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Rapid7 Integration Makes Forward Networks the Only Digital Twin that Provides End-to-End Security Posture Visibility

There is no shortage of alerts concerning security vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, the deluge of data available is overwhelming and not specific enough to be actionable. We don’t think that’s very helpful, so we’ve integrated our platform with Rapid7 InsightVM to ensure that our customers have full visibility into their security posture, including endpoints, and that they know how to prioritize remediation.

Forward Networks 22.5 Release adds external sources to provide a powerful data aggregation layer for comprehensive testing and integration.

We just released our 22.5 Release to Forward Enterprise and boy what a surprise to have our NQE external data sources finally ready to show the world. Very simply, this allows you to pull in data from external HTTP sources (currently we support HTTP GET) and automagically model the data in our data model explorer and our integrated development environment. To enable this you simply need to add the resource endpoints for the HTTP API of the data you are interested in. i.e.

Forward Networks Recognized For Excellence In Customer Service

Forward Networks is a winner in the 2022 Business Insights Excellence in Customer Service Awards. We are over the moon — because our customers are our top priority. Our platform addresses unprecedented network complexity by collecting configuration and state data for all devices in the network and indexing it in a vendor-agnostic way.

Learn how to automate secure cloud application provisioning

The cloud offers agility and speed for DevOps teams. Being able to spin up environments and create applications in a fraction of the time previously required helps organizations launch new capabilities for customers, employees, and vendors quickly. For most companies, this means reduced time to market and the ability to recognize revenue faster.

UNDER PRESSURE: Enterprise IT Teams Use NQE To Reduce Time-Intensive Processes

Today's enterprise IT teams are well acquainted with the pressures of ensuring network security, while also managing the time it takes to do so. The recent experience of one multinational technology company perfectly illustrates how Networks Query Engine (NQE) can be used to quickly and effectively bolster network security. As with most companies, this company's IT team was asked on a regular basis to locate IP addresses in the network.

New Connectivity Insight for SecOps and NetOps

Last June, Forward Networks announced several enhancements to the platform designed to help SecOps teams prove compliance, automate CVE (critical vulnerability exposure) responses, and remediate threats quickly. Today, we’re happy to share that we’ve continued to build out our security use cases by adding new functionality to our security posture security matrix (previously known as zone-to-zone security matrix) and delivering Layer 7 application connectivity analysis.

Enterprises Use NQE's Dynamic Inventory To Better Track and Understand Network Devices

When Heraclitus wrote in the 6th Century that the only constant is change, he had no way of knowing just how apt his words would prove for contemporary enterprises. Consider, for instance, the effect that the Great Resignation has had on enterprises. In 2021 alone, almost 4 million workers quit their jobs per month – the highest yearly average record of all time for employee turnover.

Hop-by-Hop Visibility

Time is money, especially when it comes to the cloud. Fast resolution of performance issues is a must to ensure business continuity and positive customer experiences. But your network and security teams can’t start working with cloud providers to resolve issues if they’re stymied by blind spots in their efforts to prove network innocence. Every company with a hybrid multi-cloud environment has struggled with visibility in the cloud.

How to decide if a network digital twin is right for your company - Consider these ten questions

Interest in digital twin technology is on the rise, likely driven by the pressure placed on IT teams to ensure that their networks are predictable, agile, and secure. Network and security operations teams are actively investigating how implementing a digital twin can help their teams become more proactive and provide confidence that the network will behave as expected, even in the face of constant change.