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Protecting Vulnerable and Poorly Configured Network Devices

Jul 20, 2026 By Forward Networks In Forward Networks
On July 13, 2026, NSA, CISA, the FBI, and co-sealing partners from twelve other countries published AA26-194A, a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) warning that Center 16 of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) continues to exploit vulnerable and poorly configured network devices across the defense industrial base, communications, energy, financial services, government facilities, and healthcare sectors. The advisory does not reference new exploits.
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Executive Order 14409 Starts a 30-day Clock on Federal Cyber Defense

Jun 29, 2026 By Forward Networks In Forward Networks
On June 2, 2026, President Trump signed Executive Order 14409, "Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security." The framing is innovation first. But for federal network and security teams, the practical reality is a short, specific timeline to harden government systems, with AI now active on both sides of the cybersecurity equation. The deadlines are not aspirational.
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The Trust Layer Autonomous Networking Was Missing Is Here

May 28, 2026 By Forward Networks In Forward Networks
It has been a week since we announced Forward Predict at our Innovation Day broadcast, and I'm still taking it in. Since the inception of networking, the industry has been working without a safety net, making changes in the production network without knowing their impact beforehand. The result has been outages and security breaches. This wasn’t a lack of diligence, it was because there was no way to know, with certainty, what a change would do to the production network before it was pushed.
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The Path to Autonomous Networking Starts Here

May 19, 2026 By Forward Networks In 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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The Forward Platform: Your Network Understood, Past, Present, and Future

May 19, 2026 By Forward Networks In 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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Forward Predict: Know the Impact of Your Network Changes Before You Push

May 19, 2026 By Forward Networks In 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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How Forward Helps You Respond to CVE-2025-53521 and the CISA KEV Listing for F5 BIG-IP APM

Apr 16, 2026 By Forward Networks In 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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How Forward Helps You Respond to CISA Emergency Directive 26-03

Apr 6, 2026 By Forward Networks In 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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