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Why You Need a Network Digital Twin

Forward Networks has created the world’s first mathematically-backed digital twin of your global enterprise and mission network. It builds an authoritative inventory of all network devices you operate and all possible ways the devices can behave given collected configuration and protocol state. This allows your IT and Cybersecurity teams to consolidate to and operate a single piece of software and a single source of truth with ground-breaking preventative analysis powered with AI.

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Forward Networks has created the world’s first mathematically-backed digital twin of your global enterprise and mission network. It builds an authoritative inventory of all network devices you operate and all possible ways the devices can behave given collected configuration and protocol state. This allows your IT and Cybersecurity teams to consolidate to and operate a single piece of software and a single source of truth with ground-breaking preventative analysis powered with AI.

Forward Enterprise collects device configuration data and state information across the Federal Enterprise Network from every network device, including switches, routers, load balancers, firewalls, cloud networking, and type 1 encryptors multiple times per day.

The Challenge for Federal Agencies

The federal workforce is challenged in their capacity to rapidly respond to data calls, appropriately plan for technology modernization and continuously ensure cyber compliance across complex IT environments often replicated in multiple secure domains (Unclassified, Secret, Top Secret).

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Greater Efficiency

Forward Networks addresses complexity with a mathematically accurate representation of the network called a Digital Twin. Software does the heavy lifting instead of teams of people, directly saving OPEX. Key outputs include current network diagrams, regularly collected and normalized authoritative data, and millions of network compliance and security checks performed multiple times per day. The OPEX savings are real:

Authoritative Data for Decision Makers

Authoritative Data is foundational for CIOs and CISOs to make the right and timely decisions to maximize impact against their unique mission needs. The authoritative, vendor agnostic data available within the Forward Networks platform allows IT leaders to make decisions in seconds to minutes, to aggressively plan network modernization and to reallocate resources effectively as mission needs evolve. The impact has been seen at customers across the government:

Continuous Compliance & Security

The efficiency gained using authoritative data from the Forward Networks digital twin dramatically increases and improves the output of the cyber workforce. For example, the number of data calls has grown as the federal government addresses Binding Operating Directives or audits like CORA. A digital twin puts the government in the proactive stance to answer these questions quickly, reliably, and repeatedly. The mission impact is huge:

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"The overall experience has been phenomenal, from onboarding the application in the environment to the timely and concise response from the Forward team about any questions we raise. The Forward team has been super helpful throughout this whole experience."

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A Requisite Platform To Future-Proof IT Infrastructure

Forward Networks delivers value across the silos in the IT organization. CIOs can leverage performance and outcome based contracts measured against reliable and data driven metrics. CISOs can effectively respond to numerous data calls. Cyber operators get data they need to defend the nation’s most critical networks. The digital twin also enables new personnel to more quickly ramp in their jobs and gain situational awareness of how the network works and behaves. This results in a more capable workforce that is less dependent on one or two people who “know how everything works.”