Forescout Technologies, Inc. announced its latest technology integration enhancements with longtime partner, Forescout Technologies, Inc. and ServiceNow Advance Partnership to Protect Critical Infrastructure from Cyber Threats. To help ensure integrity and stability of critical infrastructure, Forescout and ServiceNow provide an effective and streamlined integration that improves asset intelligence as well as threat prevention, detection and response for industrial control systems and operational technology environments. The integration allows security teams to make informed decisions based on device type and environment to close the security gap from unmanaged OT devices and improve performance in crucial metrics such as mean time to resolve in remediating vulnerable or affected systems. Combining complementary technologies for OT discovery, threat detection and configuration management, the Forescout-ServiceNow integrated solution centralizes security and improves resiliency in manufacturing, energy, transportation and other sectors where increasingly internet-connected infrastructure is often invisible to traditional cybersecurity controls.

Customers using Forescout to continuously discover and monitor OT and ICS environments can now leverage ServiceNow's configuration management database platform for more efficient asset, service and security management. The integration features a data-driven ability to automate device discovery, CMDB updates and prioritized remediation or incident management workflows based on risk level, easily scaling defenses with technology and business demands. Capitalizing on the enhanced OT and industrial IoT asset intelligence capabilities, customers can reduce risk further by taking advantage of the established Forescout-ServiceNow integration capabilities that automate workflows between the Forescout platform and ServiceNow Security Operations and IT Service Management.

Customers can accelerate security and operational incident detection, management and response processes while maintaining accurate asset intelligence throughout the process. As Forescout detects a device is non-compliant or compromised, an appropriate ServiceNow incident is created and aligned with CMDB asset record. Forescout can also automatically respond to the incident with relevant network or system actions per policy and keeps CMDB asset record accurate with real-time device context.

This creates an end-to-end asset intelligence and incident management system that proactively reduces risk with streamlined operations.