ForeScout Technologies, Inc., the provider of pervasive network security solutions for Global 2000 enterprises and government organisations, today announced interoperability between ForeScout CounterACT™ and Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls and WildFire™ to secure network and application access, enforce endpoint compliance, and fortify threat management. These integrations, enabled via ForeScout's ControlFabric™ architecture, allow mutual customers of ForeScout and Palo Alto Networks to enforce user and role-based access to network resources and web applications, to ensure endpoint compliance, and to identify and contain advanced persistent threats (APTs) and zero-day attacks.
ForeScout CounterACT/Palo Alto Networks WildFire Integration
ForeScout CounterACT works with Palo Alto Networks WildFire to provide mutual customers with real-time visibility and compliance management of devices on enterprise networks, effective response to APTs and zero-day threats, and automation to efficiently mitigate APTs and reduce mean-time-to-resolution.
WildFire provides an end-to-end approach to detecting modern cyber attacks and APTs that rely on stealth, persistence and the skilled avoidance of traditional security defences. It utilises a malware analysis environment in which new and unknown malware and exploits can run and be identified. Once an attack is detected, the Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall informs CounterACT of the affected systems, allowing CounterACT to detect and quarantine infected endpoints on the enterprise network. Download the CounterACT / WildFire solution brief.
ForeScout CounterACT/Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall Integration
ForeScout CounterACT works with Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls to deliver comprehensive insight into corporate and personal devices accessing and on a network in order to effectuate bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy, enforce endpoint compliance and mitigate risks.
CounterACT detects devices, corporate and personal, as soon as they connect to the network, and obtains user, authentication and device configuration and security context. It communicates real-time user login and logoff to Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls, enabling organisations to apply firewall polices to enforce access to applications and content based on user identity, regardless of device type, ownership, IP address or location. Additionally, CounterACT communicates device non-compliance to Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls, allowing joint customers to restrict those devices from accessing certain applications or parts of the network. Download the CounterACT / NGFW solution brief.