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Connie is a member of Forrester's Business Technology Futures team, which serves CIOs and their business partners by predicting the long-term business impact of information technology. Her research focus is on smart computing and analytics.
Connie came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group in 2003. She has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry and has been an analyst for 19 years. Most of her research focuses on business process management and business optimization. Prior to joining Giga, Connie managed BIS Strategic Decisions' European IT consulting group, headquartered in the UK. Before then, Connie was vice president of product marketing at TDC (now part of BancTec), a manufacturer of high-end document capture systems. She was also a manager with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), specializing in document management, document imaging, and end user computing. Earlier, Connie was with Wang Laboratories, where she managed Wang's technical support resources for the US Department of Defense and intelligence agencies. She began her career in IT and management at Mathematica Policy Research.
Connie was the co-champion of Forrester's 2009 Business Technology Forum, with its theme of "Lean: The New Business Technology Imperative." Connie also co-championed Forrester's 2007 Technology Leadership Forum, with the theme of "Design for People, Build for Change," and Forrester's 2008 Technology Leadership Forum, themed as "Embrace Technology Chaos, Deliver Business Results." Connie is a widely sought speaker. She has keynoted at many industry events, chaired 10 business process and workflow conferences in Europe and the US, and co-chaired Giga's "Leveraging Knowledge" conference. Connie also served as a director of AIIM International, the premier association for the content management industry, and is a member of the Association of Business Process Management Professionals.
Connie attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds a B.A. in political science and history from East Carolina University and an M.B.A. in information systems from George Washington University.
Get Off The Bench And Look Into Your Virtual Environment
In today's data centers, IT often virtualizes new applications and workloads by default. Virtualization is the norm; deploying a physical server is the exception. The technology is mature and...

Organization: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook
This report outlines the organizational implications of Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) executives working to rethink their security architecture and improve the effectiveness of...
A Review Of Budgets, Spending Intentions, Technology Adoption, And Key Trends
To help Forrester clients with their content security strategy for 2011, Forrester predicted three significant trends. So how'd we do? We got two correct and one half right. As expected, content...

Get Off The Bench And Look Into Your Virtual Environment
On Monday the Wall Street Journal ran a story on hacking back titled, “Support Grows to Let Cybertheft Victims Hack Back.” The article describes a growing desire to permit the...
We have several questions: 1) How do companies manage employee Internet access? 2) How do they authenticate employees? 3) How do they block access to unwanted applications? 4) How can we block...
I'm looking for an industry-standard definition of an "intrusion," including examples, scope, and scale if applicable. We have reporting obligations to the FBI and DSS for cyber intrusions.
An Effective Incident Management Program Is Essential To Help You Stay In Business
It's not a question of if — but when — your organization will experience a serious security breach. Cybercriminals are using more sophisticated and targeted attacks to steal everything...
I am very excited to introduce my first Forrester report, "The Content Security Forecast Calls For Clouds." I wrote the report to help guide your strategy on SaaS based email and web content...
"My master made me this collar. He is a good and smart master and he made me this collar so that I may speak. Squirrel!" In the Pixar film Up, squirrels frequently distract Dug the talking...
On Wednesday, American footwear company Skechers agreed to pay the US Federal Trade Commission $40 million. This settlement resulted from a series of commercials that deceived consumers claiming that...
We're looking for some information about antivirus products. What's the best technology available in the market?
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the 15th annual Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. I have attended DEFCON in the past, but never Black Hat. The conference has grown significantly...
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...
The San Francisco RSA conference is now less than two weeks away, and this year I am moderating two great panels. I thought I'd reach out and solicit suggestions for discussion. ...
The Benefits Of The SaaS Model Outweigh The Challenges
As the market for software-as-a-service (SaaS) content security continues to mature, security and risk professionals want to know if it's time for their organization to make the transition to the...

FAIL at 30,000ish feet When you fly nearly every week, you can get pretty bored on a plane. When I am sick of working, playing games, or watching movies, my latest distraction is checking...
Winter is coming; the year is quickly drawing to a close, and its time to a look back and see how accurate our content security crystal ball was for 2011. Last year we predicted three trends;...
Last week I read an article on wired.com’s Danger Room blog about the elite US military Special Forces command, JSOC. The units within the Joint Special Operations Command (Delta Force...
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...

We are excited to announce "Planning For Failure," the first collaborative report in a series of new research taking a closer look at incident management and response. A look back at the...
Could you provide information on data leak prevention (DLP) versus information rights management (IRM) solutions? Do you recommend one or the other or both? What vendors play in this space?
We have started a new report series on Cyber Threat Intelligence. The first report, "Five Steps To Build An Effective Threat Intelligence Capability," is designed to help organizations...
Today EMC announced the acquisition of Silicium Security. Silicium’s ECAT product is a malware threat detection and response solution. ECAT did not adopt the failed signature based...
The Nine Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
In Forrester's 47-criteria evaluation of email content security vendors, we identified the nine most significant vendors in the category and researched, analyzed, and scored them: Barracuda Networks,...

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...
