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Start Small And Keep An Eye On The Breadth Of Your Future Mobile Scenarios
User authentication is a key foundation of security for mobile apps — as it is for application security in general. Determining which authentication approach to use for your mobile solution...

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...

Social media is a security and risk nightmare — it's used everywhere, all the time, by everyone both outside and inside your organization. Although social media offers potentially great...

Why The Next Internet Revolution Is Much More Alarming Than The Last
There is a revolution happening right now; innovative organizations are planning how they can merge the physical and digital worlds to bring new products and experiences to their customers. At the...

It's no mystery that antivirus (AV) technologies are fighting a losing battle against an increasingly sophisticated malware threat landscape. Attackers often penetrate user endpoints with new malware...

Addressing Organizational Behavior Is Key To Driving Vendor Sales
IT security investments have increased over the past two to three years in India, and security budgets continue to grow. However, Forrester believes that a significant portion of security spending is...

Road Map: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution to help security and risk (S&R) leaders develop their road map for Zero Trust network threat mitigation technologies using Forrester's TechRadar™...

Even as social media adoption surges across the enterprise, security and risk (S&R) professionals have yet to fully understand and mitigate associated legal, compliance, and security risks. S&R...
SaaS Values Are Established, And Vendors Move Quickly To Capture Market Share
Content security products enable organizations to protect against email- and web-borne threats, enforce acceptable use policies, and guard against data leak risks. SaaS delivery has been a game...
Cybersecurity And Services Fuel The Next Phase Of Market Growth
In Q3 2010, Forrester surveyed 2,058 IT security decision-makers at North American and European small businesses and enterprises to gauge the current state and identify the key trends and future...
Grading Last Year's Predictions, Plus Three Trends For Next Year
Forrester predicted four major content security trends entering 2009. So how'd we do? We got three right, one half-right, and none wrong. As predicted, the market saw a tremendous amount of...
An Empowered Report: Getting Past Cloud Security Fear Mongering
At Forrester's Security Forum 2010 in Boston, Eran Feigenbaum, director of security, Google Apps; and Archie Reed, chief technologist for cloud security at HP, joined me on stage for a keynote panel...
This highlight deck summarizes the key findings related to online security and privacy from Forrester's Latin American Technographics Online Survey, Q4 2009 (Mexico, Brazil). This is the second...
Forrester's market momentum overview assists vendor strategists tracking the evolution of the IT security market and gathering intelligence about company activities. In the second half of 2009, we...

Like most financial institutions, Canada's CIBC is looking for ways to increase consumers' security and trust while banking online. CIBC recently began offering online banking customers free...
The rise of freeware represents one of the most disruptive forces to hit the consumer security market. Free solutions of good quality have changed the market dynamic from one where original equipment...
As the nature of cyber threats has evolved, consumers' definition of security and their expectations of solutions have been changing as well. With the rise of account compromise and identity theft as...
Forrester's market momentum overview assists vendor strategy professionals in tracking the evolution of the IT security market and in gathering intelligence about the major activities in that...
The news is filled with reports of networks attacks and stolen data. Consumers routinely undergo the stress of fraudulent charges or compromised credit cards. Terms such as "botnet" have become part...
Consumers Are Getting More Security-Savvy, More Concerned, And Less Trusting
To understand the state of consumers' attitudes and behavior with regard to online security and privacy and how it is changing, Forrester recently surveyed more than 4,600 online adults in North...
Users Now Have Broader Functionality Suites To Choose From
In late 2008, the content security market saw a number of mergers and acquisitions. McAfee acquired Secure Computing, Symantec acquired MessageLabs, Marshal merged with 8e6, and Sophos acquired...
How Vendor Strategists Should View A Critical But Complex Segment Of Security
The risks of theft, corruption, and abuse have made securing data stored on servers and in databases not only more important and relevant to businesses than ever — but also much harder. To help...
Database Monitoring Tools Thrive; Classification Tools Try To Survive
The risks of theft, corruption, and abuse have made securing data stored on servers and in databases much harder. To help security and risk professionals plan their next decade of investments in...
Websense And McAfee/Secure Computing Lead, With Trend Micro, Cisco, Symantec/MessageLabs, And McAfee Trailing As Strong Performers
Forrester evaluated leading Web filtering technology vendors across 53 criteria and found that Websense and McAfee/Secure Computing lead the pack because of their broad functionality and focused...
Websense Leads, With Symantec, McAfee/Secure Computing, And Trend Micro Close Behind
Forrester evaluated content security suite vendors, using a 41-criteria evaluation, partially based on the results of The Forrester Wave™: Email Filtering, Q2 2009 and The Forrester...