Amy DeMartine

Each year, Forrester Research and the Disaster Recovery Journal (DRJ) team up to launch a study examining the state of business resiliency. We alternate between two resilience domains each year: IT disaster recovery and business continuity. This is the year of business continuity! The last joint survey we did was right in the middle of […]

Learn some of the common shortfalls of corporate emissions reduction targets and how you can craft a greenhouse gas target that withstands stakeholder scrutiny.

The green market revolution gives businesses an historic opportunity for new environmentally sustainable products and services for everything. Learn more in this blog post.

Forrester’s research team reviews the major business implications of the Inflation Reduction Act.

We should be taking confident and courageous strides toward creating future-generation-safe companies through purposeful actions such as reducing carbon through efficient and clean energy usage, minimizing water usage, expanding the use of sustainable raw materials, and increasing recyclable packaging while decreasing packaging altogether. These actions would support the overall theme this year of “Invest In […]

Forrester has long promoted sustainability practices and believes that firms must move to be future-generation-safe. Discover why and how.

La Journée de la Terre est différente cette année parce que les risques climatiques croissants et les demandes d'action climatique transforment la planète et décarbonisent l'économie.

Just over a year after the global pandemic began, Earth Day is upon us again. The reason this year feels different is because it is. Empowered consumers demand sustainability transformation, and a record number of brands have responded in a big way by announcing net-zero or carbon-neutral commitments, establishing targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions […]

Jump scares are those crazy moments in films, video games, horror films, or haunted attractions that are usually preceded by a quiet moment and have you involuntarily jumping. You are responding to a rush of adrenaline. Here’s an unexpected one in the movie “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” where scary […]

The COVID-19 pandemic unequivocally changed how employers think the workforce could and should look like. As firms have been growing more acclimated to the “new normal,” insider threats, breaches, and employee unrest are on the rise. You need to know which security vendors fit your needs and which strategies to take. As we head into month […]

Each year, Forrester Research and the Disaster Recovery Journal team up to launch a study examining the state of business resiliency. We focus on a different, rotating resiliency domain each year: IT disaster recovery, business continuity, or overall enterprise risk management. As is fitting for 2020, this is the year of business continuity! In this […]

From the Intel-McAfee deal to the Sony Pictures breach, VP and Principal Analyst Jeff Pollard reviews the past decade’s cybersecurity highlights and lowlights.

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby” Fall is officially upon us. Leaves are piling up in our yards, and there is a chill in the air. As everyone digs their sweaters and jackets out of the back of their wardrobes, think about […]

Walk the show floor at any security event, and you will be inundated with a multitude of purportedly cutting-edge and disruptive security technologies. When every vendor claims that their solution is unique, and that no security program would be complete without it, how do you cut through the noise to pinpoint what you must pay […]

Each year at our Privacy & Security Forums, we run a session called “Hackers Versus Executives.” In this session, we ask a hacker to cause mayhem and then stop at different points in the attack to ask executives what their responses are. This year, we attacked applications, including containerized and serverless applications. Two months ago, […]

Next year, the biggest challenges to the cybersecurity industry will come from outside forces. In 2019, geopolitical trends will reintroduce old enemies and escalate issues of cyberespionage and sabotage. As criminals follow the money — as they are wont to do — they will use emerging technologies to go after commerce in a BIG way. […]

This blog post is part of Forrester’s Holiday 2018 retail series. By now, you have laid out plans for your holiday sales season in hopes of exceeding customer expectations and sales targets. This includes updates to your websites and mobile apps, reward programs for your loyal customers, and adjustments to ads and sale prices as the […]

Facebook Loses More User Data (This Time Unintentionally) Facebook announced that it experienced a breach this week that lost 50 million users’ data. Ironically, the breach happened in part due to exploited bugs in three features developed to give users more control over their privacy. Some quick key lessons to take away from this breach: […]

Bad Bots Are Affecting Your Company More Than You Might Think Every online customer touchpoint — including websites, mobile apps, and APIs — is being attacked by bots. What are these bad bots doing? Interrupting good customer traffic, committing fraud, and stealing information — just ad fraud alone is set to exceed $3.3 billion in 2018! If all […]