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Forrester Decisions for Security & Risk

Keeping the business and its customers protected across an increasingly complex risk landscape — without impeding customer experience and growth opportunities — is a tall order. Business reputation and customer trust are at stake. One of the quickest ways to lose customers is to lose their trust. Forrester believes that security, privacy, and risk management are the foundation of a trusted business.

 

Forrester Decisions for Security & Risk helps security and risk leaders continuously manage risk within strategic opportunities, protect business growth, and gain customer and employee trust with secure, private experiences. With a combination of leading insights, proven tools, and continuous guidance, you’ll define and execute best practices that reinforce customers’ trust

Security That Drives Trust

Stay Ahead Of Threats

Protect the enterprise against cyberattacks and emerging threats while continuously addressing vulnerabilities.

Safeguard Reputation

Safeguard the enterprise against all forces that present risk to customers and employees, setting your company image and brand apart.

Ensure A Secure And Private Experience

Enable the enterprise to execute on customer-focused initiatives without compromising experience or trading off security and privacy.

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Key Priorities

As a security and risk leader, you’re under constant pressure to anticipate emerging threats and protect business growth strategies, customers and employees, and company reputation. Forrester Decisions for Security & Risk Leaders is tailored to help you deliver on your most pressing priorities:

  • Proactively manage enterprise risk and sustain compliance.
  • Lead a high-performing security organization and culture.
  • Defend against cyberattacks and emerging threats.
  • Manage identity and access for humans and machines.
  • Establish an effective privacy and data protection program.
  • Secure products through their lifecycle.
  • Secure and manage the risks of emerging technologies.

What’s Included In This Service

Forrester Decisions services are uniquely built to give you strategic insights for your role as a business leader in your organization and help you deliver on your functional role as a division or department leader. Here’s what’s inside:

Shape strategy, guide transformational change, and stay ahead of the curve with leading research and insights.

  • Customer obsession research
  • Customer insights
  • Trends and predictions
  • Market forecasts
  • Industry highlights
  • Planning guides
  • Technology and service provider landscapes
  • Forrester Wave™ Evaluations

Empower your team to conquer your priorities with proven strategic models and plug-and-play templates.

  • KPIs and peer benchmarks
  • Assessments
  • Strategic models and frameworks
  • Execution Tools and Templates
  • Forrester Wave™ evaluations for your function
  • Certification courses

Accelerate progress and de-risk decisions with expert advice and hands-on support tailored to you and your team.

  • Guidance sessions
  • Peer discussions
  • Event attendance
  • Client webinars
  • Dedicated relationship management

Forrester helped me articulate and quantify the technology security risk affecting my organization and translate it into an effective mitigation plan.

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Deputy Information Security Officer, governmental agency

Support For Leaders And Team Members

Forrester Decisions for Security & Risk offers multiple levels of service to ensure the right expertise and degree of support for you and your team. All service levels offer access to research, tools, data, and certification courses.

 

VIP Leader

Leverage support from a trusted partner and former executive who understands your challenges and supports your strategic agenda every step of the way.

Availability may vary by geographic region.

Leader 

Procure deep expertise across your functional discipline through expert-led guidance sessions that help you apply unique research, tools, and data to your specific needs.

Team 

Develop a common language and toolset to strengthen your team’s expertise and skill sets with access to relevant certification courses and insights.

AI Access

Equip everyone in your organization to get trusted advice fast through AI in a flexible self-service model.

Meet A Few Of Our Security & Risk Analysts

Heidi Shey

Principal Analyst

Jess Burn

Principal Analyst

Geoff Cairns

Principal Analyst

Enza Iannopollo

VP, Principal Analyst

Looking for more time with experts? 

Get in touch with our consultants to jump-start your initiative, execute on your security and risk strategies, or anything in between.

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