Forescout Technologies has launched its new Automated Security Controls Assessment capability, a feature within the Forescout 4D Platform™ designed to continuously evaluate trust, control effectiveness, and compliance posture across an organization’s attack surface. This new offering aims to replace manual, static, and spreadsheet-driven audits with real-time, automated evidence collection and reporting. It provides security, governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) teams with immediate visibility into control effectiveness, enabling continuous verification rather than point-in-time validation.
The Automated Security Controls Assessment delivers continuous and automated assurance across all devices, including managed and unmanaged assets, leveraging real-time asset visibility and intelligence across IT, OT, IoT, and IoMT environments. It offers continuous visibility into an organization’s adherence to the Center for Internet Security (CIS®) Benchmarks®, establishing a standards-based foundation for continuous assurance. Forescout plans to support additional compliance frameworks in the future, particularly benefiting organizations in highly regulated sectors such as government, financial services, healthcare, and critical infrastructure.
Traditional methods often rely on periodic scans, ad-hoc evidence collection, and spreadsheets for compliance, alongside GRC tools that provide only point-in-time assessments. Such approaches can lead to delays and gaps between audit results and actual risk. Forescout’s new assessment tool transforms compliance from a resource-intensive, reactive process into continuous operational security, utilizing live device and identity-aware telemetry and unified real-time reporting.
Paul Kao, Chief Product Officer at Forescout, stated, “Security controls are only as strong as your methodology and how continuously you evaluate them. Forescout’s Automated Security Controls Assessment provides continuous and automated assurance across every device, whether managed or unmanaged, based on real-time asset visibility. This helps organizations reduce both cost and complexity. GRC teams can eliminate up to 80% of the time and effort required to prepare for audits by replacing manual, spreadsheet-based tasks with our automated approach. With this launch, we are aligning compliance with real-world risk and giving teams the clarity and speed they need to operate compliance at scale.”
Key features and differentiators of the Automated Security Controls Assessment include always-on audit-readiness, which continuously maintains audit-ready evidence to reduce preparation time, cost, and disruption. It offers immediate compliance risk identification by automatically highlighting control gaps and non-compliant assets in real-time, facilitating efficient remediation. The system provides executive-level compliance visibility through a centralized view of control coverage and status. It extends complete asset coverage to include unmanaged and unknown devices, eliminating blind spots, and streamlines attestation management by unifying automated and manual attestations within a single workflow.
By replacing periodic assessments with continuous validation, the system allows security and compliance teams to immediately understand control efficacy, identify gaps, and monitor risk changes without the time, cost, or disruption associated with conventional audits. The Automated Security Controls Assessment is currently available as part of the Forescout 4D Platform.
Forescout, with over 25 years in cybersecurity, provides network security solutions. Its Forescout 4D Platform™ offers comprehensive asset intelligence, continuous risk assessment, and dynamic control over managed and unmanaged assets, supported by Vedere Labs’ threat intelligence research. Forescout analyzes threats, orchestrates responses, and integrates with over 180 security and IT products.
