Name: How to Mitigate Risk and Improve Operations with a Network Digital Twin
Start: 2023-01-26T19:00:00Z
End: 2023-01-26T19:00:48.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

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Federal agencies face mounting technical debt that threatens both innovation and security. From aging infrastructure and vendor sprawl to unmanaged vulnerabilities, complexity is creating unacceptable levels of cyber risk. Join Forward Networks’ Director of Product, Security, Renata Budko, and CIA veteran Rodney Alto, Head of Federal Strategy and Security, Forward Networks for a practical discussion on how federal IT teams can quantify, prioritize, and eliminate technical debt—without disrupting mission-critical operations.

This session will explore how a network digital twin provides a single authoritative source of network truth to:

Identify and reduce end-of-life equipment risk

Prioritize CVEs based on real exposure paths

Continuously validate configuration compliance

Improve visibility across hybrid and multi-vendor environments

Attendees will learn how to modernize securely, reduce operational burden, and build defensible KPIs for risk and compliance reporting.

Who should attend: Federal IT engineers, cybersecurity professionals, and infrastructure managers responsible for network health, security posture, and modernization planning.

Save Your Agency Money, Get Ahead of Technical Debt Quickly

Agentic AI is reshaping the enterprise software landscape with autonomous, goal-driven systems that promise operational speed, scale, and intelligence. But while the opportunities are massive, the risks are equally significant—particularly when these agents act on inaccurate, incomplete, or siloed data.

In this 45-minute discussion, Dr. Nikhil Handigol, Co-founder of Forward Networks, and Howard Holton, CTO of GigaOm, explore the critical role that network digital twins play in de-risking agentic AI adoption. They share expert insight into what’s driving the surge in agentic AI, what’s holding it back, and how enterprises can use digital twins to build trust, enforce verification, and avoid unintended consequences.

What You’ll Learn:

-  Why accurate, context-rich data is essential for safe and effective agentic AI

-  How a network digital twin acts as both a trustworthy data layer and a verification engine

-  Key risks of autonomous agents in enterprise networks—and how to mitigate them

-  The difference between monitoring tools and behaviorally-accurate digital twins

-  Real-world use cases where digital twins prevent outages, accelerate response, and support AI-driven automation

-  How enterprises can prepare their infrastructure, data, and teams for agentic AI

Who Should Watch:

-  CIOs, CISOs, and technology executives evaluating AI adoption strategies

-  Network and security architects looking to modernize their data infrastructure

-  Enterprise AI/ML teams working on safe deployment of autonomous agents

-  IT leaders concerned with governance, verification, and operational risk in AI systems

Agentic AI Can Help—or Harm. How a Digital Twin Keeps It in Check

Security teams are under pressure to manage risk, validate Zero Trust policies, and respond to threats in increasingly complex hybrid networks. Traditional tools offer limited context—and that’s where a network digital twin changes the game.

In this session, Forward Networks Technical Evangelist Mike Lossmann will demonstrate how a mathematically-accurate digital replica of your network can deliver the visibility and context SecOps teams need to:

Prioritize vulnerabilities based on real exposure paths

Instantly visualize blast radius and attacker reachability

Continuously validate firewall, segmentation, and Zero Trust policies

Detect and investigate misconfigurations before they cause damage

Ensure cloud security matches on-prem standards

You'll see real examples of how network digital twin technology eliminates blind spots, accelerates incident response, and strengthens your security posture—without deploying agents or disrupting operations.

Ideal for: Security operations engineers, threat response analysts, and network security leads looking to modernize their workflows.

Supercharge SecOps with a Network Digital Twin

Preparing for a network audit is no small task. Whether you're aligning with HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST, ISO 27001, GDPR, or internal standards, ensuring your network is secure, compliant, and performing as expected often requires a significant investment of time, resources, and coordination. And once the audit is over, the countdown begins again.

But what if audit readiness wasn’t a point-in-time effort?

In this webinar, Scot Wilson, Systems Engineer at Forward Networks, will demonstrate how continuous monitoring powered by a network digital twin can transform compliance from a stressful, manual process into an automated, always-on capability. Learn how enterprises can leverage mathematical modeling of their network to maintain up-to-date visibility, ensure adherence to policy, and pass audits with confidence—no scramble required.

This session is ideal for IT, compliance, and security professionals looking to streamline operations and reduce audit preparation time.

