Forward Networks offers a platform that enhances network security and visibility for businesses by using a digital twin, which is a virtual model of their physical network. This technology allows organizations to monitor network behavior, prevent outages, and reduce operational risks. The platform serves various clients, including large corporations and federal agencies, by providing a comprehensive view of network data that improves the efficiency of Security Operations Centers. By charging clients for access to its platform, Forward Networks helps reduce the Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) and lower operational expenses.

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Forward Outranks All 14 Other Vendors, Achieving the Highest Scores for Key Features and Business Criteria and is considered an InnovatorSANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Forward Networks' digital twin technology is again recognized for delivering multi-layered benefits and substantial return on investment (ROI) to large enterprises. In the 2024 GigaOm Radar for Network Validation, Forward Enterprise is ranked an outperformer and positioned closest to the "bullseye" for the third consecutive year. The company is included in the Innovation/Platform Play quadrant, earning the highest scores for key features and business criteria, and is projected to continue to lead the network validation market over the next 12 - 18 months.2024 GigaOm Radar: Network ValidationWith today's highly complex network landscapes, automated network validation is increasingly critical to ensuring business continuity, maintaining network security compliance, and ensuring efficient and outage-free change windows. GigaOm expects significant growth in this area to manage multi-vendor environments, improve the efficiency of change windows, secure network devices and services, and meet compliance. GigaOm cites AI/ML and robotic process automation as additional contributing factors driving market growth.Forward Networks excelled in the security category, earning a five-star rating for both compliance and security verification

Forward Networks Named Outperformer In 2024 Gigaom Radar For Network Validation For Third Consecutive Year

Forward Networks wins Mobile Breakthrough Awards' Enterprise Cloud Computing Software of the Year for the fifth consecutive Year.

Forward Networks Wins Mobile Breakthrough Awards' Enterprise Cloud Computing Software of the Year for the Fifth Consecutive Year

SAN FRANCISCO, May 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Forward Networks announced today it has been named the Market Leader in Vulnerability Assessment, Remediation and Management in Cyber Defense Magazine's 12th annual Global InfoSec Awards.Forward Networks is revolutionizing how large networks are secured and managed by providing actionable, accessible, and insightful data that puts people back in control of the network. Forward Enterprise identifies exactly which vulnerabilities are present in the network and their severity. The platform then delivers a prioritized remediation plan. Forward Enterprise's secure, agentless collection method gathers current device and state information and combines it with Forward's proprietary mathematical model to create a digital twin of the network."The volume and complexity of security vulnerabilities and alerts today make it incredibly challenging for organizations to ensure they are not vulnerable," said Chiara Regale, SVP Product and UX, Forward Networks. "Our engineering team is focused on providing security teams with timely, actionable insights to protect their network. This award recognizes the efforts of our team and validates the continued momentum we're experiencing in the market.""Forward Networks embodies three major features we judges look for to become winners: understanding tomorrow's threats, today, providing a cost-effective solution and innovating in unexpected ways that can help mitigate cyber risk and get one step ahead of the next breach," said Gary S

Forward Networks Wins Market Leader Vulnerability Assessment, Remediation And Management Award In 12Th Annual Global Infosec Awards

Forward Networks, IP Fabric, and Slurp'it have partnered with NetBox Labs to deliver automated discovery of networks into NetBox Cloud, the industry leading network source of truth, to simplify and expedite NetBox implementation for networking teams.

NetBox Labs Enters Strategic Partnerships with Leading Network Discovery and Assurance Providers to Reduce Adoption Barriers for Network Automation

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 25, 2024 - Forward Networks has officially launched AI Assist, a groundbreaking generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) feature integrated into its flagship platform, Forward Enterprise.

Forward Networks Unveils Generative AI Features and Strategic Roadmap for Digital Twin Platform

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Additionally, Forward enterprise was named 2023 Cloud Computing Software of the Year by the Mobile Breakthrough Awards.

Forward Networks Receives Back-to-Back Honors in Security and Cloud Computing

Improve end user experience in VDI, DaaS and physical endpoint environments Forward Networks Named 2023 Hot Company In Compliance By Cyber Defense Magazine's Top InfoSec Innovator Awards Forward Networks announced that it has been named the winner of
 the 2023 Hot Company in Compliance award by Cyber Defense Magazine 
(CDM)'s Top InfoSec Innovator Awards.

Forward Networks Named 2023 Hot Company In Compliance By Cyber Defense Magazine's Top InfoSec Innovator Awards: @VMblog

Forward Enterprise ranks highest for technical capabilities among top 13 vendorsSANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2023 GigaOm Radar for Network Validation finds that Forward Networks offers the most robust network validation features and capabilities among the industry's top 13 vendors. GigaOm ranked Forward as exceptional across several key criteria, including end-to-end validation, compliance verification, security verification, hybrid multicloud support and network visualization, among others.The 2023 GigaOm Radar analyzes 13 vendors' network validation offerings and provides a forward-looking assessment over a 12-to-18-month window. Forward Networks is ranked an "Outperformer" for supporting "a broad range of vendor devices with sophisticated validation and automated remediation capabilities."Among its strengths, the report cites, "Scaling to over 50,000 network infrastructure devices and complex public cloud deployments, Forward Enterprise's digital twin allows network and security engineers to search the network like a database, trace all possible traffic flows, visualize on-premises and cloud Layer 2, Layer 3, Layer 4, and Layer 7 networks, predict network behavior before pushing changes live, perform forensic analysis, and accelerate troubleshooting.""We applaud Forward Networks for their network validation capabilities and for the advancements they plan to make in this area over the coming months," said Ivan McPhee, senior industry analyst, GigaOm. "Based on our thorough assessment, Forward remains the top leader and contender in network validation."Forward Enterprise delivers a digital twin of the network, by collecting state and configuration data across all network devices and cloud deployments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform). This data is then used to create an always accurate topology (on-prem and multi-cloud), calculate all possible paths within the network, prove compliance, and make network configuration and behavior searchable and verifiable."Network validation is critical for ensuring reliability, security, compliance and optimization

Forward Networks Named Outperformer In Gigaom Radar For Network Validation For Second Consecutive Year

Forward Enterprise Empowers Security Teams to Detect and Rectify VulnerabilitiesSANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Business Intelligence Group today announced that it has awarded Forward Networks the 2023 Stratus Award in the Security category. This marks the company's second consecutive Stratus Award win and its third Stratus Award overall.Forward is revolutionizing the way large networks are managed by providing actionable, accessible, and insightful data that puts people back in control of the network. Forward's advanced software delivers a digital twin of the network, by collecting state and configuration data across all network devices and cloud deployments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform). This data is then used to create an always accurate topology (on-prem and multi-cloud), calculate all possible paths within the network, prove compliance, and make network configuration and behavior searchable and verifiable. Having access to this data empowers security teams to detect and rectify vulnerabilities before they are compromised, and to ensure network segmentation is always in compliance as per business policies.Forward Enterprise delivers timely, actionable data to SecOps teams enabling them to respond to incidents quickly and effectively, understand their attack surface, verify security postures, and discover and categorize device and endpoint vulnerabilities."Accurate, current knowledge of the network and its devices is imperative for SecOps teams striving to protect their company's digital assets," said Chiara Regale, senior vice president of product and user experience, Forward Networks

Forward Networks Wins Stratus Award For Second Consecutive Year

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