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Governance, Maturity, And Analytics Are The Major Themes For 2011
Every winter Forrester outlines 12 important recommendations for your security strategy for the coming year. We base these recommendations on hundreds of client inquiries, numerous consulting...
Despite Recent High Profile Disasters, Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery Budgets Stay At Six Percent Of IT Operating And Capital Budgets
According to our Q2 2010 IT budget survey, 32% of enterprises had planned to increase spending on business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) by at least 5% in 2011. The reality is that...

Q1 2011 Global Message Archiving Online Survey
A combination of eDiscovery needs, IT objectives, and regulatory requirements continues to drive strong message archiving adoption. The mature message archiving market, however, is in a clear...
Prepare For Cloud Security Improvements, Along With A Tincture Of Disruption
Security professionals responsible for diverse types of access management across cloud services, devices, and populations have to pull off a neat trick: control access requests that routinely cross...
An overview of current trends in records management and storage, with data from the Forrester Research And ARMA International Online Records Management Survey, Q3 2010.
Understand The New Threat Paradigm To Make Your Responses More Effective
The information security threat landscape is changing rapidly, and many security organizations are struggling to keep up with the changing nature, complexity, and scale of attacks. Not only is it...
A Review Of Budgets, Spending Intentions, Technology Adoption, And Key Trends
To help Forrester clients with their identity and access management (IAM) strategy for 2011, Forrester predicted four significant trends. So how'd we do? We got two right and two half right. Heading...

Standalone NAC Offerings Will Continue Their Slow Demise
In 2010, Forrester saw modest growth in network access control (NAC) adoption. Nothing will change in 2011. While many security organizations report interest in NAC adoption, only 10% plan to...
Software-As-A-Service Adoption Drives Federated Access; Provisioning Still Lags
The wait is over. According to Forrester's recent security survey, adoption of identity federation jumped from less than 5% two years ago to more than 12% in 2009. Why? Because software-as-a-service...
Future Look: The S&R Practice Playbook
This report outlines the future look of Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) executives working on building a high-performance security program and organization. This report is designed...
Organizations Remain Tentative In Application Security Investment
Application security is an essential tool for managing risks in today's increasingly dynamic and capable threat landscape. Yet the market for application security remains small, and organizations are...
How Your Peers Are Spending For Endpoint Security Through 2012
Effective protection of user endpoints remains a challenge for enterprises and small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) alike. Trends such as workforce mobility and bring-your-own-device (BYOD)...
A Mature Space, IPS Is Still The Bulwark Of Network Security
An intrusion prevention system (IPS) complements traditional firewalls by inspecting the entire network packet looking for malicious traffic that is often invisible to Layer 3 firewalls. While...
You Can No Longer Manage A Complex BCM Program With Simple Office Tools
During 2010 and the early part of 2011, we witnessed a multitude of disruptive natural disasters and extreme weather events, including earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, and blizzards. We also...
An Empowered Report: Getting Past Cloud Security Fear Mongering
At Forrester's Security Forum 2010 in Boston, Eran Feigenbaum, director of security, Google Apps; and Archie Reed, chief technologist for cloud security at HP, joined me on stage for a keynote panel...
Benchmarks: The Mobile Security And Operations Playbook
This report outlines the benchmarks of Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) executives working on mobile security and operations initiatives. This report provides a benchmark of budgets,...

This document provides an overview of cloud computing end user adoption trends in Japan for vendor strategists. The report is based on findings from a cloud computing survey targeting Japanese...
Best Practices You Must Enforce With App Developers
As consumer devices such as iPhones and iPads proliferate in the enterprise and among consumers, the number of organizations interested in custom development of mobile applications is steadily on the...
During the past three years, cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solutions have become a viable and cost-effective alternative to on-premises, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), or...

Grading Last Year's Predictions, Plus Three Trends For Next Year
Forrester predicted four major content security trends entering 2009. So how'd we do? We got three right, one half-right, and none wrong. As predicted, the market saw a tremendous amount of...