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After successful deployment in its U.S. offices, OMG chose to rollout ForeScout’s award-winning network access control (NAC) solution, CounterACT, across its international network. Key factors prompting this decision included: CounterACT’s ability to support OMG’s operating environment; the NAC appliance’s integrated functionality; the sheer level of network visibility provided via an agentless approach and the means to phase in security policy without disrupting the user experience.

David King, technical services director, EMEA, for Omnicom Media Group, said, “The CounterACT platform easily adapted to our network infrastructure – it literally only took a few days to deploy. As with most implementations, we are learning and tweaking functions and expanding policies every month. Most recently we deployed CounterACT in Norway, which took less than a day since we could apply many of the same rules used in the U.K. office. We are also looking to rollout in Spain, France, the Czech Republic and Italy this year, which reflects NAC’s value to our business.”

With CounterACT in place, OMG is ready for the inevitable move towards strong policy enforcement and security control of personal mobile devices (BYOD). This is critical in a creative workplace where employees want – and expect – to be able to use their iPads, iPhones and Android smartphones.