New in NetBox Validation: A HIPAA Security Rule compliance pack. 1st Jul 2026 Kris Beevers Be the first to hear news and subscribe here. Validate your network design against the controls in the proposed 2026 HIPAA Security Rule - before the compliance clock starts. A few weeks ago NetBox Labs, Inc. announced NetBox Validation in public preview - continuous compliance evidence and automated pre-change safety, built directly into the system of record. It runs entirely offline against NetBox data and rendered configs across three engines: policy compliance, configuration structure, and physical resilience. No SSH, no device credentials, with no impact on the live network. You validate the design you intend to deploy, before you deploy it. One of the things NetBox Labs, Inc. like most about how NetBox Validation is built: compliance frameworks ship as policy packs, which make it quick and easy to apply NetBox Validation to the frameworks that matter for your infrastructure. NetBox Labs, Inc. launched with eight framework packs - NIST 800-53, PCI-DSS, NIS2/DORA, NERC CIP, ISO 27001, TIA-942, MANRS, and CLOS fabric. Today NetBox Labs, Inc. is adding the ninth: a HIPAA Security Rule compliance pack. Why now. For most of its life, the HIPAA Security Rule was largely silent on the specifics of how you build and segment a network. That's changing. The 2026 HIPAA Security Rule overhaul - the first major update since 2013 - rewrites the technical safeguards for modern threats. It does two things that land squarely on network and infrastructure teams. First, it eliminates the "addressable" loophole. Controls that organizations used to treat as optional will now become mandatory, with narrow documented exceptions. "We considered it" is no longer an answer. Second, it makes infrastructure design itself auditable. The proposed rule requires a written technology asset inventory and a current network map - the single most-cited provision in OCR enforcement actions - and, for the first time, explicit network segmentation to limit access and prevent lateral movement. That requirement exists because of incidents like the 2024 Ascension breach, where a single compromised credential moved laterally across a flat network into systems spanning more than a hundred hospitals. And the clock for the HIPAA Security Rule is real. Once the rule is finalized, organizations are expected to have roughly 240 days to comply - with enforcement exposure that runs well into seven figures per violation. As of today, the rule is still proposed, not final, so the smart move now is to get ahead of it: know where your design already meets the bar and where it doesn't, long before an auditor asks. What the pack validates. The NetBox Validation HIPAA pack maps the rule's network-infrastructure controls to 20 checks across all three Validation engines, each tied to a specific CFR citation: * Asset inventory & network map (§164.308(a)(1)) - NetBox is your asset inventory and network map; the pack verifies they're complete, documented, and fully traced. * Network segmentation / ePHI isolation (§164.312) - confirms sensitive zones are isolated in dedicated VRFs, management planes are separated, and restricted address space stays where it belongs. * Encryption in transit (§164.312(e), (a)(2)(iv)) - flags cleartext management protocols and missing routing/management-plane authentication. * Resilience & contingency (§164.308(a)(7)) - power redundancy, single-point-of-failure detection, and circuit diversity, in service of the rule's restoration objectives. * Pre-change validation (§164.306(d)) - catches changes that would break ePHI reachability before they merge. The pack addresses design-time validation for network architecture, segmentation, documentation, and resilience, and compliments your controls for other elements of the HIPAA framework like MFA, endpoint, logging, and training. Install the pack, run it, and in under a minute you have a control-level compliance baseline for your network design, with findings you can act on and evidence you can hand to an auditor. Not just healthcare. If you're a hospital system, payer, or health-tech company, this is the most direct way to pressure-test your network against where HIPAA is heading. But the controls underneath it - a complete asset inventory, a living network map, enforced segmentation, design-time change safety - are exactly what every regulated network needs. While healthcare is the HIPAA headline, the discipline of validating secure networking practices generalizes. Get started. The HIPAA Security Rule pack is available today in NetBox Cloud as part of the NetBox Validation public preview, in the Premium tier alongside the rest of the compliance framework library. Existing customers: reach out to your account executive or customer success manager to enable it. New to NetBox Validation? Request a demo or start with the Validation public preview announcement to see the whole picture.

