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Blog:Twitter Settles With FTC For Privacy Breach

Organizations continue to face risk for security breaches. Normally, we talk about the risk of security breaches being fines and other costs around loss of PII, per California Senate Bill 1386 and...

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Blog:Avoid The Social Media Binary

Many organizations today get caught up in what I call the “social media binary,” where there are only two options to social media control: 1) Allow unrestricted access to social networks,...

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Report:Actionable Identity Intelligence Protects Big Data And Zero Trust Identities

Predictive And Behavioral Analysis Finds Its Way Into Identity And Access Management

Identity and access management (IAM) professionals need to protect information and prevent unauthorized users from accessing business-critical systems in an increasingly complex IT environment. They...

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Client Inquiry:Can You Use Intrusion Prevention Instead Of A Web Security Gateway?

Is it possible to use an intrusion prevention system (IPS) instead of using the full capabilities of a web security gateway (WSG)? What could an IPS provide for the web traffic beyond the WSG?

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Report:Data Leak Prevention: Scenarios For Testing Vendor Products

Enterprises of all sizes are interested in evaluating products for detecting and preventing the transmission and storage of PII, PHI and sensitive corporate secrets. By the end of 2010, Forrester...

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Report:The Forrester Information Security Metrics 3R Dashboard

The Information Security Metrics 3R Dashboard should be used as a template to present information security metrics organized across three dimensions: Readiness, Response, and Recovery. Forrester...

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Blog:From Customer To Channel Partner

 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...

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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...

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Report:Show Me The Loot!

Determine The Right Practices For Your Organization's BYOD Stipends

In this age of the empowered, tech-savvy worker, more and more employees are bringing their unsecured devices to work and using them for work activities. To prepare for this tide of devices,...

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Report:Market Overview: Fraud Management Solutions

Seven Tenets Of Effectively Combating Fraud Costs

Fraud causes companies to lose money in many ways: They face losses due to chargebacks, unrecoverable transfers, and unnecessary shipping costs; and spend extensive time and resources investigating...

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Report:API Management For Security Pros

Security professionals increasingly must respond to the needs of business owners exploring web application programming interfaces (APIs) as a new channel for recognizing business value. APIs can...

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Report:eDiscovery Market Consolidation Continues Its Steady March

How Mergers And Acquisitions Will Impact Your eDiscovery Strategies

Organizations struggle to keep up with eDiscovery demands and are burdened by a proliferation of point products. Navigating the eDiscovery marketplace isn't trivial, and many enterprises report...

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Blog:Your Vertical Is . . .

Companies often demand to know what their peers in a particular vertical market are doing within the realm of information security before making new decisions. “We’re in retail” or...

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Report:Build A High-Performance Security Organization

Executive Overview: The S&R Practice Playbook

Today, business leaders expect the CISO to not only protect the organization from run-of-the-mill hackers but to also protect its brand and competitive advantage in the marketplace — all while...

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Tool:Data Protection And Compliance Are Top Of Mind Concerns

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Blog:Active Directory Moving To The Cloud?

We hear a lot about cloud IAM vendors offering metadirectories or user repositories in the cloud. We predict that in 1-2 years we'll see AD being moved from on-premises installations into cloud...

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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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Client Inquiry:How Retailers Handle Login Expiration Time

How do retailer websites handle login expiration? Is it session-based, login-persisted, 30-day cookie, and so on? What is the norm or best practice?

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Tool:GRC Revenue Distribution

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Report:Build A Corporate App Store Into Your Corporate Mobility Strategy

Manage Mobile Complexity Through A Corporate App Store

Today, many employees use their personally owned smartphones and tablets for work to access a variety of mobile applications. Some companies are also proactively deploying mobile applications to...

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Blog:iPad And iPhone: Secure Enough For Most Businesses

Greetings everyone. My name is Andrew Jaquith, and I serve security and risk professionals. Normally I blog over on the S&R analyst team blog. But because Forrester has been receiving so many...

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Tool:The Forrester Identity And Access Management Maturity Model

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Tool:The State Of Legal Hold Integration With Records Management Is Bleak

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

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...

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Report:The Extended Enterprise: A Security Journey

Extend Assurance Downstream To Customers And Upstream To Suppliers

The extended enterprise is here, but current security architectures are ill-suited for the task of securing the extended ecosystem. Security and risk professionals must adopt a new mindset for...

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