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Blog:Three Barriers Holding Back CIOs

Today, with technology embedded in virtually every business process and market dynamics changing at a mind-boggling pace, the role of CIO is rapidly changing from a technology manager to a business...

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Report:Twelve Recommendations For Your 2011 Security Strategy

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...

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Report:Assess Your Security Program With Forrester's Information Security Maturity Model

Assessment Framework: The S&R Practice Playbook

This report outlines the assessment framework associated with Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) executives. The report is designed to help CISOs as they continue working their way...

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For Chief Information Officer Professionals

Blog:The New CIO — Embrace The Empowered Era Or Step Aside

  Today, 22% of employees say that they have used a non-IT-provisioned service over the Web to perform their job function —not to update their Facebook accounts, but to do real work.[i]...

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Tool:The Majority Of Security Leaders Still Report To IT

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Tool:Forrester Wave™: Information Security And Risk Consulting, Q3 '10

For Security & Risk Professionals

Tool:Three Major Themes For 2011: Governance, Maturity, And Analytics

For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Q&A: Cyberinsurance Fundamentals For Security And Risk Professionals

The cyberinsurance market has existed for longer than most would guess. In fact, insurance companies wrote the first cyberinsurance policies more than a decade ago. Since cyberinsurance first emerged...

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Tool:Forrester Wave™: Managed Security Services, Q3 2010

For Chief Information Officer Professionals

Blog:CIOs: Collaborate With Your Peers And Forrester Analysts To Discuss, Debate And Shape Your Ideas

Last week, Forrester launched its CIO Role Community, a place for CIOs (and other IT leaders) exclusively to engage in conversations and discussions with their peers. This community will also...

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Blog:Empowered BT: A Road Map For CIOs

As you may know, I recently was named the Research Director for our CIO team — a team of highly accomplished and experienced analysts at Forrester. One of our first tasks as a team was to...

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Tool:Security Hiring Outpaces Other IT Roles

For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:CISO Handbook: Ten Tips For Building A Successful Security Steering Committee

As information security matures into a formal discipline, it needs formal governance mechanisms. Over the past 12 months, Forrester has seen increased interest and activity in establishing security...

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Tool:Evaluated Providers: Vendor Information And Selection Criteria

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Tool:Security Prioritization Over The Years

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Information Security And Risk Consulting Services, Q3 2010

Deloitte Leads The Pack, With PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, And Accenture Close Behind

In Forrester's 75-criteria evaluation of information security and risk consulting service providers, we found that Deloitte led the pack because of its maniacal customer focus and deep technical...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Introducing The Forrester BT Leadership Maturity Model

A Self-Assessment Framework To Focus And Accelerate Your Transformation

Many CIOs struggle to answer two deceptively simple questions: 1) How are we doing, and 2) what should I prioritize? These questions invite a host of complexities, raising questions about the role of...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Empowered BT CIO

A Road Map For CIOs To Succeed In An Empowered World

Many pundits are writing the CIO's obituary. Your employees and the business are no longer relying on IT to provision and deliver technology. They are using technologies like social, mobile, cloud,...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:The New Threat Landscape: Proceed With Caution

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...

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Report:Spotlight On Security Service Providers For The US Government

Firms Must Improve The Maturity Of Their Services To Remain Relevant

While it hasn't always been seen in the past as the earliest adopter of information security technologies or the largest market for information security services, the US federal government is...

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Blog:Dell To Acquire SecureWorks

Dell announced Tuesday its intent to acquire managed security services provider (MSSP) SecureWorks for an undisclosed amount. SecureWorks, which acquired VeriSign's Managed Security Services...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Managed Security Services, Q3 2010

In Forrester's 78-criteria evaluation of managed security services providers (MSSP), we found that IBM and SecureWorks led the pack because of flexibility, competency, and breadth of coverage. While...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Forrester BT Leadership Maturity Model

The Forrester BT Leadership Maturity Model consists of four domains (leadership, strategy and planning, BT service design, and BT service delivery). This model is designed to provide a brief...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:The Forrester Information Security Maturity Model

The Forrester Information Security Maturity Model is a framework that consists of four main security domains (oversight, technology, process, and people) with 25 functions and 123 low-level...

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Blog:Disruptive CIOs Focus On Business Outcomes

The Renaissance was possible because of dissemination of ideas from the later 15th century. The availability of paper and the subsequent invention of the printing press in 1445 forever changed the...