Threat Detection & Response

Cut through the noise with better detection and response to true threats

Fragmented detection coverage across IT and OT environments leaves critical gaps for adversaries to exploit. What’s your plan to ensure no threat slips through? Most threats are only dangerous if you don’t see them coming. A simple issue, something that could have been fixed with minimal effort, can quickly escalate into a disaster, costing your organization time, money, and reputation. Relying on disconnected tools or generic solutions doesn’t work, it only adds noise, creates alert fatigue, and makes it harder to uncover real threats.

What you really need is unified visibility and contextual awareness across your entire enterprise, the ability to seamlessly correlate events, and the capacity to prioritize response by leveraging your existing security ecosystem while automating remediation

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The Current State of Threat Detection

450

alerts per hour1

28%

of alerts are simply never addressed1

45%

of alerts are false positives2

75%

of enterprises spend ≥ time on false positives than legitimate attacks3

Proactive Security Starts with Actionable Insights

That’s why Forescout focuses on delivering actionable insights rather than alerts, so you can take a proactive stance against threats.

Integrated Enterprise Security Monitoring

We bridge the divide between IT and OT, seamlessly integrating over 180 data sources to deliver complete coverage of your entire enterprise. Our detection transforms alert overload into actionable insights, enabling your team to act with precision, prioritizing critical threats. Forescout unifies essential SOC technologies into a single platform, automating detection, investigation, threat hunting, and response to advanced threats, reducing alert fatigue and maximizing resource efficiency.

Network Traffic Analysis with DPI for Industrial Protocols

Our Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) is purpose-built for industrial environments, supporting over 350 standard and proprietary protocols to deliver unparalleled visibility into complex network activity. With real-time communication analysis, we detect sophisticated threats and anomalies that other security tools often miss. The Forescout platform leverages machine learning and GenAI to identify early warning signs of cyber or operational threats, such as unusual behaviours, incorrect process values, unexpected changes, or unauthorized connections.

Intelligence-Driven Detection

What keeps our detection ahead of the curve? We test it daily in our Adversaries Engagement Environment, where real-world attacks meet continuous research. Vedere Labs uncovers emerging threats and feeds purpose-built intelligence directly into our platform. Forescout advances event analysis by embedding TTPs and proprietary intelligence from our Industrial Threat Library into alerts. This is how we enhance advanced event classification with context, enabling your security team to respond with greater confidence and efficiency.

Designed for Analysts: The Ultimate GUI

No more hopping between windows or copying and pasting data across systems. With Forescout, everything you need is right at your fingertips, just one click away. Your security analysts can work faster and smarter—organizing alerts, correlating events, managing exceptions, and handling incident cases all from a single interface. Leveraging persona-based views and preconfigured dashboards, your team can streamline SOC event analysis, incident response, and reporting workflows, reducing the time spent on repetitive tasks.

Customizable Detection: Tailor Your Security to Fit

Unlike other solutions that ask you to adapt to their limitations, Forescout empowers you to customize detection and event classification to your specific needs. Fine-tune thresholds, use your own intelligence—such as IoCs, YARA rules, and signatures—or detect behavior and dangerous conditions unique to your environment. We know that every business faces its own set of challenges, which is why we give you the flexibility to focus on the threats that have the most direct impact on your operations.

Automating Response: Streamline Your Security Operations

For many organizations, response remains a manual and fragmented process, juggling different tools and vendors. Despite ongoing investments in security, teams are overwhelmed, struggling to keep up as threats evolve faster than they can manage. The solution isn’t just another tool that falls short—it’s about embracing automation. With Forescout, routine tasks handled by SOC teams can be automated, translating into orchestrated actions across your security products to drive faster, more efficient responses.

Do You Want to Know What Makes Our Threat Detection Different?

Built on over 20 years of field experience, our detection system is made to operate seamlessly across diverse environments, IT, IoT, OT, BAS and IoMT, offering the flexibility, accuracy, and intelligence required to stay ahead of emerging threats. Our approach empowers our users to address complex IT and OT challenges, providing a customized solution that helps you respond to threats with confidence.

Anomaly Detection and Behavioral Modeling

With this feature, users can automatically learn the normal behavior of their network and quickly flag any deviations from the baseline. The anomaly detection provides our users with immediate visibility into potential threats, reducing the time to detect and respond. Over time, our behavioral models adapt and evolve, minimizing false positives and ensuring alerts focus only on significant changes that truly require attention.


LAN Communication Profiler (LAN CP)

We use LAN CP to map network communication flows and detect anomalies, such as undesired hosts, irregular communication patterns, and unexpected process commands. For example, it flags write commands when only read commands are allowed by the baseline. This feature is ready to use out of the box, requiring zero configuration, and includes tools to generate communication rules from external files to reduce false positives.


Deep Protocol Behavior Inspection (DPBI)

This is one of the most powerful features in our arsenal, offering the best DPI capabilities in the industry. It provides deep insights into protocol fields, detecting anomalies such as protocol misuse, data injection, and buffer overflow attacks. With DPBI, users can even handle advanced scenarios, like flagging deviations in process parameters that remain within the protocol specification but fall outside expected baseline. With this feature we set a new standard for precision in detecting and addressing protocol and anomaly-based threats.


