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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 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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For Security & Risk Professionals

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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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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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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For Security & Risk Professionals

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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For Security & Risk Professionals

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 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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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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For Security & Risk Professionals

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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For Security & Risk Professionals

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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For Security & Risk Professionals

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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For Security & Risk Professionals

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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For CIO Professionals

Report:Embedded Security For An IP-Enabled World

We live in a world where an increasing number devices and objects — from medical implantable devices to cars — come with sensors to communicate with each other and transmit information to...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

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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For Security & Risk Professionals

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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For Security & Risk Professionals

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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For Security & Risk Professionals

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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Branch Office Infrastructure Capabilities Road Map

It is possible to greatly reduce the complexity of your branch office infrastructure, thanks to cheaper bandwidth, desktop virtualization, and cloud computing technologies such as...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

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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For Security & Risk Professionals

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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For Security & Risk Professionals

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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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Market Overview: Smart Grid Security Vendors

Utility CISOs Can Take Immediate Steps To Decrease Their Risk

"Smart grids" are the modernization and digitization of aging, inefficient, and unreliable power grids. Smart grids will bring many tangible benefits to both home and business energy consumers, such...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Network Access Control Predictions: 2011 And Beyond

Standalone NAC Offerings Will Continue Their Slow Demise

In 2010, Forrester saw modest growth in network access control (NAC) adoption. Nothing will change in 2011. While many security organizations report interest in NAC adoption, only 10% plan to...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Inquiry Spotlight: SaaS, H1 2010

Clients Are Asking More Sophisticated Questions On SaaS

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) buyers are no longer asking just: "What is SaaS?" "Who offers SaaS?" and "Is SaaS secure?" Inquiries to Forrester in the first half of 2010 show that SaaS buyers are now...

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