Exercise 3 – Setting up, configuring, and using Forescout's eyeInsight (formerly known as SilentDefense)
The final exercise for this chapter is about building and configuring a Forescout SilentDefense OT/ICS IDS and asset management appliance.
Deploying the SilentDefense sensor and Command Center VMs
The Forescout SilentDefense sensor and Command Center appliances come as downloadable Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) template files and can be downloaded from the Forescout customer portal once you have purchased the product. OVA is a file format that supports the exchange of VMs across various virtualization products and platforms.
For this exercise, I will be using the following two OVA files:
sd-411-cc-16g-vmware.ova
: This is the 16 GB random-access memory (RAM) version of the Command Center.sd-411-sensor-8g-vmware.ova
: This is the 8 GB RAM version of the sensor.
We will be installing the VMs on a vCenter cluster for two reasons, the first being...