Forescout and Microsoft announce cybersecurity partnership

Forescout Technologies has announced a partnership with Microsoft to help customers protect every enterprise asset, both managed and unmanaged. This collaboration addresses a growing need for comprehensive security across all connected devices with a focus on securing IoT, medical and OT environments.

With the exponential growth of connected devices in IT and OT landscapes, companies are challenged with managing and securing numerous unmanaged and un-agentable assets. Recognising the need to secure these assets, Forescout and Microsoft provide a scalable backbone to deliver an enhanced competitive advantage and present a strong value proposition anchored by a vision that a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy requires both a host and network-based approach based on visibility, risk, detection and response capabilities.

“Microsoft has a large-scale security business, which has some great synergies with our solutions,” said Barry Mainz, the CEO of Forescout. “Forescout has already been working with Microsoft, to support several existing customers, including some of the largest organisations in the world. Cybersecurity delivery at this scale requires a new level of collaboration. Our alignment with Microsoft will accelerate our mission to provide comprehensive security across both managed and unmanaged devices to help customers further strengthen the security of their modern enterprises.”

Get the details on this partnership in the webinar, Maximize Cyber-Resilience with Forescout and Microsoft. Rob McNutt, a SVP of network security at Forescout will be joined by Gustavo Blum, a GM of americas partner development at Microsoft will host this discussion live on May 21, 2024 at 12 pm ET/ 9 am PT. Register here: www.forescout.com/FSCT-MSFT.

Forescout and Microsoft have been working together to build solutions to help customers detect, protect and respond to the latest risks and threats by combining the industry-leading technology of Forescout with Microsoft security solutions. With a deep view of asset intelligence captured throughout the Forescout network, customers will have better visibility of active risks and threats, enabling them to make better risk prioritisation and mitigation decisions. As part of the agreement, Forescout will offer its security solutions via Microsoft Azure to all commercial and government customers.

Katy Brown, a vice president of enterprise sales, software and digital platforms at Microsoft Corporate, said, “Forescout has expertise in securing IoT, OT and critical infrastructure. By combining our cloud and managed endpoint security products with Forescout’s strength in minimising risk and containing unmanaged asset threats across the enterprise, this collaboration will help solve pressing cybersecurity challenges for our mutual customers.”

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