Traditional security tools often fail to provide adequate visibility into unmanaged, unagentable and cyber-physical devices that now make up a growing proportion of enterprise and critical infrastructure environments. In response, Forescout focuses on agentless discovery, classification, monitoring and policy enforcement designed to provide organisations with continuous visibility and control across highly-fragmented technology estates.

At the centre of the platform is a real-time, agentless architecture capable of discovering and assessing devices using more than 30 different discovery methods, integrations and APIs. Forescout combines this with adaptive, least-privilege controls driven by Universal ZTNA (UZTNA) principles, enabling security policies to respond dynamically as risk conditions change.

The platform also incorporates threat intelligence from the company’s Vedere Labs research unit, which feeds risk analysis, exposure identification and automated enforcement capabilities across enterprise environments. Forescout positions this combination of visibility, intelligence and adaptive control as particularly important for organisations managing converged IT and OT environments where traditional endpoint-based security approaches are often impractical.

The platform enables organisations to centralise visibility, remediation and compliance management across distributed cyber-physical environments while reducing the operational complexity associated with multiple disconnected security tools. The company is innovating with eyeScope, eyeSentry, edge data collectors and patented technology capable of detecting non-quantum-safe encryption in real time, showcasing its long-term focus on future-proofing enterprise security architectures against emerging cryptographic and infrastructure risks.

Judges described Forescout as one of the standout entries in the category, praising the breadth and maturity of the platform’s capabilities across IT, OT, IoT and IoMT security.

“A highly competitive, winner-level submission combining technical depth, future-facing innovation and exceptional market traction.”

The judging panel highlighted the strength of the platform’s agentless discovery capabilities, real-time risk assessment and adaptive policy enforcement, describing its ability to provide unified visibility across cyber-physical estates as a major differentiator in a fragmented market.

Judges pointed specifically to Forescout’s patented detection of non-quantum-safe encryption as a meaningful forward-looking innovation that demonstrates investment in future security challenges rather than solely current operational threats.  Judges noted Forescout's strong market penetration with deployments across 3,200 organisations worldwide, including 40% of the Fortune 500 and 17% of the Fortune Global 500, alongside the addition of 450 new customers in 2025 and 55 deals exceeding $1 million.