Forescout Technologies announced that it has enhanced the operational technology (OT) and IoT capabilities for its newly released Forescout Continuum Platform, the industry's first automated cybersecurity platform that continuously manages the risk posture of cyber assets and delivers enhanced threat detection and response for operational continuity. The cyber and operational risks and threats affecting OT organizations are multiplying, calling for cybersecurity solutions that scale across an organization's entire infrastructure and distributed locations. Organizations with OT and industrial control system (ICS) networks are also facing a cybersecurity skills gap and resource shortage, making it increasingly difficult to keep up with the evolving threat landscape.

To address these issues for industrial enterprises, Forescout added new capabilities to provide broader visibility and threat detection for OT and IoT devices with an enhanced user experience, increased scalability and performance, and flexible deployment options to help automate workflows and enable a more effective platform operation and cost-effective deployments at scale. The new capabilities and benefits include: Enhanced user experience: A streamlined UI developed based on customer feedback for more efficient workflows, including at-a-glance insights into the trends and risks of all OT networks; a scalable asset page for effective analysis of risks, vulnerabilities and communications; and a new alerts page to better prioritize threat mitigation. Effective deployment at scale: New sensor templates and centralized sensor configuration for faster deployment at hundreds of sites; ability to monitor up to 10 Gbps for centralized deployment models; support for DHCP networks and devices.

Expanded visibility and detection: Further expansion of broad protocol coverage of 250+ IT, OT and IoT protocols so customers can identify and assess more assets and vendors; extended coverage to 30 active queries to identify common OT, IoT and IT devices; an extensibility framework for active queries and asset classification to expand built-in visibility and asset roles at run-time for more accurate classification. Flexible Deployment Options: All passive and active sensors are deployed as containers by default, to allow deployment on almost any appliance; support for smaller, low-cost hardware for decentralization or segmented networks; support for deployment on 3rd party network infrastructure hardware; ability to deploy the Command Center in private AWS and Azure instances.