Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Security operations teams face a daily balancing act: rapidly reduce risk while keeping business-critical traffic flowing across sprawling hybrid networks. Yet traditional monitoring and vulnerability-scanning tools only show snapshots of device status. They rarely explain how an attacker could move laterally, why a firewall rule is ineffective, or whether a cloud control actually matches on-prem policy.

In 2025, risk management has climbed near the top of the CIO agenda—second only to AI adoption, according to the 2025 State of the CIO report. As global enterprises become more dependent on digital infrastructure, the consequences of network outages, misconfigurations, or security breaches have grown exponentially. CIOs, CISOs, and their teams now face the dual challenge of managing risk while enabling innovation.

In the race to modernize IT operations, automation is no longer optional—it’s essential. For network teams tasked with managing complex, hybrid environments, a Network Digital Twin (NDT) provides the trusted foundation required to automate intelligently and confidently. By offering an always-accurate, mathematically-precise virtual copy of your network, an NDT accelerates automation across key operational domains—enabling safer changes, faster audits, and more resilient infrastructure.

Forward Networks is proud to announce that we have been recognized again for our industry-leading security capabilities—winning the Global InfoSec Award for the third consecutive year and the Security Today Govies Award for the second year in a row. This year, Cyber Defense Magazine honored Forward Networks with the Trailblazer Compliance Award in its 13th Annual Global InfoSec Awards.

Managing Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) is one of the most daunting challenges for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) today. In 2024 alone, over 40,000 CVEs were issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), forcing security teams to sift through an overwhelming volume of threats. With hybrid, multi-cloud networks expanding in complexity, manually identifying, prioritizing, and remediating vulnerabilities have become an unsustainable burden.

The recently disclosed VMware ESXi vulnerabilities pose a serious security risk, enabling attackers to exploit virtualized environments through VM escape, remote code execution (RCE), privilege escalation, and data leakage. With cybercriminals actively targeting these flaws, organizations must act swiftly to secure their infrastructure.