Name: How to Mitigate Risk and Improve Operations with a Network Digital Twin
Start: 2023-01-26T19:00:00Z
End: 2023-01-26T19:48:01.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

Forward Networks is a leader in network analytics and intent-based networking solutions. Our BrightTALK channel focuses on the technology, marketing and solutions in this rapidly evolving space.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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