Pass Your Network Audit Through Continuous Monitoring

Join AI and Networking experts Howard Holton from GigaOm and Nikhil Handigol from Forward Networks for an insightful webinar exploring the symbiotic relationship between AI and digital twins. Gain essential insights to navigate the evolving technological landscape as we discuss how generative AI is set to revolutionize network management by enhancing the capabilities of network digital twins. Delve into the potential "dark side" of AI that IT leadership should be vigilant about. Don't miss out on this comprehensive discussion that will shape your understanding of AI-enabled digital twins and their impact on network management.

How AI-enabled digital twins will transform network management

GigaOm analyst, Howard Holton and Forward Networks VP of product and UX, Chiara Regale will discuss how enterprises can use digital twin technology. This discussion will uncover:
- How to reduce risk, improve operations and deliver meaningful ROI
- How a digital twin increases visibility and enhances security in multi-cloud environments
- Ways to prevent config drift or config misalignment using a digital twin
- How a digital twin can shorten change windows

How to Mitigate Risk and Improve Operations with a Network Digital Twin

Join Forward Networks Technical Evangelist Mike Lossmann as he unveils our powerful new Firewall Rule Management feature—designed to streamline security operations and deliver millions in annual savings compared to traditional manual methods. In this session, Mike will demonstrate how this groundbreaking capability transforms firewall governance, delivering real-time visibility, proactive risk mitigation, and simplified collaboration across teams.

Key capabilities include:

Device Inventory & EOL Tracking to flag outdated firewall OS versions.

Configuration Management to enforce hardening and compliance standards.

CVE Management to expose and remediate OS-level vulnerabilities.

Blast Radius Analysis to surface what’s truly at risk behind each firewall.

Intent Verification & Reachability to eliminate unnecessary open ports.

Security Zone Mapping to align rule sets with actual application needs.

Gain Control with a Digital Twin: Transform Firewall Ops and Ensure Policy Compliance

With cyber threats growing more complex, federal agencies need a smarter approach to prioritizing risk and strengthening their security posture. Not all threats pose the same level of risk—some are mitigated by existing controls, while others remain dangerously exposed. Understanding residual risk requires full visibility into your Cyber Space Terrain, something only achievable with an end-to-end network Digital Twin.


Join us for a live webinar on March 27 to learn how Forward Networks’ Digital Twin enables federal agencies to:

Prioritize vulnerabilities based on actual exposure and mitigating controls
Identify and address potential zero-day threats before they become critical
Gain full visibility across on-premises and multi-cloud environments
Optimize cybersecurity resources to protect mission-critical systems

Cyber Threat Prioritization

See how the Forward Enterprise firewall rule management feature streamlines change validation, detects unintended network impacts, and simplifies routing policy cleanup for NetOps and SecOps teams.

Firewall Rule Management

Policymakers, oversight bodies like DHS CISA, CIOs and CISOs, need accurate and timely data to drive decisions and actions in many different areas. These areas include where to invest in cybersecurity readiness, monitoring threats and risks, ensuring compliance and improving coordination among federal agencies. Often known as a Cyber Data Call, these place a heavy burden on cyber and IT organizations since data is spread across systems and siloed on network devices. Gathering the raw data, normalizing it across silos and answering Cyber Data Calls can take weeks or months.

Authoritative Data drives faster and more accurate responses to Cyber Data Calls. During this webinar, we will go over how to gather and use Authoritative Data on your network to rapidly answer a Cyber Data Call, improving response time to minutes or hours and coordination among federal agencies.

Using Authoritative Data to Handle Cyber Data Call

Managing a complex network demands precise and up-to-date information, yet achieving a single source of truth (SSOT) for your network is a significant challenge. Many enterprises rely on multiple sources of truth (SOTs), but conflicting SOTs introduce risk—how can engineers be certain which one is accurate? How can IT teams ensure there are no unidentified devices hidden in the network? Without accurate data, critical tasks like managing CVEs become nearly impossible—you can't secure or remediate devices you don’t even know exist.

By integrating and cross-populating SOTs, administrators gain unprecedented levels of detail about the network and its devices. This session will demonstrate how the Forward Networks Digital Twin collects, augments, and consolidates network information across multiple SOTs to create a comprehensive and accurate SSOT. Using tools like device decorators, Forward Networks ensures seamless troubleshooting, efficient remediation, and a more secure network environment.

Key highlights include:
Why a single source of truth matters: Gain insights into how an accurate SSOT improves troubleshooting, enhances compliance, and streamlines operations.
Challenges of tools like Netbox: Learn why manual updates and integration issues often lead to inaccuracies and inefficiencies in managing network inventory.

