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As businesses compete to win and retain customers concerned about the privacy of their data, more firms are learning the value of a robust and effective security architecture. Get benchmarks and technical guidance here.
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March To The Beat Of Zero Trust
Zero Trust has become the standard information security model to adopt globally. It’s no longer a question of should; it’s a question of how and where to begin. For some time, the topic of Zero Trust was met with disparaging and opposing views proclaiming it to be another buzzword for vendors to market products. Well, […]
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Announcing Forrester’s 2024 Security & Risk Enterprise Leadership Award Winner And Finalist
Learn more about the security strategies that helped Schneider Electric win this year’s Security & Risk Enterprise Leadership Award, which recognizes organizations that have transformed their security, privacy, and risk management functions.
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A Fresh Look At The Future Of The CISO
The role of the chief information security officer (CISO) is more vital than ever. But how are CISOs holding up under the spotlight, and how is the role changing? VP and Principal Analyst Jeff Pollard and Principal Analyst Jess Burn share some new research on the future of the CISO.
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Old Dogs Learn New Tricks — The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Firewall Solutions, Q4 2024
Contrary to expectations the enterprise firewall continues to thrive. and vendors have made significant progress in keeping up with rapid innovations. Learn more in this preview of the recently published report, The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Firewall Solutions, Q4 2024.
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Gone Are The Days Of Networking Infrastructure Choice
One outcome of internal developments or acquisitions is that networking infrastructure choice has evaporated — even if vendors claim otherwise. HPE's recent acquisition of Juniper brings this into focus.
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Predictions 2025: Security And Risk Pros Will Brace For Regulations And Resilience
With cybercrime expected to cost $12 trillion in 2025, regulators will take a more active role in protecting consumer data while organizations pivot to adopt more proactive security measures to limit material impacts. Find out more in our 2025 predictions for cybersecurity, risk, and privacy.
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Apply For The 2024 Forrester Security & Risk Summit Scholarship Today
Forrester is once again partnering with Women in Security and Privacy to provide free admission to our Security & Risk Summit for four women looking to break into cybersecurity. Learn the details and find out how to apply for the scholarship here.
Jan. 30 Tech & Security Predictions Webinar
Join us to dive into the top 2025 predictions and discover their impact on your tech and security strategies — with exclusive insights from the analysts who conducted the research.
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That’s A Nice IoT Device You’ve Got There … It’d Be A Shame If Mirai Used It For Its Botnet
A variant of the Mirai DDoS botnet that arrived in late 2016 and has remained active (because its creators released the malware for anyone to use) is using unpatched (and, in this case, unpatchable) AVTECH closed-circuit television cameras as part of its botnet to attack targets of opportunity, such as an early target of the […]
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Don’t Let Another Organization Win Your Forrester 2024 Security & Risk Enterprise Leadership Award
The Security & Risk Enterprise Leadership Award recognizes orgs that transformed the security, privacy, and risk management. Learn more about the award and find out how to apply.
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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Microsegmentation Solutions, Q3 2024
Forrester just published the second edition of The Forrester Wave™: Microsegmentation Solutions. Just over two years separates this research from the previous report, and the technological advances over that short time are stunning. The previous evaluation, The Forrester New Wave™: Microsegmentation, Q1 2022, was all about layer 3 microsegmentation in a data center (or private […]
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A Recent Issue Highlights The Importance Of Securing The Hypervisor
Learn how applying Zero Trust, identity and access management, and endpoint detection and response (EDR) can help protect VMware’s ESXi hypervisor from a newly exploited vulnerability.
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Falcon Fallout: What’s Next For CrowdStrike, Competitors, And CISOs
The July 19 CrowdStrike Falcon outage created major trust issues for the company and the broader security market. What's next for CrowdStrike? Find out as we make several predictions on where the company will go next.
Ready For These 2025 Tech And Security Shifts?
Step into 2025 with confidence! Explore our predictions for tech and security leaders, featuring key trends in AI, cloud, SDLC, and AIOps you need to know.
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Invest, Experiment, And Scale Back: Budget Priorities For CISOs In 2025
The majority of security technology decision-makers anticipate further budget increases in 2025. Learn three key areas for CISOs to focus on in the year ahead in this preview of our 2025 Budget Planning Guide for security leaders.
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CrowdStrike Global Outage: Critical Next Steps For Tech And Security Leaders
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.
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And So It Begins: Insights From Splunk’s First .conf With Cisco
The big question at the Splunk annual user conference — .conf — was simple: What will happen to Splunk in the wake of the Cisco deal? Find out if the question got answered in this review of the conference.
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Go Alone To Go Quickly And Fail, Or Go Together To Go Far And Succeed
Learn three areas where enterprise architecture and security architecture collaboration matter most in protecting the trust that organizations hold with customers.
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InfoSec 2024: Balancing Opportunity Against Risks
Learn about a special event Forrester will be hosting at Infosecurity Europe 2024 which will provide insight into the unique cybersecurity challenges facing European businesses and help security leaders tailor their security strategies accordingly.
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Purge Network Myopathy With NAV
What is the definition of network analysis and visibility (NAV) and how does it fit into a Zero Trust framework? This post provides Forrester's definition of NAV and explains why visibility is so vital in today's security environment.
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Forrester’s RSAC 2024 Themes, Takeaways, And Observations
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.
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My Prediction For The 2024 RSA Conference: Proactive Security Will Dominate Use Cases
While no trip to the RSA Conference is complete without seeing what security vendors are up to, this year, expect to be asked an intriguing question: “How proactive are you?” Find out why this will be such a popular question in this post.
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