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BackBox Overview

What is BackBox?

BackBox is an advanced, security-focused network device automation platform that simplifies and enhances network management for enterprises and service providers. By leveraging a robust Automation Builder and a library of over 3,000 pre-built automations, BackBox eliminates the need for extensive coding, reduces manual errors, and scales effortlessly to manage thousands of devices. This results in a lower total cost of ownership and a higher return on investment by automating repetitive tasks and improving operational efficiency. The platform addresses key challenges such as complex multi-vendor environments, inefficient manual processes, and the need for rapid vulnerability patching. With BackBox, users benefit from comprehensive security and compliance tools, streamlined network configuration management, and reliable backup and recovery solutions. Its proven ability to accelerate deployment and enhance network security makes it a valuable asset for managing large and intricate network estates.

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Product Description

BackBox offers a simple way to intelligently automate the backup, restoring and management of all devices on the network by providing centralized management for over 150 different technology manufacturers

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

BackBox offers a highly intuitive and versatile network automation platform designed to tackle complex network management challenges with ease. Unlike other solutions that may require significant coding or are limited in their automation capabilities, BackBox provides a no-code automation experience with its Automation Builder and a comprehensive library of pre-built solutions. This approach not only simplifies integration and scaling but also delivers robust security and compliance features that are tailored to both multi-vendor environments and evolving network needs, ensuring rapid and reliable operational efficiency.


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BackBox
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Year Founded
2009
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@Back_Box
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69 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

BackBox is a market leader in network automation, security and management solutions. We help companies worldwide automate and streamline complex tasks, ensure network health and performance, achieve business continuity, and do more with fewer resources.


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Hasan T.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Affordable automation tool with extensive capabilties"
Easy to use and very easy to implement. It gives direct value after the integration. Must have features already implied in the solution. Extensive...
Joel Mauricio R.
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Joel Mauricio R.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great tool"
It has great features, one of them is the ability to record screen when someone make any changes in the system of the equipment.
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Jane E.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Reliable backup and recovery for network infrastructure"
The most notable attribute about BackBox is how we can ensure consistency in all network devices. We have an automated process that keeps everythin...
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BackBox Media

BackBox Demo - BackBox Dashboard
This is the BackBox dashboard with widgets users can customize, showing info about a variety of BackBox features, like backup status, network usage, system information, Intellichecks status, and license info.
BackBox Demo - BackBox Device Management
View from one location all devices managed across your network, providing easy access to all devices, backup files and status. (BackBox supports over 180 devices)
BackBox Demo - BackBox Dynamic Inventory Information
BackBox's Dynamic Inventory shows up-to-date information on hardware and software information collected from all devices, current to the last time a backup was done on the device.
BackBox Demo - IntelliChecks by Device Report
BackBox shows at a glance, by device, the status of the device and why any of the checks failed. Identify and solve problems quickly!
BackBox Demo - BackBox Quick Task Job
BackBox allows users to execute jobs on demand, without the need to schedule them.
BackBox Demo - BackBox Technical Survey Report
BackBox provides a flexible inventory report for any device, providing configuration details, connections information and any info we can pull from the device.
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AI
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about BackBox?

Great support department, helps me with every request/problem.

Awesome features.

Collaboration with manufacturers' devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

It's hard to say because BackBox is one of my favorite tools, maybe the price is little bit high Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BackBox:

Great option for network engineers, BackBox helps to maintain and backup the network besides automation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BackBox solving and how is that benefiting you?

Configuration restore when network devices failure occurred Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Utilities
EU
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about BackBox?

Easy configuration of backup for main network and security devices. Easy to use. Easy to configure. Reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

I do not have drawbacks about the backbox tool. Maybe the licensing model for network devices when we have huge amount of network devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BackBox solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being sure that all configuration backups are done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about BackBox?

The ability to manage multiple devices in one place Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

Updating does not always run smoothly and requires support intervention Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BackBox solving and how is that benefiting you?

Better efficiency and ability to recover in case of disaster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about BackBox?

They provided support, they work in collaboration and achieve such good relationships with their customers. We are even kind of friends Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

Nothing, I like the BB product and hope we will extend its functionality in our company Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BackBox solving and how is that benefiting you?

The company devices backup and automation tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Naveen B.
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Senior Engineer Product Development
Information Technology and Services
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about BackBox?

