Jinan Budge

One of the three principles of high-performance IT (HPIT) is to build trust on a foundation of security, privacy, and resilience. As a CIO, executing your strategy will be much easier if you unleash the talent of the person who plays an outsized role in building a trusted business: your chief information security officer (CISO). […]

We started our evaluation of human risk management solutions knowing that vendors and customers were at different stages of adoption. We faced resistance – the level of which depended on where vendors were in achieving their own vision of HRM.

Learn how to build, improve, repair, or elevate your relationship with your technology counterparts in this preview of our upcoming Security & Risk Summit in Baltimore, December 9–11.

APAC CISOs face many common workplace challenges and have similar opportunities as in other roles, but in addition, they encounter lesser-discussed gender, cultural, and geographic impacts that affect the CISO role.

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.

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

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.

The cybersecurity industry continues to focus almost exclusively on technology at the expense of dealing with the heart of cyberdefenses: the people. Yet the stress of expectations, limited resources, and detriments to well-being continues to cause havoc with the mental and physical health, productivity, and retention of the cybersecurity workforce.

Get six key learnings about Southeast Asia cybersecurity trends and challenges following a series of roundtables with CISOs and security leaders in the region.

The market that used to be called the security awareness and training (SA&T) is now human risk management. This blog explains why.

What should APAC CISOs look for from cybersecurity consulting providers? Find out in our latest Wave report which evaluates the 10 most significant cybersecurity consulting providers in Asia Pacific.

Women remain underrepresented in the tech and security fields. Get five tips from the recent T&I APAC ForrWomen session on how to change that in your organization.

Find which Forrester research can help navigate, manage, and prepare for the newly announced Australian Cyber Security Strategy.

Learn what's creating the silos between technology and security teams and how to avoid or remove them.

Our research in 2020 dissected the causes of toxicity in cybersecurity and outlined that, in a practical sense, a toxic culture in cybersecurity looks like a team rife with infighting, unhappiness, and aggression between team members. Not only will this cultivate an unpleasant environment, but it also has the potential to ruin your security team’s […]

Get practical tips for building a stronger security culture by influencing three key stakeholder groups.

Forrester started covering Zero Trust (ZT) adoption in APAC in early 2020, when Zero Trust was largely touted as a buzzword in our region. At the time, this inaugural APAC-specific ZT research showed that, while ZT was already mainstream in the US and Europe, it was slowly but surely gaining adoption in APAC. Fast-forward two […]

Forrester predicted that in 2023, a Global 500 firm will be exposed for burning out its cybersecurity employees. In 2022, we saw at a very practical level in Australia that weaknesses in our cyberdefenses can impact society at mass levels. Impacts of breaches at Optus, Medibank, EnergyAustralia, and MyDeal include fines, exposure of millions of […]

In the spirit of Festivus, I’m airing my grievances and demonstrating my feats of strength. I don’t know about you, but I didn’t enter 2022 with a full tank. I started the year by joining the hordes of people revenge-travelling/shopping/connecting/renovating (I know!). It’s no wonder I feel utterly exhausted. It’s also no wonder that I […]