ForeScout Intros NAC-as-a-Service Platform

ForeScout figures the Managed Service Provider market for firewalls, VPNs, virus cures, web filtering, log management and intrusion detection is pretty much saturated so it's going to push its CounterACT network access control solution as a defensive cloud service that MSPs can take to their customers.

The new security issues raised

It maps to the new security issues raised by the BYOD trend, which Gartner seems to think accounts for 20% of the desktop and mobile widgets connecting to corporate networks these days.

It offers automated and semi-automated ways to register and assess users and devices, grant only appropriate network access, stop violations and remediate systems with little to no IT intervention. It can as well be customized.

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