Wireshark vs Forescout: What are the differences?

Wireshark: A free and open-source protocol analyzer. It is the world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer. It lets you see what’s happening on your network at a microscopic level and is the de facto standard across many commercial and non-profit enterprises, government agencies, and educational institutions; Forescout: A platform that provides continuous security monitoring and mitigation. It is a platform that provides continuous security monitoring and mitigation. It allows IT organizations to efficiently address numerous access, endpoint compliance and threat management challenges even within today's complex, dynamic and expansive enterprise networks.

Wireshark and Forescout belong to "Network Monitoring" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Wireshark are:

• Deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, with more being added all the time
• Live capture and offline analysis
• Standard three-pane packet browser

On the other hand, Forescout provides the following key features:

• Device visibility
• Continuous compliance enforcement
• Design & Deploy Network Segmentation