Fore Scout launches Fore Scout Frontline to help organisations address ransomware and real-time threats
San Jose, California – Fore Scout Technologies , a specialist in automated cybersecurity, announced the launch of a new threat hunting service, Fore Scout Frontline . did. Leverage a team of highly trained cybersecurity analysts to support your cybersecurity team by proactively identifying risks, accelerating incident response, and maturing your security posture. Fore Scouts provide this service free of charge to organisations that lack the internal resources and visibility to protect against cybersecurity attacks such as ransomware and advanced and ongoing threats (APT).
Sean Taylor, vice president of Threat Defense, says, “Cyber ​​security attacks are on the rise. At the same time, cyber security teams are constantly understaffed with manpower and resources, which leads to the worst. Organisations are driven by the scale and speed of attacks and hostile forces. We are under tremendous pressure to deal with the turmoil. Fore Scouts are launching this new service to help organisations gain a complete and comprehensive view of their assets and defend against attacks. increase.”
In many organisations, multiple teams use multiple security tools to identify threats and risks. However, silos of information about IT, IoT, IoMT, and OT assets can limit the insights gained. In general, these diverse assets are often present and interconnected across the digital realm of an organisation, so cybersecurity risks also need to be identified and addressed overall.
Threat hunting risk identification services provided by Fore Scout Frontline analysts overcome personnel resource and asset visualisation challenges, discover threats that can be overlooked in some cases, and identify risks. The Fore Scout Frontline assists organisations in the following ways:
- Discover, validate and prioritise a wide variety of cyber threats and vulnerabilities in all assets, including IT, IoT, IoMT and OT
- Context and risk analysis of discoveries
- Leverage comprehensive insights to develop effective risk control and remediation strategies
The Florida agency, which supports several key departments in Florida, leveraged the Forescout Frontline to understand each instance of 220 Log4j instances in 16 different departments. This popular Java logging framework, Log4j, is vulnerable to zero-day vulnerabilities. In less than a day and a half, the Fore Scout Frontline provided insights into thousands of vulnerable assets, such as Log4j and Windows-based PrintNightmare.
In addition, hundreds of critical CVSS-evaluated vulnerabilities have been discovered affecting infrastructure equipment such as switches and routers. We also found actionable intelligence on important embedded IoT TCP-IP stack-based instances, insecure communications, and other risks, such as NUCLEUS: 13 and RIPPLE 20. By leveraging this free service, we were able to reduce the time it takes to mitigate and repair these security flaws and improve our overall security posture.
“When the Log4J vulnerability was discovered, we knew it was a serious problem, but we couldn’t get a complete picture of the risks within our broader enterprise. (Fore Scout Threat Hunting) Report Was much more thorough than expected and contained detailed information and practical intelligence. Not only for Log4j, but also for other important vulnerabilities, and not in general terms, we. He told me exactly where he was in his environment. ” says Florida State Agency, information security manager.
The Forescout Frontline will operate the vulnerability research and threat intelligence created by Forescout Verde Labs to enhance the cybersecurity environment on the Forescout Continuum platform from various aspects. Provides threat hunting services. Fore Scout Frontline analysts include former public and private sector threat hunters trained in threat detection and incident response.
Click here for more information on the Fore Scout Frontline. You can also find out how Florida agencies have benefited from this new service .
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