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ForeScout Positioned as a Leader in Network Access Control Industry by Forrester Research
June 2011 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
ForeScout Technologies, Inc., has been confirmed as a leader in Network Access Control (NAC) solutions in the June 2011 report “The Forrester Wave™: Network Access Control, Q2 2011.” The report ranks ForeScout as the top rated performer in both strength of current product offering and strategy. ForeScout has been chosen by more than 1,000 of the world’s most secure enterprises and military installations for global deployments spanning 37 countries.
Forrester Research, Inc. evaluated the top six vendors with enterprise-class Network Access Control solutions through a combination of vendor surveys, product demos, strategy briefings and customer reference calls for the report which provides a detailed review of the network access control market. The vendors were then ranked against 72 criteria including current offering, strategy and market presence.
Key ForeScout capabilities referenced in the report include:
– Unified management: one enterprise manager appliance controls multiple NAC appliances.
– Integration: highly network and security infrastructure interoperable with broad enforcement options.
– Clientless (agentless) mode: works without agents and offers a non-persistent lightweight client.
– Hardware (appliance) or software (virtual appliance) deployment options.
– Heavy focus on IT consumerization, mobile device control and data center virtualization.
The report cites that users should “consider the vendor’s entire product portfolio and ease of deployment as top considerations.”
