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ForeScout Technologies, a market leader in clientless network access control (NAC) and policy management solutions for large enterprises, said that the Community Preservation Corporation (CPC), a not-for-profit mortgage lender that services developers of multifamily housing, has deployed the CounterACT family of NAC appliances in its financial services network. According to Chris O’Keefe, Director of Information Management at CPC: “We adopted CounterACT to protect our internal network against viruses or malware introduced through visitors’ laptops. CounterACT integrated quickly and seamlessly with our existing heterogeneous network. We deployed the CounterACT appliances in less than a day and I was able to use it to audit connected devices for policy compliance and manage real time updates immediately.”
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