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BackBox Unveils BackBox 8.0: Revolutionizing Network Cyber Resilience with a Unified View for Cloud and On-Premise Infrastructures
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
DALLAS, June 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- BackBox, a leading provider of network cyber resilience solutions, today announced the upcoming release of BackBox 8.0, a significant advancement engineered to address the complex and often disparate challenge of securing modern networks that blend traditional on-premise hardware with burgeoning cloud-managed and SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) environments. This new release provides organizations a unified, enhanced view and unprecedented control, fundamentally strengthening their cyber resilience posture across these increasingly hybridized infrastructures.
The release of BackBox 8.0 addresses the two major trends seen in today's enterprise networks: the inherent complexity of consistently enforcing cyber resilience across both on-premise and cloud-managed systems without a centralized orchestrator, and the resulting lack of comprehensive visibility into diverse network configurations due to the proliferation of siloed management tools. BackBox 8.0 is designed to bridge these gaps, offering a cohesive platform for comprehensive security, compliance, and automated lifecycle management.
"Network cyber resilience is not a one-size-fits-all approach. It is a complex issue, and each organization begins from a different starting point, with its unique vendors, tools, and progress made," said Rekha Shenoy, CEO of BackBox. "BackBox 8.0 is designed to accommodate this reality by providing a unified view of your modern network infrastructure, seamlessly integrating on-prem and cloud-managed elements. This enables enhanced network security, compliance, and lifecycle management automation, bolstering your organization's overall cyber resilience."
BackBox 8.0 introduces a new platform home page, offering a holistic view of network cyber resilience across three key pillars: Automated Lifecycle Management, Configuration Compliance and Policy Management, and Network Infrastructure Integrity. This provides instant insights into network adherence to best practices and security policies, facilitating proactive risk mitigation essential for maintaining a robust cyber resilience framework.
"We have always been focused on ensuring that the businesses we serve remain resilient," said Scott Nursten, CEO, ITHQ. "BackBox delivers greater visibility into on-prem and cloud-managed/SASE devices, which in turn delivers confidence that all devices are up-to-date and secure. Its reliable, automated backups, patches, and compliance checks take care of many tasks that were once manual, allowing us to stay focused on the bigger picture of protecting our customers."
Key Innovations in BackBox 8.0 include:
-- Device Lifecycle Governance: BackBox 8.0 empowers network teams to
manage the entire lifecycle of any network device, from initial
onboarding to maintenance and End-of-Life. New lifecycle states
(Staging, Active, Maintenance, Ignored, and Orphaned) facilitate
automation, compliance checks, and license allocation, ensuring seamless
tracking and management.
-- Meraki Device Management: Addressing the growing trend of cloud-managed
networks (33% of enterprises are deploying or will deploy SASE within 24
months, despite existing hardware investments averaging four to seven
years), BackBox 8.0 offers robust Meraki support. This enables scheduled
device imports into a staging environment for compliance validation
before production deployment, identification of orphaned devices for
inventory accuracy, and validation of Meraki configurations against
industry or custom policies, including vulnerability detection with
guidance on workarounds.
-- Network Infrastructure Integrity: BackBox 8.0 enhances vulnerability
intelligence with CVE Workaround Insights. Users can identify CVEs with
available workarounds or device configuration changes, mitigating risk
without requiring full device patching or upgrades. This is crucial
given the record-breaking 40,009 CVEs published in 2024, reflecting a
38% increase from 2023, and a 34% increase in attackers exploiting
vulnerabilities for initial access.
-- Compliance & Policy Management: BackBox 8.0 extends coverage and helps
organizations ensure network adherence to standards.
-- Device Inventory and Configuration Comparison Reports: In response
to regulations such as DORA that guide cyber resilience, BackBox 8.0
enables users to generate and compare device configuration and
inventory reports between any two dates. This streamlines auditing
and ensures compliance.
-- Device Compliance Status: With 67% of enterprise networking
activities still performed manually, resulting in poor incident and
change performance, BackBox 8.0 offers immediate visibility into the
compliance status (Unchecked, Pass, or Fail) for each network
device. This enables quick verification of compliance requirements
and proactive management of non-compliant devices.
BackBox 8.0 empowers organizations to strengthen their cyber resilience strategy by centralizing and automating security and compliance across all network devices, whether on-premise or cloud-managed.
BackBox 8.0 will be generally available on July 9. For more information, please visit our blog announcing BackBox 8.0 and check out BackBox on the Cisco Networking App Marketplace.
About BackBox
More than 500 enterprises worldwide trust BackBox as their network cyber resilience platform. BackBox includes support for network devices from over 180 vendors, thousands of pre-built automations, and a no-code way to create new ones. BackBox empowers teams with the confidence to automate critical network processes, maintain business continuity during disruptions, and recover swiftly. From backups and OS updates to configuration compliance and vulnerability management, BackBox ensures that automations deliver consistent, reliable outcomes. To learn more, visit www.backbox.com.
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