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Forescout Platform

Forescout Platform
Formerly CounterACT

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What is Forescout Platform?

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.…

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Users have found that Forescout Continuum, specifically CounterAct, effectively safeguards their networks from unauthorized devices. By …
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What is Forescout Platform?

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.…

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Product Details

What is Forescout Platform?

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 business assets.

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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Users have found that Forescout Continuum, specifically CounterAct, effectively safeguards their networks from unauthorized devices. By ensuring that only authorized and company-owned assets can connect, CounterAct provides a strong defense against potential security breaches. The software's visibility capabilities enable users to monitor and protect their networks by segregating rogue devices and allowing only company-owned assets to be connected.

CounterAct also offers valuable features for compliance and risk management. It recognizes the versions of applications running on devices, allowing for constant monitoring and mitigation of associated risks. This ensures that organizations meet the mandatory requirements from regulatory bodies and stay in line with IT security and administrative mandates.

Moreover, CounterAct's ability to create guest networks and enforce guest registration has been highly beneficial for companies. It requires approval from the employee being visited, further enhancing network security. The software's extensive use cases range from automating security for in-house IoT systems in healthcare-based clients to providing comprehensive visibility and automated control for all devices connected to the network.

Overall, users appreciate how Forescout Continuum improves network protection, simplifies administration tasks, and reduces operational and business risks through its advanced automation feature. It allows them to view connected assets, assess their statuses periodically, and ensure data and systems are safeguarded from malicious activities.

Effective Network Visibility and Control: Reviewers have consistently praised Forescout Continuum for its ability to provide visibility and control over authorized devices connecting to their network. Multiple users have mentioned that this feature has enhanced network security by ensuring that only authorized devices are able to connect, ultimately helping to protect against potential threats.

Guest Registration Management: Many reviewers have found Forescout Continuum's guest registration feature to be easy to manage and monitor. This feature is highly effective in allowing for secure and controlled access for guests connecting to the network, providing an additional layer of security while maintaining network integrity.

Endpoint Visibility and Threat Detection: Several users have highlighted the benefits of Forescout Continuum's endpoint visibility capabilities. They appreciate being able to see which devices are connected to their system and having early detection for potential threats. This proactive approach allows them to take necessary measures in mitigating risks across all their Layer 2 networks.

Outdated User Interface: Some users have expressed that the user interface of Forescout Continuum's thick client is in need of updates. They feel that transitioning to a web-based interface would greatly improve its aesthetics and overall appearance.

Complex Initial Configuration: According to reviewers, the initial configuration process of Forescout Continuum can be quite complex. Some users have mentioned that additional training and demos may be required, especially for the latest versions released, in order to effectively navigate and set up the software.

Inflexible Policy-Based Controls: The policy-based controls of Forescout Continuum have been criticized by some users for their inflexibility and complexity. Building policies within the software can be intricate, leading to potential isolation of assets or inconvenient mediation of threats at certain moments.

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Pauline Harris | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's quite a resourceful product especially when it comes to managing your compliance and visibility in the organization. Detection of threats and mitigating risks that may be involved with rogue devices accessing the company network. Your organization is able to tell what versions of applications are running on what devices and thus if updates or switching applications are needed they are up to the task.
Shirleen Muraya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Works great in ensuring that only company owned assets are connected to the network and segregating those unauthorized devices by ensuring they connect to a separate guest network where the guests registrations are signed in by the employee they are visiting thus ensuring there are proper trails that can be followed incase of threats or anything else.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It has straightforward integration with end point security platforms; for verifying devices compliance for endpoint guidelines. Its network access control allows us privileged visibility to devices on our network and only authorized devices can connect to our network. It is ideal for large scale IT companies that need to protect their networks from external attacks.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Forescout has been robust enough to mediate security threats on our IT ecosystem (servers for the most part) with impressive automation capabilities. It has resourceful risk scoring algorithms that prioritize critical assets for security protocols, unlike its competitors. It's suitable for the protection of your digital terrain despite the size by continuously running assessments that will go a long way in neutralizing the impact of security breaches. Forescout has however frustrated our teams with the policy-based controls- it isolates devices unnecessarily while eliminating threats.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Forescount Platform (CounterACT) provides multiple active and passive monitoring techniques which can be very flexible. Integration with other third-party products such as Cisco ACI, AWS and others can be complex and may required expertise to facilitate. Besides, it is also capable to perform asset discovery for OT and IoT environments.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is well suited in Banking industry and other enterprise companies where it is difficult to manage visibility and compliance in an organization. Telecom companies and IT companies also benefit a lot to get deeper into their network and stop the attack traversing in their network. Dashboards help management to get the complete picture and can be focused on concern points where there are a lot of non-domain systems, non-compliant systems, guests systems, etc.
Mitchell Greenfield | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ForeScout is great on a network where you have authorized assets are able to authenticate to them. If you have a mixed environment where you can't authenticate to devices it is probably less appropriate.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ForeScout CounterACT is well suited for a company looking to strengthen their network security. It has allowed us to be confident that there is not a rogue device connecting directly into our network to gain access to company information. It may not be suitable to a company with a small IT department as it does require time up front to initially configure and on an on-going basis to manage.
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