Heidi Shey,

Heidi Shey

Principal Analyst

Heidi Shey is a principal analyst at Forrester where she leads Forrester’s research on data security. Heidi guides security leaders and tech executives at enterprise and government organizations in applying a Zero Trust, data-centric approach to securing data. She advises in areas such as sensitive data discovery and classification, data loss prevention, data security platforms, secure communications solutions, privacy preserving technologies, other data-centric security controls, and post-quantum security. Her research coverage also includes cyber insurance and customer-facing breach notification and response.

Budget Planning Guide 2027: Security And Risk Leaders Must Confront The AI Cost Explosion
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Planning Guide Report
July 8th, 2026
14 min read

Forrester’s guide to what to invest, divest, experiment with, and avoid in security and risk to contend with technology disruptions as agentic AI and post-quantum migration converge in 2027.

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