Forward Enterprise Reviews & Product Details

I go back to the polygraph feature all the time – it really is a diagram showing you how all parts of your network are talking to each other and when you receive an alert you can actually follow the path as opposed to looking at logs and trying to guess. I am writing this while sitting on my couch, and honestly that has saved me hours during incident response. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Setting up is serious business and not minor – onboarding is tough, cloud integration is dependent upon prerequisites that are not always clearly stated, and if you do not have someone on your team that already has experience with cloud security then you will have some difficulty getting started. The dashboard is somewhat confusing to use and creating custom views is not easy at all. Petty annoyance but it irks me: the status of vulnerabilities only update once daily, so you sit around waiting for 24 hours for the fix to be cleared in the platform after you apply the fix, and you cannot manually trigger an update. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Application Team's self service capability through the API is incredibly useful for the our Application Team. One example of this is the Slackbot we developed that lets application owners ask, can my new application communicate with the database? and in response to that question, the API will provide an immediate validated path analysis.

By providing this level of visibility into the network, it reduces the amount of time spent on lower level connectivity allowing my core network team to spend more time on designing the overall structure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The way NQE is setup is a major bump in the road due to its proprietary syntax, it is an amazing piece of technology, no doubt, but forcing our dev team that develops only in Go and Python to learn a new query language just to interact with this feature increases our workload and causes additional work for us. To further compound the problem, we have to spend developer time writing wrapper libraries to make the NQE usable by the rest of the engineering team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only difficulty solved well by this solution is our old documentation. Every time we modified the network, the Visio drawings became instantly outdated, and we would constantly be trying to troubleshoot using drawings that were four years old. Forward Enterprise provides advantage with a live, constantly updated, up-to-date topology map for the network, providing a single verifiable view of the physical connectivity as well as inventory of devices that auditors appreciate. Forward Enterprise has essentially provided a mechanism that allows the documentation of the network to be handled by a machine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This map is very costly, and I don't like how often the hype around Automation falls flat when it comes to actual engineering.

The platform is designed to find a problem However, it doesn't actually provide you with anything to help you fix that problem. The platform is designed as a passive tool. When I have a device that doesn't comply with my policies, Forward will show me where it is however, I have to go into my Automation tool and manually resolve the issue myself.

This leaves a gap in operations. Forward has access to all of this data but has not implemented a solution to use the information.

We need one place for verification and orchestration, not just for verification but also with an easy way to orchestrate an automated response without needing a complex pipeline to simplify this process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like Forward Enterprise for its deterministic network modeling and real-time verification across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Its ability to simulate changes pre-deployment is a feature we appreciated a lot, as it significantly helps reduce risk and improve change management confidence. The tool strengthens our organization's security governance and our customers' as well. It's been instrumental in enhancing our organization's change reliability, reducing outage risks, and improving security policy validation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It should improve in deeper native integration with ITSM/CI-CD pipelines for fully automated change validation workflows in very large multi-tenant customers. It should also enhance the multi-cloud abstraction visibility, and faster updates for highly dynamic workloads can also be optimized in real-time enterprise large-scale operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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.