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Stop Chasing Ghost Vulnerabilities — See What Really Matters at Black Hat

If you’re heading to Black Hat and still grappling with visibility gaps, unprioritized CVEs, or endless firewall rule audits, make sure to visit Forward Networks at Booth 6022.

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Dawn Slusher Senior Manager, Content Marketing and Analyst Relations

Who should read this post?

Security architects and SecOps professionals seeking better visibility and control across hybrid networks
IT and compliance leaders frustrated with time-consuming audit prep and policy validation
Vulnerability management teams overwhelmed by alerts and struggling to prioritize real risk

What is covered in this content?

What are the key challenges enterprises face in managing attack surfaces, vulnerabilities, and security posture
How Forward Networks utilizes a network digital twin to provide accurate and actionable insights
What to expect from our live demos and expert sessions at Black Hat Booth 6022

If you're planning to attend Black Hat USA on August 6–7 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, and you’re still dealing with visibility gaps, unprioritized CVEs, or a mountain of firewall rule audits, stop by Forward Networks in Booth 6022. We understand that today’s security teams are overwhelmed with alerts and fragmented data, often losing sight of their actual attack surface and whether their segmentation policies are effective. At Black Hat, we'll show you how a network digital twin can provide the clarity, context, and confidence needed to reduce risk, speed up remediation, and simplify compliance—all without adding more tools to your arsenal.

Modern security teams face three persistent challenges:

Attack Surface Management (ASM):

The sheer sprawl of cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments makes it nearly impossible to maintain visibility into what’s exposed and why. Teams often rely on fragmented data from multiple tools, creating blind spots that attackers can exploit.

Vulnerability Management:

Security teams are flooded with alerts—many of them irrelevant. Without network context, it’s hard to prioritize what matters, which delays remediation and increases exposure.

Security Posture Management:

Proving segmentation, policy enforcement, and compliance is a time-consuming, manual process that drains resources and leaves room for error.

How Forward Networks Helps:

Forward Networks creates a mathematically accurate digital twin of your environment, delivering complete, vendor-agnostic visibility across cloud and on-prem infrastructure.

Our platform allows security and network teams to:

Visualize the real attack surface, including all reachable paths from any source to any destination
Prioritize vulnerability management based on what’s actually exploitable in your network—not just on CVSS scores
Continuously verify segmentation and policy controls, reducing audit prep time and eliminating manual error

One of our customers in the financial services sector put it best:

“Ensuring that the security posture is in line with what it is designed to be. A risk benefit is a business benefit for our organization. Forward Networks enables quicker time to market across the market, with new functionalities, new customers we’re onboarding, new counterparties we need to connect to — there are efficiencies across all of these. Largely, we are able to avoid IT for IT’s sake.”

At Booth 6022, we’ll be offering live demos and one-on-one conversations with our network security experts and technical evangelist, Mike Lossmann. Whether you’re looking to reduce risk, improve operational efficiency, or gain confidence in your security posture, we’ll show you how Forward Networks delivers results—at scale. Book a private meeting with our on-site solutions architects.

Can’t wait until the show? View our on-demand demo or watch our webinar on SecOps and data-driven security.

We look forward to seeing you at Black Hat.

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