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Impressions From Mobile World Congress 2023
Mobile World Congress 2023 shows that there is still a lot of dynamism in the tech sector and gives attendees insights into networks, cloud infrastructure, and the emerging world of connected solutions.
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Product Management And Security Collaboration Benefits More Than Product Security
As part of Forrester’s research into securing what you sell, we have long advocated for security leaders to overlay their own activities with the rest of the product team and to engage in the product lifecycle before the product has even been defined. Last year, we reached out to product management decision-makers to learn more […]
Put Public-Sector 2023 Success Into Perspective
Join us for a Predictions 2023 webinar on the staffing and data integrity pressures to plan for now.
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All Aboard: Chart Your Course To Zero Trust Intermediate
Organizations around the world are embarking on their Zero Trust journeys. Often, these voyages are undertaken without a complete understanding of the destination: Zero Trust maturity. Reaching a level of Zero Trust maturity requires careful planning and a steady course to get there. Forrester recently published a report to help security and IT pros achieve […]
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The Pay Gap Isn’t The Only Problem For Women In CISO Roles
Last week, we published Forrester’s third CISO Career Paths report. This research involved an analysis of the career paths of Fortune 500 CISOs, looking into their education, tenures, and prior experiences of security leaders at some of the world’s largest companies. This data showcases existing trends and helps forecast what CISO roles will look like […]
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2023 Security Recommendations: Protect Your Ass(ets) And Lawyer Up
Forrester recently published Top Recommendations For Your Security Program, 2023 for CISOs and other senior cybersecurity and technology leaders. This year’s overarching theme involves protection (as you might expect) — but not exactly in the way you’d think in the context of security. In 2023, our recommendations fall into three major strategic themes for security […]
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Zero Trust Comes Into The Mainstream In Europe
Until recently, discussions about Zero Trust (ZT) in Europe focused on the what and why. The last year has seen a significant shift in the market, and organizations have now begun focusing on the how. European organizations see significant value in adopting Zero Trust and have taken steps to prioritize adoption. This trend is driven […]
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Get A Head Start On The National Cybersecurity Strategy
This blog outlines Forrester’s existing Security & Risk research to help organizations navigate, manage, and prepare their organizations for the implications of the National Cybersecurity Strategy.
Unlock The Secret To 2023 Tech Success
Attend our predictions webinar on overcoming resource constraints with a focus on resiliency and talent.
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Introducing The Forrester Model To Defend Against Nation-State Threats
Given years of cyberespionage, attacks on elections, and, more recently, the melding of kinetic and digital warfare in the Russia-Ukraine war, private sector security leaders in all industries must recognize and prepare for more brazen and frequent nation-state cyberattacks. This is the first and the foundational report in a series that will help security leaders […]
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Introducing Forrester’s Network Analysis And Visibility Landscape, Q1 2023
In today’s Zero Trust (ZT) world, organizations have been heavily focused on Zero Trust edge identity solutions. In some cases, however, they’ve neglected visibility across all the connections, endpoints, and applications in the enterprise. Network analysis and visibility (NAV) solutions have become almost an afterthought to ZT, but they are actually central to a robust […]
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2022 Breaches And Fines Offer Lessons To Security Leaders
2022 didn’t let up on the security incidents — according to Forrester’s Security Survey, 2022, 74% of security decision-makers experienced at least one data breach at their firm in the previous 12 months. As we looked at the top breaches and privacy violations of 2022 — and there was activity right up to the end […]
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Five Reasons Why CISOs Should Report To CEOs
Cybersecurity problems won’t disappear, but CISOs who are elevated in the organization run better cybersecurity programs.
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A Zero Trust Paradox: Which Comes First, Microsegmentation Or Microperimeter?
The common trope, “What came first, the chicken or the egg?” is a question about origins and paradoxical relationships. Security and risk conversations about microsegmentation and microperimeters suffer from a similar dilemma. These two concepts are heavily emphasized in Zero Trust conversations as key components to advance maturity. Security and risk pros confuse the usage […]
Prepare Your Infrastructure For 2023 Change
Get our Predictions 2023 guide to explore the infrastructure shifts driving transformation and resiliency.
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Great Technology Organizations Have Great Security Organizations
Forrester has been researching future fit organizations for the past few years, those organizations that have evolved their technology strategy to enable their firm’s customer-obsessed business strategy. Tech organizations fall into three tech strategy buckets: Traditional tech orgs are driven by cost, act as order-takers, and typically follow waterfall methodologies; modern tech orgs evolve to […]
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We Need To Talk More About Burnout In Cybersecurity
Forrester predicted that in 2023, a Global 500 firm will be exposed for burning out its cybersecurity employees. In 2022, we saw at a very practical level in Australia that weaknesses in our cyberdefenses can impact society at mass levels. Impacts of breaches at Optus, Medibank, EnergyAustralia, and MyDeal include fines, exposure of millions of […]
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Announcing Forrester’s Enterprise Email Security Landscape, Q1 2023
What a time to be in email security! For buyers, there has never been more choice in solutions to protect your organizations. And for sellers? Well, there’s never been more of an incentive to innovate. Forrester’s just-published The Enterprise Email Security Landscape, Q1 2023 report provides an overview of 34 players in this market and […]
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Success With Zero Trust Lives And Dies By Executive Support
Forrester originated the Zero Trust Model over a decade ago and defines Zero Trust as: An information security model that denies access to applications and data by default. Threat prevention is achieved by only granting access to networks and workloads utilizing policy informed by continuous, contextual, risk-based verification across users and their associated devices. Zero Trust advocates […]
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Call It What You Want, Cyber Risk Quantification Is Now A Must
What do Live Nation’s Taylor Swift ticketing debacle and cyber risk have in common? Bad assumptions. Whether you confidently believe that you can anticipate record ticket demand or believe that your payment processing infrastructure is secure enough to handle it, that belief is based on an assumption, and that assumption is based on the past […]
Shape Your 2023 Cybersecurity Priorities For Uncertain Times
Join us for a planning webinar to learn how you can budget and align your 2023 cybersecurity plans for what’s ahead.
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Vehicle Security: Making Sure K.I.T.T. Doesn’t Become K.A.R.R.
We ended 2022 with the announcement of a vulnerability within SiriusXM Connected Vehicle Services, which has a broad impact because of the ubiquity of these units. In 2023 the vehicle-related software vulnerabilities just keep on coming, this time within API endpoints used by vehicles’ telematics systems, an issue with a wide impact across 16 different […]
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Groundhog Day, SEC Style: Proposed Rule On Cybersecurity Risk Governance Has All The Pain Of SOX With Fewer Financial Penalties
There’s a significant shift ahead for how public firms and their boards treat cybersecurity risk. The last two years increased the amount of cybersecurity oversight in terms of regulations and guidelines. Voluntary “recommendations” such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s guidelines for AI offer a starting point for safer use of artificial intelligence, […]
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How CISOs Can Navigate The 2023 Downturn
CISOs must use this period of austerity to reinforce security as a core competency that drives growth and protects revenue.
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