data security

I see on a daily basis how cybersecurity decisions affect your customers’ experience and trust. Technology affects our own experiences, and those of our customers, in rapidly changing ways. We increasingly depend on tech to work, learn, shop, vote, and socialize. The pandemic has brought this dependence to the forefront in a way that perhaps none of us would have imagined two years ago.

Security and risk pros can’t build a security culture by themselves. Security champions act as extra members of the security team; these people have connections across the organization and can translate security-speak into a language that everyone can understand. Security champions can help make your workforce more receptive to security policies and initiatives. How do […]

Forrester thought leaders weigh in on the meaning of CX, where IT automation is headed, and more.

At the end of 2019, Forbes identified data privacy and security as the most pressing issue in the upcoming decade. The issue is already prevalent: Every day, a new story crops up about leaked, compromised, or misused data. While clicking through their often numerous social media accounts, consumers are providing these companies with more personal […]

It’s been a rough couple of months for Ring. Multiple security and privacy issues have plagued the physical security device maker, it’s responded poorly by casting blame on users, and following that, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) identified that the Ring app is littered with third-party trackers. At virtually the same time, a security product […]

Happy Data Privacy Day! What kinds of conversations do you have with friends and family about privacy? Over the holidays and through the new year, I had the topic of children’s data privacy and device use come up multiple times. This included concerns about apps, internet-connected toys, and technologies used in the classroom. The Concerns […]

5 ways security chiefs can use internal politics to their advantage.

From the Intel-McAfee deal to the Sony Pictures breach, VP and Principal Analyst Jeff Pollard reviews the past decade’s cybersecurity highlights and lowlights.

Each year, Forrester Research and the Disaster Recovery Journal (DRJ) team up to launch a study examining the state of business resiliency. Each year, we focus on a resiliency domain: IT disaster recovery (DR), business continuity (BC), or overall enterprise risk management (ERM). The studies provide BC pros, DR pros, and other risk managers an […]

Forrester VP and Group Director Stephanie Balaouras reviews the infusion of an open source development mentality in IBM Security and the impact on the broader security ecosystem.

Read the top three cybersecurity predictions for 2020 from Forrester Research analyst Jeff Pollard.

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Cybersecurity risk rating solutions are a polarizing topic for security leaders. We meet promoters and detractors in roughly equal measure in the customers that we speak to. Positive client sentiment cites the ability to continuously monitor their third parties, and the simplicity of the quantifiable risk score is popular. Security leaders tell us it is […]

Does your organization have a strategy for protecting employees at home as a part of your overall cybersecurity program? Something that could include, but really goes to a place that is beyond, awareness training? If You Answered “No,” You’re Not Alone Employee privacy is a big reason why not. And yet, as the connected smart […]

Consumer data misuse has lit up the headlines and eroded trust. From the ashes of these corporate scandals will rise a new industry: the anti-surveillance economy. Read what this means for companies that monetize consumer data.

Motherboard and Kaspersky unveiled that hackers compromised a server of computer manufacturer ASUS’s live software update tool to install a malicious backdoor on thousands of computers. The malicious file was able to masquerade as an authentic software update as it was signed with legitimate ASUS digital certificates. The manufacturer unwittingly pushed out the backdoor to […]

I recently did a webinar with a few of my colleagues from the RSA Conference Advisory Board on precisely this topic, which you can find here. We tried to expose as much as we could of the fantastic variety that you’ll find at RSA Conference 2019. Here’s a further elaboration of one of my favorite […]

Venture capital and private equity spending on security technology reached an all-time high in 2018. Currently, this emerging technology market sector stands at about $31 billion in total funding. While that total may pale in comparison to other fast-growing markets such as fintech ($124 billion) or transportation tech ($150 billion), consider that 65% of that $31 […]

Diplomatic networks carry some of the world’s most sensitive information: communications between world leaders, key technical intellectual property, trade strategies, and military plans. A recent report by antiphishing vendor Area 1 Security reveals that a three-year-long cyberattack led to the successful breach of the European Union’s diplomatic communications network. By focusing on the cybersecurity of the […]