How a Network Digital Twin transforms your approach: See how Forward Networks automatically reconciles and updates your network data, eliminating the need for manual intervention and ensuring your inventory is always 100% accurate.

Join Technical Solutions Architect and cloud expert Craig Johnson, along with Technical Product Marketing Leader Mike Lossmann, for an interactive demonstration of how Forward Enterprise simplifies the creation and maintenance of a single source of truth (SSOT), empowering you to focus on achieving your objectives with confidence and ease.

Save Time and Reduce Risk: How a Digital Twin Makes Maintaining a Single Source of Truth Effortless

Explore the power of Forward Enterprise's network digital twin platform in this comprehensive session led by Mike Lossmann, our resident demo expert. This in-depth overview highlights 13 critical use cases that demonstrate how digital twin technology revolutionizes network operations and management.  

Key Use Cases Covered:
1. Change Control  
2. Network Compliance and Audits  
3. Inventory Management
4. Workflow Automation  
5. Incident Response  
6. Vulnerability Management  
7. Zero Trust Verification  
8. Continuous Cloud Security Audit  
9. Cloud Service Assurance
10. End-to-End Hybrid Multi-Cloud Visibility  
11. Path Verification Analysis  
12. Outage Prevention  
13. Troubleshooting  

Learn how Forward Enterprise enables organizations to optimize network performance, ensure security compliance, and achieve unmatched visibility across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Discover how a digital twin can drive proactive incident resolution, zero-trust strategies, and automated workflows to reduce risks and streamline operations.

Forward Enterprise Full Demo

Zero Trust .... But Verify
Zero trust security is a necessity in modern cybersecurity frameworks, endorsed by comprehensive directives from the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The DoD Zero Trust Strategy alongside the DoD Zero Trust Capability Execution Roadmap offers in-depth guidance designed to facilitate any organization's transition to a robust Zero Trust model. 

Join Federal Security Expert Scot Wilson and Federal Technology Solutions Architect Sean Deveci to learn how organizations are using Forward Enterprise to simplify their Zero Trust journey. They will demonstrate how leveraging a network digital twin can empower both government and private sector organizations to seamlessly implement and verify a Zero Trust architecture. 

During the session, Scot and Sean will demonstrate how Forward Enterprise supports several of the Zero Trust foundational pillars identified by the DoD: 

*Device: Rigorous device security and control mechanisms (CVE, STIGs, config hardening). 

*Application & Workload: Protection strategies for applications and their workloads. 

*Network & Environment: Segmentation and Security posture verification across diverse environments. 

*Automation & Orchestration: Enhancing response capabilities through automation. 

*Visibility & Analytics: Advanced analytics for proactive security management.

How to follow DoD Zero Trust Guidelines

Palo Alto Networks recently disclosed critical vulnerabilities in PAN-OS—CVE-2024-0012 and CVE-2024-9474—allowing attackers to gain administrator access and plant malicious code. Coupled with CISA's BOD 23-02 directive to reduce exposure from internet-facing management interfaces, organizations face the challenge of identifying and prioritizing vulnerable devices quickly.

Forward Networks simplifies this process with its Digital Twin technology. By analyzing device configurations and states and integrating with NIST and vendor vulnerability sites, it pinpoints vulnerabilities and highlights internet-exposed devices, turning “we think we’re vulnerable” into “we know exactly what to fix.” Watch our resident expert, Mike Lossmann, demonstrate how Forward Networks transforms CVE management into a fast, actionable process.

How to Find and Remediate PAN-OS Vulnerabilities in Seconds with Forward Enterprise

Ensuring audit readiness is paramount for maintaining security, compliance, and operational efficiency across the Department of Defense (DoD), civilian federal agencies, and the private sector. This webinar is designed to provide organizations with the strategies necessary to achieve and maintain audit preparedness, using the Cyber Command Readiness Inspection (CCRI) audits as a robust framework.

Join Federal Technology Expert Scot Wilson and Networking Audit Veteran Mike Lossmann to learn how Forward Enterprise assists organizations in determining audit readiness, developing actionable remediation plans, and ensuring long-term compliance. They will demonstrate practical approaches to meeting stringent audit requirements, addressing vulnerabilities, and implementing security controls that align with the high standards set by CCRI audits.

