2 categories · RankedForescout
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Network access control | Network and edge | 0% | 24 of 111 | 30% | 23 | criticized challenger | |
| Microsegmentation | Network and edge | 0% | 77 of 94 | 50% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by ColorTokens Xshield at 25% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Forescout across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Forescout wins when your biggest problem is the tens of thousands of devices on your network that can't have an agent installed.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · NAC · comparative prompt · alternative
“Forescout if your network has a lot of agentless IoT/OT visibility needs and you have a larger budget” Perplexity Sonar · NAC · direct prompt · alternative
“Best if: You need deep, agentless visibility across a mix of PCs, servers, IoT, OT, and medical devices” GLM 4.7 FlashX · NAC · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Forescout excels wherever visibility of unmanaged, IoT, or OT devices is the primary challenge” GLM 4.7 FlashX · NAC · comparative prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Be especially cautious if you have older network infrastructure... The risk of network disruption is higher than with other NACs.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · NAC · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid Cisco/Aruba/Forescout – these are enterprise-priced” DeepSeek V4 Flash · NAC · budget prompt · hard negative
“Complex deployment (appliances at every site), expensive licensing, steep learning curve — commonly reported as too heavy for mid-sized teams” DeepSeek V4 Flash · NAC · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“Better for IoT/OT visibility but still faces structural integration issues with firewalls and network infrastructure” Kimi K2 · NAC · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Forescout, over the 81 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Forescout was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 79 of the 81 answers that named Forescout and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
402 of the 402 domain citations in answers naming Forescout came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
forescout.com ranks 3 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Forescout takes 0% of first choices and Portnox Cloud takes 35%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 2,900 a month (“forescout”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 148 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 5,690 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 1,942 · 107 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 5,433
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 81 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 79 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,085 | 37 | 2026-10-01 | NAC, BAS | |
| News or press | 154 | 7 | 2026-09-09 | NAC, ZTNA | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 80 | 2 | 2026-08-27 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 52 | 2 | 2026-09-29 | ZTNA, ITAM | |
| Report or ebook | 40 | 2 | 2026-08-21 | NAC, XDR | |
| Case study | 34 | 0 | 2026-04-23 | ||
| Conference or event | 9 | 0 | 2026-02-05 | ||
| Comparison | 9 | 1 | 2026-07-08 | ||
| Template or tool | 7 | 0 | 2025-10-14 | ||
| Podcast or video | 2 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-10-01Federal pqc orders are here how to prioritize migration before q day blog
- 2026-09-30Pqc in manufacturing 11 must ask questions before you upgrade blog
- 2026-09-30Building the trust layer with nvidias open agent safety platform blog
- 2026-09-29Microsegmentation glossary or explainer
- 2026-09-24Secure remote access the door you built yourself blog
- 2026-09-23The need for smarter network security in the ai driven era blog
Events in person
- June 2, 2026Party with Forescout and OptivBobby McKey’s, Oxon Hill · sponsored
- June 1, 2026 to June 3, 2026Gartner Security & Risk Management SummitGaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor · exhibited
- June 1, 2026 to June 3, 2026Book Your Strategy SessionGaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor · hosted
- March 12, 2026Kiosk 6 inside Booth #6426Venetian Level 2, Las Vegas, USA · exhibited
- March 11, 2026Ensuring Continued Patient Care Through a Ransomware Crisis.Venetian Expo, Las Vegas, USA · spoke
- March 10, 2026 to March 12, 2026demoVenetian Expo, Las Vegas, USA · exhibited
- March 9, 2026 to March 12, 2026HIMSS 2026Venetian Expo, Las Vegas, USA · exhibited
- March 9, 2026happy hour1923 Prohibition Bar, The Grand Canal Shoppes at The Venetian Resort, Las Vegas, USA · hosted
As the event pages on forescout.com state them, read October 5, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page forescout.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.
Names read as Forescout
Follow Forescout
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Forescout is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Manage cyber risk and mitigate threats, continuously.
- For
- organizations
- Integrations claimed
- 180 forescout.com
- Customers named
- AESBCBSDepartment of Water ResourcesCreditHumanDalli GroupDISAGlobal Credit UnionHumana
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, certifications, hosting
What Forescout's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: forescout.com, trust.forescout.com, forescout.com/product, forescout.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Forescout's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Forescout, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Forescout by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Forescout is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Forescout, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.