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Taming Network Complexity with Digital Twins

Digital twins are often associated with manufacturing, where a virtual replica mimics the workings of a complex physical system, such as a jet engine or a machine on a production line. But increasingly, there is interest from enterprises, telecom companies, and cloud providers in applying the technology to networks.

Demo Tuesday

How can federal agencies possibly comply with the HUNDREDS of complex specifications in the DISA STIG compliance checklists? Join Mike Lossmann and Federal Technical Solutions Engineer Sean Deveci for this week’s Demo Tuesday to learn how a network digital twin can streamline your federal network compliance and give you full confidence heading into an audit.

Squash Scattered Spider Attacks with Forward Networks' Blast Radius

I hate spiders, a lot. But I really hate the idea of a Scattered Spider Attack which can jump between environments that you may have believed were segmented at an alarming rate. That is the stuff of real nightmares for networking and security professionals. Keeping up with your security posture isn’t easy. We’re all doing our best, but is it good enough? One CISO we talked to hired a consulting firm to map out their security posture.

Security Field Day 10

It's that time of year again when the security delegates from Tech Field Day descend on Silicon Valley (well, in this case, descend virtually on Silicon Valley) to hear about the cool new things vendors are doing in the security space. This year, I was fortunate to be one of the presenters at XFD10 along with my partner in crime, Matt Honea, Head of Security and Compliance at Forward Networks.