NetBox Labs announces infrastructure intelligence platform with new capabilities spanning entire network and infrastructure lifecycle. June 11, 2026 Celebrating 10 years of NetBox, the company announces flagship NetBox conference to lead the next evolution of infrastructure innovation for the AI Era NEW YORK, June 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - NetBox Labs today launched its infrastructure intelligence platform, a unified system that lets technology infrastructure teams model their intent, see what's procured and how it's deployed, act through AI-accelerated automation, and govern every change with guardrails for humans and AI agents. With hundreds of thousands of deployments, NetBox is the industry standard system of record that sits at the core of the NetBox Labs Platform. Already critical to the operations of neoclouds, hyperscale AI datacenters, enterprises, and OT operators worldwide, companies like ARM, Cisco, CoreWeave and J.P. Morgan Chase rely upon the NetBox Labs Platform to manage complex, fast-evolving infrastructure at enormous scale. The platform's breadth is reflected in how customers use it: more than a third rely on multiple NetBox Labs products to run their infrastructure operations. Today, NetBox Labs is rapidly expanding its platform to address full-spectrum infrastructure intelligence needs for its massive install base. As networks and infrastructure have become more complex, teams need more than just a network source of truth to help them make sense of their increasingly complicated footprint. With today's array of new capabilities, the NetBox Labs Platform extends infrastructure intelligence to organizations at any stage in their modernization journey to model, see, act upon, and govern their infrastructure with confidence. MODEL: The World's Infrastructure data NetBox Data Exchange (NDX) is the world's largest curated catalog of infrastructure component metadata, covering tens of thousands of device types across hundreds of manufacturers. Instead of digging through vendor PDFs, teams pull lifecycle, environmental, operational, and observability metadata directly into the NetBox Labs Platform, ready for planning, automation, compliance, and AI-driven workflows. More here. NetBox Asset Lifecycle is a native procurement pipeline connecting network design to physical deployment. It generates and manages bills of materials (BOMs), purchase orders, shipments, and spares against planned DCIM objects - creating one auditable thread from approval through installation in the system of record teams already trust. More here. SEE: Continuous Visibility from Intent to Reality NetBox Assurance shows teams what's deployed, how it's changing, and where operational reality differs from intended design. The product's discovery capabilities eliminate manual data entry and detect drift, while NetBox Assurance continuously validates that your system of record matches what's running, so teams can understand and fix drift, ensuring automation always runs on current, accurate data. More here. ACT: The Infrastructure Data Layer for AI Agents The NetBox Labs Platform MCP Server and a new array of official agent skills for the NetBox Labs ecosystem make infrastructure readable and writable by AI agents. With comprehensive tools for every platform capability, per-user authentication, and data management guardrails with branching and change approval gates, any MCP-compatible agent can operate the NetBox Labs Platform, and the open library with dozens of agent skills teaches it to do so correctly. Now, any agent can work with NetBox Labs, complementing the platform's embedded agent, NetBox Copilot. More here. GOVERN: Compliance and Resilience, Validated before every Change NetBox Validation brings continuous compliance auditing, pre-change safety verification, and infrastructure resilience analysis into the NetBox Labs Platform. It combines three engines - intent validation, configuration analysis, and infrastructure resilience - to answer two questions: "Is this change safe to deploy?" and "What breaks if this fails?" With NetBox Validation, teams gain compliance and audit readiness. Meanwhile, AI agents gain critical guardrails and self-correction capabilities enabling agentic operations with confidence. More here. The NetBox Labs Platform news comes as the company and the NetBox community celebrate a decade since the open source network source of truth was first released. Since its start in 2016, NetBox has earned 20,000+ GitHub stars, with more than 350 releases and 15,000+ commits from nearly 400 contributors, making it the world's most widely adopted system of record for complex networks and infrastructure. In 2023, NetBox Labs was founded as the commercial steward of NetBox with the mission to make it easier to build and manage complex networks and infrastructure. Over the last three years, the company has announced innovations spanning operations, observability, drift management, AI, and much more, rapidly extending the impact of the NetBox Labs Platform and driving accelerating growth and adoption. The company has raised more than $55 million from world class investors, and developed strategic partnerships across the global system integrator ecosystem including WWT, AHEAD, Presidio, and more. "Ten years ago, NetBox solved a critical problem by giving infrastructure teams an authoritative source of truth," said Kris Beevers, CEO and cofounder of NetBox Labs. "But today, enterprises of all maturity levels need more than just a source of truth. They need a system of record that delivers a trusted, continuously updated understanding of infrastructure that both humans and AI can operate against safely and confidently. Whether just starting out with agents or well on your way to an automated infrastructure management stack, NetBox Labs is the foundational platform for running infrastructure at any scale. We are proud of how far NetBox has come and thankful for our community. NetBox Labs will always invest in open source, while