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10 Automation Use Cases for Network Cyber Resilience

Managing and securing complex networks is a constant struggle for Network and Security teams. Network automation empowers you to streamline network device security, compliance, and lifecycle management, ensuring business continuity during disruptions, and enabling swift recovery.

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Device discovery & onboarding

BackBox cuts onboarding time with automated discovery, compliance enforcement, and instant backups.

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On Your Own

Manual onboarding delays new services rollouts and equipment replacements, leading to inventory backlog and old devices remaining in production.

With BackBox Network Automation

Backup & recovery

BackBox simplifies backup and recovery with data validation, one-click restores, customizable schedules, and vast vendor support.

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On Your Own

Manual backup management is unreliable, creating constant anxiety about data loss and slow recovery times when disaster strikes.

With BackBox Network Automation

Device OS updates

BackBox offers secure, automated patching with seamless rollbacks, high-availability awareness, and pre-built multi-step updates for optimal network security and uptime.

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On Your Own

Slow and inconsistent software patching leaves organizations vulnerable to cyberattacks.

With BackBox Network Automation

Vulnerability intelligence

Smart automation prioritizes critical security fixes on essential devices, keeping your network safe with an always-updated risk score and assessment.

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On Your Own

Organizations struggle to balance urgent vulnerability mitigation with complex patching processes and messy rollbacks.

With BackBox Network Automation

Network source of truth

BackBox auto-discovers your network, keeping inventory current with real-time data. No more manual work, just a complete and accurate Network Source of Truth.

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On Your Own

Manual network security processes result in errors, inefficiencies, and a lack of real-time visibility.

With BackBox Network Automation

Compliance remediation

BackBox streamlines compliance with flexible scheduling, efficient resource usage, exception-based alerts for proactive risk management, rich reporting, and optional auto-remediation of compliance violations.

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On Your Own

Manual compliance remediation is slow, error-prone, lacks oversight, and bottlenecks risk management, never mind that compliance violations often go unnoticed (and unfixed).

With BackBox Network Automation

Configuration drift reporting & remediation

BackBox cuts through compliance complexity, surfacing critical exceptions, automating fixes, and seamlessly linking with external systems for complete issue management and resolution.

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On Your Own

Urgent troubleshooting in production networks leaves behind “temporary” changes, creating security vulnerabilities needing regular, systematic cleanup.

With BackBox Network Automation

SSL certificate expiration tracking

BackBox simplifies network certificate management with automated tracking, targeted alerts, and helpdesk integration for expiring certificates.

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On Your Own

Spreadsheet fatigue leads to expired certificates—a significant cause of network failures.

With BackBox Network Automation

License expiration tracking

BackBox automates license tracking, supports all your vendors, and gives you complete control and visibility with exception-based management.

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On Your Own

Missed license renewals lead to a scramble for vendor updates, costing time and money.

With BackBox Network Automation

IT service desk ticket enrichment

BackBox empowers help desks with rich data and automated insights to accelerate problem-solving and improve IT service efficiency.

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On Your Own

Manual ticket enrichment creates a bottleneck in the service desk, impacting the speed and accuracy of problem resolution.

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BackBox enables network and security teams to reclaim time, reduce errors, and proactively manage your network security by automating repetitive tasks, effortlessly scaling, and providing a centralized view for faster threat detection and improved compliance.