Forescout , the global leader in cybersecurity, launched Risk and Exposure Management, a cloud-native product. The product is designed to collate all data sources related to an enterprise’s connected assets and calculate a unique multi-factor risk score for each asset, thereby providing a more intuitive and quantitative approach to risk prioritization.
Due to the ever-changing technology and business, the attack surface of enterprises is expanding every day. Security teams realized that existing approaches to network asset management did not scale effectively to address the diversity of asset types, nor did they track asset configurations and risk posture changes, making it extremely difficult to conduct any incident analysis quickly. The new Risk and Exposure Management solution overcomes this challenge by observing the unique state of each individual asset as it evolves over time, tracks changes over time, and automates security workflows powered by the Forescout platform, enabling security teams to act on intuitive of cyber risk intelligence to act on.
According to Forrester, CIOs are actively seeking new approaches to attack surface management, not only to better support their teams, but also to demonstrate to the board how they reduce exposure based on the effectiveness of their security investments. The analyst firm also found that “among security decision makers, 73 percent say their companies are adopting attack surface management. Another 15 percent plan to implement it within the next 12 months.”
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“Enterprises need simplified ways to maintain immediate and persistent asset intelligence for every asset, whether managed or unmanaged, physical or virtual, including OT/ICS, IoT devices and medical devices,” said Barry Mainz, CEO and President of Forescout. We’ve invested heavily in the Forescout platform, and our upgrade to the availability of Forescout® Risk and Exposure Management provides this type of intelligence to help security teams effectively demonstrate a reduction in their enterprise’s evolving attack surface risk posture .”
Use cases and benefits of Forescout’s Risk and Exposure Management include:
- Cyber Security Asset Management: Discover and classify (90-day retention) every device in any environment to help IT security teams streamline operations by leveraging asset contextual content and status trends.
- Continuous Asset Risk Intelligence: Gain situational awareness of cybersecurity risk posture based on exposure to vulnerabilities and misconfigurations and a unique multi-factor risk score.
- Accelerated Incident Response: Leverages past contextual content of assets to help analysts proactively investigate risks and respond to incidents and incidents, helping to minimize the scope of an attack and reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR).
- IoT Security Upgrade: Through non-disruptive passive discovery technology, high-fidelity IoT classification is used to achieve deployment flexibility, instantly identify pan-IoT vulnerabilities, and help security teams understand the attack surface and prioritize response actions.
With the functions of this product, enterprises can actually obtain comprehensive asset intelligence and lay a solid foundation for network asset attack surface management.
SOURCE: Businesswire