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By Dawn Slusher
In the rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape, the sheer volume of Common Vulnerability and Exposure (CVE) notices has become a daunting challenge for SecOps teams. In 2023 alone, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued 28,901 CVE notices, reflecting the growing complexity and intensity of potential threats.
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By Dawn Slusher
Tool sprawl is an expensive aspect of technical debt. IDC recently found that 43% of organizations doing business in the Americas have 500 or more software applications in their portfolios today (Application Services — Worldwide Regions, 2023, IDC #US50490416, April 2023). In the area of monitoring and observability tools alone, 50% of companies reported having between 11 and 40 tools.
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By Dawn Slusher
In today's rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape, managing Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) is a critical yet increasingly complex task. As organizations scale their digital footprints, the sheer volume and diversity of vulnerabilities they must contend with have grown exponentially. This surge in potential threats, compounded by the sophisticated tactics employed by cyber adversaries, makes CVE management a required but complicated endeavor.
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By Renata Budko
In our border and perimeter free world, connected infrastructure becomes more and more complex. Security tools need to keep up by adjusting to the new application delivery models and adapting to the shifting threat environment. That's why the recent update to the ISO 27001 compliance standard is so pivotal — it introduces new controls around data security, DevOps, and network security to help future-proof our cybersecurity strategies.
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By Mike Lossmann
In today's rapidly evolving IT landscape, effective change management is crucial for maintaining network stability and performance, but many organizations lack a consistent change process. Lack of process often leads to unintended consequences, such as outages and performance degradation. A network digital twin offers a transformative solution to these challenges by streamlining change management processes and providing pre- and post-change verification to enhance operational efficiency.
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By Dawn Slusher
It seems as if there is a new networking technology announced every day. When faced with a deluge of information and vendors seeking your attention, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. We feel the Gartner Hype Cycle reports seek to tame the confusion by objectively reviewing new technologies and applications and offering IT leaders a view of how new additions to the market will evolve over time.
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By Chiara Regale
As I write this, billions of users are looking at “the blue screen of death.” Flights are grounded around the world, 9-1-1 service is offline in the entire state of Alaska, hospitals can’t check in patients, retailers cannot make sales because their POS systems are down, Newark airport has reverted to paper tickets for check-in, and countless other organizations are at a standstill. This is the top story on every major news site I’ve checked. What could cause this carnage?
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By Mike Lossmann
In today’s complex IT environments, maintaining full network visibility is a daunting task. Network segmentation, while essential for security, often complicates the process of obtaining a comprehensive view of the entire network infrastructure. Federal IT departments charged with the responsibility of keeping networks mission-ready, face significant hurdles in visualizing connectivity, ensuring security zone segmentation, and performing complete path searches across segmented domains.
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By Dave Toth
IDC’s Business Value Solution Brief validates the impressive value delivered by the Forward Networks platform. According to the paper, the average user reaps $14.2M in value annually. This is achieved through improved efficiency, improved productivity, reduced downtime, and additional operational benefits (automated compliance validation, ability to achieve more without hiring, overall improvement to business operations, and additional revenue).
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By Forward Networks
Report concludes Forward customers gain, on average, 95.8 FTEs of equivalent productivity by avoiding network downtime and remediating issues faster.
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By Forward Networks
Proactive Vulnerability Detection: Security teams rely on vulnerability scanners to discover vulnerabilities, crucial for maintaining network integrity. Regular scanning is essential for a strong security posture. Data Overload: While vulnerability reports are valuable, they often contain excessive information, making it difficult to derive actionable insights.
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By Forward Networks
Join networking professionals Mike Lossman and Chris Naish as they discuss how to efficiently manage cloud inventory across AWS, Azure, and GCP cloud platforms using Forward Networks. Keeping tabs on cloud environments can be an arduous process requiring engineers to log into each cloud to gather inventory data. Chris shows how to create a centralized dashboard with Forward Networks, aggregating and filtering information from all three clouds, allowing users to view data like compute instances, VPCs, and subnets in a single location.
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By Forward Networks
Mike Lossmann and Craig Johnson discuss enhancing cloud visibility for an upcoming audit, demonstrating how to ensure security in cloud environments. Highlights Craig explains the importance of knowing the cloud’s security posture. Forward Enterprise shows full multi-cloud visibility between cloud zones. Analysis reveals potential security gaps. Querying the entire cloud model identifies misconfigurations. Historical data allows for forensic analysis post-breach. Users can prepare for audits without last-minute scrambling.
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By Forward Networks
In this explainer video, Chris Naish shows Mike how troubleshooting hybrid cloud issues can be done efficiently using Forward Enterprise, and how visibility can speed up problem resolution.
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By Forward Networks
The Problem: Ever-evolving network infrastructure, network complexity, criticality, and costs are compounding pressure on networking budgets, while widening network talent gaps, and advancing network service requirements. Many enterprise IT teams tread water with stop-gap measures providing narrow impact and short-term value.
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By Forward Networks
Mike shows how the Merged Snapshots feature within Forward Enterprise helps an organization map and model a network with several distinct administrative boundaries. The Merged Snapshots feature allows users to take snapshots of multiple domains and merge them together to see how packets flow through all domains.
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By Forward Networks
Is your network inventory spread across ServiceNow CMDB, spreadsheets, and various applications, leading to inaccuracies and causing you to overspend on service contracts? Discover how Forward Networks integrates with ServiceNow to seamlessly populate and update your CMDB with all organizational devices.
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By Forward Networks
If you've ever wished Demo Tuesdays were longer OR if you've always wondered what Mike looks like in sequins-- this is the stream you've been waiting for. Mike takes our Cisco Live Demo Theater audience through a full 30 minutes of Forward Enterprise product demonstration live in Las Vegas.
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By Forward Networks
Take a tour of Cisco Live 2024 in with Mike Lossmann! Recorded at Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada.
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By Forward Networks
The financial return on aligning your team, simplifying troubleshooting, and avoiding outages.
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By Forward Networks
Learn how verification can be used in key IT processes and workflows, why a mathematical model is required and how it works; as well as example use cases from the Forward Enterprise platform.
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See full network topology including device state and configuration, verify compliance, and prevent config drift with Forward Enterprise's network security verification.
The future of network operations is network modeling. Forward Networks' flagship platform Forward Enterprise gives users a mathematically accurate network digital twin.
Forward enables perfect network visibility, full path analysis, security policy verification, and change prediction, freeing up time and saving you money.
Mathematically-accurate network modeling trusted by the world's largest networks:
- Forward Enterprise documents, searches, verifies, and predicts the behavior of your network by creating an always-accurate software copy of your entire network infrastructure using a unique mathematical model.
- With available REST APIs, it easily integrates into your existing network management workflow and tools. The In-App Network Query Engine (NQE) Checks feature delivers the ability to define and perform custom verification within Forward Enterprise atop the NQE data model.
- Forward Enterprise can be deployed on-premises or via cloud hosting for complete implementation flexibility. Read more about product features below or download our datasheet for a quick overview of devices and platforms.
The best-in-class network modeling software that customers love.