Forescout Selected by U.S. Department of Energy to Participate in Firmware Project Under Grid Modernization Lab Consortium
June 23 2020 - 6:00AM
Forescout Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSCT), the global leader in
device visibility and control, today announced it has been selected
by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to participate in a project
with Idaho National Laboratory (INL) titled “Firmware Command and
Control.” The purpose of the Firmware Command and Control project
is to identify potential vulnerabilities that exist in ubiquitous
libraries by using machine learning similarity analysis of embedded
code and sharing those findings in a structured format for
processing across operational and information technology
environments. In addition to INL, Forescout will also partner with
Argonne National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and the
National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Forescout expects to contribute core desired capabilities to
this project, including detection of IP-enabled devices in
real-time, easily defined policy-based control, continuous
monitoring and retention of information on component interactions,
integration with major security incident event management (SIEM)
and information technology security management (ITSM) products, and
the ability to accomplish these activities in a non-intrusive
manner without installation of agents. Forescout will advise in the
project’s design and development, helping to ensure that the
Firmware Command and Control project will interface with Forescout
products and have feasibility for potential commercialization after
the project concludes.
According to Katherine Gronberg, vice president of government
affairs, Forescout: “We are looking forward to collaborating with
INL to utilize machine learning to add a response capability on an
embedded system that can be shared in larger IT environments.
Cutting-edge technologies such as these will allow us to improve
the security of national critical infrastructures.”
Additional Resources
- Forescout White Paper: How Passive Monitoring Can Streamline
NERC CIP Compliance
- Department of Energy: Grid Modernization Lab Consortium
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leader in device visibility and control. Our unified security
platform enables enterprises and government agencies to gain
complete situational awareness of their extended enterprise
environments and orchestrate actions to reduce cyber and
operational risk. Learn more at www.forescout.com.
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