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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
HQ Location
Global, OO
Twitter
@Back_Box
282 Twitter followers
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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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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.
JE
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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Daryl T.
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Senior Technical Operations Manager
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about BackBox?

The automations and ability to remotely deploy firmware updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

Costs could come down slightly for smaller customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Saving loads of time and effort, manually deploying updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

GK
Consultant Security Engineer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about BackBox?

Vulnerability Remediation is nice feature for remediation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

It can show exposure based vulnerabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Network Vulnerability Management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Backbox is an Automation tool that can be used to automate backups which can be used to restore devcies but the thing we like about backbox most is its verstality and comptability with most of the vendors and how easily we can automate day to day tasks and even compliacted tasks that can help saving bandwidth and remove scope of any Manual error. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

Backbox need to improve the call summary of customer support cases and also imrovement is required for the backbox Support portal as we have faced login issues mutiple times where we are unable to reset the password that restrcted us loggging to the portal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Backbox helping us with the Automation of certain day to day taks aapart from backups and with the Technical Reports while onbaording new devices,

We are lookig forward for the new Vulnerbaility feature backbox introduced Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

My favorite feature of Backbox are the intellichecks and the auto jobs that I can run - I think they are extremely useful in finding out key information that would usually be missed if I did it manually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

I wouldn't say there are any downsides with BackBox I would say the UI feels a bit outdated but this isn't really an issue in my opinion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

BackBox is automating backing up our devices, running health checks and other checks to ensure the devices are fit and healthy and also to make sure that no one has been doing anything un-authorised. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

simplicity . it works with all appliances i'm using.

upgrades is super simple.

support is very helpfull and quick Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

the monitor features need extra license. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

central backup of all our appliances and switches include step by step guide for restore.

backbox Gives me confidence that the backup is proper. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Backbox supports a wide range of networking brands including checkpoint, cisco, fortinet, arista, F5 and many more.

It automates tasks like backup/restore/upgrade for bulk deployments. Realy good end collobrative customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

I did not find any problem with the product from technical aspect, the pricing could be challenging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The process of backing up all networking equipments for a veriaty of vendors from central sultion which also verifies the process

simplifies the configuration manngement process for the organization. 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?

The enthusiasm and support for ensuring the product works implemented and works correctly within our environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

I honestly can't think of any dislikes at this stage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We were looking for a solution to automate all our backups for a particular product which could be controlled centrally and Backbox is helping us with that meaning we also have more time to spend on other areas without having to check numerous backups are working correctly. In a nutshell, automation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about BackBox?

After making the configuration, it takes all backups intact without looking back and provides flexibility at the point of automation with scripts on it.Installation and device configurations are very easy to set up and manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

I haven't seen anything bad about it yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The process of taking backups on network devices is difficult, we have provided this very easily with the backbox and once you define it, you can start taking backups without tiring you anymore and you can enable automation on network devices according to your request. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

HL
Security Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about BackBox?

very helpful support team and various scripts and automation tasks that can be applied to all of our networkinf devices and more.

you can customize Backbox scripts with the help of a very responsive support team to match your specific needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

we don't have a rollback script for each task so you must be evry careful and test your script before applying on production Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

automated configuration backup with versioning , and automation of repetitive tasks and devices firmware upgrade automation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Backups are easy to perform, security, customization and technical support is excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BackBox?

Ldap integration, user management, documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Backbox presents an efficient solution for mass backups and makes it easy for anyone to manage and maintain backups of hundreds of different devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.