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By Forward Networks
Spend any time with senior infrastructure and IT leaders right now and one conversation keeps coming up. The business wants AI, and increasingly it wants agentic AI: systems that don’t just recommend an action but take it. Boards have seen the productivity numbers. Competitors are announcing pilots. The pressure to move is real. At the same time, those same leaders own the risk register. They answer to regulators, auditors, and, when something goes wrong, the front page.
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By Forward Networks
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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By Forward Networks
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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By Forward Networks
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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By Forward Networks
The alerts come in at 3 AM. You've been awake for a full day and into the night, and there are critical questions you have to answer: Is this our problem, or someone else’s? A routing change that went sideways or lateral movement? A misconfigured ACL or an intrusion in progress? The questions get answered as quickly as possible by disconnected dashboards and human-error-prone manual processes. Before anyone else is awake to check the work.
Forward Predict is Now Generally Available, Advancing Safer Agentic NetOps and Autonomous Networking
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By Forward Networks
Early customers across financial services, media, and technology are already reducing network change risk and accelerating delivery with Forward Predict.
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By Forward Networks
AI agents can now propose network changes at machine speed, yet your team still has no staging environment to prove those changes before the 2 AM change window.
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By Forward Networks
On September 9, Cisco confirmed what earlier warning signs had already hinted at: a security flaw in its Secure Firewall Management Center (Secure FMC) software, the tool that configures and controls Cisco firewalls across a network, is being actively exploited. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20079, received a maximum severity score of 10.0 on the CVSS scale, the industry-standard scale used to rate how serious a vulnerability is.
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By Forward Networks
On June 22, 2026, President Trump signed Executive Order 14412, accelerating the federal government’s transition to post-quantum cryptography. The order brings key migration deadlines forward from 2035 to 2030-2031 for high-value and high-impact systems. The Department of War followed with its own Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Strategy, which sets additional deadlines and warns that a cryptographically relevant quantum computer is an existential threat to military missions.
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By Forward Networks
Ask a question about your network in plain English and get an answer grounded in the Forward Enterprise digital twin, with the evidence behind it. This walkthrough shows you how Forward AI works.
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By Forward Networks
See every network device, cloud object, and endpoint Forward Enterprise models in one sortable, filterable inventory. This walkthrough shows you how to find what's deployed, what it's running, and when it changed. Forward Enterprise collects configuration and state data from across your hybrid network. The Inventory application turns that data into a working view of your infrastructure, so you can answer asset questions with evidence instead of spreadsheets.
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By Forward Networks
Can traffic get from A to B? If not, exactly where and why does it stop? This walkthrough shows you how to answer both with Path Search in Forward Enterprise. Path Search traces traffic across a mathematical model of your network built from collected configuration and state. It doesn't send live packets or probes. Forward indexes all possible paths, then returns the paths that match your query, with the forwarding, policy, and NAT decisions applied at every hop.
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By Forward Networks
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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By Forward Networks
Running a hybrid network today means managing complexity that the tools in your stack were never designed for. Constant change, multi-cloud environments, a security perimeter that shifts daily, and no single place to go for a verified answer about what your network is actually doing.
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By Forward Networks
Networks have never been more critical, more complex, or more difficult to run with confidence. The infrastructure powering global finance, healthcare, and commerce has outgrown the tools built to manage it, and the teams responsible for keeping it running deserve better than guesswork. Forward is on a mission to change that.
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By Forward Networks
Running a hybrid network today means managing complexity that the tools in your stack were never designed for. Constant change, multi-cloud environments, a security perimeter that shifts daily, and no single place to go for a verified answer about what your network is actually doing.
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By Forward Networks
What if your team could know exactly what a network change would do before it touched production, not a best guess, not built on incomplete data, but a mathematically verified outcome drawn from an accurate model of your actual network? That is what Forward Predict delivers.
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By Forward Networks
The Network is Complex. Operating It Shouldn't Be. Forward AI transforms network operations by reducing manual analysis, expert dependency, and guesswork. By combining conversational interaction with a mathematically accurate digital twin, teams can validate intent, understand actual network behavior, and act with confidence across even the most complex environments.
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By Forward Networks
Chris Naish from Forward Networks introduces a new security-centric feature in the Forward Enterprise release version 25.10. The Security Focused Path Search View highlights devices responsible for traffic restriction or IP address translation, improving network path comprehension for security analysis. This mode filters out non-restrictive hops, allowing security professionals to efficiently access crucial information.
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By Forward
Learn how verification can be used in key IT processes and workflows, why a mathematical model is required and how it works; as well as example use cases from the Forward Enterprise platform.
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By Forward
The financial return on aligning your team, simplifying troubleshooting, and avoiding outages.
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See full network topology including device state and configuration, verify compliance, and prevent config drift with Forward Enterprise's network security verification.
The future of network operations is network modeling. Forward's flagship platform Forward Enterprise gives users a mathematically accurate network digital twin.
Forward enables perfect network visibility, full path analysis, security policy verification, and change prediction, freeing up time and saving you money.
Mathematically-accurate network modeling trusted by the world's largest networks:
- Forward Enterprise documents, searches, verifies, and predicts the behavior of your network by creating an always-accurate software copy of your entire network infrastructure using a unique mathematical model.
- With available REST APIs, it easily integrates into your existing network management workflow and tools. The In-App Network Query Engine (NQE) Checks feature delivers the ability to define and perform custom verification within Forward Enterprise atop the NQE data model.
- Forward Enterprise can be deployed on-premises or via cloud hosting for complete implementation flexibility. Read more about product features below or download our datasheet for a quick overview of devices and platforms.
The best-in-class network modeling software that customers love.