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Strategic Plan: The Personal Identity Management Playbook
As personal identity management (PIDM) begins to take shape, companies must think about their customer intelligence (CI) practices differently. Today's data governance policies — the rules that...

In The Future, Encryption Will Become The Cornerstone Of Your Data Security And Privacy Strategy
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...
To help security and risk professionals navigate the complex landscape of privacy laws around the world, Forrester created a data privacy heat map that highlights the data protection guidelines and...

To help security and risk professionals navigate the complex landscape of privacy laws around the world, Forrester created a data privacy heat map that highlights the data protection guidelines and...

This presentation discusses database security trends and drivers; current database security challenges; why nonproduction environments such as test, development, Q&A, and staging are equally...

Banking IT In 2023 Becomes Banking IT Today As Well As Banking IT In 2026
Application development and delivery teams in financial services must design and select future-proof, forward-looking business applications capable of coping with future business scenarios. To...
As a security and risk professional, you're in the direct line of fire when it comes to privacy. The business expects you to: 1) understand the laws, regulations, and standards for both privacy and...
An Empowered Report: Security Pros Must Work Inside And Outside Of IT To Address The Challenges
Amid the rising trend of personally owned smartphone and tablet use in the workplace, security professionals face the tough question of how to properly manage and secure these devices. Secure...
Behavioral Marketers Should Prepare To Self-Regulate Data Practices
Concern over consumer privacy has marketers, associations, government officials, and even technology vendors hustling to find ways to manage online data so that it is comfortable to consumers and...
The consumer IT security market is entering a period of radical transition and disruption. Over the next two years, vendors will evolve their offerings to protect consumers as they fully embrace a...
Effective Management Of Social Media Can Alleviate Security Risks
The inevitable rise of social media use inside enterprises has raised many eyebrows. Corporate security and IT professionals are worried about heightened malware threats as well as increased...
Travelers' Faltering Sense Of Security Inhibits Online Sales Success
Its 2010, the Web should be safe and secure for personal information, right? Wrong. Online privacy is constantly threatened with phishing and malware attacks, and US online leisure travelers are...
Marketers Must Show Value For Consumer Information
Consumers and marketers have contradictory impressions of the value marketers provide in exchange for the consumer data they collect. Marketers claim they deliver more relevant products, services,...
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...
If your organization is interested in cloud computing, there are some key security and privacy, compliance, and legal issues that you need to broach with the service provider. To help with this...
Consumers Are No Longer Passive About Their Privacy
Despite renewed interest from Washington, D.C., regarding consumer privacy, the marketing industry continues to call for self-regulation — a concept that is given shorter shrift following its...
Marketers Must Embrace Privacy To Avoid Consumer Outcry
Despite consumer privacy concerns, the vast majority of Web sites from retailers to healthcare providers are actively tracking the behavior of online visitors. This practice is well within the rights...
Data Masking Can Help Protect Test Data
Using customer, employee, or other confidential data straight from production for testing or developing applications violates data privacy laws and regulations and makes that data a soft target for...
Stronger Measures Have Become Essential To Defend Against Growing Attacks
With increasingly sophisticated attacks and rising internal data theft, database security merits a stronger focus that goes beyond traditional authentication, authorization, and access control (AAA)....

Architectural planning for an organization's use of cloud computing products and services should focus first on the biggest differences between cloud computing and traditional computing options, and...
Net Users Still Need Security Guarantees And Incentives To Bank Online
More than half of Western Europeans who use the Internet regularly — about 92 million — bank online. Thirty-two percent of European adults could bank online but don't do so — or...
With increasing workforce mobility and the extension of the business supply chain globally, organizations are struggling to keep up with increasing corporate and regulatory compliance requirements....
Applying Five Cardinal Rules Of Information Security To Healthcare Companies
The US Congress enacted the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in 1996. The security and privacy rules took effect in 2003, but none of this really improved the overall state...
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...