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We are in the process of selecting unified threat management (UTM) vendors. We have completed a decision analysis based on a technical needs assessment, but we need help narrowing down our vendors....
We are currently exploring all remote access options, particularly SSL functionality. What kind of trends are you are seeing in these areas?
Rethinking Data Discovery And Classification For Data Security
Defining data via data discovery and classification is an often overlooked, yet critical, component of data security and control. Security and risk (S&R) pros can't expect to adequately protect data...


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An Empowered Report: Understanding The Threats To Unified Communication And VoIP Deployments
In many companies, the worlds of data networking and telecommunications have merged, and voice and video traffic travels with other enterprise data on the same corporate network. Often known...
Vision: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook
There's an old saying in information security: "We want our network to be like an M&M, with a hard crunchy outside and a soft chewy center." For a generation of information security...
An Effective Incident Management Program Is Essential To Help You Stay In Business
It's not a question of if — but when — your organization will experience a serious security breach. Cybercriminals are using more sophisticated and targeted attacks to steal everything...
Strategic Plan: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook
As cybercriminals have become more skillful and sophisticated, they have eroded the effectiveness of our traditional perimeter-based security controls. The constantly mutating threat landscape...
What vendors compete in the enterprise key management market?
From frantic security operations problems to the changing threat landscape, CISOs, senior security leaders, and other IT risk management leaders consistently have trouble keeping up with key trends...

Forrester continues to receive many customer inquiries related to effective patch management of servers and endpoints. Balancing the urgency of patching with the need to minimize employee downtime...
Forrester's Data Security And Control Framework
Forrester segments the problem of securing and controlling data into three areas: 1) defining the data; 2) dissecting and analyzing the data; and 3) defending and protecting the data. We refer to...

Executive Overview: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook
Data is the lifeblood of today's digital businesses, and for economic and even political gain, highly skilled cybercriminals are determined to steal it. Meanwhile, customers around the globe have...

Are there certain vendors/solutions/configurations that are considered best practices for jump servers? Are organizations relying entirely on authentication and authorization controls, without having...
Tokenization: Is it the right technology to encrypt cardholder (saving and debit cards) data? What is the usage level of this product and of similar technologies on the market? What is the level of...
Road Map: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution to help security and risk (S&R) leaders develop their road map for Zero Trust network threat mitigation technologies using Forrester's TechRadar™...

Preparing Your Network For Any Device, Anywhere, Any Time
You are part of an extended enterprise — a new extended ecosystem of customers, clouds, service providers, partners, supply chains, and empowered users. The business expects you, the security...

Strategic Plan: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook
One of our goals with Zero Trust is to optimize the security architectures and technologies for future flexibility. As we move toward a data-centric world with shifting threats and perimeters, we...

Policy And Procedures: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook
Data defense is the fundamental purpose of information security. To defend your data, there are only four levers you can pull — controlling access, inspecting data usage patterns for abuse,...

We are looking for a solution to centrally manage USB drives for all of our desktops. More specifically, we would want to ensure that data on the USB drive is encrypted. Does Forrester have any...
This checklist is provided as a concise and comprehensive workbook to help organizations deal with the different types of assessments and tests that security and risk professionals must perform to...
We would like to understand some best practices in the field of log management. More specifically: 1. Is it a best practice to correlate, aggregate, and monitor all logs for business risk and...
Essential Functionality For The Zero Trust Model Of Information Security
In today's threat environment, the network perimeter has disappeared. Insiders are as insidious a threat as outsiders. In the past, the "trust but verify" model did not facilitate insight into...
This is a workbook that supplements the PCI X-Ray: Application Security Document
Protect Yourself From Hacktivists And Other Cybercriminals
Until recently, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks had been part of infosec lore: something you heard about but rarely experienced. With the rise of hacktivist groups and other...