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Forward Threat Exposure: Know What an Attacker Can Reach

Oct 29, 2026 By Forward Networks In Forward
Cybersecurity is reaching an inflection point. Attackers use AI to research vulnerabilities, develop exploits, and run increasingly automated campaigns, compressing the time defenders have to respond. As that window shrinks, defenders need to know which vulnerabilities an attacker can actually reach. Answering that question is difficult when security tools provide separate views of vulnerabilities, assets, and network controls.
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Forward Enterprise: Know, Verify, and Predict Your Network

Oct 20, 2026 By Forward Networks In Forward
Can you say for certain how a packet gets from point A to point B? Can you predict what breaks if you change one firewall rule? For most teams the honest answer is no, and that’s a visibility problem, not a people problem. This video walks through how Forward Enterprise builds a mathematically accurate digital twin of your network from the configs and state of every device, across 30+ vendors and AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and IBM Cloud. Collection is read-only and uses the access you already have. From there, the twin also lets you do several things, including.
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Why a clean firewall policy isn't enough to secure your network

Oct 7, 2026 By Forward Networks In Forward
Your last firewall audit came back clean. Every rule documented, every exception justified, every box checked, exactly what PCI DSS and your other compliance frameworks and attestations require. None of that tells you whether a compromised laptop in marketing can actually reach your payment systems right now. The audit verifies your firewall policy. It was never built to verify your network.
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From audit season to always-on: what continuous network compliance looks like

Oct 1, 2026 By Forward Networks In Forward
Every network compliance calendar follows the same pattern: quiet between audits, then a spike of scrambling the week before the next one is due. During the quiet stretch, nobody actually knows whether firewall rules, segmentation, and access policies still hold as configured across the network. The audit does not create compliance. It samples it once, and then everyone moves on until the next one comes due.
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