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Report:Mobile Solution Architecture: User Authentication Is The Foundation Of Mobile Trust

Start Small And Keep An Eye On The Breadth Of Your Future Mobile Scenarios

User authentication is a key foundation of security for mobile apps — as it is for application security in general. Determining which authentication approach to use for your mobile solution...

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Report:API Management For Security Pros

Security professionals increasingly must respond to the needs of business owners exploring web application programming interfaces (APIs) as a new channel for recognizing business value. APIs can...

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Report:TechRadar™ For Security Pros: Zero Trust Identity Standards, Q3 2012

Road Map: The Identity And Access Management Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's solution to help security and risk (S&R) leaders develop their road map of IAM processes using Forrester's TechRadar™ methodology. The extended enterprise...

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Report:Application Control: An Essential Endpoint Security Component

It's no mystery that antivirus (AV) technologies are fighting a losing battle against an increasingly sophisticated malware threat landscape. Attackers often penetrate user endpoints with new malware...

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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:The Extended Enterprise: A Security Journey

Extend Assurance Downstream To Customers And Upstream To Suppliers

The extended enterprise is here, but current security architectures are ill-suited for the task of securing the extended ecosystem. Security and risk professionals must adopt a new mindset for...

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Report:Protecting Enterprise APIs With A Light Touch

By 2012, OAuth Will Be The Incumbent Cloud API Security Solution

Enterprises face a tension between the cloud-friendly software environment promoted by the Web, with its easy-to-use REST interface style and proliferation of lightweight services, and the security...

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Report:Building Secure iPhone And iPad Apps

Best Practices You Must Enforce With App Developers

As consumer devices such as iPhones and iPads proliferate in the enterprise and among consumers, the number of organizations interested in custom development of mobile applications is steadily on the...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Database Auditing And Real-Time Protection, Q2 2011

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...

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Report:Application Security: 2011 And Beyond

Organizations Remain Tentative In Application Security Investment

Application security is an essential tool for managing risks in today's increasingly dynamic and capable threat landscape. Yet the market for application security remains small, and organizations are...

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Report:Inquiry Spotlight: Security And Risk, Q1 To Q4 2010

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...

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Report:Forrsights: The Evolution Of IT Security, 2010 To 2011

Cybersecurity And Services Fuel The Next Phase Of Market Growth

In Q3 2010, Forrester surveyed 2,058 IT security decision-makers at North American and European small businesses and enterprises to gauge the current state and identify the key trends and future...

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Report:The Seven Qualities Of Wildly Desirable Software

To Deliver Extraordinary Software, Design To Balance These Seven Qualities

Great software applications seldom happen by accident: Wise design decisions are the key. Yet many application development teams only design for one, two, or three of these qualities, and others have...

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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:Twelve Recommendations For Your 2011 Security Strategy

Governance, Maturity, And Analytics Are The Major Themes For 2011

Every winter Forrester outlines 12 important recommendations for your security strategy for the coming year. We base these recommendations on hundreds of client inquiries, numerous consulting...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Security And The Cloud

Looking At The Opportunity Beyond The Obstacle

Concerns about security are the most prominent reasons that organizations cite for not adopting cloud services. Therefore, creating more comprehensive security capabilities is a prerequisite for...

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Report:The Security Of B2B: Enabling An Unbounded Enterprise

Rethinking And Redesigning B2B Security Architecture For Today's Tech Innovations

Many security and risk professionals seek to implement fine-grained security controls that span traditional boundaries and perimeters for their organizations. Businesses today have global operations...

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Report:Web Application Firewall: 2010 And Beyond

WAF+ Finds Its Place In Firms' Network Infrastructure

Having been thrust into the spotlight by payment card industry (PCI) data security standard (DSS) requirements three years ago, Web application firewall (WAF) — a technology that detects and...

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Report:The State Of SMB IT Security And Emerging Trends: 2009 To 2010

Business Data Services North America And Europe

Security spending for small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) has been faring relatively well through the economic downturn, and budgets appear to be strengthening, most notably in the area of new...

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Report:The State Of Enterprise IT Security And Emerging Trends: 2009 To 2010

Business Data Services North America And Europe

IT security investment has been faring relatively well through the economic downturn, and budgets appear to be strengthening, most notably in the area of new product purchases. Data security and...

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Report:Know Your Code: How Static Analysis Tools Make Applications More Secure

Many companies, besieged by audit findings and application vulnerabilities, recognize the benefits of eliminating security vulnerabilities early in the software life cycle. For this reason, static...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Identity And Access Management, Q4 2009

Oracle, CA, And IBM Lead, With Novell And Sun Microsystems Close Behind

In Forrester's 79-criteria evaluation of identity and access management (IAM) vendors, we found that Oracle, CA, and IBM lead the pack because of a rich IAM portfolio (both organically developed and...

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Report:SOA Security 2009: Four Solution Patterns

A Two-Dimensional Continuum For Diverse SOA Security Solutions

Architects crafting their organization's strategy and architecture for service-oriented architecture (SOA) security have a wide diversity of security requirements, business scenarios, and application...

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Report:SOA Security 2009: Products And Specifications

Selecting Standards, Specifications, And Products For SOA Security

As enterprise architects set their organization's strategy for service-oriented architecture (SOA) security, they will have to filter through a variety of standards, emerging specifications, and...

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