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Be Ready To Comply With Dynamic Regulatory Changes
Understanding the laws and regulations that govern data privacy across your organization is critical for any company, but it can be challenging. As a result, too many security and risk (S&R)...
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...

Organization: The Personal Identity Management Playbook
In anticipation of the increasing adoption of personal identity management (PIDM) tools and services, customer intelligence (CI) leaders will be held increasingly accountable for their organizations'...

Landscape: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook
This report defines and dissects the intersections and future directions of the solutions that make up the business technology (BT) resiliency landscape. It also identifies and catalogs the vendors...

Performance Management: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook
Privacy is one of the most important and emotional issues in information security. Privacy, or the lack thereof, affects a company's management, employees, and most importantly, customers. With the...

Road Map: The Business Intelligence Playbook
In the face of rising data volume and complexity and increased need for self-service, enterprises need an effective business intelligence (BI) reference architecture to utilize BI as a key corporate...

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...

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)...
Benchmarks: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook
This report outlines the benchmarks for Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) professionals looking to develop their organization's data security and privacy strategy. Throughout the year,...

Vision: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook
This report outlines the vision of Forrester's solution for infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives planning their organization's business technology (BT) resiliency strategy — the...

Stakeholder Needs: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution for security and risk executives seeking to develop a data privacy and protection program and gain stakeholder support. As a security and risk (S&R)...
Apple Mac Shops Share Their Secrets For Success
Chances are that you have employees using Apple Macs at your firm today, and they're doing this without the support and guidance of the infrastructure and operations (I&O) organization. IT...
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...

Executive Overview: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook
In today's world of 24x7x365 global operations and competition, downtime results not only in immediate lost revenue and productivity, but also in lasting damage to corporate reputation that erodes...

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...
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...

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...

Database Security Solutions Mature While The Market Consolidates
Enterprise databases continue to experience growing attacks despite enhanced security processes and increasing database security approaches. Security gaps in solutions persist in intelligent...
Unified Storage Architectures Enable Private Cloud Environments
The storage industry is undergoing a transition. Infrastructure and operations (I&O) execs know that storage is a core component of enabling private cloud environments. But to achieve cloud...
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...

This presentation discusses database security trends and drivers, current database security challenges, why enterprises should focus on an enterprisewide database security strategy, the three pillars...
"What's the difference between a backup and an archive?" and "Do I need to have separate backups and archives?" are two common questions that Forrester receives from enterprise clients. Despite the...

Road Map: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution to help IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders develop their road map of business technology (BT) resiliency tools using Forrester's...

IBM, Imperva, And Sentrigo Lead, With Application Security, Oracle, And Fortinet Close Behind
In Forrester's 147-criteria evaluation of database auditing and real-time protection vendors, we found that the market is rife with mature products. IBM, Imperva, and Sentrigo lead the pack because...
Informatica Helps Archive Data To Improve Performance And Lower Cost
Like most large organizations, EMC struggles with the performance and manageability of mission-critical applications because of increased data volume and user numbers. In the past, EMC added more...