Case Study: Pioneer Investments achieves real-time network visibility and rapid mitigation with ForeScout CounterACT

Pioneer Investments Reaps Benefits of Continuous Monitoring and Mitigation by Deploying ForeScout CounterACT

Pioneer Investments is a global investment management firm (founded 1928) with about 2,060 employees across 31 offices in 27 countries. The security team, led by the CISO, faced limited visibility into which users and devices were on the network and could not enforce consistent policies across managed and unmanaged endpoints. They needed a flexible, interoperable NAC solution that wouldn’t require major network redesigns or agent-only approaches.

Pioneer deployed ForeScout CounterACT (physical and virtual appliances plus an Enterprise Manager) using an out-of-band, agentless approach and ForeScout’s ControlFabric integrations. The phased rollout took only weeks, delivered immediate, real-time endpoint visibility, centralized policy management and integrations with existing tools (e.g., vulnerability and advanced-threat solutions), and reduced operational effort and costs by cutting the man-hours needed for prevention, detection and response.

Pioneer Investments

Ken Pfeil

Chief Information Security Officer