Forescout, a global cybersecurity leader, has launched its cloud-native product, Risk and Exposure Management, designed to consolidate all data sources related to an enterprise’s connected assets. This new product calculates a multifactor risk score for each asset, providing a more intuitive and quantitative method for prioritizing risks.
The expanding attack surfaces of enterprises pose significant challenges for security teams. Traditional approaches to cyber asset management struggle to keep up with the diversity of asset types and the continuous changes in configuration and risk posture. As a result, incident analysis becomes increasingly difficult. Forescout’s Risk and Exposure Management solution addresses this challenge by offering a unique status-over-time view for every individual asset. It allows security teams to act on intuitive cyber risk intelligence through security workflow automation using the Forescout Platform.
According to Forrester, chief information security officers (CISOs) are actively seeking new approaches to manage their attack surfaces. They need solutions that not only support their teams but also demonstrate to their boards how they are reducing risk exposure based on their security investments. The report states that 73% of security decision-makers are adopting attack surface management, and an additional 15% plan to implement it within the next 12 months.
Barry Mainz, CEO and President of Forescout, emphasized the need for enterprises to have a simplified way of maintaining real-time and persistent asset intelligence for every device, including those that are managed or unmanaged, physical or virtual, and even specialty subsets like medical devices. The Forescout Platform, with its newly available Risk and Exposure Management, aims to provide this intelligence, helping security teams effectively reduce the risk posture of evolving attack surfaces within enterprises.
The key use cases and benefits of Forescout Risk and Exposure Management include:
1. Cybersecurity Asset Management: The product enables IT security teams to discover and classify every device across any environment, providing asset context and status trends to streamline operations.
2. Persistent Asset Risk Intelligence: Gain situational awareness of cybersecurity risk posture by considering exposure from vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, resulting in a multifactor risk score.
3. Accelerated Incident Response: Leverage historical asset context to aid analysts in proactive investigation of risks and reactive response to incidents, minimizing the blast radius and reducing mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR).
4. Enhanced IoT Security: The product offers high-fidelity classification of Internet of Things (IoT) devices through non-disruptive, passive discovery techniques. It enables security teams to identify xIoT vulnerabilities in real-time, thereby understanding the attack surface and prioritizing response actions.
5. Enhanced Medical Device Security: Forescout Risk and Exposure Management provides a clear and concise risk assessment for each connected medical device. This assessment is based on known exposures, attack potential, operational criticality, and includes insights into FDA class and recall status. The solution ensures security without impacting patient care.
By leveraging the capabilities of Forescout’s Risk and Exposure Management, enterprises can obtain comprehensive asset intelligence, laying the foundation for effective cyber asset attack surface management.
To learn more about the importance of adopting Forescout Risk and Exposure Management, visit www.forescout.com/products/rem/ and sign up for a demo at www.forescout.com/rem.
About Forescout:
Forescout Technologies, Inc. is a global cybersecurity leader that identifies, protects, and ensures the compliance of all managed and unmanaged connected cyber assets, ranging from IT and IoT to IoMT and OT. Fortune 100 organizations and government agencies have trusted Forescout for over 20 years to provide vendor-agnostic, automated cybersecurity at scale. The Forescout Platform delivers comprehensive capabilities for network security, risk and exposure management, and extended detection and response. Seamless context sharing and workflow orchestration via ecosystem partners enable customers to effectively manage cyber risk and mitigate threats. To learn more, visit www.forescout.com.