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Ed Ferrara

For Security & Risk Professionals
Blog:New Research: Develop Effective Security Metics - Published this Month
Ed FerraraJanuary 23, 2012
This month I published a new report on information security metrics, best practices as well as a maturity model to measure your maturity in the reporting process. This report outlines the...
For Security & Risk Professionals
Blog:OK, Tell Me I'm Wrong!
Ed FerraraOctober 15, 2012
Everyone knows that in business you need to do two things: Increase top-line revenue growth and reduce bottom line cost. Doing both of these is how companies grow profitably. It really is that...
For Security & Risk Professionals
Client Inquiry:Security Reporting Structure
Ed FerraraSeptember 15, 2011
What are the pros and cons of security reporting within IT versus a non-IT department?
For Security & Risk Professionals
Blog:Enterprise Information Security Architecture
Ed FerraraApril 22, 2011
I always have been interested in Enterprise Architecture. Enterprise Architecture is one of those terms that security professionals hear about but do not always know how it can benefit what...
For Security & Risk Professionals
Client Inquiry:Are Organizations Still Using War Dialing?
Ed FerraraDecember 15, 2011
Are organizations in the financial services sector still using war dialing as a control to identify potential insecure modems or telephony applications? Is it still a best practice to engage in this...
For Security & Risk Professionals
Blog:Information Value and Risk Assessment
Ed FerraraOctober 15, 2012
I just wrote a paper on the value of information security. Please see the paper here. It is something I have thought about for a long time. Information security as a technical discipline...
For Security & Risk Professionals
Blog:Nine Managed Security Services Providers (MSSPs) Compete In The North American Market
Ed FerraraApril 04, 2012
After months of diligent vendor evaluations, last week we officially published The Forrester Wave: Managed Security Services: North America, Q1 2012. This report features our detailed analysis on...
For Security & Risk Professionals
Blog:InfoSec: Enterprise Architecture Building Codes
Ed FerraraDecember 10, 2011
There are many types of criminals. These include thrill-seeking hackers, politically motivated hackers, organized criminals after financial gain, and state-sponsored groups after financial gain and...
For Security & Risk Professionals
Blog:Managed Security Services — Build Versus Buy
Ed FerraraOctober 27, 2011
While you are at the Forrester Security IT Forum in Miami, you might also want to attend my session on Managed Security Services Providers. In my role as an analyst, I speak to many security...
For Security & Risk Professionals
Blog:Information Security Metrics & The Balanced Scorecard
Ed FerraraMay 12, 2011
I just finished a final draft of a presentation on information security executive reporting that I and some colleagues will present at the upcoming Forrester IT Forum in Las Vegas. For those of...
For Security & Risk Professionals
Blog:Large Telecoms Offer A Full Menu Of Security Services, But Not Without A Little Indigestion
Ed FerraraAugust 15, 2012
Guest Post From Researcher Chris Sherman Last month, Ed and I spent a couple days in Paris with Orange's management team for their annual analyst event. Overall I was impressed with...
For Security & Risk Professionals
Blog:Calculating Breach Costs: An Accounting Problem For Risk Management Strategy
Ed FerraraApril 10, 2012
Guest post from Researcher Heidi Shey. Calculating the cost of a data breach should be a part of every organization’s information security risk management strategy. It’s not an easy...
For Security & Risk Professionals
Blog:From Customer To Channel Partner
Ed FerraraMay 07, 2012
Even though it is not specific to security, this idea came to me while attending Dell’s Annual Analyst Conference (DAAC) in Austin, Texas two weeks ago. One of the hot topics discussed at...
For Security & Risk Professionals
Blog:The Impact Of Proposed Cybersecurity Legislation On Private Sector CISOs - Miami Security Forum
Ed FerraraOctober 27, 2011
At the upcoming Forrester Security IT Forum (November 9) in Miami, Florida, I will present information on President Obama's cybercrime legislative initiative. This presentation and discussion...
For Security & Risk Professionals
Blog:Information Security Metrics
Ed FerraraApril 20, 2011
Forrester receives a significant number of inquiries from clients requesting Forrester guidance on Information Security Metrics. Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) need new types of...
For Security & Risk Professionals
Blog:Managed Service Market Is Growing – Come On In, The Water’s Fine!
Ed FerraraAugust 17, 2012
I reported that the managed security services market is growing in our recent Forrester Wave™ covering North American managed security service providers. Trustwave just issued a press release...
For Security & Risk Professionals
Blog:MSSP Valuation - Information For Selecting An MSSP
Ed FerraraFebruary 02, 2012
I attended two really great presentations at MSPWorld yesterday. This is a very interesting conference, sponsored by the MSPAlliance[i] and co-hosted with IT-Expo but focused on managed service...
For Security & Risk Professionals
Blog:Information Security Metrics Insanity, The 3Rs And Dashboards!
Ed FerraraOctober 03, 2012
I just finished a research document titled Measure The Effectiveness Of Your Data Security And Privacy Program for the The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook. This was a lot of fun...
For Security & Risk Professionals
Blog:Think Differently
Ed FerraraJuly 01, 2012
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson is a very readable and honest portrayal of one of the most influential personalities in the computer industry from 1980 to the present. Often caustic, abrupt, and...
For Security & Risk Professionals
Blog:The Power Of Data Analysis - "Spamalytics"
Ed FerraraJune 01, 2011
Some of you may have seen the article in the New York Times by John Markoff (endnote1) announcing a paper to be presented at last week’s IEEE conference. This paper is an update to research...
For Security & Risk Professionals
Blog:More On Metrics...
Ed FerraraMay 13, 2011
At Forrester, we place a great deal of emphasis on relevance and what it means when researching a topic. For the busy executive, it's sometimes difficult to wade through deep lists of...

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Blog:New Research: Develop Effective Security Metics - Published this Month

For Security & Risk Professionals

Blog:OK, Tell Me I'm Wrong!

For Security & Risk Professionals

Client Inquiry:Security Reporting Structure

For Security & Risk Professionals

Blog:Enterprise Information Security Architecture

For Security & Risk Professionals

Client Inquiry:Are Organizations Still Using War Dialing?

For Security & Risk Professionals

Blog:Information Value and Risk Assessment

For Security & Risk Professionals

Blog:Nine Managed Security Services Providers (MSSPs) Compete In The North American Market

For Security & Risk Professionals

Blog:InfoSec: Enterprise Architecture Building Codes

For Security & Risk Professionals

Blog:Managed Security Services — Build Versus Buy

For Security & Risk Professionals

Blog:Information Security Metrics & The Balanced Scorecard

For Security & Risk Professionals

Blog:Large Telecoms Offer A Full Menu Of Security Services, But Not Without A Little Indigestion

For Security & Risk Professionals

Blog:Calculating Breach Costs: An Accounting Problem For Risk Management Strategy

For Security & Risk Professionals

Blog:From Customer To Channel Partner

For Security & Risk Professionals

Blog:The Impact Of Proposed Cybersecurity Legislation On Private Sector CISOs - Miami Security Forum

For Security & Risk Professionals

Blog:Information Security Metrics

For Security & Risk Professionals

Blog:Managed Service Market Is Growing – Come On In, The Water’s Fine!

For Security & Risk Professionals

Blog:MSSP Valuation - Information For Selecting An MSSP

For Security & Risk Professionals

Blog:Information Security Metrics Insanity, The 3Rs And Dashboards!

For Security & Risk Professionals

Blog:Think Differently

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Blog:The Power Of Data Analysis - "Spamalytics"

For Security & Risk Professionals

Blog:More On Metrics...

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