Forward Enterprise Reviews & Product Details

The focus is on an API first approach with integration potential. A stunning REST API exists for all our digital twin functions. Opens a lot of abilities for us to incorporate the entire network into someting more undestanble for the team members, also since there is an API connection ability, now our team is working on integrating forward ent with our AI tools, it's still beeing build, but it will definetely reduce the high entrance level, and less tech people will be able to use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I spend too much time defending the decision to use NQE insted of focusing on what it enable, it's easier to have thing done on python or yaml. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is one pure gold feature, which is zone to zone connectivity, for a security architect it's a must have. This tool clearly indecates the type of traffic allowed, partially allowed or denied between any two zones on the overall hybrid cloud build. With one click, I can confirm whether the cloud VPC created has provided any type of backdoor into the system. Helps to verifty our security settings, which is paramount for suporting authentic approach to security Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When we have some security events happening,and I need some network exposure data integrated from our database,so I try to use the feature Forward Enterprise has, but the tool they have - blast radius indentification, doesn't work they way it should, so I am supposed to import everything manually Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I look through a very specific lens - M&A integration and msp scalability. when we acquire a company, I ingerit their thechnical debt, ususally it is a spaghetti mess of undocumented VLANs and shadow IT. Forward Enterprise solved this nightmare by mapping that chaos. It benefits me during that 90 day integration window where we need to merge networks without blowing up the P&L. It's the only tool that really works, and not just a marketing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has a serious market fit problem for the channel. I spent years in this business field and wile this tech is good, the price and complexity make it a non starter for anyone manaing smbs. It's a Ferrari engine when most of the mid market just needs a reliable Toyota. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I do appreciate, purely from a strategic risk management angle, is the continuous compliance checking. The is the only part that immediately translates into a universal business win. The platform can continuosly verify that network configurations meet our internal or external requirements like HIPPA or GDPR depending on the client. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'll be blunt - I hate the way information is presented. This product is clearly built for high tech people. We talk about Digital Transformation and User Experience all day long, but this is a classic example of a tool with massive organizational value that fails at the final mile. If i ask my team for a compliance report to sahre with the HR audit comittee, the underlying data is too technical. I speaks entirely in NetOps language , not business risk or organization strategy.Also we have to create our own translation layer to integrate technical insights into our business dashboards. Which feels like unnecessary friction. It's definetly a great tech, but poor UX/EX Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The compliance and vulnerability assurance. Period. It's the easiest upsell narrative we have. The platform doesn't just show the customer where their risk it. It shows the exact config line causing the security hole whether it's a CVE on a router or a policy misconfiguration

This turns a scary conversation about security into a clean, actionable statement of work. I can walk into QBR and say "You have 40 high priority security risks that Forward identified and verified in the last snapshot. We can fix those today". It's an easy line item for the client and guaranteed expansion for my team. Their capabillity is priceless for hitting quarterly quotas Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To be honest the ROI story is often too deep in the weeds of NetOps. We're talking about a product that recudes mean time to resolution by half, but the marketing materials sometimes spend too much time explaining how the underlying mathematical model works. My buyers the CIOs and CISOs don't care about the physics, they care abou the cost of failure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how they provide a clear and undestandable view of the entire network. Path analysus and topological views help me quickly see what is connected and where, while the intent checks make it easy to confirm that setups are working as they should. It turns millions of files that are used into sturctured and well organised group that someone can actually manage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At first, the interface may seem a little confusing. But It is well designed once you get used to it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Power and accuracy of the digital twin and the NQE search features provide. It really gives us a good software copy of the entire internet build.

The ability to track all possible paths for a given type of traffic is fantastic for hard troubleshooting, especially in unusual, complex networks, the API integration is great too!

Allows us to easily export data to other platform for further invsetigations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My main criticism is that, although the Network Query Engine is a great, the language is proprietary. It takes a lot of time to learn, and nowadays when engineers are relying on AI to write scripts in more common languages, the NQEs situation is a drawback.

In addition, I would love to see more built in, ready to use reports for things Iike equipment lifecycle and inventory management. I had to spend time developing my own reports to extract supplier data, which is quite labor intensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am happy with my decision to move forward with Forward Enterprise). After the initial demo call with Sales, I already know that me and my team will be doing audits to clients networks, checking devices connection and resolve configuration issues using this product. The dashboard view for the website is beautiful, it doesn't just show the views for the website, but also it's etiology, where it came from so we can really analyze that statistic and build our next steps to improve the security of their website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I fell like sometimes I have loss with their app, the report come out cluttered, so I might even need to re-download it for multiple times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love the collaborative features. The ability to tag team members, leave notes on work orders, and instantly message within the context of a specific asset keeps everyone on the same page. The dashboard is highly visual, making it easy to spot trends and bottlenecks at a glance. It's a very modern and user-friendly platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The per-user pricing model can make it expensive to roll out to every single employee in a large organization. We had to be strategic about who received a full license. Some of the terminology within the software is specific to the maintenance field and wasn't immediately intuitive for our operations staff, requiring a bit of initial training. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I implemented this service at Blackswan Cybersecurity, so I can use it during assessments to audit clients real network posture instead of the information they provide us. This quick check saves time for both sides. So the report we get from AI, really covers all parts of the current setup customer has we that we need to know about. It's very easy to adjust it to your needs, I am creating our own decorations, templates, interfaces, and setup guides for my team using this app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing I think of that they could possibly improve. Every feature we use works well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.