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Case Study

Goldman Sachs uses Forward Enterprise to model entire 15,000+ device network

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Joshua Matheus
Joshua Matheus, Managing Director - Technology, Goldman Sachs

World-class financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs are always evolving. They and other modern multinational banks are focused on innovation and digital transformation to ensure that the billions of transactions every day are secure and predictable. Digitization and the adoption of emerging technologies allow banks to operate more efficiently but also bring new and unique challenges to their network architects and operators. Beyond the challenges that come with implementing new technology, government regulations dictate strict policy compliance. Oversight agencies perform routine and outage-related checks that raise the requirements and manpower needed to manage their network.

Goldman Sachs employs highly sophisticated technologists to stay on the cutting edge of digital transformation. With the goal of reducing the occurrence of high-severity incidents, they worked for years internally developing tools to effectively map, verify, and automate their network operations. Ultimately, maintaining and scaling some of these tools was better left to outside expertise. While the network team was skeptical at first, Forward Enterprise seemed to solve the challenges they were facing: comprehensive path search, visualization/diagramming, and network readiness for application roll-outs. After a proof of concept period, the Forward platform not only proved to be fully scalable to all 15K+ network devices, but the Forward product and engineering experts showed the ability to quickly move feature requests into product updates.

Today the network team at Goldman Sachs relies daily on Forward Enterprise to perform end-to-end path analysis, proactively ensuring that network behavior is aligned with stated policies and intent. They have significantly improved operational efficiency, and successfully reduced change-related incidents.

Awards

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
Saas Award
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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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