continuing to quickly expand our commercial platform to help organizations manage growing complexity with greater speed, confidence, and control." To mark the 10th birthday of open source NetBox, NetBox Labs will be hosting NetBox Evolve, its inaugural conference for the community, customers and partners, on October 13, 2026 at the Kennedy Space Center in Orlando, Florida. Those interested in learning more can visit netboxevolve.com. About NetBox Labs NetBox Labs simplifies the full infrastructure lifecycle for the world's most demanding technical environments. As the commercial steward of NetBox, the open-source infrastructure system of record trusted by 10,000+ organizations for more than a decade, NetBox Labs streamlines infrastructure procurement, modeling, deployment and management for both humans and agents. The company's infrastructure intelligence platform powers business-critical systems at companies like ARM, CoreWeave, J.P. Morgan, Kaiser Permanente, and Riot Games trust NetBox Labs to manage the networks and infrastructure critical to their business. 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NetBox as a Living source of truth: how Redlineperf manage HPC lab infrastructure. Rethinking Infrastructure Management in High-Performance Computing If you've ever relied on spreadsheets, scattered documentation, or tribal knowledge to track what's in your data center, you already know the problem. In high performance computing (HPC) environments where dense racks, multi-node chassis, mixed networking, and constant repurposing are the norm, that approach doesn't just fall short it becomes a liability. That's why Redlineperf adopted NetBox, the open-source data center infrastructure management (DCIM) platform, as the authoritative source of truth for its RedLine lab. But Redlineperf didn't stop at adoption. Redlineperf turned NetBox into a living, self-maintaining model of its entire infrastructure and one that engineers and admins can actually trust. Why NetBox? Because Automation Demands Accuracy NetBox isn't just an inventory tool. It's a structured database built around real data center concepts: racks, devices, interfaces, cables, VLANs, IP addresses, and more. Every physical and logical object in its environment is modeled, normalized, and queryable from a single pane of glass. For its HPC lab, the value proposition is clear: automation depends on correct data. When provisioning scripts, monitoring systems, and configuration pipelines all consume infrastructure data, that data must be accurate. Not "accurate as of last Tuesday." Redlineperf need real-time fidelity. NetBox maps perfectly to its environment. Racks, chassis, blades, NICs, switch ports, VMs - all of it is consistently represented. Redlineperf always know what hardware Redlineperf has, where it's physically located, and what it's connected to. Treating NetBox as a Living Data Set The real differentiator isn't NetBox itself but how Redlineperf use it. Redlineperf don't manually maintain its instance. Instead, Redlineperf has built custom sync pipelines that continuously enrich NetBox with live data pulled from multiple sources: * IPMI/iDRAC - for hardware facts like model, serial number, and MAC addresses * Proxmox - for VM inventory, resource utilization, and cluster state * pfSense - for DHCP leases and firewall-side IP assignments * FreeIPA - for DNS names and domain integration * Switch MAC address tables - for physical port-to-device correlation The result? Cables, MACs, VLANs, and IPs are automatically validated and corrected. When someone moves a cable, renames a device, or spins up a VM, NetBox knows about it and not because someone updated a spreadsheet, but because the automation pipeline detected the change. This eliminates manual entry errors, reduces configuration drift, and gives every engineer full clarity into lab operations. From Raw Data to Structured Intelligence One of the most powerful components of its workflow is the custom scripting layer built on pynetbox, the official Python API client for NetBox. Using pynetbox alongside NetBox's full REST and GraphQL APIs, Redlineperf can programmatically create devices, assign interfaces, populate IPs, and build cable records - all from a single command. Consider its IPMI importer script as an example. It connects to a device's out-of-band management interface, authenticates, and pulls key hardware facts. It then correlates those facts against switch MAC tables to determine exactly which switch port a server is connected to. From there, it automatically creates the cable object, assigns VLANs, populates interface records, and updates rack position metadata. The goal: onboard a server with a single command instead of dozens of manual entries. Extending NetBox with Custom Plug-ins Out of the box, NetBox covers core DCIM and IPAM use cases. But HPC labs have unique operational needs. That's why Redlineperf built a custom Projects plug-in that lets Redlineperf assign physical resources - compute nodes, storage, networking - to specific projects and teams. Each project tracks ownership, team leads, and resource allocation. Engineers can immediately see which resources are in use, which are available, and how to plan for new workloads. This eliminates resource conflicts, provides accountability, and gives leadership a clear operational view of lab utilization. The Bigger Picture NetBox has fundamentally changed how Redlineperf operate. Instead of maintaining static documentation that's outdated the moment it's written, Redlineperf maintain a dynamic, API-driven model that reflects reality at all times. Infrastructure becomes queryable, auditable, and automatable. For any team managing complex, high-density environments, whether HPC, cloud labs, or enterprise data centers, the takeaway is simple: your infrastructure data is only as valuable as it is accurate, and accuracy at scale requires automation. NetBox, combined with the right integrations and a commitment to treating infrastructure as code, delivers exactly that.