{"id":4426,"date":"2025-07-31T11:02:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T18:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nl1g1e2381-staging.onrocket.site\/?p=4426"},"modified":"2025-07-31T11:15:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T18:15:18","slug":"stop-chasing-ghost-vulnerabilities-see-what-really-matters-at-black-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/31\/stop-chasing-ghost-vulnerabilities-see-what-really-matters-at-black-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Chasing Ghost Vulnerabilities \u2014 See What Really Matters at Black Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you're planning to attend<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/events\/black-hat\/\"> <strong>Black Hat USA<\/strong> on <strong>August 6\u20137<\/strong> at <strong>Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas<\/strong><\/a>, and you\u2019re still dealing with visibility gaps, unprioritized CVEs, or a mountain of firewall rule audits,<strong> stop by Forward Networks <\/strong>in<strong> Booth 6022<\/strong>. We understand that today\u2019s security teams are overwhelmed with alerts and fragmented data, often losing sight of their actual attack surface and whether their segmentation policies are effective. At Black Hat, we'll show you how a network digital twin can provide the clarity, context, and confidence needed to reduce risk, speed up remediation, and simplify compliance\u2014all without adding more tools to your arsenal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Modern security teams face three persistent challenges:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"attack_surface\">Attack Surface Management (ASM):<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The sheer sprawl of cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments makes it nearly impossible to maintain visibility into what\u2019s exposed and why. Teams often rely on fragmented data from multiple tools, creating blind spots that attackers can exploit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vulnerability Management:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Security teams are flooded with alerts\u2014many of them irrelevant. Without network context, it\u2019s hard to prioritize what matters, which delays remediation and increases exposure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Security Posture Management:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Proving segmentation, policy enforcement, and compliance is a time-consuming, manual process that drains resources and leaves room for error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"fn_helps\">How Forward Networks Helps:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Forward Networks creates a mathematically accurate digital twin of your environment, delivering complete, vendor-agnostic visibility across cloud and on-prem infrastructure.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our platform allows security and network teams to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/31\/the-evolving-importance-of-attack-surface-management\/\"><strong>Visualize the real attack surface<\/strong><\/a>, including all reachable paths from any source to any destination<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/blog\/lf\/cve-vulnerability-and-exposure-management\/\"><strong>Prioritize vulnerability management<\/strong><\/a> based on what\u2019s actually exploitable in your network\u2014not just on CVSS scores<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/blog\/lf\/zone-to-zone-connectivity-matrix\/\"><strong>Continuously verify segmentation and policy controls<\/strong><\/a>, reducing audit prep time and eliminating manual error<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>One of our customers in the financial services sector put it best:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em><strong>\u201cEnsuring that the security posture is in line with what it is designed to be. A risk benefit is a business benefit for our organization. Forward Networks enables quicker time to market across the market, with new functionalities, new customers we\u2019re onboarding, new counterparties we need to connect to \u2014 there are efficiencies across all of these. Largely, we are able to avoid IT for IT\u2019s sake.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>At <strong>Booth 6022<\/strong>, we\u2019ll be offering live demos and one-on-one conversations with our <strong>network security experts<\/strong> and <strong>technical evangelist, Mike Lossmann<\/strong>. Whether you\u2019re looking to reduce risk, improve operational efficiency, or gain confidence in your security posture, we\u2019ll show you how Forward Networks delivers results\u2014at scale. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/events\/black-hat\/\">Book a private meeting with our on-site solutions architects.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can\u2019t wait until the show? View our<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/demo\/\"> on-demand demo<\/a> or<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brighttalk.com\/webcast\/16297\/644231\"> watch our webinar on SecOps and data-driven security<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We look forward to seeing you at Black Hat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re heading to Black Hat and still grappling with visibility gaps, unprioritized CVEs, or endless firewall rule audits, make sure to visit Forward Networks at Booth 6022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[42],"class_list":["post-4426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authors":[{"term_id":42,"user_id":5,"is_guest":0,"slug":"dawnslusher","display_name":"Dawn Slusher","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Dawn-Slusher.webp","url2x":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Dawn-Slusher.webp"},"author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Slusher","first_name":"Dawn","job_title":"","description":"Senior Manager, Content Marketing and Analyst Relations"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4426"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4438,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426\/revisions\/4438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4426"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardnetworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}