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ForeScout Named Sole Contender in the Expansive NAC market
June 2013 by Marc Jacob
ForeScout Technologies, Inc. announced that Frost & Sullivan has recognised ForeScout’s increased market share and leadership in the Network Access Control (NAC) market. ForeScout was distinguished as the sole market contender, and the one possessing the highest market penetration and capability to meet market demands for technology and scalability.
According to the Frost & Sullivan Global Analysis of the Network Access Control (NAC) Market report, published in June 2013, the three best selling NAC solutions in both large enterprises and small medium businesses (SMBs) are respectively Cisco, ForeScout and Juniper, which represent more than 63.3 percent of the NAC market. Frost estimates that ForeScout expanded its 2012 NAC market share by more than 10 percent from the prior year. The report also indicates resurgent NAC adoption is driven by enterprise Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) security initiatives, and it forecasts the market is growing by a 23.3 percent CAGR and will reach more than $670 million by 2017.1
The comprehensive Frost NAC market analysis highlights drivers, technology trends, competitive landscape and required product competence. The analysts determined that the latest generation of NAC products is able to solve top IT challenges and deliver tangible business value to customers. A leading reason for renewed NAC platform adoption is the shift in the value proposition away from that of restrictive, device authentication-based technology to one that enables network access and helps organisations streamline or automate a broad range of IT operations. Key market drivers identified in the report are how NAC:
· Enables businesses to address new trends such as BYOD
· Supports and enhances deployed network and security technologies
· Optimises and automates IT operations thereby improving customer return-on-investment (ROI)
· Reduces advanced persistent threat risks by assuring endpoint security mechanisms are active and up-to-date
· Is delivered in a platform that is easier to deploy, use and extend as compared to previous generations
The company’s award-winning product, ForeScout CounterACT™, is a real-time security platform that delivers complete visibility and automated control for all devices, users, systems and applications attempting to connect to an enterprise network - wired or wireless, managed or unmanaged, PC or mobile. The approach combines access control, endpoint intelligence, mobile security and policy-based enforcement in an integrated appliance that does not require agents or infrastructure upgrades and does not disrupt users. As a result, IT staff can easily implement the solution and immediately resolve endpoint management and security control gaps, such as personal mobile devices, out-of-date systems, missing management agents or inactive endpoint security software. It can even mitigate issues with little or no IT intervention. The platform uniquely offers the broadest range of bi-directional integration with a company’s critical operational platforms, including SIEM, host-based protection, identity, helpdesk and configuration management systems.