Its amazing tool. Real time dynamic inventory information. Wonderful to see the network virtualization. It has amazing backup and recovery features. It is rich with the features like backup , Configuration Management and data security. It is not only limited to this it has asset management It mangement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

As of now I dont have point to dislike it. I am just loving this product and would suggest other companies who are need of such type of product for network monitoring and for data security. This is the best tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BackBox:

This is one of the finest tool in network monitoring and back up and recovery so one must give a try for this tool. Its amazing tool. Makes us our backup job very easy. The catchy dashboard given in landing page. the dashboard is able to drill down which is very good feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BackBox solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have fixed the process of sending the syslogs to EM7 tool for monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SN
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about BackBox?

It is a powerful tool. Light weight, but very effective. Makes us our backup job very easy. The catchy dashboard given in landing page. the dashboard is able to drill down which is very good feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

Unable to filter multiple devices at a time in the devices page. Most of the times, the application doesnt allow me to log in. then the log in possible only when we log in through incognito mode. I have made several tickets to the team but the issue continues to exist though the executives say the issue is fixed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BackBox:

Ease to use and implement. The admin features are awesome. Admin work becomes simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BackBox solving and how is that benefiting you?

our network firewall config files backup job are being automated using Backbox tool. The important aruba switch devices are taken backup using Backbox tool. We have fixed the process of sending the syslogs to EM7 tool for monitoring. SOC tickets are created based on the events. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CR
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about BackBox?

The system is very easy to use, the support is very usefull when required.

New features added all over and customer requests is their top priority.

Knowing that my devices are backedup, and getting reports for it is very usefull.

Compare tool helps us alot as well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

The UI can be better, a little old fashion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BackBox:

The competitors and open source currently out there need alot of "work" in order to get to the start line, and maintenance is hard and time consuming.

Backbox took everything into one easy to use box Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BackBox solving and how is that benefiting you?

Network and security devices backup in secured place, out of band to the company other backup solutions.

The system is directed to backup such devices and with this comes the relevant features such as guidelines complaince and minimum requirement for configuration and much more Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RF
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about BackBox?

The authentication templating, allowing one record of users/passwords. When the passwords for devices are rolled over for security reasons, there is only a single location for updating these passwords within Backbox.

Backbox supports a large number of products that are being run. Not only the Cisco networking equipment, but Check Point firewalls, Cisco Firewalls, FortiGate firewalls, and Cisco Unified Communication software such as Call Manager and UCCE.

The ability to view the backups, meaning that you can pull specific lines of configuration out of an old backup, and use that to revert configuration that has changed, or alternatively as a base template for either replacement or additional devices.

The Backup retention is a useful feature that allows a larger amount of granularity when reverting config changes - If the config has changed a while ago, and only just been picked up, the solution allows us to revert to an older copy, before the config change was made.

The scheduling allows tiers of devices to be backed up on different schedules. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

Although the Interface was originally clunky, in the older versions, the interface in the newer versions is much more usable.

Some products require pushing backups to BackBox, as opposed to BackBox pulling the backup from the appliance, meaning that it relies on the backup configuration of the appliance itself. This works against the idea of having backup configurations in a single location, and means that you have to ensure that all the appliances are configured correctly. When appliances are replaced, the backup settings on the new appliances have to be configured. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BackBox:

There are few products on the market that boast such a wide range of supported products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BackBox solving and how is that benefiting you?

Backups of networking infrastructure, including Cisco switches (both Catalyst and Nexus ranges), Cisco ASA appliances, FortiNet FortiGate appliances, Check Point appliances and open servers, Cisco Unified Communciation software such as CallManager and UCCE for Call Centers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sébastien D.
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IT Security Engineer
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about BackBox?

Backbox is compatible with a very large number of brands and devices which allow us to backup everything as network/security devices.

We appreciate the possibility to use authentication template which avoid typing username / password for each device each time we change the password. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

The fact that to fetch a backup, you need to go on the "Device History" tab on the Device which is not so logical Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BackBox:

There are not so many tools on the market. If you are looking for a tool where you can backup almost everything, Backbox will be a good choice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BackBox solving and how is that benefiting you?

Backups of around 50-100 security devices (firewall, web proxy, WAF,...). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Adilson C.
AC
Information Security Team Lead/Coordinator
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about BackBox?

How easy to use, flexible and trustful the solution is. Last but not least, the support is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

I'm using the solution less than a year so I don't have nothing to complain yet. So far so good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BackBox:

BackBox is the best backup solution in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BackBox solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were backing up our devices using scritps. No checking were applied after copy all necessary files. The scripts were complex to creating and maintaining. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.