Industry – Global Investment
A global investment company manages investment portfolios for clients worldwide, providing diverse financial products and services to help clients achieve their investment goals and grow their wealth.
Objective – Company needs Comprehensive Visibility Across all the Sites
- The company faced the need to achieve comprehensive visibility into its corporate network and ensure compliance with network access control requirements. I
- It aimed to address security vulnerabilities present in its corporate IT infrastructure while gaining visibility and control over endpoints across different sites.
- Gain unified visibility into all connected assets across global sites.
- Strengthen compliance with internal security and regulatory frameworks.
- Minimize risks associated with unmanaged or rogue devices.
Challenges – Carrying Out Actions
- Implementing control actions with the Juniper-MIST platform posed challenges due to the need for network segregation for both wired and wireless connections.
- The complexity arose from distributing the network super-subnet across multiple sites, requiring careful planning and coordination to ensure seamless connectivity and security across the distributed infrastructure.
Solution - Forescout Comprehensive Asset Discovery Solution
- The company deployed Forescout’s Extended Module (EM) on Azure Cloud, along with physical and virtual appliances across its branch locations.
- This setup enabled seamless visibility into all connected assets, ranging from laptops, printers, and mobile devices to IT/OT and network equipment, across multiple sites.
- Forescout not only identified unmanaged or previously unknown devices but also streamlined compliance by enforcing multiple endpoint policies.
Benefits - Forescout Asset Discovery Solution
- By deploying Forescout's Extended Module (EM) in Azure cloud and physical/ virtual appliances at branch locations, the organization achieved comprehensive asset discovery, including laptops, printers, IT/OT devices, mobile devices, network devices, and more.
- Forescout's solution facilitated the detection of devices not listed in their inventory, enabling proactive management.
- The establishment of multiple compliance policies ensured endpoint alignment with internal IT policies, while control policies were implemented to prevent non-corporate endpoints from accessing the corporate network.
Technologies Used
- Forescout EM - Enables real-time asset visibility and control\
- Azure Cloud - Provides secure, scalable cloud infrastructure.
- Juniper-MIST Platform - Delivers AI-driven network management.
- Network Segmentation Policies - Isolate networks to enhance security.
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