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Forescout Technologies Inc.
Forescout Technologies is a San Jose-based cybersecurity company that gives organizations agentless visibility and control over every connected device on their networks - from laptops and phones to industrial controllers, medical equipment and IoT sensors that cannot run traditional security agents. Its platform, now branded Forescout Vistaro, spans IT, OT, IoT and IoMT environments and combines asset discovery, network access control, segmentation, threat detection and exposure management, backed by the Vedere Labs threat-research team. Serving roughly 3,200 customers including one in five Fortune 500 companies and numerous government agencies, Forescout competes in the fast-growing market for securing the sprawling, mixed device estates of modern enterprises and critical infrastructure.
Ian Schmertzler
Ian Schmertzler is co-CEO and co-founder of Dispel, an operational-technology cybersecurity company he started in 2015 with his brother Ethan. A Yale-trained industrial engineer and former crew coxswain, Ian helped build Dispel's zero trust platform around Moving Target Defense - a system that keeps shifting network access points so attackers never find a static target. He serves as a principal investigator on three NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence projects and as vice president of the National Defense Industrial Association's NY-CT chapter, working to keep factories, water utilities, and power grids running quietly and safely.