Forescout vs. Nozomi

 

Close the Gap: Forescout Fixes What Others Miss

 

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“[Forescout] gives us complete visibility into our OT environment. This helps us address business risk – including risk that we were previously unaware of.”

— Dante Martins, Vice President Digital Infrastructure, AES Corporation

Why Customers Choose Forescout Over Nozomi

You need more than just passive monitoring of your OT network. You need technology that dives deep into the extensive attack surfaces of complex industrial settings, providing coverage well beyond OT systems. While Nozomi leaves you with visibility gaps and hidden threats, Forescout ensures you don’t just identify problems — you fix them.

Flexible Deployment

Intelligence Beyond Visibility

Don’t settle for siloed visibility in your ICS environment. You need comprehensive asset intelligence across IT, IoT, OT, and IoMT to turn insights into actions. Go beyond inventory only. Gain a strategic advantage for informed decisions, operational efficiency and improved security.

Automate security policies

You Need Proactive Security to Stay Ahead

In today’s threat landscape, passive network monitoring is no longer enough. Seamless integration of IT and OT security into a comprehensive platform is essential to overcoming the unique challenges of industrial environments. Don’t let problems grow into serious threats—take a proactive approach to stay in control.

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Security is a Journey

Detecting threats is just the beginning. We go one step further: Visibility, network security, risk management and threat response in a comprehensive platform. We support our customers every step of the way, from detection to resolution, with orchestration and automated remediation. We don’t leave them halfway.

Blind Spots and Hidden Threats

  • Narrow Focus, Bigger Risks: Nozomi’s visibility scope is largely limited to the OT realm and provides little coverage of IT and network devices, leaving critical blind spots that expose your environment to unseen threats and vulnerabilities.

  • Restricted Flexibility: Nozomi offers limited discovery options and struggles in complex environments, requiring a high level of manual effort to manage exceptions and maintain an accurate asset inventory.

  • Limited Actionability, Limited Impact: Nozomi’s asset information is often fragmented or difficult to utilize, forcing you to cross-reference multiple systems to get the actionable insights you need to make informed decisions.

The Forescout Advantage

Forescout delivers comprehensive visibility across IT, IoT, OT and medical devices, ensuring you capture the entire landscape, not just part of it. The platform improves your security and resilience by maintaining an accurate, real-time inventory and providing comprehensive context for every connected asset. This gives you not only visibility but the asset intelligence you need to improve risk management and operational efficiency.

Network Segmentation and Compliance? Look Elsewhere

  • Watching Traffic Is Not Enough: Nozomi monitors traffic but lacks network access and segmentation capabilities, requiring extensive configuration even to implement basic use cases.

  • Compliance Gaps Exposed: Falls short in monitoring critical asset properties for compliance with key security frameworks, such as NIST CSF or IEC 62443. This creates significant blind spots in your security posture and hinders your overall compliance efforts.

  • No Policy Engine, No Proactive Measures: Nozomi lacks a robust policy engine, limiting you to predefined use cases. It doesn’t support custom compliance checks, hindering your ability to proactively manage threats and enforce security policies.

The Forescout Advantage

When it comes to network security and compliance, Forescout is in a league of its own. The platform delivers dynamic access control and network segmentation tailored to industrial environments. Forescout continuously monitors the security posture and compliance of all assets in real time, enabling automatic assessment, remediation and enforcement of security policies across all Purdue levels. With Forescout, you don't just keep up — you stay ahead.

The Unorchestrated Symphony

  • No Single Source of Truth: ICS environments aren’t only OT and IoT. You need full visibility across the entire attack surface to manage all assets and coordinate remediation efforts through a unified interface.

  • Basic automation: Integration with third-party products requires extensive configuration and often fails to deliver results, leading to longer remediation times and higher TCO.

  • Scaling Challenges: Your business requires a security solution that scales effortlessly across multiple sites and technologies and provides reliable support for different use cases.

The Forescout Advantage

Why settle for less when you can have a platform that scales effortlessly across systems and sites, addressing multiple use cases? Unlike Nozomi, Forescout offers unmatched visibility across IT, IoT, OT and IoMT environments. With seamless integration into your existing IT and security infrastructure, Forescout automates responses and mitigates threats, giving you complete visibility and complete control.

Beyond Monitoring, Take Action with Forescout

Analyst Recognition

According to Gartner, by 2025, 75% of OT security solutions will be interoperable with IT security solutions and delivered via multifunction platforms. The Gartner Market Guide for OT Security provides a holistic assessment of the current state of this changing market to help future-proof your OT cybersecurity strategy.

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Validated by Customers

Major European Defense Company Deploys Building Automation System Security & SOC Integration for Critical Manufacturing

The customer deployed eyeInspect (formerly SilentDefense) to improve BAS and ICS threat detection capabilities for critical production plants of defense components.

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Forescout Nozomi
Visibility Unified Asset Intelligence
Complete visibility across all device types (IT, IoT, OT, and IoMT) and Purdue levels, with advanced asset management and endpoint protection capabilities.		 Partial Asset Inventory
Strong focus on OT and IoT assets and systems, but lack of visibility for IT and IoMT. This gap in coverage can lead to blind spots in your security posture.
Network Security Unmatched Network Security
Forescout leads in network security with dynamic access control and segmentation for industrial settings, offering advanced capabilities for enforcing network controls across multiple vendors.		 Basic Network Monitoring
Nozomi has no network security features and relies heavily on third-party integration. It only supports basic NAC and segmentation use cases and faces significant challenges when deployed in large multi-vendor environments.
Risk Extended Risk Management
A sophisticated risk management framework with advanced vulnerability management, featuring proprietary metrics and indicators to identify, prioritize, and mitigate cybersecurity risks and exposures, ensuring secure operations and regulatory compliance.		 Bare-Bone Risk Management
Basic risk and vulnerability management limited to OT and IoT devices. Relying heavily on open- source data, it lacks proprietary insights and effective prioritization tools. Requires significant manual effort to assess risks, evaluate impacts and handle false positives and exceptions.
Threat Detection Unmatched Threat Insight
Next-level threat detection connects the dots across multiple data sources delivering highly reliable event classification. Our role-specific dashboards and playbooks combined with state-of-the-art incident management tools, streamline workflows, empower SOC analysts, and enhance threat triage and response.		 One-Dimensional Threat Detection
Nozomi’s threat detection and response capabilities are limited to OT systems and don't scale across your entire infrastructure. Sparse contextual information and basic remediation tips make it hard for inexperienced users to understand and prioritize events, often leading to delayed responses and increased exposure.
Incident Response Enterprise-Wide Incident Response
Forescout’s Incident Response leverages your existing IT and security infrastructure. By collecting telemetry data and logs from various sources—security tools, applications, infrastructure, cloud services, and more—we correlate attack signals to detect real threats and automate response actions.		 Nonexistent Incident Response
Nozomi lacks incident response capabilities, only detecting events and forwarding them to third-party systems. Users must juggle multiple interfaces to track and resolve issues. Automation of response actions is minimal, requiring extensive fine-tuning and maintenance.

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