Announcing BackBox Platform Release 8.0
June 24, 2025
BackBox is thrilled to announce that the latest innovation in our network cyber resilience platform, BackBox 8.0, will soon be available! To learn about the release, you can register for our upcoming webinar or visit our What’s New page.
As we have journeyed with our customers and partners over the past year, we have noticed two megatrends that have informed our latest release, BackBox 8.0. First, enforcing cyber resilience across modern networks — on-prem and cloud-managed — is complex without a centralized system. Second, challenges in managing too many tools result in a lack of visibility into diverse networks and their configuration.
Enterprises seek a unified view to enhance network visibility, security, and compliance. The BackBox Platform Release 8.0 delivers a unified view of on-prem and cloud-managed/SASE infrastructure and a consistent experience, regardless of the device or environment, to help customers achieve cyber resilience.
BackBox provides all tasks in a single interface, which optimizes my work process. Performing a complete security audit through BackBox requires no need to switch between applications, thus boosting my work efficiency.
- Ambrose D., Cybersecurity Analyst (G2)
The experience starts with a new BackBox Platform Home Page that provides a holistic view of network cyber resilience across three key pillars: Automated Lifecycle Management, Configuration Compliance and Policy Management, and Network Infrastructure Integrity. These instant cyber resilience insights help you quickly understand how well the network adheres to best practices and security policies while allowing you and your teams to proactively address risks to ensure the network remains compliant and resilient against threats.
Device Lifecycle Governance
Through our commitment to innovation and collaboration with customers and partners, BackBox aims to help them manage the entire lifecycle of any network device — from initial onboarding to maintenance and EOL — to ensure efficient use, security, and compliance.
With BackBox, we can view everything from a single interface across diverse environments, achieving a higher resolution than ever before. We have saved valuable time and resources, reduced costs, and become more agile.
- Arsen Gharibyan, Network Solutions Architect, AEG
Device Lifecycle States
With BackBox 8.0, network teams can onboard and manage devices across their modern network. Lifecycle states such as Staging, Active, Maintenance, Ignored, and Orphaned are directly accessible in device metadata, facilitating automation behavior, compliance checks, and license allocation. This ensures seamless tracking and management of devices throughout their lifecycle, supporting compliance, security, and operational integrity.
Meraki Device Management
Ensuring compliance before deploying cloud-managed/SASE devices at scale is not easy. Without proper validation, non-compliant configurations can enter production, leading to security risks and operational disruptions. BackBox 8.0 offers Meraki support to help schedule regular device imports directly into a staging environment and to validate compliance before moving to an actively managed, production-ready state. We can identify orphaned devices to ensure inventory accuracy and help manage the complexity of integrating with many sources of truth. Finally, we can validate Meraki device configurations against industry or custom policies and detect vulnerabilities, providing a workaround or mitigation guidance for the current configuration. Check out BackBox on the Cisco Networking App Marketplace.
Network Infrastructure Integrity
We continue to help our customers proactively identify active exposures and automatically mitigate or remediate the vulnerability.
Security and compliance tasks are simplified when we use BackBox. Through automation, these tasks can be completed more quickly and accurately than through manual methods. We spent several days on manual fix deployments, but BackBox reduces this process to just a few hours. The automated system saves time and enhances our security infrastructure against threats.
- Gianni M., IT Infrastructure Security Analyst, Information Technology (G2)
CVE Workaround Insights
BackBox 8.0 enhances vulnerability intelligence, enabling you to identify which CVEs have available workarounds or device configuration changes so you can mitigate risks without needing to patch or upgrade the device. Users can leverage our automation engine to make device config changes at scale to apply workarounds efficiently. This approach helps reduce the attack surface and saves valuable time compared to full device upgrades.
Compliance & Policy Management
Our latest compliance and policy management features continue to extend our coverage and help you run checks to identify configuration drift and automatically correct non-compliant device configurations.
BackBox helps us ensure consistency across all network devices. We have an automated process that keeps everything aligned. Instead of manually backing up configurations or getting tripped up by missing something within a specific timeframe, it saves that effort. This eliminates human error and protects our security policies from being compromised. It has also proven useful because it can instantly revert to a previous configuration when unexpected issues arise, saving hours of troubleshooting.
- Jane E., IT Infrastructure Engineer, Information Technology (G2)
Device Inventory and Configuration Comparison Reports
Recent breaches and business outages have spurred new regulations like DORA to guide cyber resilience efforts. Tracking and auditing network device configuration and inventory changes is challenging, particularly when meeting compliance requirements. BackBox 8.0 enables users to generate and compare device configuration and inventory reports between any two dates. It offers filtered comparison options to track changes, ensure compliance, and streamline audits.
Device Compliance Status
Ensuring network devices comply with industry, company, and regulatory standards (e.g., CIS, NIST) is complex and time-consuming. Network teams often have limited visibility into compliance status at the device level, which can lead to security gaps, audit failures, and an increased risk of non-compliance penalties. BackBox 8.0 offers visibility into compliance status for each network device, providing immediate insight into whether a device is Unchecked, Pass, or Fail according to defined compliance standards. Users can quickly verify compliance requirements and, when necessary, address non-compliant devices before they become security vulnerabilities.
Learn more about BackBox Platform Release 8.0
Enhance your cyber resilience strategy by centralizing and automating security and compliance for all network devices, both on-prem and cloud-managed. Delve deeper into BackBox Platform Release 8.0:
- Register for our webinar
- Check out the What’s New page
- Read the Press Release
- Request a demo