Key Takeaways:
- Assessing CCRI Audit Readiness: Learn how to evaluate your organization’s preparedness by identifying and addressing critical vulnerabilities, such as CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures), and ensuring compliance with directives from higher headquarters.
- Vulnerability Management: Discover strategies to eliminate vulnerabilities, secure external access exclusively via HTTPS, and identify devices from insecure supply chains.
- Device Hardening and Security Compliance: Explore methods to apply necessary security controls, comply with all high-priority Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), and mitigate medium-risk STIGs wherever possible.
- Operational Readiness Planning: Understand how to develop a comprehensive plan of action for managing technical debt, including addressing end-of-life hardware and software.
- Long-Term Compliance Assurance: Gain insights into maintaining ongoing compliance through continuous monitoring and action planning to prevent and resolve compliance issues over time.

Use a Digital Twin for Painless Audit Readiness and Response

Join to learn how global enterprises are using data to extract business value from their network. Dr. Andreas Voellmy, our principal engineer, developed NQE to help customers get the most value from their network through insights, agility, the ability to proactively detect issues before an outage, automate best practices, and bolster network security. 

During the session Andreas and our director of customer success, Yadhu Govindarajan will demonstrate how NQE is being used to:
-- Automate Design Validation
-- Inform Decision-making with Accurate Inventory
-- Proactively Check for Misconfigurations to Prevent Incidents

Use Network Query Engine to turn network data into significant savings

In enterprise networks, the reliance on multiple clouds has become a common thread. While this approach offers enticing benefits like reliability and cost efficiency, it also presents a formidable challenge: the complexity of managing, visualizing, and securing multi-cloud environments.

Join us for an interactive session where we delve into the strategies employed by global enterprises to overcome these hurdles. Discover how the fusion of network digital twin technology and Empowered Networks' Network Intelligence offering ushers in a new era of cloud visibility, security compliance, and guaranteed service delivery.

Our esteemed panel of industry leaders includes Michael Ell, SVP of Technical Services, and Steve Allie, the VP of Technical Services at Forward Networks. 

In this webinar, you will learn how enterprises:

Unlock Unparalleled Cloud Visibility: Utilize the power of network digital twins in providing hop-by-hop visibility within multi-cloud environments, enabling comprehensive insights and optimizing network operations.

Prove Security and Compliance: Verification checks ensure security compliance in multi-cloud environments, safeguarding valuable data and intellectual property.

Don't miss the opportunity to join the conversation and stay ahead of the curve. Reserve your spot now and embark on a transformative journey toward conquering the challenges of multi-cloud environments with network digital twins and network intelligence.

How Global Companies Master Multi-Cloud Management & Prove Security Compliance

Are you frequently encountering the dreaded "network is down" panic in your multi-cloud environment? Join us for an in-depth technical session where we'll tackle the complexities of troubleshooting connectivity and proving network innocence in seconds. Technical Solutions Architect and cloud expert Craig Johnson and Technical Product Marketing Leader Mike Lossmann will show you how to use a network digital twin to diagnose and resolve connectivity issues in seconds specifically focusing on scenarios where your application cannot connect over the cloud.

In this session, we will explore the intricacies of routing, firewalls, and transit gateways within a hybrid network setup. You will learn how to pinpoint and resolve connectivity problems efficiently. Craig will show you how a network digital twin can:

- Navigate and troubleshoot routing issues in a hybrid multi-cloud environment.
- Identify access and routing problems.
- Immediately verify and troubleshoot network paths.
- Monitor and diagnose network traffic issues.
- Help you resolve issues without getting lost in complex configurations.

How to Troubleshoot Complex Multi-Cloud Environments in Seconds

Join special guests Michael Wynston, Director of Network Architecture and Automation, at Fiserv, and Andre Kindness, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, to learn how the inventory management capabilities of a network digital twin helped Michael to:

- Save 7 figures in support costs
- Improve lifecycle management
- Know with mathematical certainty exactly what is in his network
- Improve security by eliminating blind spots
- Prove compliance over time during audits

By creating a searchable and easy-to-understand single source of truth for network inventory, Michael answers questions about his network with mathematical certainty, has more confidence in automation efforts, and provides a way for him to plan what he wants his network to accomplish. 

Andre Kindness, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, will augment Michael's expertise with his insight as a leading industry expert to help attendees understand the benefits of accurate inventory management.

