Introducing Kilter AI: Unified AI-Powered Network Cyber Resilience
Introducing Kilter AI, the intelligence layer of the Kilter Platform that transforms network management with AI-powered insights, helping teams enhance security, automate decisions, and stay ahead of change. Kilter AI is part of the Kilter Platform (formerly the BackBox Platform), which unifies three layers of network cyber resilience:
The Kilter Platform
Three layers of network cyber resilience
Kilter AI
AI-powered features, built on AI best practices, to enable quicker, smarter decisions and automate vital network processes — accessible throughout the entire platform.
- AI Insights
- Recommendations
- Automation Creation
Kilter Enterprise
Compliance and security features that check compliance, assess resilience and detect configuration drift, automatically fixing non-compliant settings and prioritising active exposures.
- Network infrastructure integrity: Vulnerability Intelligence · Change Monitoring · Device Access
- Compliance & policy management: Source of Truth · Hardening Frameworks · Compliance Monitoring
Kilter ALM
Automated lifecycle management to quickly back up, validate and restore network devices for easy recovery.
- Onboarding
- Backup & Recovery
- Upgrades & Patching
Networks today face relentless pressure: over 49,000 CVEs were logged last year alone, a 20% increase from 2024, and attackers are turning vulnerabilities into exploits faster than ever. Manual review simply can't keep up. Kilter AI addresses that pressure with trustworthy, human-in-the-loop AI — insights, recommendations, and assistance with automation creation built on validated data and best practices, not guesswork.
“AI is a tool in the toolbox of network professionals. We believe customers should choose how they leverage AI to manage their network infrastructure. Kilter AI meets customers where they are in their AI journey with an AI-powered platform where it matters, built on best practices, allowing them to progress at their own pace.”
Cybersecurity Risk Management
NetOps teams receive messy vulnerability reports from Security, raising many questions: Does this affect my devices? How can I fix it? Is there a workaround? Kilter AI automatically verifies which devices are vulnerable, displays make/model/firmware details, and recommends the best upgrade options — then converts those recommendations into ready-to-run automation chains. The outcome: vulnerability review and prioritization go from weeks to hours.
Customers are already experiencing the effects of BackBox's device visibility and risk scoring:
“BackBox has really changed the game in terms of its automated device security, inventory, and risk scoring.”
The pressure
49,000+
CVEs logged last year alone
20%
More than 2024
Weeks → hours
Vulnerability review and prioritization
Automation Creation at Scale
Without a universal factory default across vendors, even small mistakes can cause outages. Kilter AI helps you find configuration settings and commands across all managed devices, highlights vendor-aware upgrade paths, and assists in building production-ready automation chains — no deep scripting expertise needed.
“BackBox is a network automation partner that empowers teams to focus on innovation rather than maintenance.”
Multi-Vendor Risk Management
A single non-compliant device shouldn't require a manual search through your fleet. Kilter AI checks devices against critical configuration parameters and vendor data, flags whether a fix should be extended to similar devices from other manufacturers, and lets you apply and automate CLI-based fixes consistently across your entire environment.
“BackBox has earned us a much-improved security posture and helped us eliminate misconfigurations. We can now roll out uniform security policies in new settings much more quickly.”
A More Connected, More Modern Kilter
Kilter AI now integrates more seamlessly with the ITSM, CMDB, PAM, and SD-WAN platforms you already use, automating ticket creation, syncing inventories, and securely retrieving credentials. An improved UI provides cleaner navigation, simpler configuration views, and personalized experiences for each user across workflows.
“BackBox integrates well with the tools we use to manage our network, making scheduling and monitoring a breeze.”
Built on Trust, Not Just Speed
Every Kilter AI capability adheres to BackBox's Principles of Responsible AI: trustworthy by design, consistently accurate, human-centered, and transparent about how recommendations are generated.
What customers say
“The vulnerability scanning capability in BackBox is also valuable, as it identified a CVE on our edge firewalls even before our last pen test.”
— Martin B., Senior Network Engineer “I use BackBox for automated configuration backup. Manual configuration backups are error-prone, and Kilter solves that.”
— S.K., Mid-Market “The BackBox interface is approachable and easy to use, especially with its automation features, making network operations less of a grind. It provides reliability and security without extra complexity, which is important for keeping the network healthy.”
— Lucus A., Network Engineer “By working closely with our customers, we've seen the impressive results that Kilter AI delivers, giving NetOps teams the ultimate control to enhance security and compliance. They have been able to make faster, smarter decisions about critical network processes, which increases efficiency and delivers cost savings.”
— Richard Phillips, VP of Technology and Infrastructure, BackBox
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Written by
Richard Phillips