices. The rise of unmanaged OT/IoT devices further complicates security, increasing the risk of audit failures and breaches. Discover how an adaptive approach to Zero Trust with UZTNA can streamline the process and help organizations achieve compliance more efficiently.

Customer Success with Zero Trust

To gain the functionality that Forescout provides – from seeing and managing assets to triggering control actions and accelerating zero trust segmentation – we would have needed multiple tools. Going with Forescout was far more cost-effective.

Jeff Haidet Director of Application Development and Architecture South Central Power Co.

When there is trust, there is speed. The Forescout 4D Platform is invaluable because it provides the level of visibility that gives us that trust – trust that we know exactly what devices are on our network, along with the situational awareness both to be proactive and to address issues as they arise.

Chief Technology Officer U.S. State Government Agency

The real-time accuracy and completeness of the visibility that Forescout provides is what really impresses us.

Director of Security Operations, IT and Control Systems American Energy Company
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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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1 2024 Gartner Emerging Tech: Universal ZTNA Drives Secure Access Consolidation report
2 Zero Trust Adoption Report 2021, Microsoft
3 Gartner Identifies Three Factors Influencing Growth in Security Spending, Oct. 13, 2022

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