We performed a comparison between Forescout Platform and Microsoft Intune based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, HPE Aruba Networking, Fortinet and others in Network Access Control (NAC)."I have noticed that in the last year the license model has changed from licensing the whole appliance to licensing the number of devices. It's more simple for a large installation, or a user to have CounterACT as their peripheral site in the company. It's a good choice to have changed the license policy."
"The 802.1X compliance authentication feature of this solution is very good."
"Forescout Platform has granular features and one of the most impressive features is the agentless feature."
"Forescout Platform provides multiple features. They have a very effective device fingerprinting in their cloud. You do not need to add any devices manually, such as in Mac devices. Other solutions you have to add IoT devices and OT devices manually. This is one of the major areas that Forescout Platform is excelling in."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of deployment, which does not require the use of an agent."
"The actions that the agentless visibility, allow us to perform on the endpoint, are really amazing, especially in the way that it is done."
"The visibility is the main benefit. We now know how many devices are connected, what the use for each device is and what kind of devices we have in our environment."
"The most valuable features of ForeScout is the fact that it can do network access control either with 802.1x or without 802.1x."
"Mobile device management is most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the UEM capabilities."
"Easy to use."
"The security-related tools are excellent; these features allow us to secure devices, lock them down, and ensure compliance."
"The many policies available in Microsoft Intune for managing our devices are valuable."
"We already use a lot of Microsoft products in our company, and therefore, it made sense to also use this product."
"The mobile application management, MAM, is the most useful aspect of the solution."
"There are so many features, but Windows Autopilot is one of the features that are very valuable for most customers."
"As a user, if I am using a laptop that is Wi-Fi connected, Forescout identifies my port connectivity as one user license, and if I take that same laptop with the same username to a wired network, which is also the same network that is used for the Wi-Fi connection, Forescout detects it as a separate license."
"Forescout Platform could improve the integration or compatibility with other solutions, such as Chinese-made solutions. They do not have any integration with S33 which is a switch. They do not have good integration with new solutions in the market. They do integrate well with Rocket, Cisco, Juniper, and quite a few more but they could expand the integration."
"Forescout needs to improve its cloud management and remote connectivity."
"Search - needs boolean functionality (or pseudo operand now working)."
"The installation is not secure because it takes high admin privileges."
"Regarding pricing, there is room for improvement to enhance competitiveness with other vendors and solutions."
"The solution needs more definitive pricing. The costs are hard to nail down."
"We have found that the agent-based authentication, available within this solution could be improved."
"Sometimes, customers compare it with AirWatch, but the concept of Intune is different from other solutions. It's an application management app. It gets a bit difficult to explain it to customers, but it's not a product limitation. It takes a presale document or presentation to explain it to customers."
"The reports aren't complete, and it's not easy to build custom reports. For example, Windows Autopilot isn't working well in cases where the computers don't have a good internet connection. Then the option is not good enough."
"Data leak prevention can be integrated into it. Currently, it does not have data leak prevention."
"More integration with monitoring tools is needed."
"Reporting and troubleshooting for the application deployment could be better. It's very difficult to understand."
"It needs certificate provisioning for S/MIME purposes."
"The solution can have some compliance problems in general and the end-point user can bypass easily the company policies in Intune."
"Deploying an app can be a complex process due to dependencies."
Forescout Platform is ranked 3rd in Network Access Control (NAC) with 69 reviews while Microsoft Intune is ranked 1st in Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) with 166 reviews. Forescout Platform is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Intune is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Forescout Platform writes "We can go granular on each endpoint, quarantine non-compliant machines, and target vulnerabilities through scripting". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Intune writes "We can manage all aspects of our devices from a single console, easy to scale, and quick to deploy". Forescout Platform is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Aruba ClearPass, Fortinet FortiNAC, Nozomi Networks and Illumio, whereas Microsoft Intune is most compared with Jamf Pro, VMware Workspace ONE, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Entra ID and SOTI MobiControl.
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