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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,...

In 2011, marketer-collected data — specifically email addresses — became the target of highly sophisticated hacking scams launched against businesses and email marketing service...
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...
A New Way For Emailers To Defend Themselves Against Email Fraud
Hundreds of brands are hijacked by phishing scams every month, costing companies and ultimately their end customers billions. And existing methods to fight phishing like email authentication...
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™...

SaaS Values Are Established, And Vendors Move Quickly To Capture Market Share
Content security products enable organizations to protect against email- and web-borne threats, enforce acceptable use policies, and guard against data leak risks. SaaS delivery has been a game...
How To Protect Your Email Data
In facing security woes such as the Epsilon breach, email marketing professionals have received a wake-up call: Security failures can cost a lot — not just a lot of money but also goodwill with...
Data security isn't necessarily a sexy topic, but the impact of a recent data breach raised awareness within the email marketing industry, among consumers and Congress. To maintain consumer trust and...
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...
Grading Last Year's Predictions, Plus Three Trends For Next Year
Forrester predicted four major content security trends entering 2009. So how'd we do? We got three right, one half-right, and none wrong. As predicted, the market saw a tremendous amount of...
This highlight deck summarizes the key findings related to online security and privacy from Forrester's Latin American Technographics Online Survey, Q4 2009 (Mexico, Brazil). This is the second...
The rise of freeware represents one of the most disruptive forces to hit the consumer security market. Free solutions of good quality have changed the market dynamic from one where original equipment...
As the nature of cyber threats has evolved, consumers' definition of security and their expectations of solutions have been changing as well. With the rise of account compromise and identity theft as...
Answer Four Key Questions Before Spending Time And Treasure
Forrester enterprise customers have increasing needs to protect their enterprise data. Not every data protection challenge requires technology to address it. But when effective protection cannot be...
The news is filled with reports of networks attacks and stolen data. Consumers routinely undergo the stress of fraudulent charges or compromised credit cards. Terms such as "botnet" have become part...
Consumers Are Getting More Security-Savvy, More Concerned, And Less Trusting
To understand the state of consumers' attitudes and behavior with regard to online security and privacy and how it is changing, Forrester recently surveyed more than 4,600 online adults in North...
Users Now Have Broader Functionality Suites To Choose From
In late 2008, the content security market saw a number of mergers and acquisitions. McAfee acquired Secure Computing, Symantec acquired MessageLabs, Marshal merged with 8e6, and Sophos acquired...
Websense Leads, With Symantec, McAfee/Secure Computing, And Trend Micro Close Behind
Forrester evaluated content security suite vendors, using a 41-criteria evaluation, partially based on the results of The Forrester Wave™: Email Filtering, Q2 2009 and The Forrester...
Symantec, Cisco Systems, And McAfee/Secure Computing Lead, With Google, Symantec/MessageLabs, And Microsoft Close Behind
In late 2008, Forrester conducted an in-depth evaluation of email security filtering, based on 57 criteria. Despite the flurry of recent market acquisitions, we found that this market is still...
Content security is an issue that is consistently on the minds of IT security professionals. As organizations increasingly move toward collaboration, Web 2.0, and open architectures, content security...
North American and European IT decision-makers within enterprises and SMBs report on their 2008-2009 IT security adoption, focusing on activities they currently or want to monitor or block.
Hint: There Is No Secret, Really — Delivery Hinges On Best Practices
Ensuring that email messages make it to the inbox continues to be a critical challenge for email marketers, particularly as spam volumes increase and Internet service providers (ISPs) change their...
Companies still struggle to keep up with spam volume and attack tactics years after spam first became a serious problem, and many see a continued investment drain for spam management. To keep a step...
How Can Consumer Product Strategists Better Address Security Concerns?
The vast majority of North American online consumers that use a connected PC at home are greatly concerned about malicious code invading their PCs, becoming the next victim of identity theft, and...
This Technographics Insight takes a look at security measures taken by Internet users in Europe. It examines which types of consumers are having the most security concerns, and it gives insight in...