Jinan Budge

Dive into our backgrounds, existing research, and capabilities. As a team, we cover a multitude of security and risk priorities. We are also geographically distributed; no one else is as uniquely positioned to add this level of global perspective to our research and our clients.

We are thrilled to announce our new research report, Deconstructing Human-Element Breaches, detailing the many and varied risks posed by and to humans — a problem that has plagued cybersecurity teams for decades. Forrester clients can use this research as a catalyst for productive conversations with executives and peers across functions about controls to mitigate the human-element breach types most common to their organizations and industries.

As has now become a Forrester Security & Risk Summit tradition, a room full of amazing women and a few brave fellas gathered last week as part of the Forrester Women’s Leadership Program to celebrate successes and solve for the many challenges that women face in this field. The theme? “To propel your career in security and risk, choose your advisers and nuggets of advice wisely.”

New research finds that engaged, healthy, psychologically safe, and collaborative security teams experience fewer breaches. Find out why.

Risks posed by and to humans such as deepfakes, data exfiltration by insiders, and misuse of generative AI are expected to accelerate and become more complex. Learn how to discern and manage these human-element risks in this preview of an upcoming report.

One of the three principles of high-performance IT (HPIT) is to build trust on a foundation of security, privacy, and resilience. As a CIO, executing your strategy will be much easier if you unleash the talent of the person who plays an outsized role in building a trusted business: your chief information security officer (CISO). […]

We started our evaluation of human risk management solutions knowing that vendors and customers were at different stages of adoption. We faced resistance – the level of which depended on where vendors were in achieving their own vision of HRM.

Learn how to build, improve, repair, or elevate your relationship with your technology counterparts in this preview of our upcoming Security & Risk Summit in Baltimore, December 9–11.

APAC CISOs face many common workplace challenges and have similar opportunities as in other roles, but in addition, they encounter lesser-discussed gender, cultural, and geographic impacts that affect the CISO role.

Technology leaders woke up this morning to find that a software update by cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike had gone badly wrong. Get updates on the steps that your organization should take now and in the long term as a result of the CrowdStrike outage.

Cybersecurity breaches continued to rise in 2023. Learn the eight most common incident types and get four key takeaways from our new report.

More than 41,000 attendees, 600 exhibitors, and 425 sessions. Get some of the key themes and takeaways from the Forrester security & risk analysts who attended RSA Conference (RSAC) 2024.

The cybersecurity industry continues to focus almost exclusively on technology at the expense of dealing with the heart of cyberdefenses: the people. Yet the stress of expectations, limited resources, and detriments to well-being continues to cause havoc with the mental and physical health, productivity, and retention of the cybersecurity workforce.

Get six key learnings about Southeast Asia cybersecurity trends and challenges following a series of roundtables with CISOs and security leaders in the region.

The market that used to be called the security awareness and training (SA&T) is now human risk management. This blog explains why.

What should APAC CISOs look for from cybersecurity consulting providers? Find out in our latest Wave report which evaluates the 10 most significant cybersecurity consulting providers in Asia Pacific.

Women remain underrepresented in the tech and security fields. Get five tips from the recent T&I APAC ForrWomen session on how to change that in your organization.

Find which Forrester research can help navigate, manage, and prepare for the newly announced Australian Cyber Security Strategy.

Learn what's creating the silos between technology and security teams and how to avoid or remove them.