Learn how a digital twin can improve inventory management to save time and money

Why is network data your most valuable asset to ensure compliance? Join Nikhil Handigol, Co-founder of Forward Networks, to explore our integrations with Tenable and Rapid7. The demo will highlight how our solutions deliver complete attack surface visibility that empowers SecOps teams to proactively identify impacted hosts with critical vulnerabilities accessible from the Internet or other critical exposure points in seconds.

5 Ways Network Data can Supercharge SecOps

There are nearly 500 complex specifications in the DISA STIG compliance checklists. Most of us don’t have time to read them, let alone check our complex networks to ensure total adherence. Unfortunately in addition to creating risk on the network, non-compliance can result in extremely expensive fines and a painful level of scrutiny for government agencies.

Many agencies are trying to achieve compliance manually, or through a combination of tools but this is expensive and error prone.
Join our Federal Technical Solutions Engineers, Arica Beckstead and Sean Deveci to learn how a digital twin can streamline your compliance efforts and give you full confidence heading into an audit.

How to Achieve Stress Free STIG Compliance Part 1

In this session, Mike shows how easy it is to determine the blast radius of a compromised host and isolate it even while on vacation. (Because that's what we all want to do on vacation right?)

Demo Tuesday - Isolating a Compromised Host in Seconds

Join technical product marketing manager Michael Lossman, for a hands-on demo of Forward Enterprise.  Learn how to 

Search your network like Google to reduce the time it takes to identify and resolve network issues.

View the complete journey of a path in a hybrid multi-cloud environment to speed up troubleshooting.

Streamline decommissioning efforts and prevent unintended consequences by providing actionable access to critical data.

Learn To Troubleshoot Complex Network Issues in Seconds With Forward Enterprise

In this demo Mike will show how Forward Networks' digital twi can:
- Help network teams to quickly verify conditions in the network and resolve issues, reducing the need for senior team members to be constantly involved.
- identify issues such as an open port that shouldn't be, and identify the likely cause of the issue.
- Forward's alert the team when the intent of the network changes, such as when a port that should not be open is detected.
- provide a history of collections, showing whether each one passed or failed, and why, aiding in troubleshooting.

Learn how digital twin technology can quickly resolve network issues.

In this Demo Tuesday session,  Mike will show you how the data delivered by Forward Enterprise helps Cloud Ops and SecOps teams protect their network and ensure it stays in compliance. In this session, Mike demonstrates how to:

1. Provide a cloud security posture breakdown.
2. Identify config-based vulnerabilities in devices.
3. Determine the potential impact of a security breach on a specific host.
4. Integrate with vulnerability scanners like Rapid 7 and Tenable.
5. Offer asset inventory features and network query language (NQE) for deeper network insights.

A Digital Twin makes ensuring multi-cloud hybrid network compliance child's play

Supercharge SecOps with Network Insights

Let’s face it: your network is a complex, hairy beast. It eats protocols for breakfast, consumes configs for lunch, and sometimes the state outputs from its packet dinner can be… unpleasant.

If your network beast includes hardware and software from dozens of vendors, spread across multiple data centers and clouds, and runs mission-critical applications with challenging security requirements… then join Brandon Heller, Forward Networks CTO and Co-founder, for this 30-min session/demo featuring real-life examples from large “beastly” enterprise networks that found a path to reliability, agility, and security.

Top 5 Network Issues That a Digital Twin Can Solve in Under a Week

In today's complex hybrid networks with different vendors in the traffic path, correlating and understanding output and troubleshooting can be complicated. Do you often ask how day-to-day tasks can be more efficient without understanding different technology at critical points in the network? Join Steve Allie, Vice President of Technical Services, and Mike Lossmann, Technical Product Marketing Manager at Forward Networks, to discuss how using Forward Networks' digital twin can help increase network efficiency in today's complex hybrid networks.

How a Digital Twin Can Increase Efficiency in Complex Hybrid Networks

After 20 years of working as a networking engineer, Craig transitioned his skills to become Forward Networks' cloud engineering expert. The transition was anything but intuitive because things work differently in the cloud. 

Join us to learn how Craig made the journey, and how you can leverage your traditional networking skills in the three major public cloud environments (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure). Craig will also offer advice on connecting your home lab to the public cloud for a deeper dive into cloud networking.

From Network to Cloud Engineer: How to Develop Your Cloud Networking Skills

Enterprise networks are comprised of tens to hundreds of thousands of devices from dozens of vendors running billions of lines of code across a hybrid multi-cloud network. In addition to the sheer size of networks, complexity is amplified by its constantly changing nature. It’s no longer possible for people to understand the network, technology is necessary. Network administrators need a network digital twin to keep the network agile, predictable, and secure.


