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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: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:Strategy Deep Dive: Define Your Data

Rethinking Data Discovery And Classification For Data Security

Defining data via data discovery and classification is an often overlooked, yet critical, component of data security and control. Security and risk (S&R) pros can't expect to adequately protect data...

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Report:Know Your Data To Create Actionable Policy

Policy And Procedures: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook

Data defense is the fundamental purpose of information security. To defend your data, there are only four levers you can pull — controlling access, inspecting data usage patterns for abuse,...

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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:No More Chewy Centers: Introducing The Zero Trust Model Of Information Security

Vision: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook

There's an old saying in information security: "We want our network to be like an M&M, with a hard crunchy outside and a soft chewy center." For a generation of information security...

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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:Simplify Cybersecurity With PCI

Policy And Procedures US Government Spotlight: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook

US federal law, specifically the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), requires US federal government agencies to adhere to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...

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Report:Dissect Data To Gain Actionable INTEL

Forrester's Data Security And Control Framework

Forrester segments the problem of securing and controlling data into three areas: 1) defining the data; 2) dissecting and analyzing the data; and 3) defending and protecting the data. We refer to...

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Report:Kill Your Data To Protect It From Cybercriminals

Strategic Plan: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook

As cybercriminals have become more skillful and sophisticated, they have eroded the effectiveness of our traditional perimeter-based security controls. The constantly mutating threat landscape...

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Report:Control And Protect Sensitive Information In The Era Of Big Data

Future Look: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook

This report outlines the future look of Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) executives seeking to develop a holistic strategy to protect and manage sensitive data. In the...

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Report:Protect And Manage Your Critical Information Assets

Executive Overview: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook

Data is the lifeblood of today's digital businesses, and for economic and even political gain, highly skilled cybercriminals are determined to steal it. Meanwhile, customers around the globe have...

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Report:Develop Your Road Map For Zero Trust Network Mitigation Technology

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™...

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Report:Rethinking DLP: Introducing The Forrester DLP Maturity Grid

Assessment Framework: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook

Data loss prevention or protection (DLP) — depending upon your usage — is both one of the hottest topics and most difficult challenges among information security professionals today. In...

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Report:Planning For Failure

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...

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Report:Defend Your Business From The Mutating Threat Landscape

Business Case: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook

We may look back on 2011 and 2012 as the golden age of hacking. In 2011, we saw well-publicized and devastating attacks such as the one that brought down the Sony PlayStation Network (PSN). In 2012,...

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Report:Applying Zero Trust To The Extended Enterprise

Preparing Your Network For Any Device, Anywhere, Any Time

You are part of an extended enterprise — a new extended ecosystem of customers, clouds, service providers, partners, supply chains, and empowered users. The business expects you, the security...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Network Access Control, Q2 2011

ForeScout, Juniper, And Bradford Networks Outdistance The Pack, But Cisco, McAfee, And Enterasys Are Close Behind

In Forrester's 72-criteria evaluation of network access control (NAC) vendors, we found few notable points of differentiation between vendor offerings. Thus we have a tight clustering of vendors...

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Report:Market Overview: Intrusion Prevention Systems, Q2 2011

A Mature Space, IPS Is Still The Bulwark Of Network Security

An intrusion prevention system (IPS) complements traditional firewalls by inspecting the entire network packet looking for malicious traffic that is often invisible to Layer 3 firewalls. While...

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Report:PCI X-Ray: Patch Management

To effectively deal with the broad and complex requirements of Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security, you need to break the elements apart to provide enhanced clarity. We've designed the PCI...

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Report:Dial "H" For Hack

An Empowered Report: Understanding The Threats To Unified Communication And VoIP Deployments

In many companies, the worlds of data networking and telecommunications have merged, and voice and video traffic travels with other enterprise data on the same corporate network. Often known...

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Report:Pull Your Head Out Of The Sand And Put It On A Swivel: Introducing Network Analysis And Visibility

Essential Functionality For The Zero Trust Model Of Information Security

In today's threat environment, the network perimeter has disappeared. Insiders are as insidious a threat as outsiders. In the past, the "trust but verify" model did not facilitate insight into...

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Report:PCI X-Ray: Application Security Checklist

This is a workbook that supplements the PCI X-Ray: Application Security Document

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Report:PCI X-Ray: Application Security

To effectively deal with the broad and complex requirements of Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security, you need to break the elements apart to provide enhanced clarity. We've designed the PCI...

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Report:Q&A: Streamlining Your Patch Management Strategy

Forrester continues to receive many customer inquiries related to effective patch management of servers and endpoints. Balancing the urgency of patching with the need to minimize employee downtime...

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