Sutton Valence School Selects ForeScout CounterACT™ to Secure Campus
Network
CounterACT Chosen for Price, Device Capability & Support
CUPERTINO, Calif. & MAIDSTONE, England (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) November 23, 2008 --
ForeScout Technologies, Inc., a market leader in network access control
(NAC) and policy management solutions, today announced that Sutton
Valence School (SVS), a co-educational independent day and boarding
school for ages 3 to 18, has deployed a CounterACT™ NAC appliance across
its campus network to ensure compliance and protect against
self-propagating threats.
Established in 1576 and set in the beautiful surroundings of the Kent
countryside, SVS is one of the oldest public schools in the UK.
Incorporating a senior and a preparatory school, the SVS network
connects staff, pupils and guests within 15 buildings and one branch
location. SVS is now using the ForeScout CT-1000 appliance to protect
1,000 on-campus devices.
Mark Gosden, Network Manager at Sutton Valence School, said: “We chose
CounterACT because it enables us to protect our network from potentially
damaging, unknown machines brought onsite by boarding school students
and then connected to our network. The main benefit since its deployment
is that we no longer run the risk of our students flooding the network
with viruses and other internet-based threats, as CounterACT
continuously scans each laptop for malware and alerts students, when
necessary, to update their anti-virus solutions. With such a high number
of new boarding students joining us each term from countries around the
world, the type and scale of threats brought onto the network can be
vast.”
He continued: “In essence, we made our decision to buy ForeScout’s
CounterACT as it performed exactly as we wanted, at a lower cost
compared to the competition.”
Sutton Valence has recently opened a new presentation theatre on campus.
Though the theatre is a wonderful asset for the school, it brings
additional security risks when guest speakers plug-in their laptops and
require network access. ForeScout’s CT-1000 protects against these types
of threats, helping to optimise uptime and availability of the school’s
network.
John Hagerty, EMEA Sales Director for ForeScout commented: “With
CounterACT, educational establishments such as Sutton Valence School
have the centralised network access control and policy management tools
needed to protect the network and to speed general security policy
compliance. Using our product, IT personnel can build policies to ensure
all connecting devices meet the security requirements of the
organisation, which includes real-time identification and mitigation of
self-propagating threats. SVS is a great example of an organisation that
takes security seriously and is proactive about stopping viruses and
increasingly targeted threats.”
About ForeScout Technologies, Inc.
ForeScout is the leading provider of access control and compliance
solutions. With top-tier customers from every vertical, ForeScout has
perfected the art of providing strong access control without disrupting
network operations or needlessly punishing end users. ForeScout's
flagship product, CounterACT, protects over 500 of the world's most
secure enterprises and military installations with global deployments
spanning 37 countries. The CounterACT family of products provides a path
to complete security policy enforcement and is fast and easy for
administrators to deploy, manage and maintain. For more about the
company and its products, visit www.forescout.com.
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