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• Report The State Of Environmental Sustainability In The Fortune Global 200

  Climate Action As A Risk Management And Growth Strategy Takes Center Stage

  January 15, 2021 | Stephanie Balaouras, Salvatore Schiano

  In 2020, firms had to adapt to a series of risk events — COVID-19, megawildfires, a devastating hurricane season — engendered or magnified by climate change. Leading Fortune Global 200 firms have...

• Report Drive Growth With Customer Trust And Build Brand Resilience

  Advanced Level: Technology Practices For Cybersecurity And Privacy

  January 11, 2021 | Amy DeMartine, Jeff Pollard, Stephanie Balaouras

  When customers trust you, they want to do more business with you. They're also willing to share more personal data with you and, often, to pay a premium for your products and services. This report...

• Report Proactively Protect Customers From Fraud, Cybercrime, And Privacy Abuses

  Intermediate Level: Technology Practices For Cybersecurity And Privacy

  January 11, 2021 | Jeff Pollard, Amy DeMartine, Stephanie Balaouras

  CIOs and technology leaders in the intermediate phase of cybersecurity and privacy maturity must ensure that security always travels with the data and should position data security and privacy as...

• Blog Corporate Climate Action Tech Heats Up

  December 1, 2020 | Stephanie Balaouras

  The impacts of climate change are already affecting people and businesses today. Even if we meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, the world will still face unprecedented changes — from more...

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  Webinar Privacy Predictions 2021

  Elevate Customer And Employee Privacy As A Strategic Business And Societal Imperative

  November 12, 2020 | Stephanie Balaouras, Heidi Shey, Enza Iannopollo

  With values-based consumers watching companies closely and employee privacy posed to become a priority for companies and regulators, 2021 will bring a great deal of change and new risks to...

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  Webinar Improve Your Climate Action Plan With The Right Investments In Sustainability And Climate Risk Technologies

  October 28, 2020 | Stephanie Balaouras, Salvatore Schiano

  Like coping with the COVID-19 pandemic, how your company responds to the climate crisis reveals its commitment to its values and the extent of its adaptability. Investments in sustainability and...

• Forum Security & Risk Global

  Leading the Way

  September 22, 2020 | Live Virtual Experience | Laura Koetzle, Stephanie Balaouras, Heidi Shey

  As attackers get more sophisticated and new technologies emerge, the strategies to protect your organization’s valuable data must also evolve. Attend Security & Risk to learn about...

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  Webinar The New, Unstable Normal Roundtable: How COVID-19 Will Change Business And Technology Forever

  August 18, 2020 | Anjali Lai, Sucharita Kodali, Melissa Parrish

  The lasting impact of COVID-19 and the high likelihood of future pandemics will usher in five macro shifts that will fundamentally change business and technology: 1) Customer expectations will...

• Report The New, Unstable Normal: How COVID-19 Will Change Business And Technology Forever

  July 14, 2020 | Stephanie Balaouras, Laura Koetzle, Martin Gill

  The pandemic has already forced firms and policymakers to do things that were previously considered impossible. This is just the beginning. Given its gravity, the effects of COVID-19 — along with...

• Blog Infections Are Surging In The US, China, And Brazil — Exercise Caution In Your Return-To-Work Plan

  June 18, 2020 | Stephanie Balaouras

  COVID-19 infections are in the rise in more than 20 US states, and at least a dozen have experienced new record rates of infections. And the US isn’t alone; China and Brazil are experiencing a...

• Report Returning To Work: How To Avoid The 15 Most Critical Risks

  The Legal, Regulatory, And Operational Risks Of Pandemic Recovery Everyone Needs To Know

  June 10, 2020 | Heidi Shey, Enza Iannopollo, Jinan Budge

  As enterprises plan to reopen office buildings, plants, and other facilities, they will have to develop detailed pandemic management protocols (PMPs) before they can safely ask employees,...

• Report Essential Technology Solutions For Pandemic Management

  A Mix Of Emerging And Reemerging Solutions Become Must-Haves

  May 19, 2020 | Stephanie Balaouras, Stephen Powers, Caleb Ewald

  Without a vaccine or community immunity, organizations must manage through the coronavirus pandemic for the next 12 to 24 months. They must maintain a hybrid workforce, support customers via...