Join this demonstration to experience how the visibility of a network digital twin can help you:

-- Observe the whole network from LAN, WAN, Datacenter to the Public Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
-- Ensure traffic flows go through desired choke points/security stacks
-- Rationalize intercloud and on-prem to cloud traffic
-- Instantly access always current performance data
-- View air-gapped networks in a unified manner
-- Visualize network overlay and underlay
-- Ensure IPv6 readiness & migration and isolation of networks

How Network Digital Twins Enhance Security, Visibility, and Hygiene

Our New Head of Security and Compliance, Matt Honea, will talk about how CISOs can use network modeling and digital twin platforms to protect your networks, uncover blind spots, detect vulnerable devices, and locate and isolate compromised devices.

He knows firsthand what it’s like to protect an everchanging attack surface. He’ll be joined by Steve Allie, VP of Technical Services as we share our perspective with hands-on network experience and collaboration with CISOs at some of the world’s most regulated and targeted networks.

Join us in this webinar to learn why you should care about network modeling and digital twin platforms.

Why you should care about Network Modeling: A CISO discussion

Join Steve Allie, vice president of technical services at Forward Networks, and guest speaker Andre Kindness, principal analyst at Forrester, to learn how a digital twin can help enterprises maximize their resources by better understanding and documenting their network, automating audits, preventing config drift, empowering less senior team members to effectively problem solve, and making data-driven decisions.

Using a Digital Twin to Improve IT Efficiency

Enterprise networks are comprised of tens to hundreds of thousands of devices from dozens of vendors running billions of lines of code across a hybrid multi-cloud network. In addition to the sheer size of networks, complexity is amplified by its constantly changing nature. It’s no longer possible for people to understand the network, technology is necessary. Network administrators need a network digital twin to keep the network agile, predictable, and secure.


Join this live demonstration to experience how the visibility of a network digital twin can help you:

-- Observe the whole network from LAN, WAN, Datacenter to the Public Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
-- Ensure traffic flows go through desired choke points/security stacks
-- Rationalize intercloud and on-prem to cloud traffic
-- Instantly access always current performance data
-- View air-gapped networks in a unified manner
-- Visualize network overlay and underlay
-- Ensure IPv6 readiness & migration and isolation of networks

Improve Network Security, Reliability, and Hygiene with Unprecedented Visibility

Protecting IT systems is harder than ever. As threats continue to escalate and the transition to hybrid and multi-cloud environments accelerates, the boundaries are blurring, making it difficult to visualize and monitor systems as a whole. Enterprises need to rapidly visualize security postures and verify compliance with the company's zero trust policies and ensure the right configurations and connectivity are being enforced.

Learn how network engineers use the digital twin to:
Immediately identify all reachable hosts from any host with Blast Radius
Validate all security posture, including multi-cloud connectivity
Verify policy enforcement points
Ensure application isolation 
Determine device reachability for data exfiltration
Automatically verify compliance

Prove Zero-Trust Compliance Throughout the Multi-Cloud Environment

Data without context is useless, but with context it can deliver transformational insights.  Join this session to learn how Forward Networks’ digital twin can be used to:

Streamline lifecycle management
Verify application reachability
Track key performance indicators
Prove best practice compliance
Compare the network over time using behavioral differences

Data Driven Insights Delivered by a Digital Twin

Create a digital twin of your network - a virtual copy of your load balancers, routers, switches, and everything that touches a packet in your network
Calculate all possible paths in the network
Immediately determine all reachable hosts when a device is compromised
Reduce the time to securely deploy new apps from 24 hours to one hour
Extract and analyze data from your network to prove your security posture, prevent outages and ensure the network is behaving as intended.
Model and verify your multi-vendor multi-cloud network.
Make sense of the 165,000 published CVEs by providing a prioritized remediation plan specific to the risk of your network.

How a Digital Twin Ensures a Secure, Reliable, and Agile Network

Prove Security Policy Compliance Throughout the Multi-Cloud Environment

When your hybrid multi-cloud estate is not performing, proving network innocence is critical. Unfortunately, conducting the necessary analysis to map the affected traffic path and can be tedious and time-consuming - which is no fun when you're under pressure to resolve the issue ASAP.

