network security

The coronavirus crisis offers telcos an opportunity to reposition themselves. Over the medium and longer term, the stronger telcos will benefit from the crisis.

On March 31, Palo Alto Networks announced the intent to acquire CloudGenix, a software-defined WAN appliance vendor. This was another announcement in a long list from the security and networking industries about merging together SDWAN and security. Such combinations are inevitable because: SDWAN adoption hasn’t matched the hype. Here is a dirty little secret: SDWAN […]

At present, it is difficult to remember life before the COVID-19 pandemic, but a key switch that has happened is the large-scale shifting of the population to work at home, as widely documented. Some mobile operators in the UK recently have had a bit of a bumpy ride, with spotty coverage and outages experienced as […]

At the PTC’20 conference earlier this year, I hosted a session with Asian finance investment leaders on why tech-driven innovations should be prioritized to ensure your company’s future market leadership. My panelists in this session were: Carlos Katsuya, chief investment officer and head of telecom, media, and technology for Asia, Europe, and MENA regions at […]

At the PTC’20 conference in Hawaii earlier this year, myself, Joe Weinman from XFORMA LLC, and Dave Temkin from Netflix conducted a power session on how new networking technologies (such as 5G), plus emerging software, computing, and storage approaches, are driving massive corporate IT transformations. These technologies are coming together to help clients drive up […]

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.

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.

Non-public 5G networks promise better privacy, data security, compliance, and cellular network performance; they also offer safer and more private features for dedicated user groups.

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 […]

Early last week, Ajit Pai, the chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), announced his approval of the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint. This will result in a third megacarrier in the US mobile wireless market, which is a good move for consumers like you and me. I am glad this deal will now […]

Over the Easter weekend, we released a new research report looking at implementing Zero Trust in Europe. When we started, we knew that a one-size-fits-all approach would not work in Europe. In addition, general awareness of the Zero Trust security model is much lower in Europe than in the US. Unheard of 12 months ago […]

During my presentation at RSA Conference 2018 this year, I discussed what I refer to as the “Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle of Asset Management,” which states that it’s impossible to maintain an asset inventory list in a constantly evolving environment. Think of it this way: Your IT infrastructure is probably a lot like a giant jelly […]

Over the past two weeks, I was at the annual shenanigan bonanza that is the RSA Conference and was also invited to sit on a “Shark Tank” panel for emerging technology startups in Miami. In the span of two weeks, I went from seeing big, well-established companies with massive marketing budgets and millions of dollars […]

Forrester Principal Analyst Chase Cunningham explains Zero Trust: The concept behind the framework and how companies should implement it to protect their business.

September 2017 was a busy month. Three major breach notifications in Deloitte, the SEC, and Equifax… and my first Wave dropped, coincidentally on Digital Forensics & Incident Response Service Providers. Following all this commotion, I had a client reach out and ask me how… How are investigators able to reconstruct digital crime scenes to identify […]

After reading through some other blogs and strategy papers over the weekend (don’t judge me; to some of us, this activity constitutes a good time . . . yes, lame . . . I know), I saw what appeared to be an underlying theme across the narratives I’d read: Security tolerates failure. It’s understandable that […]

This last week I was fortunate enough to be invited out to Hollywood to participate in a large exercise for the entertainment industry focusing on cyber security planning and threat management.  There were folks in attendance from a variety of organizations, all of which were very interested in just how exposed they might be to […]

"The most important security alerts we see." That’s how one customer described the importance of Automated Malware Analysis technologies in their security workflow. After months of demonstrations, reference calls, and analysis we are thrilled that The Forrester Wave™: Automated Malware Analysis, Q2 2016 is live! Many clients we talked to used multiple vendors to analyze […]