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Yahoo
5 days ago
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- Yahoo
Fortune Media and Great Place To Work Name Forward Networks to 2025 Fortune Best Workplaces in the Bay Area
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Great Place To Work® and Fortune magazine have honored Forward Networks as one of this year's Best Workplaces in the Bay Area. This marks back-to-back years of Forward Networks being named to this prestigious list, coming in at No. 16 in 2025. Earning a spot means that Forward Networks has surpassed rigorous benchmarks, establishing itself as one of the best workplaces in the San Francisco Bay region. To determine the Fortune Best Workplaces in the Bay Area™ List, Great Place To Work collected nearly 85,000 confidential survey responses from employees at eligible companies via its proprietary platform. Companies were ranked based on their ability to offer consistently positive experiences, building trust with leaders, colleagues, and the overall organization. "Great cultures don't happen by accident—they're built every day by teams who care deeply about one another and the mission," said David Erickson, Co-founder and CEO, Forward Networks. "This award validates something we've always believed: when you invest in people, great things happen. We're not just building world-class technology—we're building a workplace where people are respected, challenged, and inspired every day." The Best Workplaces in the Bay Area list is highly competitive. Survey responses reflect a comprehensive picture of the workplace experience. Honorees were rewarded based on their ability to deliver positive outcomes for employees regardless of role or status within the organization. To be eligible for the list, companies must be Great Place To Work Certified™, have at least 10 U.S. employees, and be headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. "Congratulations to the Fortune Best Workplaces in the Bay Area," says Michael C. Bush, CEO at Great Place To Work. "These companies prove that prioritizing people leads to better performance, and that leaders who invest in their people are rewarded with more sustainable and profitable businesses." In addition to being named to the Fortune Best Workplaces in the Bay Area list, Forward Networks was recently recognized as the "Trailblazer Compliance" Award winner in Cyber Defense Magazine's 13th annual Global InfoSec Awards, and CEO and Co-Founder David Erickson was named a finalist for the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2025 Bay Area Award. About Forward NetworksForward Networks is revolutionizing the way large networks are managed. Forward's advanced software delivers a digital twin of the network, enabling network operators to ensure the network is secure, reliable, and agile. The platform supports devices from all major networking vendors and cloud operators, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Forward Networks was founded in 2013 by four Stanford Ph.D. graduates and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Investors include MSD Partners, Goldman Sachs, Andreessen Horowitz, Threshold Ventures, Section 32, Omega Venture Partners, and A. Capital. For more information, visit About the Fortune Best Workplaces in the Bay Area Great Place To Work selected the Fortune Best Workplaces in the Bay Area List by surveying 1.3 million employees in the U.S., representing companies that collectively employ more than 8.4 million U.S. workers. Of those responses, nearly 85,000 were received from employees at companies that were eligible for the 2025 Fortune Best Workplaces in the Bay Area List and these rankings are based on their feedback. Companies earn eligibility by being Great Place To Work Certified™, having at least 10 U.S. employees, and having headquarters in the Bay Area. Read the full methodology. To get on this list next year, start here. About Great Place To Work As the global authority on workplace culture, Great Place To Work brings more than three decades of groundbreaking research and data to help every place become a great place to work for all. Its proprietary platform and Great Place To Work Model™ help companies evaluate the experience of every employee, with exemplary workplaces becoming Great Place To Work Certified and receiving recognition on its coveted Best Workplaces™ lists. Follow Great Place To Work on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram or visit and sign up for the newsletter to learn more. About Fortune Fortune upholds a legacy of award-winning writing and trusted reporting for executives who want to make business better. Independently owned, with a global perspective and digital agility, Fortune tells the stories of a new generation of innovators, builders, and risk-takers. Online and in print, Fortune measures corporate performance through rigorous benchmarks and holds companies accountable. Fortune creates communities by convening true thought leaders and iconoclasts — those who shape industry, commerce, and society — through powerful and prestigious lists, events, and conferences, such as the iconic Fortune 500, the CEO Initiative and Most Powerful Women. For more information, visit Forward Networks Contacts:Dustin Rausa, Guyer Dawn Slusher, Forward Networksdawnslusher@ View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Forward Networks, Inc. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Cision Canada
28-04-2025
- Business
- Cision Canada
Forward Networks Named Winner of the Global InfoSec Awards For The Third Year In A Row
SAN FRANCISCO, April 28, 2025 /CNW/ -- Forward Networks announced today it has been named the "Trailblazer Compliance" Award Winner in Cyber Defense Magazine's 13 th annual Global InfoSec Awards. The award recognition marks Forward's third straight year winning a Global InfoSec Award, after being awarded the "Market Leader in Vulnerability Assessment, Remediation, and Management" award in 2024 and the "Hot Company in Cloud Security" award in 2023. Forward Enterprise is the only network digital twin that delivers an always-accurate compliance status for the entire network, accompanied by a prioritized remediation plan for any issues identified during data collection. Forward Enterprise gathers configuration and state data from all L2-L7 devices within the network, on-prem and cloud. This data forms an accurate network inventory and topology, serving as the foundation for its groundbreaking compliance features, including Continuous Network Security Compliance Monitoring, CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) Remediation, and Zero Trust Posture Validation. "Security compliance continues to grow in importance as the attack surface evolves and new threats emerge. At Forward Enterprise, our goal is to reduce uncertainty by providing an accurate, up-to-date view of compliance, along with clear, actionable insights when changes are needed to protect the network," said Chiara Regale, SVP of Product and UX at Forward Networks. "We're focused on helping security teams move away from time-consuming manual processes while delivering unprecedented insight into their security posture. Being recognized as a Global InfoSec Award winner for the third year in a row is truly an honor, and a testament to our team's dedication." "We scoured the globe looking for cybersecurity innovators that could make a huge difference and potentially help turn the tide against the exponential growth in cyber-crime. Forward Networks is absolutely worthy of this coveted award and consideration for deployment in your environment," said Yan Ross, Global Editor of Cyber Defense Magazine. Learn more about this year's winners: About Forward Networks Forward Networks is revolutionizing the way large networks are managed. Forward's advanced software delivers a digital twin of the network, enabling network operators to ensure the network is secure, reliable, and agile. The platform supports devices from all major networking vendors and cloud operators, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Forward Networks was founded in 2013 by four Stanford Ph.D. graduates and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Investors include MSD Partners, Goldman Sachs, Andreessen Horowitz, Threshold Ventures, Section 32, Omega Venture Partners, and A. Capital. For more information, visit About Cyber Defense Magazine Cyber Defense Magazine is the premier source of cyber security news and information for InfoSec professions in business and government. We are managed and published by and for ethical, honest, passionate information security professionals. Our mission is to share cutting-edge knowledge, real-world stories and awards on the best ideas, products, and services in the information technology industry. We deliver electronic magazines every month online for free, and special editions exclusively for the RSA Conferences. CDM is a proud member of the Cyber Defense Media Group. Learn more about us at and visit and to see and hear some of the most informative interviews of many of these winning company executives. Join a webinar at and realize that infosec knowledge is power. SOURCE Forward Networks, Inc.
