Geoff Cairns

As nonhuman identities grow at breakneck speed, it may be easy to forget that the key to modern machine-identity security strategy success is its human elements. Learn more in this preview of our upcoming Security & Risk Summit.

Learn three important factors to consider when planning a privileged identity management (PIM) deployment or enhancement in this preview of our new report on the PIM solution market.

The third-largest cybersecurity M&A deal in history makes sense in some respects, but the track record on mega security and identity tie-ups is incomplete and unproven.

This year's AWS re:Inforce event included a big announcement and revealed other security-related enhancements. Read our top takeaways.

From live goats and puppies to robot dogs and animal costumes, the RSAC Conference 2025 delivered some unexpected surprises. But it also delivered the usual insight into various trends in the security market today. Find out more in this RSAC review.

Last week, password wallet vendor LastPass experienced an outage. All LastPass systems and services have since been restored and are up and running. It is worth noting that this is not the first incident involving password wallet products. Past incidents include: LastPass had an outage in 2024. PasswordState had a malicious DLL cause a breach […]

In the last two years, growing concerns around the proliferation of and advances in deepfakes has raised concerns around their potential to impede adoption of facial and voice biometrics.

Forrester's security and risk research team breaks down the key highlights and implications of former US President Joe Biden’s 2025 Executive Order (EO) 14144 on strengthening security, improving accountability for software and cloud service providers, and promoting innovation, including use of emerging technologies.

Cybersecurity platform provider CrowdStrike announced plans to acquire Adaptive Shield, a SaaS security posture management (SSPM) vendor. Some sources reported the purchase price to be around $300 million. If that purchase price is accurate, based on Forrester’s estimates of Adaptive Shield’s current revenue, that price represents an approximately 12–15x revenue multiplier and 6 times more […]

Here are the top things you need to know coming out of CrowdStrike's recently held Fal.Con user conference, just two months after its config update took down 8.5 million Windows endpoints.

Last Wednesday, we released The Forrester Wave™: Workforce Identity Platforms, Q1 2024. We looked at the top 12 vendors in the market and evaluated them across 24 criteria. Workforce identity platforms energize a centripetal (inward) force necessary to combat the centrifugal (outward) forces that challenge identity and access management (IAM) deployments in organizations today. These […]

What is Broadcom planning to do with VMware’s Carbon Black unit? Find out in this blog covering the plan to integrate Carbon Black with Broadcom's existing product lineup.

Find out what Cisco's $28 billion planned acquisition of Splunk could mean for both observability and security.

Thales announced its agreement to acquire Imperva from private equity firm Thoma Bravo for $3.6 billion, expecting to add $500 million of revenue and expand its data and application security offerings as a result. The overall cybersecurity portfolio will then be structured across three key areas: identity (Thales), data security (Thales and Imperva), and application […]

There's growing hype around generative AI in the security world, some of it warranted, some of it not so much. Learn more by reading the Forrester security and risk team’s key perspectives from RSAC 2023.

This blog outlines Forrester’s existing Security & Risk research to help organizations navigate, manage, and prepare their organizations for the implications of the National Cybersecurity Strategy.

Earlier this month, Apple announced several important new data protection features for general availability in 2023 that have numerous implications for security teams in all industries and geographies. Here is the Forrester security and risk team’s collective analysis of these new features. Quick Summary The announcement is not particularly noteworthy in terms of the newly […]

What Topics Will You Be Covering At Forrester? I am very excited to be covering identity and access management (IAM), with a focus on the workforce environment (business to employee). I will also collaborate with Forrester’s other IAM analyst, Andras Cser. Some areas and topics that I hope to explore include: How to optimize workforce […]