Forescout brings automated cybersecurity across the digital terrain

Forescout Technologies introduced the Forescout Continuum Platform, the industry’s first automated cybersecurity platform that continuously manages the risk posture of assets across an enterprise’s digital terrain, covering IT, OT, IoT, and IoMT devices.

Modern businesses in all industries – from healthcare and government to manufacturing, financial services, transportation, and agriculture – face a constantly changing environment. This change, which includes device lifecycle, applications, people, device decay, software failures, and acquisitions, causes misalignment with an organization’s security framework, resulting in a security risk posture gap.

“Organizations are dealing with a new level of complexity amidst rapid growth in cyber assets and increased cybersecurity threats and attacks,” said Wael Mohamed, chief executive officer of Forescout. “Forescout’s Continuum Platform is a powerhouse solution. In addition to automating cybersecurity actions, Forescout is the only solution that delivers visibility and automation across all types of assets – IT, OT, IoT, IoMT – which collectively represent the digital terrain of your organization.”

Forescout’s new Continuum Platform is a cloud-based system that provides data-driven insights to lower total cost of ownership while accelerating real-time, continuous security automation. The Continuum Platform protects an organization’s security framework by automating the continuous discovery, assessment, and governance of cyber assets in order to mitigate risk and drive business automation and efficiency.

“The automation capabilities of the Forescout platform enable an efficient and effective system, one that can perform across the entire spectrum of activities and stay ahead of bad actors,” said Deepali Sathe, Senior Industry Analyst, Frost and Sullivan.

Forescout’s Continuum Platform adds new features that enables organizations to:

• incorporate multifactor, real-time risk analysis into automated governance actions, including dynamic network segmentation and access control decision-making leveraging individual asset criticality and risk scoring;
• gain complete visibility and governance of cyber assets in a work-from-anywhere model to extend discovery, assessment and governance of assets everywhere,
• leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning to further enhance automated classification of assets; 
• collect highly distributed data by running sensors in local hardware and network infrastructure; and
• drive down administration costs through cloud-based user interfaces and easy-to-use programming interfaces for large-scale administrative tasks.

The Continuum Platform is the culmination of more than 20 years of Forescout innovation, which has safeguarded many of the world’s largest and most trusted organizations. With its bidirectional connectivity to dozens of third-party cybersecurity products, such as vulnerability assessment, firewall, configuration management database, and more, the platform improves customers’ security ecosystems by providing workflow automation and supplementing Forescout’s native discovery, assessment, and governance capabilities.