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• Report Business Resiliency Is The Bulwark To A World Defined By Systemic Risk And Chaos

  Resiliency Ensures Continuity And The Ability To Pivot To New Opportunities During A Crisis

  February 8, 2021 | Amy DeMartine, Alla Valente, Naveen Chhabra

  In times of crisis or sudden risk events, business resiliency practices ensure the uninterrupted delivery of customer products and services, keep employees safe and productive, and minimize the...

• 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 Lay Your Security Tech Foundation

  Beginner Level: Technology Practices For Cybersecurity And Privacy

  January 11, 2021 | Jeff Pollard, Amy DeMartine

  This report — the first of three in the technology competency of the cybersecurity and privacy playbook — outlines the technologies that CIOs and other technology leaders should prioritize to help...

• 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 The Security Snapshot: Are You “More” Normal?

  November 9, 2020 | Amy DeMartine

  The COVID-19 pandemic unequivocally changed how employers think the workforce could and should look like. As firms have been growing more acclimated to the “new normal,” insider...

• Blog Calling Business Resilience Pros!

  October 22, 2020 | Amy DeMartine

  Each year, Forrester Research and the Disaster Recovery Journal team up to launch a study examining the state of business resiliency. We focus on a different, rotating resiliency domain each year:...

• Report Guard Your Competitive Edge And Maintain Trust With Data Privacy And Security

  Executive Overview: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook

  August 21, 2020 | Amy DeMartine

  Data is the lifeblood of today's digital businesses. Sophisticated cybercriminals are determined to steal it, and employees can abuse it. IP theft erases competitive advantage, while privacy...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Web Application Firewalls, Q1 2020

  The 10 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  February 26, 2020 | Sandy Carielli, Amy DeMartine

  In our 33-criterion evaluation of web application firewall (WAF) providers, we identified the 10 most significant ones — Akamai Technologies, Alibaba Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Barracuda Networks,...

• Report The Forrester New Wave™: Bot Management, Q1 2020

  The 13 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  January 29, 2020 | Sandy Carielli, Amy DeMartine

  In Forrester's evaluation of the emerging market for bot management, we identified the 13 most significant providers in the category — Akamai Technologies, Alibaba Cloud, AppsFlyer, Cloudflare,...

• Report The State Of Government Application Security, 2020

  Government Must Invest Aggressively In Application Security To Protect Citizen Data

  January 7, 2020 | Sandy Carielli, Amy DeMartine

  Confidence in the ability of government to keep citizen data safe is low, and with good reason: Malicious attackers stand ready to target government agencies and their treasure trove of data....

• Report Now Tech: Web Application Firewalls, Q4 2019

  Forrester's Overview Of 31 WAF Providers

  December 20, 2019 | Sandy Carielli, Amy DeMartine

  You can use web application firewalls (WAFs) to protect applications, apply consistent and global security policies, and comply with regulations. But to realize these benefits, you'll first have to...

• Report New Tech: Bot Management, Q4 2019

  Forrester's Landscape Overview Of 22 Providers

  December 13, 2019 | Sandy Carielli, Amy DeMartine

  Software programs make attacking applications easy. Malicious hackers use these programs — called "bots" — to quickly develop, launch, and evolve attacks. These can be simplistic or sophisticated,...

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  Webinar Secure What You Sell: Director's Cut

  October 29, 2019 | Amy DeMartine, Jeff Pollard

  Securing the products and services their companies sell offers a mechanism for CISOs to contribute to their firms' goals. This webinar helps CISOs understand the world of product security and how...

• Blog The Security Snapshot: Renew Your Security Program This Season

  October 21, 2019 | Amy DeMartine

  “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby” Fall is officially upon us. Leaves are piling up in our yards, and there is a...

• Report Secure What You Sell: CISOs Must Tackle Product Security To Protect Customers

  October 8, 2019 | Jeff Pollard, Amy DeMartine

  Today's mature enterprise security programs excel at securing infrastructure. Product security is different; it begins with minimum viable security during early-stage development and must extend to...

• Blog Top Security Technology Trends In 2019: Transforming The Future Of Work In Security

  August 7, 2019 | Amy DeMartine

  Walk the show floor at any security event, and you will be inundated with a multitude of purportedly cutting-edge and disruptive security technologies. When every vendor claims that their solution...

• Report The Top Security Technology Trends To Watch, 2019

  Eight Security And Risk Technologies Will Disrupt Security And Risk Practices

  August 1, 2019 | Amy DeMartine, Heidi Shey, Enza Iannopollo

  Analysts from Forrester's security and risk (S&R) research team drew insight from client inquiries, research projects, and industry perspectives to uncover the top eight security technologies to...

• Report Find Elusive Security Defects Using Bug Bounty Platforms

  Harness The Power Of Hackers To Protect Your Company's Applications

  July 15, 2019 | Amy DeMartine

  Apps continue to be the top method of attack for cybercriminals. Unfortunately, prerelease scanning and penetration testing services discover only known security flaw patterns or use a limited...

• Report Forrester Infographic: Build A Better Bot Management Program

  Create A Single Team Now To Battle Bad Bots

  July 8, 2019 | Amy DeMartine

  Internet traffic contains a worrying amount of bad bot traffic. Organizations need to do a much better job of combating them or suffer their scraping, fraud, inventory hoarding, credential...

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  Webinar Protect Against Bad Bots That Are Trying To Kill Your Customer Experience

  June 18, 2019 | Amy DeMartine

  You may have heard about chatbots, but did you know that 38% of internet traffic comes from automated programs called bots and more than half of this is malicious? These bots are simple programs...

• Report Show, Don't Tell, Your Developers How To Write Secure Code

  Use Application Security Testing To Educate Your Developers

  April 19, 2019 | Amy DeMartine, Trevor Lyness

  Applications are the most frequent attack vector for companies; as a result, security pros made application security their top priority in 2019. Application security can only improve, however, if...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Software Composition Analysis, Q2 2019

  The 10 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  April 8, 2019 | Amy DeMartine

  In our 33-criterion evaluation of software composition analysis providers, we identified the 10 most significant ones — Flexera, FOSSA, GitLab, JFrog, Snyk, Sonatype, Synopsys, Veracode, WhiteHat...

• Report Top Recommendations For Your Security Program, 2019

  March 25, 2019 | Paul McKay, Jeff Pollard, Jinan Budge

  Each year, Forrester outlines the most important recommendations for your security strategy for the coming 12 months. We base these recommendations on thousands of client inquiries and...