• Blog Answering The Top Return-To-Work Questions For Our Government Clients

  May 13, 2020 | Stephanie Balaouras

  Several weeks ago, my colleague Renee Murphy and I hosted a complimentary webinar for those in local, state, and federal government responsible for planning their agency’s return-to-work protocols....

• Blog Business Resilience Is No Longer Optional

  May 12, 2020 | Stephanie Balaouras

  Too many business and technology leaders have referred to the global pandemic as a black swan — an entirely unpredictable and devastating event. The truth is that a global pandemic was entirely...

• Blog Today’s The 50th Anniversary Of Earth Day, And The Theme Is Climate Action

  April 22, 2020 | Stephanie Balaouras

  Today, on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations are at an all-time high. But as people around the world stay at home to slow the spread of the COVID-19...

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  Webinar Prepare Your Organization For Pandemic Recovery

  April 22, 2020 | Stephanie Balaouras, Alla Valente, Jeff Becker

  As the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic shifts around the world and each affected region reaches its peak infection rate, firms must prepare now to restart closed plants, reopen retail locations,...

• Blog Entering The New Normal: How To Safely Bring Your Workforce Back

  April 20, 2020 | Stephanie Balaouras

  Organizations across the globe are struggling with a difficult decision: when and how to return to workplaces in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Unlike other disasters such as an extreme...

• Report Returning To Work: How To Prepare For Pandemic Recovery

  Essential Steps And Pandemic Management Protocols For Planning Your Operational Recovery

  April 20, 2020 | Stephanie Balaouras, Alla Valente, Andrew Hewitt

  As the epicenter of the global COVID-19 pandemic shifts and each affected region reaches its peak infection rate, firms must prepare now to restart closed plants, reopen retail locations, and bring...

• Report Craft Zero Trust Security Metrics That Matter

  Performance Management: The Zero Trust Security Playbook

  March 24, 2020 | Jeff Pollard, Stephanie Balaouras

  Forrester's Zero Trust (ZT) Model of information security demands that security teams eliminate the dangerous trust assumptions underpinning perimeter-based security architectures. When you embrace...

• Blog Governance, Risk, And Compliance Platforms Support Innovation And Are Critical In Turbulent Times

  March 13, 2020 | Stephanie Balaouras

  On March 9, we launched the update of one of our most read and anticipated reports, “The Forrester Wave: Governance, Risk, And Compliance Platforms, Q1 2020.” It represents at least six...

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  Webinar Best Practices: Pandemic Planning And Preparedness

  March 11, 2020 | Stephanie Balaouras, Alla Valente

  As the current outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to spread globally, organizations are quickly updating their pandemic plans or rushing to create plans from scratch. Whether...

• Blog Why The Private Sector Will Play An Increasingly Bigger Role In Climate Change And Sustainability

  February 24, 2020 | Stephanie Balaouras

  In 2017, the US, famously and controversially, made the decision to withdraw from the Paris climate change agreement. And some of the 187 countries that remain in the agreement are struggling to...

• Report Prepare Your Organization For A Pandemic

  Key Recommendations For How Business And Risk Leaders Build Resiliency In A World Where Disease Outbreaks Are The New Normal

  February 7, 2020 | Stephanie Balaouras, Alla Valente, Andrew Hewitt

  The likelihood and impact of a pandemic are impossible to predict with much accuracy. Regardless, history tells us there's a potential for widespread and costly disruption — especially for those...

• Blog It’s Time To Dust Off Your Pandemic Plans

  January 28, 2020 | Stephanie Balaouras

  During the past week, despite the significant efforts of the Chinese government (including the near lockdown of the city of Wuhan and a travel ban affecting more than 50 million people), the spread...

• Report The Biggest Trends Shaping Enterprise Risk Management In 2020

  Enterprise Risk Management Programs Must Mature Faster To Adapt To Changing Risks

  January 3, 2020 | Alla Valente, Salvatore Schiano, Stephanie Balaouras

  Uncertainties in the business environment and emergence of new threats are leading to more complex risks. Firms are doubling down on proactive risk management to better anticipate disruption, build...