Forward Enterprise

Forward Enterprise

Forward Networks
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About

BackBox offers a simple way to intelligently automate the backup, restoration, and management of all devices on a network by providing centralized management of devices such as firewalls, routers, switches, and load balancers. Each of these devices plays a critical role in the availability and security of an organization’s network, and BackBox ensures they all continue to function effectively and effortlessly, streamlining operations for optimal performance. BackBox provides a foundation to harmonize the configuration between multiple devices, enabling seamless integration, and assuring compliance to organization or industry security policies, standards, or guidelines. IT administrators can easily employ BackBox to track configuration changes and see the deviation with the baseline for compliance validation and remediation.

About

Forward Enterprise documents, searches, verifies, and predicts the behavior of your network by creating an always-accurate software copy of your entire network infrastructure for both on-prem and cloud. With available REST APIs, it easily integrates into your existing network management workflow and tools. Forward Enterprise can be deployed on-prem or via cloud hosting for complete implementation flexibility. Automatically create an always-accurate network diagram with full details about the topology of your environment. Access a complete inventory of your hardware and software across vendors, platforms and versions. Visualize the network-wide L2, L3 and L4 state of your network and all device configurations. Search network behavior, configuration and state network-wide with an intuitive and powerful tool. Find any device on your network, including its connections and all forwarding behavior for fast root-cause isolation and incident remediation.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Enterprises and managed service providers in need of an intelligent automation solution for their network and security devices

Audience

IT and Network managers

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

No information available.
Please contact BackBox for pricing.
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.5 / 5
ease 4.5 / 5
features 4.2 / 5
design 4.0 / 5
support 4.8 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 0.0 / 5
ease 0.0 / 5
features 0.0 / 5
design 0.0 / 5
support 0.0 / 5

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Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • They have amazing support and respond far quickly than big Networking conglomerates. Easy to use Interface and support for almost every type of backup.
  • You can quickly back up from a single point without looking for a wide variety of brand-independent solutions. Open to new developments, easily updated, customizable.
  • Simple product but does its job as expected. It's a bundle containing operations, backup, automation, compliance, and governance and also solving secure remote access. The price is fair. It supports legacy and cloud infrastructure. We have been using for hybrid environment without any issues. Lots of device supported. Nearly every version of devices is supported. Product support is agile and eager to solve all the problems. Intellicheck is massive. Lots of signatures and checks in the Intellicheck. It is a perfect match for our disaster recovery scenarios.
  • The price is low but the value of the product is high. Technical support is awesome. It has a vast array of integration. Even if there's no already built-in integration, technical support assists for the new device type or model. Automation is already inside the product. I like the dashboard, very simple and shows the highlist. I can assign anybody to watch over the backbox solution. There's no need for special training. It supports distributed deployment where we're deploying regional collectors to get the data. Intellichecks has lots of checks built-in coming with the product. We have lots of cases where we need to roll back or restore, Backbox built-in these tasks without any problem. Upgrades or fixes through the Backbox is simple, one click and done.

Cons

  • The logs are not always properly readable. And troubleshooting yourself is an issue. However the support team ensures that the resolution is swift and quick.
  • We did not see any serious shortcomings. The lack of documentation in the first versions has been fixed.
  • Integration with other products is not straightforward. There's no direct integration with Jira, CMDB, or ServiceNow. You need to write some coding to make this integration working. Reporting lacks. Intellicheck signatures are updated within the releases not through a real-time update. There's no real-time check-monitoring option available. The product does not have AI or ML inside. Manual tasks are somehow interesting, tasks/scripts are defined from the operational perspective, they're not APIs.
  • Main drawback, It's not a real-time product for monitoring. You should give time schedules, especially for checks and automation. There's no incident management inside the product. I can't assign a task or job to a team member. It's a problem especially for the intellichecks. I need to assign the check output for one of my team member follow-up. Notifications are somehow bulky. Reports also are very legacy look and not modern compared to other products. There are lots of intellichecks available. We need to modify some checks before running to get the best results. Siem integration is not straight forward.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

BackBox
Founded: 2009
United States
backbox.com/request-a-demo/

Company Information

Forward Networks
Founded: 2013
United States
www.forwardnetworks.com

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Categories

Categories

Network Automation Features

Compliance Monitoring
Configuration Backup
Configuration Changes
Network Orchestration
Performance Monitoring
Tool Access Control
Vulnerability Assessments

IT Management Features

Capacity Monitoring
Compliance Management
Event Logs
Hardware Inventory
IT Budgeting
License Management
Patch Management
Remote Access
Scheduling
Software Inventory
User Activity Monitoring

IT Security Features

Anti Spam
Anti Virus
Email Attachment Protection
Event Tracking
Internet Usage Monitoring
Intrusion Detection System
IP Protection
Spyware Removal
Two-Factor Authentication
Vulnerability Scanning
Web Threat Management
Web Traffic Reporting

Network Security Features

Access Control
Analytics / Reporting
Compliance Reporting
Firewalls
Internet Usage Monitoring
Intrusion Detection System
Threat Response
VPN
Vulnerability Scanning

Cloud Management Features

Access Control
Billing & Provisioning
Capacity Analytics
Cost Management
Demand Monitoring
Multi-Cloud Management
Performance Analytics
SLA Management
Supply Monitoring
Workflow Approval

Network Mapping Features

Color Codes / Icons
Compliance Management
Device Auto Discovery
Hierarchical Mapping
Location-Based Mapping
Map Exporting
On-Demand Mapping
Reporting/Analytics
Self-Updating Maps
Web Traffic Reporting

Network Troubleshooting Features

Alerts / Escalation
Bandwidth Troubleshooting
Change Management
Configuration Management
Connectivity Management
Data Visualization
Historical Audit
Mobile Network Troubleshooting
Network Analysis
Network Monitoring

Integrations

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AlgoSec
Barracuda Cloud
Centreon
Cisco AnyConnect
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FireMon
Forescout
FortiAnalyzer
FortiGate NGFW
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Radware Alteon
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VMware vCenter
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Integrations

A10 Thunder ADC
AlgoSec
Barracuda Cloud
Centreon
Cisco AnyConnect
CyberArk Privileged Access Manager
FireMon
Forescout
FortiAnalyzer
FortiGate NGFW
NetWitness
Nexpose
NorthStar Navigator
Proofpoint Email Protection
Radware Alteon
Sophos UTM
VMware vCenter
WALLIX Bastion
pfSense
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