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• Report Forrester Infographic: Retail CISO Career Paths

  March 2, 2021 | Jeff Pollard

  Seventy-nine percent of retail and consumer product companies from the Fortune 500 have a dedicated CISO with a public presence. To understand the skills, experience, and education that qualify...

• Blog Mean Time Before CEO Scapegoats

  March 1, 2021 | Jeff Pollard

  A few months before I joined Forrester in 2015, I found a blog that introduced a new incident response (IR) metric written by @rickhholland: “Introducing A New Incident Response Metric: Mean Time...

• Report Forrester Infographic: CISO Career Paths 2.0

  February 10, 2021 | Jeff Pollard

  This is a 2020 update of our 2017 analysis of CISO backgrounds and current career profiles. We analyzed data from CISOs and heads of security in the Fortune 500 via LinkedIn to understand the...

• Report Use Forrester's CISO Strategic Canvas To Align Security With Business

  Strategic Plan: The S&R Practice Playbook

  February 10, 2021 | Jeff Pollard, Jinan Budge

  Security leaders know it's critical to align their efforts to the business, speak their business colleagues' language, and show support for business objectives. But with never-ending inbound...

• Report Remove The Mystery From Security Metrics

  Performance Management: The S&R Practice Playbook

  February 5, 2021 | Jeff Pollard

  CISOs continue to have difficulty creating meaningful security metrics despite a decade of discussion. Without good metrics, the security organization can't participate in business conversations...

• Blog Microsoft Is Now A Cybersecurity Behemoth

  January 27, 2021 | Jeff Pollard

  In our prior Tech Titans research, we mentioned that Microsoft was poised to become a security behemoth. Today, Microsoft announced that its cybersecurity business has grown to over $10 billion in...

• 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...

• Report The Future Of Cybersecurity And Privacy: Defeat The Data Economy's Demons

  The Vision Report In The Cybersecurity And Privacy Playbook

  January 8, 2021 | Jeff Pollard, Heidi Shey, Fatemeh Khatibloo

  The combination of data and machines could fuel either techno-optimistic utopia (happier, healthier lives for all) or totalitarian dystopia (corporations and governments using personal data to...

• Report Now Tech: Managed Detection And Response Services Providers, Q4 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 42 Managed Detection And Response Providers

  December 16, 2020 | Jeff Pollard

  You can use managed detection and response (MDR) to attain significant expertise to help drive detection and response, become proactive rather than reactive, and choose what the security team will...

• Blog Security Vendors: It’s Time To Come Clean About Intrusions

  December 15, 2020 | Jeff Pollard

  The intrusion into SolarWinds, FireEye, and multiple US government agencies continues to roil the cybersecurity world. In only a few days, a slew of additional details have emerged about the scope...

• Blog The SolarWinds And US Government Breach Is Not A Marketing Opportunity

  December 14, 2020 | Jeff Pollard

  The size and scope of SolarWinds as an IT software provider and the nature of the breach announced on December 13 rocked the IT and security world — rightfully so. We’ve provided immediate,...

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  Webinar Cybersecurity Predictions 2021

  November 3, 2020 | Jeff Pollard, Joseph Blankenship, Heidi Shey

  This webinar provides a deep dive on our five cybersecurity predictions slated to take place in 2021. CISOs and other security leaders will learn what will happen, why, and what to do about it in...

• Blog We Do Diligence: Making The MSSP Forrester Wave™ Evaluations

  September 28, 2020 | Jeff Pollard

  Security and risk pros rely on Forrester Wave evaluations to guide them through their purchase journey, help them understand what is and isn’t important, and help them avoid the pitfalls when...

• 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...

• Blog 甲骨文 (Oracle) 几乎收购了TikTok? (其实并没有)

  September 18, 2020 | Jeff Pollard

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• Blog Oracle Sort Of Buys TikTok (But Not Really)

  September 14, 2020 | Jeff Pollard

  Larry Ellison proves that customer acquisition cost (CAC) is no barrier in Oracle’s conquest to expand its cloud credibility and market share. The announcement is murky at the moment, but the...

• Blog It’s Never The Data Breach — It’s Always The Cover-Up

  August 21, 2020 | Jeff Pollard

  The obstruction of justice and misprision of a felony charges levied against Joseph Sullivan, former Uber chief security officer (CSO), sent shock waves through the cybersecurity community. CSO and...

• Blog MSSPs Race To MDR

  July 29, 2020 | Jeff Pollard

  By the beginning of August, both of my managed security services provider (MSSP) Forrester Waves will be published, marking five Forrester Waves authored and 62 vendors evaluated in the MSSP space...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Global Managed Security Services Providers, Q3 2020

  The 15 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  July 27, 2020 | Jeff Pollard, Claire O'Malley

  In our 26-criterion evaluation of global managed security services providers (MSSPs), we identified the 15 most significant ones — Accenture, Alert Logic, AT&T Cybersecurity, Capgemini,...

• Report The Top Security Technology Trends To Watch, 2020

  Ten Security And Risk Technologies Will Disrupt Security And Risk Practices

  June 30, 2020 | Andras Cser, Sandy Carielli, Jeff Pollard

  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 10 security technologies to...

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  Webinar Top Security Technologies To Watch, 2020

  June 23, 2020 | Merritt Maxim, Sandy Carielli, Andras Cser

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

• Blog CISOs And The Da Vinci Fallacy

  June 1, 2020 | Jeff Pollard

  As we continue to extend our research on the six types of CISOs, we’ve witnessed a common issue that plagues security leaders that I’ve termed “the Da Vinci fallacy,” defined as: The Da Vinci...

• Report Now Tech: Global And Emerging Managed Security Services Providers, Q2 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 42 Global And Emerging Managed Security Services Providers

  May 8, 2020 | Jeff Pollard, Claire O'Malley

  You can use global managed security services providers (MSSPs) to create space for security leaders, prioritize which activities the security team should focus on, and ease the challenges...