description Forescout Platform Overview
Forescout Platform is a network detection and response (NDR) solution that employs deep packet inspection and machine learning to continuously monitor network traffic for threats, vulnerabilities, and anomalous behavior across wired and wireless networks.
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What is Forescout best known for in network security?
Forescout built its reputation on agentless Network Access Control (NAC), with products like eyeSight for device visibility and eyeControl for enforcement. The platform can identify and control devices joining a network without installing any software on them.
How does Forescout handle IoT and devices that can't run security agents?
It uses passive and active monitoring along with deep packet inspection and machine learning to fingerprint devices, which is essential for IoT, operational technology, and medical equipment that cannot run endpoint software. This makes it especially popular in hospitals and industrial environments.
Is Forescout a public company?
It went public on Nasdaq in 2017, but was later taken private by the investment firm Advent International in 2020. It now operates as a privately held network security vendor.
Does Forescout have specific capabilities for hospitals and medical devices?
Yes, it acquired Medigate, an IoT and medical device security specialist, in 2021, adding clinical device fingerprinting to its platform. Healthcare became one of its flagship verticals because so many connected medical devices can't host agents.
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