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Could We Have Seen FortiBleed Coming? What Network Digital Twins Reveal About the Attack

On June 18, 2026, CISA issued an urgent advisory warning that malicious cyber actors — believed to be a Russian-speaking criminal group — have compromised nearly 74,000 Fortinet firewall and VPN devices across 194 countries in a campaign now dubbed F

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23 days ago

captainpacketEmployee

What Building a Network Emulation Platform Taught Me About Digital Twins

A discussion at Cisco Live this year got me thinking about network emulation and digital twins. About six months ago, I started building Skyforge, an internal network emulation platform at Forward. The project started as an attempt to solve a practic

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27 days ago

cariddirSpotter

Network Audit Scripts - NTP NXOS, IOS, EOS

As part of a network initiative, I’m sharing all the scripts that I have worked on to create an audit program. These files feed are then fed into PowerBi for better visualization by engineers and mgmt.First step is create a utility called, “tag_var_u

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28 days ago

chrisnaishEmployee

Responding to CISA Binding Operational Directive 26-04: What It Means for Vulnerability Prioritization and How Forward Can Help

CISA issued Binding Operational Directive 26-04 on June 10, 2026, fundamentally reshaping how federal agencies must prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities. Rather than treating all CVEs with equal urgency, BOD 26-04 establishes a risk-tiered patchi

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cariddirSpotter

Network Audit Scripts - AAA NXOS, IOS, EOS

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Introducing Forward AI: The Network Can Finally Answer Back

ChiaraEmployee

Network engineers spend a lot of time translating.A stakeholder asks a simple question:"Can this application reach that subnet?"The answer often requires multiple tools, several queries, and plenty of expertise. Then the follow-up questions arrive,

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Custom command format for Foritnet

Rohit_809 KumarSpotter

Custom Commands

we are using below format to collect the data from Fortinet firewall for custom command. endconfig globalshow system dnsshow system ntp can anyone check and confirm ,these will not impact anything ,if i remove config gloabl , than command will not ru

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SteveBamfordSpotter

Check the default action of an F5 AFM Policy

There is a specific section of the AFM config which refers to the default action of the firewall, the below query checks that the default action is Drop.F5 AFM Config to check for.}sys db tm.fw.defaultaction { value "drop"} /** * @intent Check tha

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ak-atosRamping Up

ServiceNow CMDB Integration — Choice Field Type Mismatch for System Criticality

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6 days ago

AndyRamping Up

Integrations

Servicenow Integration

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13 days ago

cariddirSpotter

Network Audit Scripts - AAA NXOS, IOS, EOS

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Custom command format for Foritnet

Rohit_809 KumarSpotter

Custom Commands

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SteveBamfordSpotter

Check the default action of an F5 AFM Policy

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Rymarti2Ramping Up

Unable to access the vulnerabilities page

When attempting to access the Vulnerabilities page I get the following errors.Jakarta.servlet.servletexception:request processing failed:java.util.concurrent.completionexception:java.util.nosuchelementexception:no value presentThis error has accord s

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2 months ago

mayur.ladRamping Up

Workplace which will auto execute by every 30mins

Hi TeamI am looking for some help to create a workplace in FN.This workplace will contain only CISCO devices and NQEs (BGP status and Interface Status). I want to auto execute this workspace (snapshot) by every 30 mins so that I can fetch interface a

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3 months ago

Suriya subbiah CTRamping Up

Forward API

API logs

Hi team,Is there a way to see or get API logs to know which user has performed what kind of api calls & actions ( read / view / change) using thier account?

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3 months ago

cariddirSpotter

More Functionality with Filtering in the GUI

I’ve brought this up a few times on calls with our account team. It would be really helpful if we could filter with a bit more flexibility in Sources & Inventories.Currently, if I’m searching for a Tag the logic is a “OR” so if I want a device in

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3 months ago

Suriya subbiah CTRamping Up