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Integrate Observability and Security to Mitigate Risk

Gartner Integrate Observability
Mrudula Bangera, Padraig Byrne

Explore How Forward Enterprise can put you on the path to enhanced observability!

Enterprises face growing challenges in managing security risks across hybrid multi-cloud environments. A recent Gartner® report, Integrating Observability and Security to Mitigate Risk, [August 2024 ID G00784948] highlights how combining observability with security tools offers a path to mitigate risks and streamline processes.

The report explores:

  • Gaining full visibility into networks and applications.
  • Prioritizing high-risk vulnerabilities.
  • Improving collaboration between IT and security teams.

We believe Forward Networks enhances risk management with unparalleled infrastructure visibility, vulnerability assessments based on your network  devices and configuration, and advanced verification capabilities to support advanced risk assessments. Download the report todaySecurity functions related to observability

 

Forward Networks offers a unique advantage to security leaders by enabling proactive risk mitigation through:

Comprehensive Infrastructure Visibility: Thoroughly mapping your network to ensure no asset is overlooked, facilitating improved incident response.

Zero Trust Enablement: Consistently verifying segmentation policies to adhere to Zero Trust principles, safeguarding sensitive environments.

Non-Intrusive Risk Assessment: Leveraging a digital twin to evaluate exposure risks without interrupting operations.

Gartner®, Integrating Observability and Security to Mitigate Risk, 1 August 2024, By Mrudula Bangera, Padraig Byrne

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Forward Networks digital twin solution has been recognized across the industry for its groundbreaking approach to network management
2025 Globee Golden Cybersecurity Award - Forward Networks
Mobile Breakthrough Award 2023
Global Infosec Awards Winner Cyber Defense Magazine 2024
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Related FAQs

A network digital twin is a digital model of the network that makes network data accessible and actionable to ensure the network behaves as expected and is secure.
Network, security, and cloud operations teams use the data and insights from a digital twin to troubleshoot issues faster and act proactively to prevent costly outages.
A digital twin model is built by gathering configuration and state data from network devices and then analyzing all the possible paths that packets can take in your network
Key benefits include speeding up mean time to resolution, ensuring security posture and compliance, addressing issues proactively before they cause an outage, increasing collaboration between IT teams, and reducing operational expenses.
Customers using Forward Networks’ digital twin realize an average of $14.2 million in benefits annually due to decreasing productivity loss and downtime
A digital twin provides hop-by-hop path analysis from on-premises networks through the cloud to the internet. This unified view enhances security policy enforcement and reduces costs, delivering a single pane of glass for managing the entire hybrid, multi-cloud network.
Digital twins are currently deployed in commercial organizations with mission-critical networks, such as financial services, healthcare, and entertainment, as well as federal ones in the military, intelligence, and civilian spaces, where network security is a matter of national security.
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