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Top Recommendations For CISOs In 2025: Deal With Uncertainty … Again

Jeff Pollard 2 days ago
The security landscape continues to evolve, as does global uncertainty, leaving CISOs preparing for turbulence ahead.
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Cybersecurity’s Latest Buzzword Has Arrived: What Agentic AI Is And Isn’t

Allie Mellen 2 days ago
As vendors come out of the woodwork announcing their “agentic AI” innovations, we explore what the term truly encompasses and what is hype.

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Watch it now to explore the 2025 tech predictions impacting APAC tech leaders. Learn what this research means for tech and security strategies in the Asia Pacific region.

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The Brewing Battle For Digital Online Age Verification

Merritt Maxim 3 days ago
With online identity verification well understood and maturing, the next brewing verification battle is around age verification, a subset of identity verification.
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How I Apply Third-Party Lab Results In My Security Operations Research

Allie Mellen March 3, 2025
Last week, I attended the AV-Comparatives conference in Innsbruck, Austria. This conference brought together many cybersecurity vendors, particularly those with a European focus, as well as a few nonprofits, academic institutions, and analyst firms.
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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Managed Detection And Response Services, Q1 2025!

Jeff Pollard February 27, 2025
The third installment of The Forrester Wave™: Managed Detection And Response Services is now live, and there’s so much to love about the managed detection and response (MDR) services market: fantastic providers, engaged clients, and meaningful outcomes. This year is no different. Forrester clients can access the full report here. As we mentioned in Choose […]
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Detect, Defend, Deny: Zero Trust World 2025

Jitin Shabadu February 27, 2025
Cybersecurity vendor ThreatLocker recently hosted its fifth annual Zero Trust World (ZTW) conference in Orlando, welcoming attendees from 28 countries to learn about Zero Trust principles and ThreatLocker offerings. Over two days, the event celebrated Zero Trust as a cybersecurity model and the ThreatLocker approach for achieving Zero Trust. Industry leaders, managed service providers, security […]
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The UK Government Is Ready To Embrace AI, But Without Trust, It Risks Disaster

Enza Iannopollo February 19, 2025
A commitment to trustworthy AI is paramount to keep the enthusiasm going and avoid backlash — particularly as safety takes a backseat to security.
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Go Beyond The MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation To The True Cost Of Alert Volumes

Allie Mellen February 12, 2025
MITRE released its latest Enterprise MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations in December of 2024. At that time, we published a blog with a quick overview of the results. Today, we’re excited to announce that we have released three new pieces of research about this round of evaluations.
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Deepfakes Are Here: Here’s What To Do

Merritt Maxim February 11, 2025
In the last two years, growing concerns around the proliferation of and advances in deepfakes has raised concerns around their potential to impede adoption of facial and voice biometrics.
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Assessment Is Anyone’s Guess: Proving GOAT Status Requires Validation

Erik Nost February 11, 2025
As spectators tuned in to Super Bowl LIX to indulge in American culture rife with consumerism, T. Swift, and rap feuds, the buzz was less around the game and more on determining who is pro football’s GOAT (greatest of all time).
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Choose Your Own MDR Adventure: Avoid The Free-For-All Of “New” MDR Services

Jeff Pollard February 4, 2025
Managed detection and response (MDR) — without a doubt — has successfully claimed the crown of all managed security services for making and keeping clients happy.
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AI And ML Security: Preventing Jailbreaks, Drop Tables, And Data Poisoning

Jeff Pollard January 30, 2025
Get a simplified view of the the top three generative AI use cases that security leaders need to worry about and get recommendations for prioritizing them.

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Watch the replay to catch up! Dive into the top 2025 predictions and discover their impact on your tech and security strategies — with exclusive insights from the analysts who conducted the research.

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Breaking Down Human-Element Breaches To Improve Cybersecurity: FAQ

Jinan Budge January 28, 2025
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.
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Highlights And Implications Of Biden’s Executive Order On Strengthening And Promoting Innovation In The Nation’s Cybersecurity

Heidi Shey January 21, 2025
Forrester's security and risk research team breaks down the key highlights and implications of former US President Joe Biden’s 2025 Executive Order (EO) 14144 on strengthening security, improving accountability for software and cloud service providers, and promoting innovation, including use of emerging technologies.
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Rose-Colored Glasses Hide All The Red Flags: Advice From The S&R Forrester Women’s Leadership Program

Jinan Budge December 23, 2024
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.”
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European Cybersecurity Reflections, 2024

Madelein van der Hout December 20, 2024
Get reflections on the legislative trends, geopolitical tensions, and other changes that impacted CISOs in the European Union in 2024.
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Meet The New Analyst Covering NAV And Zero Trust

Jitin Shabadu December 19, 2024
Meet the new Forrester analyst on the security and risk research team focusing on areas such as network analysis and visibility (NAV) and Zero Trust.
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Don’t Trust Vendor Claims About Getting 100% On The MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations

Allie Mellen December 19, 2024
The MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations 2024 results are out. Get a detailed review in this preview of an upcoming report.
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Three Things To Know About How Security Team Toxicity Can Increase Breach Risk

Jinan Budge December 17, 2024
New research finds that engaged, healthy, psychologically safe, and collaborative security teams experience fewer breaches. Find out why.
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March To The Beat Of Zero Trust

Carlos Rivera November 20, 2024
Zero Trust has become the standard information security model to adopt globally. It’s no longer a question of should; it’s a question of how and where to begin. For some time, the topic of Zero Trust was met with disparaging and opposing views proclaiming it to be another buzzword for vendors to market products. Well, […]
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