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By Forward Networks
CVE-2025-53521 was first disclosed by F5 in October 2025 as part of their quarterly security advisory cycle. At that point, it was classified as a denial-of-service vulnerability with a CVSS v4 score of 8.7. Many security teams logged it and moved on, reasonably treating it as a lower-priority item in an already full patch queue.
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By Forward Networks
CISA issued Emergency Directive 26-03 in response to active exploitation of vulnerabilities in Cisco SD-WAN management systems, specifically Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager and SD-WAN Controller platforms. The vulnerabilities include an authentication bypass flaw (CVE-2026-20127) that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to gain administrative privileges and manipulate network configuration, and a path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2022-20775) that enables local privilege escalation to root.
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By Forward Networks
Walking the halls of Moscone Center last week, the energy was high, but the conversation had a notably different edge than last year. In 2025, everyone was asking, "What can AI do?" This year, "How can we trust it?" As the theme "The Power of Community" echoed across the keynotes, one thing became clear: a community is only as strong as its foundation. For network and cybersecurity professionals to truly operate as one, we must move beyond fragmented data to a single, trusted source of truth.
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By Forward Networks
Network engineers have long understood redundancy. Redundant power, redundant links, redundant clusters. The reasoning is simple: any single component that can fail, will. But AI introduces a category of failure that most infrastructure teams have not yet built defenses against. Unlike hardware, AI models can become unavailable for reasons entirely outside your organization's control.
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By Forward Networks
Every organization has invested in endpoint detection, identity, and cloud security, yet breaches continue to occur. You’ve secured the individual points but lack the context of how those points connect; you haven't secured the paths attackers navigate. Security teams are running more tools than ever: EDR on every endpoint, MFA for every identity, CSPM on every cloud tenant, and SIEMs ingesting terabytes of logs.
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By Forward Networks
Forward Enterprise enables organizations to reduce risk, improve operational efficiency, and prepare their networks for trusted agentic AI and autonomous operations.
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By Forward Networks
Cisco Live EMEA 2026 Amsterdam has officially wrapped up, and the path forward is clear: we have entered the Agentic AI Era. The event was centered around an industry shift towards a unified platform where AI agents don't just respond; they act. At Forward Networks, we aren’t just watching this shift happen; we are providing the foundation required to make it a reality.
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By Forward Networks
DNS is foundational to almost every application, yet it is often treated as background configuration rather than a critical dependency. During network changes, DNS settings are easy to overlook. A single device pointing to the wrong resolver, missing a required DNS entry, or retaining a legacy configuration can cause application failures that appear unrelated to the original change.
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By Forward Networks
Modern network surveys provide a structured, repeatable way to uncover the true state of complex environments without intrusive installs or prolonged approvals. This blog explains how Forward Enterprise enables fast, accurate baselining and why understanding actual network behavior is foundational to modernization and mission assurance.
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By Forward Networks
New capability brings trusted, verifiable network answers to operators and AI systems.
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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 Networks
Learn how Forward Enterprise enables federal agencies to rapidly respond to CISA Emergency Directive 26-01 through comprehensive network visibility, automated inventory, and continuous compliance verification.
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By Forward Networks
Staring at a hodgepodge of ancient firewall rules across your multi-vendor environment is like being the curator of a digital museum nobody asked for. You want to clean house, but the fear of breaking something is real. Don’t you wish there were an easier way to navigate this hodgepodge and actually delete rules that are unused? Tune in Tuesday, September 16th, to see how Forward Networks can help with this!
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By Forward Networks
Cloud issues are hard to pin down — especially when you're juggling multiple providers. In this video, we walk through a real-world connectivity issue between two major clouds and show how Forward Enterprise can cut through the noise, surface hidden problems, and get your mean time to insights fast — no guesswork, no finger-pointing.
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By Forward Networks
Forward Enterprise: The Best NetMRI Replacement for Seamless Network Management Upgrade NetMRI’s network change and configuration management in a modern, scalable, and intuitive network modeling platform.
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By Forward Networks
Keep Your IPAM Data Accurate, Complete, and Always Up to Date With our certified integration, Forward Enterprise delivers reliable, always-up-to-date network data straight to Infoblox NIOS.
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By Forward Networks
Have you ever received one of those tickets where the user says, “Oh, this was slow a few hours ago—I just remembered to submit a ticket…”? I know I have. And after shaking my head and questioning some of my career choices, I begin the tedious task of piecing the information together. On this week's Demo Tuesday, Mike explores this exact scenario—and shows how Forward Enterprise can help!
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By Forward Networks
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 Networks
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 Networks' 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.