New IT and OT Security Platform Delivers True Cyber Resilience
In today’s rapidly evolving industrial landscape – where increasing operational complexity heightens risks – visibility alone is no longer enough. As the lines between IT and OT security blur, your ability to see the whole picture and take control can be the difference between smooth operations and major disruptions.
“Organizations are spending millions on the latest visibility and detection technology and are still experiencing downtime or getting compromised by ransomware, exploits, known vulnerabilities, and Zero Days,” says Barry Mainz, CEO of Forescout. “They don’t need more visibility. They need actionable intelligence and control.”
The new Forescout for OT security platform goes far beyond visibility—it is the first SaaS solution designed to deliver enterprise-wide Asset Intelligence, Risk Exposure Management (REM), and advanced Threat Detection and Response (TDR) for complex industrial environments.
Whether transitioning to the cloud, maintaining air-gapped systems or managing hybrid infrastructures, Forescout for OT Security adapts seamlessly to your specific needs, offering scalable deployment across OT, IoT/IoMT, and IT systems without limitations.
What Makes Forescout for OT Security Different from Everything Else?
Forescout offers a comprehensive end-to-end IT and OT security platform that not only supports multiple use cases — be it extending IT security controls to industrial environments or consolidating risk and compliance into a unified strategy — but also enables you to take action. We don’t just detect issues and leave you guessing about the next steps. The platform integrates seamlessly with your IT and security ecosystem so you can proactively create, optimize and automate remediation and operational workflows.
How Forescout for OT Security Addresses Industrial Cybersecurity to Ensure Resilience
More Deployment Options: Whether deploying in the cloud, using Docker containers on custom hardware sensors, or leveraging your network equipment, this IT and OT security platform integrates seamlessly across different layers of your existing infrastructure, minimizing disruption and avoiding unnecessary changes.
Extended Discovery Capability: Forescout for OT Security supports 350+ industrial protocols with a blend of active and passive methods to discover and classify IT, OT and IoT assets. Whether you are pulling data from APIs, switches or wireless adapters, the platform handles scenarios where SPAN monitoring isn’t an option or passive methods fall short.
AI-Enhanced Asset Intelligence: Knowing what assets you own is just the beginning. The real value lies in understanding how they are configured, how they operate and how they interact with other systems. Forescout for OT security gives you actionable insights to effectively manage and optimize change, vulnerability, risk and compliance processes.
Proactive Vulnerability Management: With the industry’s largest curated database and actionable vulnerability prioritization metrics, such as CVSS, EPSS, CISA, and Vedere Labs ‘KEV (Known Exploited Vulnerabilities), you have everything you need to evaluate threats from multiple angles and manage the complex patch management process in industrial settings.
Intelligence-Driven Detection: Comprehensive threat detection tailored to OT, IoT and IT hybrid environments and powered by FS Vedere Labs research. With advanced event classification and case management, you can efficiently manage alerts, track incident resolution, and monitor KPIs to ensure faster response times and superior event handling.
Forescout AI Reporting: Persona based dashboards, and customized views ensure that the right data reaches the right people. You can create custom views for IT and security operations, SOC analysts and executives and turn them into customized reports that provide contextual insights into devices, alerts, potential incident causes, and recommended remediation steps.
What Analysts and Customers Have to Say About Forescout and OT Security
GigaOm Radar for Operational Technology (OT) Security
“Forescout has achieved Leader status because of its exceptional ability to adapt to the evolving demands of the OT security market,” reflects Chris Ray, analyst at GigaOm, in the 2024 “GigaOm Radar for Operational Technology (OT) Security” report. “As a Fast Mover, Forescout has shown notable improvements in extending its device compliance and management features over the past year, ensuring that it remains at the forefront of technological advancements in network security.”
Forescout Recognized in the Gartner® Market Guide for OT Security
By 2025, 75% of OT security solutions will be interoperable with IT security solutions and delivered via multifunction platforms, Gartner finds in this report. 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.
How AES Corporation Bridges the IT and OT Security Divide with Forescout
AES is a next-generation energy company with 70 international plants spanning 15 different countries and is a Forescout customer. Be sure to read this Q&A interview blog with Forescout’s Christina Hoefer, Vice President of OT & xIoT Strategy.
“One thing the Forescout platform does very well is creating network maps of what each system is talking to and in which direction,” explains security leaders, Kyle Oetken, Director of Cyber Defense, and Andrew Plunket, Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer (OT) at AES Corporation.
“This highlighted systems that bridged OT to IT that some plants could monitor better. We have also been able to detect network scanning activity (pen tests or vendor maintenance) on the OT network, identify default credentials and then work with the OT operations teams to change those credentials. All these findings helped improve the value of the OT security program since it highlighted and fixed issues we should prioritize.”
Ready for the Next Step?
If you are already a customer, contact your Sales Representative or Customer Care through the Forescout Customer Support Portal to learn more about the Forescout for OT security platform.
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