The Forescout 4D Platform™ Integration with NVIDIA BlueField DPUs Accelerates Data Processing While Reducing the Number of Physical Appliances

RSA Conference -- Forescout Technologies, Inc., a global cybersecurity leader, today announced it will integrate the Forescout 4D Platform™ on-premises sensor technology with the NVIDIA BlueField networking platform. The joint solution will help critical infrastructure organizations scale their network monitoring and security management across diverse operational technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) environments.

While the convergence of IT, OT, and IoT increases risk and complexity, critical infrastructure organizations require more powerful computing solutions to better scale across heterogeneous networks, identify emerging threats, and assess the risk of every connected asset — all while maintaining up-time and operational continuity.

By running Forescout’s on-premises sensor directly on the NVIDIA BlueField, part of NVIDIA Cybersecurity AI platform, customers can offload intensive computing tasks, such as deep packet inspections. This speeds up data processing, enhances asset intelligence, and improves real-time monitoring, providing security teams with the insights needed to stay ahead of emerging threats.

"Cybersecurity today is a race against time, data complexity, and increasingly sophisticated threats," said Christina Hoefer, Vice President of OT/ IoT Vertical and Strategy, Forescout. “By integrating Forescout’s sensor technology with NVIDIA BlueField, our customers can monitor more areas of their networks and process data, faster without the added cost and complexity of additional hardware appliances."

The integration is especially impactful for organizations in highly regulated industries — such as utilities, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, and government — that require on-premises deployments. By harnessing NVIDIA BlueField, customers can gain exceptional visibility into critical infrastructure environments, achieving robust and adaptive security while delivering operational continuity.

"Critical infrastructure runs in some of the most complex environments, where the convergence of IT and OT — accelerated by digital transformation — significantly expands the threat landscape," said Ofir Arkin, Senior Distinguished Architect for Cybersecurity at NVIDIA. “With the Forescout platform running on NVIDIA BlueField, organizations are able to address the unique challenges of securing heterogeneous networks, distributed environments — enabling improved asset discovery and enforcement of security controls at scale.”

This integration is the first step in an ongoing journey of innovation. It builds on Forescout’s leadership in OT security and expands on its generative AI capabilities, which provide context augmentation for assets and risk detections, identify potential causes of incidents and provide recommended remediation steps — strengthening cyber resilience and governance.

About Forescout

For more than 20 years, Fortune 100 organizations, government agencies, and large enterprises have trusted Forescout as their foundation to manage cyber risk, ensure compliance, and mitigate threats. The Forescout 4D Platform™ delivers comprehensive asset intelligence, continuous assessment, and ongoing control over all managed and unmanaged, agented and un-agentable assets across IT, OT, IoT, and IoMT environments. Forescout’s open platform makes every cybersecurity investment more effective with seamless data integrations and automated workflow orchestration across more than 100 security and IT products.

Forescout Research – Vedere Labs is the industry leader in device intelligence, curating unique and proprietary threat intelligence that powers Forescout’s platform.

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"Customers can monitor more areas of their networks and process data, faster without the added cost and complexity of additional hardware appliances," said Christina Hoefer, Vice President of OT/IoT Vertical and Strategy, Forescout.