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Cyber Risk Quantification (CRQ) vendor SAFE announced that it acquired Unified Vulnerability Management vendor Balbix. The acquisition helps SAFE grow its proactive security platform. Proactive security platforms support all three principles of proactive security: visibility, prioritization, and remediation. Balbix ingests data from other vulnerability sources for visibility, prioritizes high risk vulnerability and misconfigurations, and helps […]

The noise in and outside of cybersecurity is constant, with new threats, new tools, and new expectations. Thriving in this environment doesn’t take luck; it requires discipline. And right now, the backdrop is intense: nearly 1 million job cuts this year, workloads rising, and responsibilities shifting, leaving everyone uncertain. Those who remain are not necessarily […]

This blog answers five key questions about agentic payments and provides a timeline of key events in agentic commerce and AI-assisted payments.

Some of the biggest online platforms in the world were recently knocked offline by an automatically generated configuration file that grew too large. In a world plagued by security threats, operational failures can still happen even in your favorite cloud service. Find out why and how to reduce your risk.

Modern businesses need solutions that are agile, responsive, and proactive. Automation must do more than execute tasks: It needs to enable faster decisions, reduce complexity, and free your team from firefighting to focus on innovating. This research uncovers the six forces driving the shift to smarter workload automation. These aren’t just trends — they’re challenges that businesses must address to stay competitive.

You’re already feeling it. Each vendor’s site is a live demonstration of its platform’s capabilities. Optimizely leans into experimentation-led personalization; Adobe’s Experience Platform is orchestrated with precision; Salesforce blends CRM depth with conversational interfaces; Sitecore showcases agentic flows that guide content and conversion. These aren’t static pages. They’re dynamic systems that anticipate your needs, route […]

Discover why observability-driven development (ODD) is the key to faster, safer, and smarter DevOps pipelines. Learn how to shift from reactive firefighting to proactive innovation.

This week, Doug Washburn — Forrester's VP of product management — joins Angelina and Martin for a deep dive into how he helped launch Forrester’s Izola AI chatbot. Doug shares the organizational mindset, executive commitment, and rapid development cycles that helped Forrester bring a generative AI solution to market ahead of other research organizations. Doug shares candid insights on balancing speed with accuracy, the importance of grounding AI responses in trusted research, and the ongoing challenges of collaboration and client engagement.

In an ideal world, brands would focus on ensuring that their customers realize value. But organizations struggle with cross-functional collaboration, conflicting team metrics, and strategies that prioritize revenue growth over total experience. And that’s just the business side — technology infrastructure can be just as problematic. Although there’s no simple solution, investments in real-time interaction […]

In the era of AI agents, most organizations could benefit from AX (agent experience), the discipline to prepare an organization to successfully integrate agents as collaborative partners with the human workforce. Learn more about these five specific AX skills: knowledge curation, change management, critical thinking, interaction skills, and agent oversight.

Whether intentional or not, coercive and deceptive design frustrates customers and erodes trust in the brand. Instead, deliver a great customer experience, and sales (and ensuing trust and loyalty) will follow.

Thanks to concerns about tariffs and geopolitics, Forrester clients are expressing a keen interest in the impact of technology on fulfillment. You might have seen that we wrote about the rediscovery of route optimization and the emergence of transportation grids in earlier research. But now our clients ask: 1) Are parcel freight and less-than-truckload (LTL) […]

On November 13, AI vendor Anthropic published details about the disruption of what it characterized as an AI-led cyber espionage operation. Learn what is in Anthropic's report and get tips on how to protect against future AI-enabled attacks.

Have you driven cross-team alignment that’s fueled results or achieved excellence in a particular area of marketing, sales, customer engagement, or product? Share your story for a chance to join us on stage at B2B Summit North America.

Last week at the Singapore FinTech Festival’s 10th anniversary, I sat down with senior leaders across payments companies, fintechs, and banks. What they told me — and what I witnessed on the show floor — revealed five forces reshaping the industry: Agentic payments are moving from experiment to competitive weapon; payments-specific foundation models are emerging […]

Paul Miller explores IFS’s and SAP’s visions for a future when robots will be integrated into the tools already used to manage human workers.

Europe is racing to balance AI innovation with digital sovereignty. At the Google Digital Sovereignty Summit, leaders discussed sovereign cloud solutions, partnerships, and policies shaping secure, compliant growth. Discover why sovereignty is now a business imperative and how Google Cloud is driving this transformation.

The payments landscape has been steadily reinventing itself, and 2026 is shaping up to be a year when the seeds of innovation finally sprout. 2026 is about watching new ideas — such as agentic payments, stablecoins, and next-gen biometrics — take root. Learn more in our 2026 payments predictions.

The 10th ITC conference centered heavily on the shift from AI hype to practical, scalable implementation across the insurance value chain.