Asset Baselines for Configuration Management

We use this capability to track device configurations and immediately alert to any deviations. Users can customize alerts and thresholds to streamline and automate workflows for change management, vulnerability tracking, risk assessment, and compliance. It also stores detailed asset information, logs configuration changes, and maintains a historical record for auditing and analysis. As a result, users can stay on top of critical events and maintain full control over your assets.


Playbooks and Actionable Recommendations

Each event we detect comes with detailed information, including severity, event classification, TTP mapping (tactics, techniques, and procedures), and other contextual data to simplify analysis and response. We also provide curated playbooks with potential next steps and step-by-step guidance, ensuring our users work with all the info they may need.


Malware Detection

We detect malware through a combination of passive network-based monitoring and endpoint detection via managed agents. The Industrial Threat Library, a robust collection of Indicators of Compromise (IoCs), signatures, and behavior-based detection rules, includes over 160 checks for known ICS malware such as WannaCry, GreyEnergy, and Triton. Alerts provide detailed asset information, contextual descriptions, and PCAP files for traffic analysis, enabling faster detection, thorough analysis, and efficient responses to threats.


Forensic Time Machine for Retroactive Analysis

This feature allows our users to review historical network logs to uncover threats that were missed due to the absence of IOCs or signatures at the time. It’s especially valuable for identifying persistent threats or malware that evolve over time. With this capability, your team can conduct retroactive analyses to detect malicious activities and ensure nothing slips through the cracks.


Malformed Packet Detection

We continuously monitor network traffic to identify malformed packets that may signal exploitation attempts. This proactive approach detects threats such as protocol manipulation or buffer overflow attacks, enabling users to mitigate risks before they escalate. It has been highly effective in identifying and blocking zero-day attacks like DoublePulsar and Urgent11, even before detection signatures were available.


Port Scan Detection

We detect port scanning activities, including SYN, ACK, and distributed scans designed to evade detection. Our platform allows users to configure sensitivity and alert thresholds, ensuring accurate identification of potential threats while minimizing false positives. This capability helps your team respond quickly to reconnaissance activities before they develop into active attacks.


Insecure Protocol Detection

We use Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to identify insecure protocols like FTP and Telnet, outdated or vulnerable versions of protocols, such as SMB and HTTPS, and even weak or clear-text passwords. By flagging these vulnerabilities, including weak encryption and inadequate authentication mechanisms, your team can address them proactively before they’re exploited. You wouldn’t believe how many unsecured connections we’ve uncovered over time.


Reconnaissance & Suspicious Network Connections

We continuously monitor network traffic to detect reconnaissance activities and suspicious connections, to malicious IPs, such as malware communications or devices deviating from their normal behavior. Alerts are triggered when new connections are established, unusual protocols are used, or devices start behaving outside their baseline.


Operational Threat Policies

We help our customers address both security risks and operational challenges, such as device errors, misconfigurations, or communication losses. Tailored policies enable you to monitor critical activities, manage maintenance workflows, and prevent disruptions before they impact operations. This is another powerful feature available out of the box that you can start using immediately.


Custom Detection Scripts and Extensions

We empower our customers to develop custom detection rules using runtime extensions, enabling them to address emerging threats effectively. This capability provides the flexibility needed to adapt to evolving risks and tailor security measures to unique or unexpected challenges in their environment.


Third-Party EDR Integration

Our platform seamlessly integrates with third-party Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) systems, leveraging IOCs from multiple sources for comprehensive threat detection. This integration extends visibility across IT and OT environments, enabling faster and more effective responses to potential threats.


Enhanced by Generative AI

Our detection uses advanced generative AI to simplify complex tasks, like analyzing events, identifying risks, and generating detailed reports. We this we try to help our users quickly filter through massive amounts of data to find exactly what they need, saving time and enabling faster, more informed decisions.


Aimbridge Hospitality Quote

Customer Confidence

“Forescout Threat Detection & Response delivered as a managed service, is a strategic part of our layered defense strategy. It combines essential storage of raw telemetry, in support of compliance mandates, with advanced threat detection and response capabilities to further reduce risk and help us meet cyber insurance requirements. Its ability to automatically and reliably identify true threats from a broad range of data sources across our highly distributed and global IT environment, and to present these with detailed contextual information that streamlines the investigation and response process, is both impressive, and essential in today’s threat environment.”

— Andrew Arthurs, CIO, Aimbridge Hospitality

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1 “The State of Security Operations”, Forrester 2020
2 “The Voice of the Analysts: Improving Security Operations Center Processes Through Adapted Technologies” IDC InfoBrief
3 “Reaching the Tipping Point of Web Application and API Security”, 2021, ESG
4 Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022 (IBM/Ponemon)
5 Check Point Software Mid-Year Security Report, Aug-2022
6 Gartner, View From the Board of Directors Survey, 2022
7 Dark Reading, Most Enterprise SIEMs Blind to MITRE ATT&CK Tactics, June 27, 2023

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