Forescout is a global leader in cybersecurity and a key provider of cybersecurity solutions to the U.S. Department of Defense . The company announced that it has signed a new contract with the Department of Defense as its highly successful Comply-to-Connect program enters its fourth year. The next phase of the program will be to configure the delivered capabilities to implement Zero Trust Access principles across the Department of Defense Information Network enterprise and move DoD closer to the goals set forth in the DoD Zero Trust Strategy .
The new contract also provides the C2C platform with additional capabilities, revolutionizing operational technology network security and integrating risk management and decision-making, as championed by the Defense Information Systems Agency’s DISA C2C Program Management Office (PMO). into the existing C2C platform. This contract further enables the Department of Defense to apply NIST Zero Trust principles to millions of devices across the enterprise. Leveraging Forescout’s C2C capabilities, implementation of Zero Trust principles is already being done in some areas of the Army through an initiative taught at the Fort Gordon campus and referenced at Defense Acquisition University .
With the first three steps of the program visibility, compliance assessment, and automated remediation well underway, administrators can now use Forescout’s orchestration capabilities to manage policy enforcement points for individual users/devices/access requests. base to create the desired effect. In addition, Forescout’s continuous monitoring capabilities are at work to ensure that connected devices do not fall out of compliance due to file corruption, simple administrative errors, or malicious adversarial actions, all of which occur every day within DoDIN.
C2C is one of the largest government cybersecurity initiatives in the world, providing enterprise-scale cyber operational risk management capabilities. Now in its fourth year, the program automatically controls access to and within DoDIN, ensuring that each network user has the access they need to complete their mission without exposing other users to risks that could impact their ability to complete their mission. threats.
Barry Mainz , CEO of Forescout , said: “We are proud to once again be trusted by so many organizations to ensure that the core of their operations the networks that connect everything remain secure. Every DoDIN user should be able to feel confident about the security of their network. Confidence, and the network should be ready for them to complete their mission. That’s what we provide through C2C.”
Today, the Forescout platform provides comprehensive capabilities for the Department of Defense’s C2C security framework, powering Thunderdome , a critical first pillar of DISA’s Zero Trust initiative . This includes:
- Network-based asset discovery and classification, including a growing set of “non-custodial” assets for which agents cannot operate C2C steps 1 and 2
- Integrate with other enterprise solutions such as Identity, Credential, and Access Management ICAM; Security Information Event Management SIEM; and Vulnerability Assessment products to automate compliance with network security posture and establish trust for every connected asset C2C Step 3
- Coordinate policy enforcement points across the infrastructure to enforce network access control and asset segmentation, and complete situational awareness of the network situation C2C steps 4 and 5
SOURCE : BusinessWire