Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

In today’s dynamic threat landscape, technical debt isn’t just a budgeting headache—it’s a growing national security risk. According to McKinsey, technical debt consumes up to 20% of engineering and DevOps capacity across large enterprises. For U.S. federal agencies—defense and civilian alike—the cost of carrying outdated, unsupported infrastructure goes far beyond inefficiency.

Security operations teams face a daily balancing act: rapidly reduce risk while keeping business-critical traffic flowing across sprawling hybrid networks. Yet traditional monitoring and vulnerability-scanning tools only show snapshots of device status. They rarely explain how an attacker could move laterally, why a firewall rule is ineffective, or whether a cloud control actually matches on-prem policy.

We’re excited to announce that Forward Networks is a Diamond Sponsor of Cisco Live US 2025, taking place June 8–12 at the San Diego Convention Center. You’ll find us at Booth in the World of Solutions. Why Cisco Live? Because it attracts one of the smartest, most technical audiences of any global networking event—and those are exactly the people we’re here to support.