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FORWARD NETWORKS VS. SkyBox/Tufin

Forward Enterprise: Complex networks demand continuous insight

Networks are sprawling, hybrid, and constantly changing. Manual audits can’t keep up—they’re slow, risky, and leave gaps. Forward Networks gives you a live digital twin of every device, path, and policy, letting you model changes, enforce compliance, and fix issues before they break the network.

No blind spots. No fragmented insights. Just total, trustworthy visibility to pinpoint issues fast and secure your environment with confidence.

Redefining Network Security Visibility

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Mission-Critical Networks NEED Perfect Data Accuracy

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Full Network Verification

Defining network intent and is the network doing what it is intended
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Full Network Scaling

Enterprise teams need solutions that scale seamlessly, not ones that slow down when it matters most
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Full Path Visibility

Organizations want full path visibility (L2-L7), endpoint awareness, cloud flow, micro-segmentation, etc.
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Accelerate MTTR

Enterprise teams need to be able to get information quickly to speed up MTTR
solutions

Why Leading Organizations Are Choosing Forward Enterprise

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Firewall Rule Life Cycle Management

Provides full visibility into how every firewall rule impacts on-prem and cloud traffic, with rule usage analytics, trend dashboards, and verification to quickly identify unused rules

Firewall Rule Life Cycle Management

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Forward Enterprise continuously analyzes how firewall rules actually behave in the network--so teams can safely validate, optimize, and retire rules with confidence, not guesswork.
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Continuous Intent Checking

Intent checks and snapshots provide ongoing assurance rather than occasional audits.

Continuous Intent Checking

Continuous Intent Checking
Forward Enterprise continuously verifies that the network is behaving exactly as intended by comparing real forwarding behavior against design and security intent--so drift and risk are caught before they become incidents.
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World’s only Network Digital Twin

Mathematically precise behavior model of network 

World's Only Network Digital Twin

Network Digital Twin
Forward Enterprise is the only true network digital twin--a mathematically accurate model (not a simulation) that computes all possible packet paths, supports 30+ vendors and 900+ OS versions, with read-only collection for risk-free insight.
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Analyze Connectivity in Security Context

Forward Networks gives NetOps and SecOps shared visibility to validate security devices in path and optimize firewall policies.

Analyze Connectivity in Security Context

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Forward Enterprise combines vulnerability scanner data with connectivity analysis to show actual risk exposure, helping security teams prioritize remediation by understanding which vulnerable hosts can be accessed from critical exposure points like the internet.
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Future-proof for Zero Trust and network complexity

Supports segmentation verification, cloud, hybrid, device state modelling

Future-proof for Zero Trust and Network Complexity

Zero Trust Posture
Forward Enterprise gives enterprises insights into their segmentation policies both on premise and in the cloud, helping teams understand what actually is being protected and what is not being protected so they can be remediated.
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Unmatched Scalability

Forward Networks processes vast numbers of network traffic flows quickly and efficiently with low resource requirements

Unmatched Scalability

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Forward Enterprise scales to 50,000+ devices per instance with multi-vendor support across hundreds of device types and cloud platforms, proven in production at Fortune 500 companies like Goldman Sachs with 15,000+ device networks.
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Experience the Forward Enterprise Difference

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Firewall Rule Visibility
Analyze firewall rules across hybrid multi-vendor environments
Firewall Rule Diff
Analyze running history of firewall rules to see what has changed overtime
Firewall State Visibility
Analyze firewall state files to see how firewall will behave in the flow of a packet throughout the network
Config Compliance
automated alerts catch any drift, ensuring your network stays compliant and on policy—always for both firewalls and traditional networking equipment
Exposure Analysis
Analyze every path a vulnerable or exposed host has through the environment
Hybrid Security Posture
Validate security controls no matter where they are in the network or in the cloud
Vulnerability Exposure Prioritization
Know what network devices are vulnerable and instantly know if they are connected to the network
Path Search
See every path a packet can take without ever sending a packet through the network
Config Compliance
automated alerts catch any drift, ensuring your network stays compliant and on policy—always
Network Query Engine (NQE)
Query your network like it's a database to unlock insights like you never could before
EXCEED BEYOND SKYBOX/TUFIN

See it all with Forward Enterprise

Comprehensive Compliance Reporting interface

Compliance Reporting

STIG verifications are available from both Cisco and Juniper. Additionally, there are numerous custom verification checks written in natural language. By using NQE, users can leverage these capabilities to create custom checks and reports that are tailored to their specific environments. This provides limitless possibilities for users to monitor what is crucial to them.

Compliance Reporting

Comprehensive Compliance Reporting interface
STIG verifications are available from both Cisco and Juniper. Additionally, there are numerous custom verification checks written in natural language. By using NQE, users can leverage these capabilities to create custom checks and reports that are tailored to their specific environments. This provides limitless possibilities for users to monitor what is crucial to them.
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Network Risk Assessment

Forward Enterprise offers a Risk Assessment service by utilizing Vulnerability and Exposure Analysis. Additionally, the Security Posture Analysis provides users with a clear and comprehensive overview of the connectivity status between zones, and it is visually presented in an easily understandable manner.  The insights derived from these functionalities are essential for proactive threat mitigation

Network Risk Assessment

Network Risk Assessment interface
Forward Enterprise offers a Risk Assessment service by utilizing Vulnerability and Exposure Analysis. Additionally, the Security Posture Analysis provides users with a clear and comprehensive overview of the connectivity status between zones, and it is visually presented in an easily understandable manner. The insights derived from these functionalities are essential for proactive threat mitigation
Mathematically Accurate

Mathematically Accurate Data

Forward Enterprise provides exceptional network behavior analysis that is based on a mathematical model. This model calculates all potential traffic paths, resulting in highly accurate results. Additionally, the software supports all major hardware vendors and standardizes provided data, thus offering detailed vendor-agnostic information and various path-filtering capabilities.

Matematically Accurate Data

Mathematically Accurate
Forward Enterprise provides exceptional network behavior analysis that is based on a mathematical model. This model calculates all potential traffic paths, resulting in highly accurate results. Additionally, the software supports all major hardware vendors and standardizes provided data, thus offering detailed vendor-agnostic information and various path-filtering capabilities.

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