Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

We’re excited to announce that Forward Networks is a Diamond Sponsor of Cisco Live US 2025, taking place June 8–12 at the San Diego Convention Center. You’ll find us at Booth in the World of Solutions. Why Cisco Live? Because it attracts one of the smartest, most technical audiences of any global networking event—and those are exactly the people we’re here to support.

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0 is the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)’s updated cybersecurity compliance framework and an evolution of CMMC 1.0.

On June 4, 2025, Cisco released fixes for multiple vulnerabilities, several of which were noted to have publicly available proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code. The most severe issue, CVE-2025-20286, affects cloud deployments of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

Our latest State of Secrets Sprawl 2025 research reveals a troubling reality: the majority of leaked corporate secrets found in public code repositories continue to provide access to systems for years after their discovery.

Security breaches are increasingly expensive and harder to spot, extending beyond common attacks like phishing. Attackers are now targeting the least visible parts of your infrastructure: non-human identities (NHIs). NHIs outnumber human identities by 45:1 in cloud environments—these include service accounts, APIs, applications, and bots that interact with systems and access sensitive data.

An independent cybersecurity researcher claims to have uncovered a breach of an unnamed database containing 184 million records, with exposed information including emails, passwords, and login links. The kicker is that the database was all in plain text and required no password to access. Let’s count how many basic account hygiene rules this breaks—all of them. Yes, more snarkiness, but this type of ineptitude must be called out.

In today’s hybrid networks, an IP address is more than a connection point—it’s a digital identity. But for most admins, that identity is still surface-deep. Traditionally, IPAM tools show you which IP addresses are in use, who’s using them, and what vendor the device belongs to. But they don’t tell you whether that device is secure. That changes now. What if every IP handed out by your DHCP server revealed not just what the device is—but how vulnerable it might be?

Today marks a significant milestone for Snyk and, more importantly, for the security posture of the U.S. government. I'm thrilled to introduce Snyk for Government, our FedRAMP Moderate authorized solution for the public sector. This authorization underscores our unwavering commitment to providing secure development solutions that meet the rigorous standards of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). It means that U.S.

Most IT and security teams think they already have endpoint policy management in place. They’re using Microsoft Intune. Maybe Defender. Maybe a mix of Mobile Device Management, AV, and EDR. But here’s the catch: delivering policies isn’t the same as enforcing them.

Fraud and scams continue to evolve, with criminals finding new ways to exploit individuals regardless of background. In this article, we explore the most common types of fraud including virtual currency scams, investment fraud, unique scams, and loan scams, to inform you about how they operate, and who is typically affected.