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ForeScout Technologies Recognised as a Leader in the 2011 Magic Quadrant for Network Access Control
(15/12/2011)
ForeScout Technologies announced this week that it has been positioned in the “Leaders” quadrant of Gartner, Inc.’s “Magic Quadrant for Network Access Control.”1 The Magic Quadrant analysis is based on Gartner’s assessment of a company’s completeness of vision and ability to execute. According to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Network Access Control2, leaders are successful in selling large NAC implementations (10,000 nodes and greater) to multiple large enterprises. Leaders are pure-play NAC v... [more]
Wellington College upgrades the security of its campus network with ForeScout CounterACT Virtual Appliance(28/09/2011)
Wellington College is a beautifully designed school set in 400 acres of land in Berkshire, United Kingdom. Opened by Queen Victoria in 1859, the school was originally set up as a charitable educational institution for the orphans of army officers. Today, Wellington College teaches over 1000 students - boys and girls - from age 13 upwards, and has become one of the best boarding schools in the country. In 2010, Wellington College’s director of IT services and development, Tony Whelton, decid... [more]
ForeScout CounterACT helps city of Guelph achieve continued PCI-DSS compliance(29/08/2011)
The city of Guelph, in Ontario, Canada has selected the ForeScout CounterACT platform to help achieve continued PCI-DSS compliance, as well as to enable a secure means for employees and contractors to use their personal mobile devices. Before implementing ForeScout CounterACT, compliance reporting had been more difficult for the City of Guelph. In order to meet PCI-DSS compliance, they needed to run internal assessments costing them both time and money. ForeScout simplified this process by ... [more]
ForeScout's CounterACT delivers real-time visibility and control over who, how, when and what device are connecting to enterprise networks
(05/08/2011)
According to Gartner, by 2015, 40 percent of the security controls used within enterprise data centers will be virtualised, and enterprises want visibility across their physical and virtual environments. The dynamics of virtual machine (VM) provisioning and movement, combined with wireless and mobile security issues, challenge an IT organisations’ ability to enforce uniform network access and endpoint compliance policies. ForeScout Technologies, Inc.'s CounterACT™ Network Access Control (NAC)... [more]
WhiteConcierge selects ForeScout CounterACT for PCI DSS Level 1 compliance(19/05/2011)
With financial institutions and high-street banks comprising its core customer base, WhiteConcierge, formerly part of Travelex and now Europe's leading B2B lifestyle management and concierge service, needed to protect the data they were dealing with to an extremely high level. WhiteConcierge sought a Network Access Control (NAC) solution to gain further visibility and control over access to network resources and sensitive data. ForeScout Technologies, Inc. has announced that WhiteConcierge... [more]
ForeScout revenues fueled by Network Access Control market growth(04/02/2011)
Analyst firm Infonetics evaluated the 2010 NAC market and predicts an impressive 84% growth by 2014. Large-scale threats, such as the Stuxnet, Operation Aurora and Conficker outbreaks, compliance mandates and the “consumerisation” of devices accessing corporate networks have kept NAC on the forefront of CIO and CSO agendas. ForeScout Technologies, Inc. has announced that its year-over-year bookings have grown by 44 percent. The announcement comes after seven continuous quarters of strong e... [more]
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