We are asked to purchase something 4,000 times every day; that’s roughly once every 13 seconds during our waking hours. These “requests to purchase'' often come in the form of marketing messages that test the bounds of credibility. In the software industry, most of us have trained ourselves to question vendor promises vociferously. And vendors […]
When your organization is inevitably hit by a cyberattack, you want your security operations engineers to move lightning fast to identify the scope, duration, and impact of the attack, contain the disruption and prevent any costly or lasting damage. To do that, they need access to actionable information about everything that’s in your network — […]
I recently published a piece in Dark Reading covering the network security challenges of M&A activity. As we ease the restrictions put in place to combat COVID-19, we’re expecting to see business activity including M&A pick up speed, it’s important that the implications of integrating networks are fully understood to ensure that the expected business benefits […]
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Forward Networks, the industry leader in network assurance and intent-based verification, announced today that its Forward Enterprise solution has been named a Gold Globee® Winner for the Network Management category in the 16th Annual 2021 IT World Awards®. This award is part of The Globee® Awards' premier business awards programs and ranking […]
Last month we introduced our Network Query Engine (NQE) at Cisco Live Europe and to a very impressive technical audience as part of Tech Field Day 2019. If you didn’t have the chance to read through our introduction blog, NQE leverages the internal network data model that Forward Networks builds and manages to allow users to query their network infrastructure details like a database. Learn more in this blog post.
In this blog post we show a quick and easy way to assess your vulnerability to the Cisco ASA and Firepower Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) DoS vulnerability using Forward Enterprise. We analyze all traffic paths that reach vulnerable devices and isolate remediation points in only a few minutes.
A Behavior Diff provides network engineers with a powerful tool to compare network behavior and designs between any two points in time. Users can now compare network policies and behavior to a prior state before any issues occurred to quickly determine where errors could have been introduced and how to remove them.
A new feature in Forward Enterprise now allows customers to simplify the analysis of network access issues between the network and security teams. We call this feature ACL-less analysis, or permit-all mode.
Gartner selected us as a Cool Vendor in Enterprise Networking for 2018. This recognition reflects the innovations we've made around intent-based networking, network operations and IT automation over the last year, as well as the continued traction we are seeing with customers in the market.
Back in October, our co-founder Nikhil Handigol presented at the Open Networking User Group (ONUG) meeting in New York on how Forward Enterprise helps accelerate and de-risk network operations.
