We are happy to announce the 7.0 release of our Automated Infrastructure Assurance Platform, furthering our mission to remove risk, cut costs, and accelerate transformation for digitally driven businesses relying on complex cloud, security, and network environments. 

End-to-End Insights for Cloud, Network Edge, and Security

IP Fabric goes beyond device-level or domain-specific discovery and analysis to uncover critical details about your holistic infrastructure, including asset inventory, state, end-to-end paths, configurations, policy application, dependencies, segmentation and more. This quickly reveals dangerous unknowns - unmanaged devices, network non-compliance, security vulnerabilities, and end-of-life (EOL) oversights.

Now with 160+ out-of-the-box configuration and compliance checks (with no extra charge or specific add-on to buy) integrated with vendor databases information and CVEs, you have the cloud, security, and network information required for effective network management and governance at hand. This unified approach enables teams to collaborate effectively, optimizing daily operations and supporting long-term IT initiatives.

IP Fabric views the cloud and edge as integral parts of your end-to-end network, treating the entire environment as the backbone of a modern, digitally driven business. 7.0 brings enhanced visibility into cloud inventory, state, and traffic flows, and expanded support for SD-WAN vendors. Advanced discovery capabilities for IT security technologies (e.g. Check Point, Stormshield, Palo Alto) extend the utility beyond networking teams, enabling security teams to proactively identify vulnerabilities and eliminate gaps that leave your network exposed or non-compliant. These gap between what IP Fabric finds, and what exists, for example, in your current CMBD, can be a 20% discrepancy, as we recently found in a security audit. At an enterprise scale, that 20% might mean hundreds of network devices.

Automated intent verification rules can kick off security and compliance remediations, preventing breaches, failed audits, or fines while validating compliance with detailed, flexible, and automated documentation.

We empower businesses to embrace innovation without sacrificing compatibility or visibility, ensuring their infrastructure is secure, compliant, and ready to support transformative business growth.

What’s New in 7.0:

• Cloud & SD-WAN Tables: Gain a deeper understanding of cloud and edge environments with new AWS, Azure, and GCPP inventory tables, (and AWS Direct Connect Transit VIF support for deeper insights into how traffic flows through AWS). See more detailed information for Cisco Viptela, Silverpeak, and Versa Networks devices. See Detailed Release Notes.
• New BGP Detail: Advertised Routes table add precision to network insights.
• More Security Capabilities: Expanded Check Point, Palo Alto, and Stormshield support.

New Cloud Inventory Tables (AWS Inventory)

New BGP Information (Advertised Routes)

The new capabilities allow you to centralize your network visibility, eliminating blind spots caused by unmonitored devices, skills and knowledge gaps, cross-functional inconsistency in documentation. By contextualizing this data, IP Fabric helps your teams speak the same language, bridging the gap between cloud and on-premises environments and enabling a secure, compliant foundation for digital transformation.

Flexible, Customizable, and Shareable Infrastructure Intelligence

Every IP Fabric customer has uncovered critical gaps in their monitoring, security, inventory, or change management systems. IT environments are constantly evolving, which means traditional tools quickly become outdated and inaccurate. Legacy tools rely on manual population or inadequate discovery mechanisms, leaving knowledge gaps between teams and a fragmented understanding of the infrastructure your business relies on.

By discovering, normalizing, and organizing network intelligence, IP Fabric empowers numerous teams (network engineering, security, compliance, operations, or leadership) and systems (monitoring, CMDB, IT service management) to access the insights they need for quick understanding or remediation.

IP Fabric offers integrated export and sharing of cloud, security, and network information to different teams, and granular flexibility to select exactly what you share, to streamline this information sharing and protect what shouldn’t be shared. Additionally, an open API means you can use IP Fabric’s insights wherever you need them via automated workflows. Our customers use this to spin up self-service capabilities and contextualized dashboards to share vital information among teams cooperating to deliver digital services, manage security, risk, and compliance, and manage costs.

What’s New in 7.0?:

• Multi-View Dashboards: Specific, custom dashboards cater to specific team needs, such as tracking security operations or monitoring compliance with regulations (e.g. NIS2, PCI-DSS). These are easy to build and require no scripting or specific knowledge to set up.
• Visio Export: Create detailed diagrams for existing reporting or documentation workflows.
• Snapshots & Tables Sharing Options: Easily share specific both high-level and granular information across your organization as needed in a click or two.

We keep critical information accessible and actionable, so you can focus on strategic tasks.

Multi-Dashboard Views

From Zero to Full Infrastructure Insights in 30 Minutes

IP Fabric provides immediate visibility and enables proactivity as soon as it’s deployed. Installation and deployment take under an hour, and at this point IP Fabric is already revealing unknown risks such as unmanaged, unmonitored devices and inconsistent configuration.

IP Fabric intuitive GUI surfaces the information we know you’re looking for -

• See automatically generated network and site diagrams
• Generate end-to-end network path lookups in seconds
• Build customized intent checks to validate cloud, security, and network state in minutes

IP Fabric has always been API-first, with a table description available for every view, so you can build closed-loop automation with accurate inputs and conduct post-change validation of network state. In 7.0, we’ve taken this further, allowing for interactive API documentation where you can test automation actions within the platform, making automation engineers more agile and equipping DevOps teams with the information and tools necessary to make an impact quickly.

What’s New in 7.0:

• Early Snapshot Availability: Get insights before the first snapshot is even complete.
• Interactive API Documentation: Simplify automation workflows with built-in testing tools.

Network Assurance is a Business-Critical Technology

Network assurance is business-critical for enterprises operating under the threat of downtime, breaches, or compliance failures. IP Fabric 7.0 provides the clarity, control, and agility required to manage said threats, future-proof your business, and prioritize innovation.

For a full list of all new features in 7.0, see our Release Notes.

If you would like to try IP Fabric for yourself and see how it can protect you from network vulnerabilities, try our free trial or a self-guided demo here.