Name: From Network to Cloud Engineer: How to Develop Your Cloud Networking Skills
Start: 2023-05-18T18:00:00Z
End: 2023-05-18T18:00:30.000Z
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 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.

Supercharge SecOps with Network Insights

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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