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ForeScout Technologies Teams With eEye Digital Security, enabling Automated IAVA Compliance for US Department of Defense
August 2008 by Marc Jacob
ForeScout Technologies, a specialist in access control and policy management solutions, and eEye Digital Security, a provider of integrated security and threat management solutions, today announced a teaming relationship to deliver a combined vulnerability assessment (VA) and network access control (NAC) solution to automate the process of ensuring all devices connecting to Department of Defense (DoD) networks are in compliance with Information Assurance Vulnerability Alerts (IAVA) standards and grant access based on this compliance.
Haber and his colleagues chose the ForeScout CounterACT solution for its ability to detect out-of-compliance devices as they connect to the network and provide the appropriate level of enforcement to ensure DoD networks are protected from vulnerable systems.
Today’s enterprises and branches of the federal government and military face a steady influx of vulnerabilities introduced by users who are able to bypass scheduled scans. The CounterACT plug-in to the Retina Web Security Scanner addresses this problem by detecting all connected or connecting devices and enforcing network security policies across all network devices without the need for any prior knowledge of the connecting device. This visibility combined with eEye’s deep scanning technology ensures an unprecedented level of protection for DoD networks.
