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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
Company Website
Year Founded
2009
HQ Location
Global, OO
Twitter
@Back_Box
282 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
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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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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Alice M.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Workflow worries a thing of the past, thanks to BackBox"
Automatic backup feature in BackBox helps our organization largely. The manual backups of our systems consumed a huge amount of IT team time, and t...
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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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BackBox Pros and Cons

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Azeddine B.
AB
Network and security consultant
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about BackBox?

easiness of the use and effectivness.

Also a greate customer support available all the time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

The features provided are not implemented 100 % Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Backbox is maintaining the network backups, so if there is an incident or an RMA to be changed Backbox is ready to provide its help :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JL
Automation Architect
Telecommunications
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about BackBox?

I likeI like the stability of the product and the speed of development of new features. Product support is fantastic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

There is nothing in the Backbox product that i dislike Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

automation of backups - compliance checks and security gaps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JG
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about BackBox?

The automation process to backup a lot of diferent devices (multibrand) with only one clic. After check the backup is donde correctly, you can schedule de backup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

Some backups process taking a lot of resources of the backbox vm machine. You really need a vm with hig resources to have ait good performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We need to backup a diferent multi-brand network devices, and backbox offers this solution with his multimple scripts compatible for all the network devices in the market. Now we can live safetly knowing all the devices are backing up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Networking
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about BackBox?

Backbox is easy to use - manage multiple devices from other vendors in one place. Documentation is user friendly. Customer support team is magnificent, they always solve the cases. Implementation and integration is fast and easy. I use this tool several time of week.

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What do you dislike about BackBox?

Reporting is not fancy. The price of licence is little expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

One tool for backups many devices from different vendors. All configs are in one place. This solution save a lot of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Telecommunications
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What do you like best about BackBox?

First of all, we liked the software's performance since the base platform is pretty repsonsive and performent. It allows for users to perform their daily actions in a quick way. Also, the ease of use of the solution is much appreciated as it's very user-friendly. Finally, this solution is compatible with a very large set of manufacturers / products and integrates perfectly in most existing network and security infrastructures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

Some minor cosmetic issues regarding web UI (could be updated / refreshed) or bugs also related to web UI (user logging issues) but overall nothing too serious. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Backbox helps us to detect configuration shifts and to fix them. Also it allows us to implement a global policy backup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AV
Consultant
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about BackBox?

Easy and simple usability, for backing of infrastrcuture devices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

simple configuration for backup of devices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

easy to use and configure devices for backup Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about BackBox?

Backbox has a very simple to use backup and restore process, with the ability to automate configuration baseline checks, along with templated updates. The customer support is extremely responsive.

Implementing the product is extremely easy, within an hour it can be routingly backing up your whole network infrastructure and applying updates from the library of pre-built tasks.

The product roadmap looks impressive, with improvements for NVM, Service Now integration etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

So far, nothing - the barrier to unlocking the value it offers is just down to the we have available to keep integrating it into our processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Consistent device backups, pushing out bulk config updates required for vulnerability mitigtion etc, remediating config drift, CVE checks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking
AB
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about BackBox?

easy use, fastly backup and restore, backup verification, support many products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

Some help files not enough and product web site not rich content. But support teams answer the quetions very fastly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BackBox:

Basic but strong application for get devices backup. Verification and fastly restore feature is good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Need to centralize backups of multiple products such as firewalls, routers, switches, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consulting
AC
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
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What do you like best about BackBox?

The best point about BackBox are the follow :

. Reactive support

. usability

. support to integrate the product

. Easy to add equipement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

BackBox need to work on the following point :

. support of Cyberark Central Credential Provider

. inventory information are not well parsed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Backup device Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Erdem E.
EE
Technical Support Services Deputy Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about BackBox?

Backbox is a very stable, automatized backup solution. It is very easy to implement, easy to manage, and very flexible for most of the companies. What I like the best about Backbox is that it is a very stable and straightforward solution. Also, it's front-end is very user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

Licensing is a little bit restrictive, because of registered a fixed IP. It sometimes limits the flexibility of the solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

"Backbox" is a lifesaver solution. Because you need only once in a year maybe. However, when you need it, it has to be reliable. A backup has to be restored with no problem and Backbox provides it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.