Jess Burn

Technology leaders woke up this morning to find that a software update by cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike had gone badly wrong. Get updates on the steps that your organization should take now and in the long term as a result of the CrowdStrike outage.

In a world of Scattered Spiders and Midnight Blizzards and UNC2452s, why is Arlington’s BEC important? Because it’s happening all the time to towns, municipalities, regional health systems, and small businesses lacking the resources to prepare for such an event.

Choosing the right cybersecurity incident response services provider comes down to three things. Learn what they are and get a preview of our new Wave report in this blog.

Cybersecurity breaches continued to rise in 2023. Learn the eight most common incident types and get four key takeaways from our new report.

RSAC gives security startups two structured opportunities to distinguish themselves, and Forrester always finds it revealing to see which startups make the cut.

More than 41,000 attendees, 600 exhibitors, and 425 sessions. Get some of the key themes and takeaways from the Forrester security & risk analysts who attended RSA Conference (RSAC) 2024.

Microsoft announced the launch date of Copilot for Security. Find out what this means for security professionals and how you can prepare.

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.

Changing tech, changing threats, and changing consequences. 2024 will be a busy year for security professionals. Get a preview of our top security recommendations for 2024 in this blog and then read our full report.

A recent cybersecurity incident at Change Healthcare cause the pharmacy claims processors to take its systems offline. Learn the implication of this event and five things firms can do to prepare.

Thanks to the widely publicized cybersecurity talent shortage, degree requirements are fading from job postings – even for US Federal contractors – and being replaced by demonstrable skills challenges, making expensive four-year programs less appealing to high school grads and those in the workforce looking for a career change. To keep up, colleges and universities are doing some rethinking of their own as many attempt to carve out a slice of the cybersecurity skills and training pie. In the process, these institutions are renaming the traditional “three Rs” of education.

The emergence of CS&T platforms ushers in a new era of upskilling and training focused not on point-in-time test prep but on continual learning, where practitioners go up against the latest attacker techniques individually or as a team to test technical skills, refine documented processes, and improve communication. They’re also using these platforms to acquire emerging skills, like prompt engineering, which are offered by many of the platforms in this evaluation.

The SEC plans to haunt CISOs with cybersecurity enforcement, but there might be a silver lining for CISOs in the SEC complaint.

Learn how investing in cybersecurity skills and training (CS&T) platforms can help overcome the cybersecurity skills gap in this preview of the upcoming Forrester Security & Risk Forum.

Should CISOs fend off Microsoft to keep their preferred products or embrace consolidation? Find out in this blog.

Email security appliances have come a long way in the past 20 years. Learn the benefits of cloud-delivered email security.

Black Hat USA 2023: Insights From Our Short Vegas Residency Black Hat has gone from being RSAC’s smaller tech and practitioner-focused cousin to being a commercial showcase for cybersecurity vendors. A tightly packed, noisy Business Hall included over 300 vendors and 400 organizations with booths, which was great for swag but bad for anyone with […]

The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Email Security, Q2 2023, is live! Practically dormant for a decade, the enterprise email security market has sprung to life, with mass customer migration to cloud email, rapid adoption of machine learning, and the widespread use of APIs to connect systems, bolster platforms, and share data. These aligning market forces are […]

Last week, we published Forrester’s third CISO Career Paths report. This research involved an analysis of the career paths of Fortune 500 CISOs, looking into their education, tenures, and prior experiences of security leaders at some of the world’s largest companies. This data showcases existing trends and helps forecast what CISO roles will look like […]