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Tools And Technology: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook
Against today's mutating threat landscape and sophisticated cybercriminals, security and risk (S&R) professionals are outgunned and outmatched. The traditional strategy of waiting for an alert and...

Policy And Procedures US Government Spotlight: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook
US federal law, specifically the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), requires US federal government agencies to adhere to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...
Business Case: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook
We may look back on 2011 and 2012 as the golden age of hacking. In 2011, we saw well-publicized and devastating attacks such as the one that brought down the Sony PlayStation Network (PSN). In 2012,...
With increasing urbanization, Asian cities will undergo rapid transformation, creating opportunities for vendors that align themselves with city-level objectives. City opportunities are growing...
How To Find The Best Opportunities In A High-Growth Market
The software market is poised to enjoy its best growth in a decade, and small software companies face great growth opportunities as their larger competitors struggle to adapt to a new world of cloud...
Smart City Governance Brings New Opportunities For Tech Providers
Interest in smart cities has taken off like wildfire. Cities of all sizes navigate the challenge — growing demand for new constituent services within increasingly constrained budgets —...

The Language Of Levels Clarifies The Value Of Assurance
Consumer-facing web applications are beginning to rely on third-party identity providers (IdPs) for user identification, authentication, and attributes delivered at runtime. This reduces costs and...
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...
Baseline Spending Allocation Figures For Comparison
During this time of year, Forrester receives a large number of requests for information about IT budget allocations. As CIOs and their planning teams engage in creating next year's IT budget, it is...
Highly publicized and allegedly state-sponsored security attacks on Google and Adobe have awakened private sector security professionals to the real threat of cyberattack. Governments at all levels...
Behavioral Marketers Should Prepare To Self-Regulate Data Practices
Concern over consumer privacy has marketers, associations, government officials, and even technology vendors hustling to find ways to manage online data so that it is comfortable to consumers and...
In the cyclical nature of increasing and decreasing industry regulations, we are clearly on an upswing. Regulators that have faced public scorn for lax oversight are reacting with newfound...
What Security Professionals Need To Know Today About Smart City Initiatives
With the promise of improved citizen services and more efficient use of scarce resources, the smart city trend is picking up momentum across the globe. A "smart city" integrates technology with...
How Biometrics Enable Smart Computing Solutions
Biometrics is already a growing market today in a variety of applications. Smart Computing will help to fuel biometrics growth as smart applications call for a greater level of security and...
This document offers a brief overview of enterprise networking in Asia for vendor strategists. Market outlooks are provided on the overall Asia Pacific market, vertical industries, and the countries...
Given the rapid development in business activity across the region, Asia Pacific has been recognized in terms of managed telecom services (MTS) adoption. As multinational organizations explore this...
This report provides comprehensive insights and practical outcomes for the Indian managed IT services market from an end user and supplier perspective that enables vendor strategists to identify...
Defining The Smart City, Its Drivers, And The Role Of The CIO
Cities are becoming "smarter," as governments, businesses, and communities increasingly rely on technology to overcome the challenges from rapid urbanization. What makes a "smart city" smart is the...
The EA team of 2009 reports high into the IT organization (either to the CIO or senior planning roles beneath the CIO), has broad acceptance and support, and spends about half its time on strategic...
Networking usage in Asia Pacific has surged in the past decade, driven by the region's large-scale economic development and its emergence as a high-potential market. Although the global economic...
Sketching The New Opportunities For IT Vendor Strategists
A new liability is coming onto the collective balance sheet of companies around the world: carbon. In the context of increasing awareness of the business and societal risks of climate change,...
Due to rapid developments in technology and the surge in business expansion, enterprise networking has assumed a pivotal position in nearly every organization's operations. Although Asia Pacific...
This report provides a comprehensive background of the India IT services market dynamics from the end user perspective in order to enable vendor strategists to address market opportunities more...
What The New Administration And Congress Are Working On Now
With the new Obama administration and a Democratic-led Congress come a new legislative agenda. The big issues prevail, such as economic recovery and healthcare reform. However, various issues that...
This document provides vendor strategists with a forecast of the market size and key trends of the enterprise network equipment in Greater China -- inclusive of the PRC, Hong Kong, and Taiwan -- for...