Forescout Platform vs. Microsoft Defender for IoT

Overview
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Forescout Platform
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Forescout Technologies headquartered in San Jose actively defends the Enterprise of Things by identifying, segmenting and enforcing compliance of every connected thing. Forescout boasts a widely deployed, enterprise-class platform at scale across IT, IoT, and OT managed and unmanaged devices. Forescout arms customers with device intelligence, in order to allow organizations across every industry to classify risk, detect anomalies and quickly remediate cyberthreats without disruption of critical…N/A
Microsoft Defender for IoT
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Microsoft states users can protect IoT/OT devices and get visibility into risk with Microsoft Defender for IoT (formerly Azure Defender for IoT), boasting agentless network monitoring for asset discovery, vulnerability management, and continuous threat detection across IoT/OT devices whether they’re unmanaged devices or managed devices provisioned via Azure IoT Hub. Features an integration with Azure Sentinel and third-party solutions. Deploy in either on-premises or Azure-connected…N/A
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User Ratings
Forescout PlatformMicrosoft Defender for IoT
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(10 ratings)
8.9
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
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User Testimonials
Forescout PlatformMicrosoft Defender for IoT
Likelihood to Recommend
Forescout Technologies
I strongly recommend using it in networks where many machines enter, it is essential to have a capture of all ids, mac etc to prevent and detect unauthorized machines.We are in the technological era and there is a lot of technological robotization looking for weak systems to enter.Invest in greater security and that does not happen to you.
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Microsoft
Suited in almost all situations as it has a server less option where if your end device cannot bear the load of an agent, it could be used to protect the network. The comprehensive dashboarding and its integration with Microsoft Defender 365 and Sentinel allows automated remediation and full incident investigation at a single pane. If you don't have a 24*7 SOC team this ca come handy as you can automate workbooks and scripts to run with custom triggers. I haven't faced any scenario where it is not a suitable choice.
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Pros
Forescout Technologies
  • Network Access Control does a great job of identifying unmanaged devices on the network and "quarantining" them.
  • The inventory feature of CounterAct is a handy place to see what version of applications are running on which machines on our network.
  • Policies can be very intricate.
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Microsoft
  • Easy Integration in the form of multiple deployment options including On Prem, Azure or Hybrid Cloud
  • All round protection/ Real time analytics with absolutely no performance hits
  • Interoperability with Microsoft SIEM/SOAR. This helps in global threat protection with automated and cross domain network security
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Cons
Forescout Technologies
  • They should have more training for the versions of applications they update.
  • It would be great if the GUI would be more aesthetic in appearance.
  • Nothing else as the application is amazing.
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Microsoft
  • The deployment when new to the system is not an easy task.
  • Multiple big project information securing.
  • Migrating large amount of different data.
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Support Rating
Forescout Technologies
They are prompt in their response with a complete resolution once they have identified the problem. Other OEM's generally give stop-gap arrangements and then later come with new upgrade versions. This gives downtime tasks to customers often, which isn't appreciated. Given the criticality of this software, their support is prompt.
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Microsoft
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Alternatives Considered
Forescout Technologies
Better intergration with patch management tools. Forescount Platfform (CounterAct) is easily compatible with diverse network infrastructure to offer better service and efficiently ensure seamless operations. Its automation capabilities have also enabled us to depend less on the operations teams hence saving time as it's faster and also saving the operational cost of having people around in case of threats.
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Microsoft
Defender being native to MS was the decision maker for us.
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Return on Investment
Forescout Technologies
  • We've managed to automate our cybersecurity to impressive extents, now the IT security team puts focus on more important things.
  • We've attained successful assets risk mitigation for our clients.
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Microsoft
  • Positive: With the influx of IoT device organisations in general, we have seen significant demand of the product and hence a good revenue
  • Negatively, sometimes, some preview features may significantly change or stop working, which causes client frustration
  • Overall, keeping the distrust in preview features aside, 99% of the times, defender hits the right spot!
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