Learn about: 
- Verifying cloud security posture and use custom intent & verification check to confirm appliance
- Ending expensive multi-cloud routing 
- Single sourcing the truth

Join us live and learn how Forward Enterprise can perform a detailed hop-by-hop path trace from the on-premises network through a multi-cloud environment in seconds - giving you the data you need to prove network innocence and resolve the issue in less time than it takes to brew a cup of coffee.

Proving network innocence in multi-cloud & hybrid multi-cloud environments

Enterprise networks are comprised of tens to hundreds of thousands of devices from dozens of vendors running billions of lines of code across a hybrid multi-cloud network. In addition to the sheer size of networks, complexity is amplified by its constantly changing nature. It’s no longer possible for people to understand the network, technology is necessary. Network administrators need a network digital twin to keep the network agile, predictable, and secure.  

Learn how a network digital twin can immediately deliver actionable information. Visualize, search, verify, predict and compare.

-- Observe the whole network from LAN, WAN, Datacenter to the Public Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
-- Ensure traffic flows go through desired choke points/security stacks
-- Rationalize intercloud and on-prem to cloud traffic
-- Instantly access always current performance data
-- View air-gapped networks in a unified manner
-- Visualize network overlay and underlay
-- Ensure IPv6 readiness & migration and isolation of networks

Agility, Predictability, and Network Security with Digital Twin

There are more possible paths in a network than there are atoms in the universe, making them too complex for the human brain to comprehend. Our head technical solutions architect, Elyor Khakimov, will demonstrate how you can:

- Use a network digital twin can provide vendor-agnostic insight into network behavior, provide detailed visualization and verify the network is behaving according to the operator's intent. 
- Learn functionality like search, modeling, and intent checks help engineering teams reduce MTTR, avoid outages, and ensure policy compliance in hybrid multi-cloud environments.

Join this interactive demo and learn how much easier wrangling your network can be!

Digital Twin Transformation to Improve Your Network Resilience

Following a significant acquisition, the IT department in a Fortune 150 company needed to merge their AWS cloud infrastructures and prepare for multi-cloud traffic while ensuring security policies were not disrupted, the network stayed in compliance, and customers were not disrupted. Being able to model their entire estate from on premises throughout the cloud made this herculean task possible.  Senior Technical Solutions Architect Craig Johnson will demonstrate how they did this quickly and on budget.

Case Study: How to Merge Clouds Post Acquisition

Learn how a digital twin can help enhance your security posture by providing a detailed and actionable analysis of connectivity and security posture at the application and user ID level. Keep your on-premises, virtual and multi-hybrid cloud environment safe

How to Unify NetOps and SecOps with Next-Gen Firewall Modeling

Trying to make sense of your cloud security posture shouldn't mean flipping between multiple screens and inferring how traffic is behaving. Join this live event to see how you can monitor and verify your security posture across multiple clouds on a single screen.  

Forward Fix Live host, Derick Winkworth (@cloudtoad), and Technical Solutions Architect, Craig Johnson (@fracticated), will demonstrate how our customers use the Forward Networks platform to manage their cloud security posture including: 

-   Visualize topology and hop by hop traffic analysis on-prem, on-prem to cloud, and cloud to cloud; all in a single view.
-    Verify zone-to-zone security policy compliance, on prem and in the cloud.
-    Prove compliance in the cloud.

Forward Fix Live is created by engineers for engineers. No pitches, just knowledge sharing. We want to show you how the platform works and answer questions.

Extending Zero Trust to the Cloud

Unexpected bills resulting from accidental inter-cloud routing are one of the top complaints of cloud architects today. The mistake is easy to make and painful to pay for. 
 
Until now, there was no way of detecting and correcting expensive mistakes before the bill arrived. Join Senior Technical Architect Craig Johnson and Host Kevin Kuhls as they demonstrate how using Verification Checks within the Forward Networks detect and resolve unintentional inter-cloud routing before the bill arrives.  

Forward Fix Live is content by engineers, for engineers. This is a technical demonstration, not a sales pitch, join us live and ask questions!

Prevent Surprise Cloud Bills with a Digital Twin

Unexpected bills resulting from accidental inter-cloud routing are one of the top complaints of cloud architects today.  Until now, there was no way of detecting and correcting expensive mistakes before the bill arrived. Join Senior Technical Architect Craig Johnson and Host Kevin Kuhls as they demonstrate how using Intent Checks within the Forward Networks platform can protect you from unwanted six-figure curve-balls.

Forward Fix Live is content by engineers, for engineers. This is a technical demonstration, not a sales pitch, join us live and ask questions!

