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Report:Five Seismic Forces Reshuffle The Workforce Vendor Ecosystem

Landscape: The Workforce Enablement Playbook

2012 brought a tectonic shift in worker technology requirements. Many more employees now purchase their own devices, bring them to work, and use them to conduct personal and professional activities...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: E-Signatures, Q2 2013

Electronic signatures are gaining momentum and becoming an increasingly popular topic of inquiries by Forrester clients. In retrospect, today's e-signature users will be seen as early adopters...

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Report:Managing Information Security In BYOT Environments In Asia Pacific

I&O Professionals Need The Right Policies, Technologies, And Skills To Secure Enterprise Data

Employees are rapidly embracing personal devices, consumer software, and public cloud services for work to increase personal productivity and efficiency, a trend that Forrester refers to as...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For Security & Risk Professionals

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:The 15 Most Important Questions To Ask Your Cloud Identity And Access Management Provider

During the past three years, cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solutions have become a viable and cost-effective alternative to on-premises, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), or...

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Report:2013 Forrester Mobile Security Predictions

The mobile market is evolving rapidly. Both the consumer and enterprise markets are experiencing major changes. Room exists for new innovations as well as for established players to develop new...

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Report:Inquiry Spotlight: Consumer-Facing Identity, Q4 2012 To Q1 2013

The challenges of consumer-facing identity management, access management, and authentication differ in ways subtle and dramatic from those of the employee-facing variety. In fact, several vendors in...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Market Overview: Endpoint Encryption Technologies, Q1 2013

Protect Your Sensitive Data With Endpoint Encryption

Security and risk (S&R) professionals often turn to endpoint encryption technologies to protect corporate data, meet regulatory requirements, and prevent accidental data leaks. Full disk and...

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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:Product Spotlight: Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012

An Evolutionary But Not Revolutionary Release

In the first half of 2012, PC shipments have dropped year-over-year as many consumers and employees find the object of their desire to be a tablet or a Mac. In addition, with virtual desktops on the...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Endpoint Security, Q1 2013

Endpoint Security Suites Take Center Stage In The Enterprise

In Forrester's 50 criteria evaluation of endpoint security vendors, we identified nine top providers in the category — F-Secure, IBM, Kaspersky, LANDesk, Lumension, McAfee, Sophos, Symantec,...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Predictions 2013: Enterprise Telecom And Mobility Challenges And Opportunities

Mobility And Video Are Now Embedded, Social To Follow

Three major trends are changing the focus of telecom and mobility sourcing: 1) mobile bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies; 2) video collaboration; and 3) the rise of social business. Although 2013...

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Report:Measure The Effectiveness Of Your Security Architecture And Operations

Performance Management: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook

Information security programs have struggled with legitimacy with senior leaders for a long time. There are many reasons for this, but they all can be traced back to the historical inability of chief...

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Report:Mobile Authentication: Is This My App? Is This My User?

Strategy Deep Dive: The Mobile Security And Operations Playbook

Mobile devices are everywhere: at work, in the hands of your customers, and with employees. Security and risk (S&R) professionals need to provide users with secure and seamless mobile access to...

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Report:The 2012 Consumer Security Market Landscape: Key Dynamics And Growth Opportunities

Freeware solutions, device proliferation, consumerization, the app Internet, and new entrants offering adjacent consumer privacy and security offerings have and will continue to change consumer...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

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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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Understand The State Of Data Security And Privacy: 2012 To 2013

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,...

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Report:Understand The State Of Network Security: 2012 To 2013

Benchmarks: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook

Throughout the year, Forrester analysts engage in hundreds of discussions with vendors and end users about security architecture and operations. Analysis of B2B survey data from Forrester's...

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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:Strategy Deep Dive: Imbibing Macs In The Enterprise

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...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

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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