Case Study: Bremer Bank achieves real-time network visibility and automated guest access with ForeScout CounterACT

Bremer Bank Selects ForeScout CounterACT™ for Real-time Visibility, Guest Access and Automated Controls

Bremer Financial Corporation is a privately held, $8.7B regional bank with 1,900 employees across 87 branches and roughly 4,200 endpoints. The bank’s existing 802.1X network-access control caused false positives, outages and heavy management overhead (agents, supplicant issues and many exceptions), degrading user experience and forcing IT to seek an agentless, more reliable solution for device classification, guest access and continuous monitoring.

Bremer deployed ForeScout CounterACT, an agentless NAC that integrates with its Cisco infrastructure and ForeScout’s ControlFabric for security integrations. The solution delivered immediate, real-time visibility, automated guest registration and network segmentation, policy enforcement and automated isolation of malicious devices—resulting in fast deployment, improved compliance and user experience, reduced help-desk effort and costs, and scalable support for thousands more endpoints.

Bremer Bank

Joseph Thornell

Security Technical Architect