BLOG | Jun 20, 2025

5 Ways a Network Digital Twin Transforms SecOps

The Forward Enterprise platform gives SecOps teams the context they need to move from reactive troubleshooting to continuous assurance.

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Dawn Slusher Senior Manager, Content Marketing and Analyst Relations

Who should read this post?

Security operations professionals responsible for reducing risk across hybrid and multi-cloud environments
Threat response analysts and incident responders seeking faster, more contextual investigations
Network security architects looking to validate Zero Trust policies and enforce segmentation

What is covered in this content?

How a network digital twin provides visibility into real exposure paths and attack surfaces
A preview of the June 26 live demo, showcasing use cases like firewall validation and blast radius analysis
Registration details for the webinar, including what to expect and who should attend

Security operations teams face a daily balancing act: rapidly reduce risk while keeping business-critical traffic flowing across sprawling hybrid networks. Yet traditional monitoring and vulnerability-scanning tools only show snapshots of device status. They rarely explain how an attacker could move laterally, why a firewall rule is ineffective, or whether a cloud control actually matches on-prem policy.

On June 26, at 11:00am Pacific Time, Forward Networks’ Technical Evangelist, Mike Lossmann, will demonstrate how a mathematically-accurate network digital twin closes these gaps. By creating a queryable digital twin of every device, path, and configuration in your environment, the Forward Enterprise platform gives SecOps teams the context they need to move from reactive troubleshooting to continuous assurance.

What will you learn?

Prioritize vulnerabilities by real exposure paths
Identify which CVEs are exploitable in your exact topology—no more generic risk scores.
Visualize blast radius and attacker reachability in seconds
Understand the reach of a compromised host with a single mouse click for immediate isolation.
Continuously validate firewall, segmentation, and Zero Trust policies
Prove that what you intend is what the network actually enforces, across data centers and cloud.
Detect and correct misconfigurations early
Catch drift or accidental misconfigurations before they create security gaps or service outages.
Extend on-prem security standards to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
Compare cloud and campus posture side by side, without deploying agents or affecting production traffic.

Why should you attend?

See a live walk-through of Forward Enterprise’s security dashboards, searchable topology, and “blast radius” visualizations.
Get practical plays for accelerating incident response and tightening change controls.
Ask questions in real time and benchmark your current processes against peer best practices.

Ideal for: Security operations engineers, threat response analysts, network security leads, and anyone responsible for enforcing Zero Trust policies in enterprise or government environments.