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Report:Develop A Two-Phased DDoS Mitigation Strategy

Protect Yourself From Hacktivists And Other Cybercriminals

Until recently, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks had been part of infosec lore: something you heard about but rarely experienced. With the rise of hacktivist groups and other...

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Report:Seven Habits Of Highly Effective Incident Response Teams

Assessment: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook

Given the continued metastasizing of the threat landscape, it comes as no surprise that enterprises should possess mature incident response capabilities that are built on staff, augmented by...

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Report:Reinvent Security Awareness To Engage The Human Firewall

Change Management: The S&R Practice Playbook

For too long, creating security awareness has been an afterthought, something CISOs did in their spare time after putting out the operational fires that sprang up around them with alarming...

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Report:Build A Strategic Security Program And Organization

Strategic Plan: The S&R Practice Playbook

This report outlines the strategic vision of Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) professionals looking to build a high-performance security program and organization. This report is...

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Report:Top 15 Trends S&R Pros Should Watch: Q2 2013

From frantic security operations problems to the changing threat landscape, CISOs, senior security leaders, and other IT risk management leaders consistently have trouble keeping up with key trends...

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Report:Simplify Identity And Access Management Processes To Reduce Costs, Increase Business Efficiency, And Make Users Happy

Policy And Procedures: The Identity And Access Management Playbook

This report outlines the process and procedures of Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) professionals looking to build their identity and access management (IAM) strategy. S&R...

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Report:Designate Clear Lines Of Risk And Compliance Accountability

Organization: The Governance, Risk, And Compliance Playbook

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) encompass an incredibly broad set of functions for organizations in any geography, in any industry. In fact, almost all employees play some role in helping...

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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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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Information Security Consulting Services, Q1 2013

Ernst & Young, Deloitte, IBM, Accenture, PwC, And KPMG Lead, With Wipro Following Close Behind

The information security consulting market is growing explosively because security and risk professionals often lack the skill and bandwidth to accomplish their increasingly difficult mission. To...

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Report:Maximize Business Performance With A World-Class GRC Program

Executive Overview: The Governance, Risk, And Compliance Playbook

Unexpected events are at best distracting and at worst catastrophic for an organization as it strives to meet its objectives. Risk and compliance professionals must help their colleagues anticipate...

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Report:Cultivate A Compliance And Risk Management Culture For Sustained Performance

Continuous Improvement: The Governance, Risk, And Compliance Playbook

When you're challenged by a constantly changing regulatory landscape, business environment, and risk profile, it's easy to overlook the critical role corporate culture plays in keeping compliance and...

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Report:Five Steps To Build An Effective Threat Intelligence Capability

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...

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Report:Understand Security And Risk Budgeting For 2013

Benchmarks: The S&R Practice Playbook

The global downturn has constrained security budgets for several years now, and chief information security officers (CISOs) have become accustomed to taking on more responsibilities without...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Emerging Managed Security Service Providers, Q1 2013

Ten Emerging Service Providers That Have The Chops To Be Your Managed Security Service Provider

In Forrester's 15-criteria evaluation of the emerging managed security services provider (MSSP) market, we identified the 10 most significant providers in this category — Alert Logic; CompuCom;...

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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:Measure The Effectiveness Of Your Security Architecture And Operations

Performance Management: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook

Information security programs have struggled with legitimacy with senior leaders for a long time. There are many reasons for this, but they all can be traced back to the historical inability of chief...

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Report:Build Security Into Your Network's DNA: The Zero Trust Network Architecture

Strategic Plan: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook

One of our goals with Zero Trust is to optimize the security architectures and technologies for future flexibility. As we move toward a data-centric world with shifting threats and perimeters, we...

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Report:Defend Your Data From Mutating Threats With A Zero Trust Network

Executive Overview: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook

We've all heard about the "evolving threat landscape." In biology, evolution is a process that takes millions of years to occur as a result of small changes in successive generations. Mutations, on...

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Report:Determine The Business Value Of An Effective Security Program — Information Security Economics 101

Business Impact: The S&R Practice Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's approach to helping you financially model information security. In today's seemingly never-ending cycle of new technologies, cyberthreats, and regulations, it's...

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Report:Assess Your Identity And Access Management Maturity

Assessment Framework: The Identity And Access Management Playbook

An identity and access management (IAM) maturity model is necessary for assessing your current state against industry best practices, understanding your performance relative to that of your peers,...

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Report:Evolve Your Identity Strategy For The Extended Enterprise

Executive Overview: The Identity And Access Management Playbook

The rapid adoption of mobile devices and cloud services, together with a multitude of new partnerships and customer-facing applications, has "extended" the identity boundary of today's enterprise....

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Report:Understand The State Of Data Security And Privacy: 2012 To 2013

Benchmarks: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook

This report outlines the benchmarks for Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) professionals looking to develop their organization's data security and privacy strategy. Throughout the year,...

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Report:Identify And Influence Data Security And Privacy Stakeholders

Stakeholder Needs: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's solution for security and risk executives seeking to develop a data privacy and protection program and gain stakeholder support. As a security and risk (S&R)...

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Report:Job Description: Chief Privacy Officer

Skills And Staffing: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook

This report discusses skills and staffing implications of Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) professionals to act in developing their organization's data security and privacy strategy....

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Cloud Identity And Access Management, Q3 2012

Six Vendors That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

In Forrester's 15-criteria evaluation of cloud identity and access management (IAM) vendors, we identified the six most significant solution providers in this category — Covisint, Lighthouse...

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