Stop Cloud Billing Surprises

Who doesn't love a good story about someone else's misery? Derick Winkworth (@cloudtoad) is going to share the miserable day (and subsequent weeks) he found out the Fortune150 financial company he worked for was the victim of a headline-making security breach.  He'll be joined by systems engineer Scott Arky who has his share of security-related pain. Learn how these events could have been prevented. 

Join us and bring your stories we'd much rather chat than tell stories.  

Forward Fix Live is content by engineers for engineers.

My worst work day ever, a headline making Security Breach

Trying to make sense of your cloud security posture shouldn't mean flipping between multiple screens and inferring how traffic is behaving. Join this live event to see how you can monitor and verify your security posture across multiple clouds on a single screen.  

Senior Technical Solutions Architect Craig Johnson (@fracticated), will demonstrate how our customers use the Forward Networks platform to manage their cloud security posture including: 

-   Visualize topology and hop by hop traffic analysis on-prem, on-prem to cloud, and cloud to cloud; all in a single view.
-    Verify zone-to-zone security policy compliance, on prem and in the cloud.
-    Prove compliance in the cloud.

Forward Fix Live is created by engineers for engineers. No pitches, just knowledge sharing. We want to show you how the platform works and answer questions.

Forward Fix Live host, Derick Winkworth (@cloudtoad), and Technical Solutions Architect, Kevin Kuhls, will demonstrate how our customers use the Forward Networks platform to enhance and prove their zero trust posture.

• Visualize all possible traffic paths
• See full network topology including device state and configuration
• Constantly verify compliance and prevent config drift
• Instantly identify the blast radius
• Detailed visibility of East/West Traffic
• Pinpoint policy enforcement point bypass points

Forward Fix Live: Zero Trust but Verify

In this webinar, you’ll hear the true story of a latent configuration error that left a Fortune 100 company susceptible to a massive security incident, as told by one of the network engineers responsible for dealing with the aftermath, then fixing the underlying issue.  

Learn how your security team can proactively get ahead of the next breach, by leveraging a single source of truth for your network data.   We’ll show how to uncover similar latent risks, as well as confirm that every future change keeps the security posture solid.

Hosted by: Brandon Heller, CTO and Co-founder of Forward Networks, and Derick Winkworth, Senior Technical Solutions Architect, Forward Networks

Why you can’t prevent the next breach without the right data

Join Bob Costello, A former senior executive, in the Office of Information and Technology at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and Andre Kindness, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research to learn how detailed visualization, verification, and prediction capabilities enabled Bob to:

- Justify budget for network upgrades
- Create a single source of truth that improved efficiency and effectiveness for software engineers, the NOC, and the SOC
- Eliminate information silos and improve relations across the broader IT organization
- Fast Track Digital Transformation Efforts

By creating a searchable and easy-to-understand single source of truth for network topology and device config and state information, Bob improved working relationships between the NOC, SOC and Software Development to improve efficiency. 

Andre Kindness, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research will augment Bob’s expertise with his insight as a leading industry expert to help attendees understand why a single source of truth is invaluable for IT organizations.

Reduce costs & accelerate digital transformation by democratizing the network

Learn how a mathematical model of the network allows operations engineers to visualize device topology, state, and configuration, verify network behavior, validate security compliance, search the network like a database and predict how configuration changes will impact behavior.  Forward Networks delivers a digital twin of the network that puts people back in control.

A Mathematical Model puts people in charge of the network

ACLs can be the bain of your existence, especially when seemingly benign changes that are buried in the billions of lines of config running the network create a vulnerability.  Learn how global enterprises are using Forward Enterprise to continuously verify compliance and stay out of the news.

Are you one ACL from a headline?

Join Bob Costello, A former senior executive, in the Office of Information and Technology at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and Andre Kindness, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research to learn how detailed visualization, verification, and prediction capabilities enabled Bob to:

Justify budget for network upgrades
Create a single source of truth that improved efficiency and effectiveness for software engineers, the NOC, and the SOC
Eliminate information silos and improve relations across the broader IT organization
Fast Track Digital Transformation Efforts

By creating a searchable and easy-to-understand single source of truth for network topology and device config and state information, Bob improved working relationships between the NOC, SOC and Software Development to improve efficiency. 

Andre Kindness, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research will augment Bob’s expertise with his insight as a leading industry expert to help attendees understand why a single source of truth is invaluable for IT organizations.

How democratizing the network can reduce costs accelerate digital transformation

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