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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...

Tools And Technology: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook
When anxious executives ask you to improve or maintain business resiliency across the enterprise, it's likely that you'll need help. The skills and expertise required to stay on top of key trends,...
Insights From Forrester's Security & Risk Council
Every six months, Forrester's security and risk (S&R) team fields a survey to the members of its Security & Risk Council to ascertain their top priorities for the following six months. Forrester's...
Among risk professionals who have successfully navigated their organization through a crisis, almost all will say that they had grossly underestimated the difficulty of communicating effectively...
Insights From Forrester's Security & Risk Council
Every six months, Forrester's security and risk (S&R) team fields a survey to the members of its Security & Risk Council to ascertain their top priorities for the following six months. Forrester's...
Forrester's security and risk (S&R) team fields hundreds of inquiries every month. We often gauge the interest in various topics and plan our future research agenda based on this barometer. Many of...
Although disaster recovery (DR) was once considered an expensive insurance policy for rare but catastrophic events such as hurricanes and terrorist activity, Forrester survey data suggests that...
The likelihood and impact of a pandemic are impossible to predict with much accuracy. Regardless, history tells us that there is a potential for widespread and costly disruption — especially...
An overview of the people and communication trends revealed by the Forrester/Disaster Recovery Journal Business Continuity Preparedness Survey, Q4 2008.
Whether it's a power grid failure, ice storm, or Category Five hurricane, when disaster strikes, IT must have disaster recovery plans in place to ensure the continuity of IT systems that support...
But Take The BC Readiness Of Strategic Partners For Granted
Business continuity (BC) planning consists of three critical phases: business impact analysis (BIA), risk assessment (RA), and plan documentation. In our Forrester/Disaster Recovery Journal Business...
In our Forrester/Disaster Recovery Journal Business Continuity Preparedness Survey, Q4 2008, 89% of the business continuity (BC) decision-makers and influencers we surveyed said that BC had...
Finding Common Ground Among Business Continuity, IT Disaster Recovery, And Information Security
Aggressive global competition, greater service demands, more restrictive regulatory requirements, and increasingly rigid corporate oversight all raise the expectations for achieving and demonstrating...
In the highly competitive and regulated industry of mobile communications, business continuity preparedness is critical to ensuring the continuous availability of the wireless services and to...
Every year, Forrester receives more than 265 inquiries on topics related to business resiliency such as business continuity, IT continuity, IT high availability, and data backup. Between August 2007...
We receive numerous client inquiries from infrastructure and operations professionals who are considering building new data centers or leasing space from collocation providers. There are many...
Using Software To Transform BC Planning From A One-Time Event To A Program
According to Forrester's Business Technographics® May 2006 North American And European Enterprise Infrastructure And Data Center Survey, 56% of 1,017 IT decision-makers at North American and...
Starting in 2004, health plan Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota (Blue Cross) began to completely revamp its disaster recovery program. In just one year, Blue Cross eliminated $1.5 million in...