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Shift happens. As a Security & Risk professional, you need to deal with the consequences. We've been discussing "change" for years: how the future of IT will bring dramatic changes to workplace dynamics, sourcing models, and application portfolios. But change is no longer hypothetical — it's real. We need to move beyond discussions of the economy plunging into free fall and the resulting decrease in budgets, jobs, and discretionary security projects. Instead, you need to understand how to navigate the new security reality in today’s topsy-turvy business climate. To get started, you must master three major shifts: 1) a shift in business expectations; 2) a shift in ownership; and 3) a shift in security architecture.

Forrester's Security Forum will bring together industry experts and analysts to hold practical sessions, panels, and workshops on today’s most difficult security and risk management (SRM) struggles. Together, we will work to rethink the role of security within your enterprise by finding ways to get close to the business; create efficiencies with governance, risk, and compliance (GRC); establish the right set of priorities; and implement an architecture that responds to these security shifts.

Every keynote, track session, panel, and One-On-One Meeting with an analyst will help you explore how CISOs and SRM have shifted. We’ve designed the Event to help you rethink your practice to account for the:

• Shift in expectations. In the next 12 months, you’ll need to modernize your SRM practice — in a world where security budgets are flat or down. You must reevaluate how you are communicating with your business peers, streamline your organizational structure, examine your staff to make sure you’re hiring and developing the right security talent, and even reassess your own skills and leadership capabilities. In this track, we will help you realign expectations, by presenting the latest best practices on SRM org structures and improved metrics that measure and demonstrate value to the business. We'll also help you identify the emerging skill gaps and help you keep and recruit top talent.
• Shift in ownership. A new generation of outsourcing and the consumerization of IT are usurping control from IT. The introduction of cloud computing gives IT the flexibility to tactically outsource IT services. At the same time, your workforce is demanding more flexibility, and employees sporting consumer-grade gear are eroding traditional security controls. The result? You don't own your data anymore. To help, we'll get you up to speed on how to govern and secure data housed with external providers and employees, rethink new outsourcing and employee contracts, embrace Tech Populism, extend audit controls to third parties, and determine which security services belong in the cloud.
• Shift in security architecture. An unbounded enterprise requires a unique approach to security architecture. Enterprises bemoaning the weakening security perimeter need to think about how to architect an IT environment that embraces cloud computing, hosted services, Web 2.0, consumer devices, and virtualized assets. We’ll provide you with the tools and frameworks to learn how identity and access management, data security, and the evolution of the security operations center plug into this architecture. And we will show you how to do all this while not only controlling costly compliance requirements but using them as a basis for building a resilient security foundation.

Who Should Attend?

Forrester's Security Forum is aimed at improving the effectiveness and success of Security & Risk professionals. This event also draws attendance from the following roles:

• Infrastructure & Operations professionals
• CIOs
• Enterprise Architecture professionals

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Why Attend?

• The quality of the Forrester keynotes. Forrester's presentations are backed by thousands of interviews with technology leaders, business executives, and vendors.
• Exclusive audiences. Forrester Forum attendees include executives from the highest organizational levels.
• Integration of organizational, technological, and business issues. Forrester Forums provide a comprehensive understanding of the challenges ahead and how your company can overcome them.
• One-on-one meetings with Forrester analysts. Speak one-on-one with Forrester analysts about all aspects of security, from selecting technology to building sustainable security processes and organizations.