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Blog:Security Forum 2010: Day 2 Keynotes-At-A-Glance

Last week, I wrote a blog post summarizing the Day 1 opening keynotes at Forrester’s Security Forum.  This week, I’d like to recap the Day 2 opening keynotes. The second or last...

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Report:Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery Are Top IT Priorities For 2010 And 2011

Six Percent Of IT Operating And Capital Budgets Goes To BC/DR

According to Forrester's recent survey of 2,803 IT decision-makers, improving their business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) capabilities is the No. 1 priority for SMBs and the second...

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Tool:Business Continuity Spending

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Report:Build The Always-On, Always-Available Extended Enterprise

Executive Overview: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook

In today's world of 24x7x365 global operations and competition, downtime results not only in immediate lost revenue and productivity, but also in lasting damage to corporate reputation that erodes...

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Blog:Business Continuity Is Back On The Agenda

During the last 12 to 18 months, there have been a number of notable natural catastrophes and weather related events. Devastating earthquakes hit Haiti, Chile, China, New Zealand, and Japan. Monsoon...

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Report:BC/DR Remain Priorities For 2012 But Take A Backseat To Cost-Saving And Efficiency Initiatives

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...

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Report:Justifying The Business Case For Business Technology Resiliency

Business Case: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's guidance for a business technology resiliency (BTR) business case. This is a critical step when securing funding because management is often reluctant to fund...

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Blog:Building The High-Performance Security Organization

I just completed my second quarter as the Research Director of Forrester’s Security and Risk team. Since no one has removed me from my position, I assume I’m doing an OK job. Q2 was...

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Report:Benchmark The Performance Of Your Business Continuity Program

Benchmark: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's solution for infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to benchmark the performance of their business continuity (BC) programs as part of their broader business...

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Blog:What’s Holding CISOs Back?

According to our survey data dating back to 2008, despite year after year of high profile security breaches from Heartland Payment Systems to Wikileaks to Sony, security budgets have only increased...

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Report:Understand The State Of Identity And Access Management

Benchmarks: The Identity And Access Management Playbook

This report provides a spending and technology adoption benchmark for security and risk (S&R) executives looking to develop their organization's identity and access management (IAM) strategy....

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Report:Executive Spotlight: Top Priorities For Security And Risk Leaders, 1H 2011

Insights From Forrester's Security & Risk Council

Every six months, Forrester's security and risk (S&R) team fields a survey to the members of its Security & Risk Council to ascertain their top priorities for the following six months. Forrester's...

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Blog:Communication And Coordination Should Be The Cornerstone Of Your BC Plan

In a recent Forrester/DRJ joint survey on BC preparedness, of organizations that have invoked a BC plan in the last five years, 37% said that their BC plans had not adequately addressed...

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Blog:Tackling Data Leak Prevention At Forrester's Security Forum EMEA 2011

For the second year in a row, I have the honor of hosting our Security Forum EMEA in London, March 17th - 18th. This is Forrester's 5th annual Security Forum in Europe, and each year brings a...

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Blog:When It Comes To Data Security, You Don’t Need A Silver Bullet, You Need A Framework

There is truth to the meme, “data is the new oil.” Data is the lifeblood of today's digital businesses, and for economic and even political gain, highly skilled...

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Blog:Enterprises Continue To Drive Adoption Of Advanced Endpoint Security Tools, But SMBs Are Not Far Behind

Guest post from S&R Researcher Chris Sherman.  Host-based intrusion prevention systems, host-based data leak protection, full disk and file level encryption . . . all are important tools...

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Report:Enhance Business Technology Resiliency With An Effective Crisis Communication Strategy

Communication: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook

Year after year, when asked to name the top lessons learned from contingency plan invocations, organizations consistently cite that they underestimated how difficult it would be to communicate...

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Blog:Join Forrester's New Online Community For Security & Risk Professionals!

Here at Forrester, we like to eat our own dog food. Hot on the heels of the book launch of Empowered, Forrester has launched an online community for security and risk professionals. The...

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Report:Stop The Insanity: If You Don't Exercise Your Business Continuity Plans, You Aren't Prepared

Ten Recommendations For Maturing Your Business Continuity Exercise Program

Everyone knows you must exercise your business continuity (BC) plans. However, in dozens of inquiries and consulting engagements with enterprise clients each quarter, Forrester finds that BC managers...

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Client Inquiry:What Service Providers Offer Enterprise-Class Automated Communication Services?

We're looking for an automated communication service as part of our business continuity preparedness efforts; who are the service providers that offer enterprise-class functionality? What are some of...

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Tool:Upgrading BC/DR Is A Top IT Priority

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Report:The Past, Present, And Future Of Replication

Upgrade Continuity And Recovery With Replication

Tape is not dead, and in fact, a large number of companies still rely heavily on tape for disaster recovery (DR). Tape is affordable and removable, but as the requirement to recover IT services after...

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Report:Inquiry Spotlight: Security And Risk, Q1 To Q4 2010

Forrester's security and risk (S&R) team fields hundreds of inquiries every month. We often gauge the interest in various topics and plan our future research agenda based on this barometer. Many of...

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Report:Source Business Technology Resiliency Capabilities

Tools And Technology: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook

When anxious executives ask you to improve or maintain business resiliency across the enterprise, it's likely that you'll need help. The skills and expertise required to stay on top of key trends,...

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Client Inquiry:Will SMS Messaging And Email Emergency Notification Replace Voice-To-Voice Communication?

What changes in emergency notification tactics do you foresee? More specifically, it seems as if SMS messaging and email will replace telephone voice-to-voice communications. Will SMS messaging and...