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• Blog COVID-19 Campaigns Highlight The Need For Phishing Protection

  April 21, 2020 | Joseph Blankenship

  DMARC’s Antiphishing Benefits Are More Important Than Ever Many of us have (at least temporarily) joined the remote workforce. Apart from learning how to be productive in a very new, improvised...

• Blog Pandemic Fallout Creates Perfect Conditions For Insider Threat

  April 15, 2020 | Joseph Blankenship

  Organizations around the world have moved quickly to deal with COVID-19, sending users to work from home, reducing staff, and taking other cost-control actions. While these steps are necessary,...

• Report Prevent Fraud And Phishing Attacks With DMARC

  Email Authentication Keeps Cybercriminals Out Of Your Inbox

  March 31, 2020 | Joseph Blankenship, Claire O'Malley

  Despite the many security technologies and education in place, phishing and business email compromise remain two of the biggest threats for organizations everywhere. Domain-based Message...

• Blog The Security Snapshot: Data Privacy, The Biggest Concern Of The New Decade

  February 3, 2020 | Joseph Blankenship

  At the end of 2019, Forbes identified data privacy and security as the most pressing issue in the upcoming decade. The issue is already prevalent: Every day, a new story crops up about leaked,...

• Report A Practical Guide To A Zero Trust Implementation

  Roadmap: The Zero Trust Security Playbook

  January 15, 2020 | Chase Cunningham, David Holmes, Jinan Budge

  Zero Trust is rapidly becoming the security model of choice for enterprises and governments alike. However, security leaders often don't know where to begin to implement it, or they feel daunted by...

• Report Don't Poison Your Employee Experience With The Wrong Approach To Insider Threat

  Security Leaders Must Balance Security, Governance, And Employee Privacy

  December 20, 2019 | Joseph Blankenship, Enza Iannopollo

  Your colleagues are one of the biggest threats to the security of your organization, but treating them as criminals is obviously not an option. Considerations for employees' privacy, company...

• Blog Unfortunately, Awareness Alone Won’t Do It: Successful Phishing Defense Requires A Layered Approach

  October 2, 2019 | Joseph Blankenship

  October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the time of year security pros remind individuals about the importance of cybersecurity strategy and educate them in hopes they won’t become a...

• Report Best Practices: Phishing Prevention

  Protect Against Email-Borne Threats With Forrester's Layered Approach

  September 30, 2019 | Joseph Blankenship, Claire O'Malley

  Attackers use phishing and other social engineering tactics to infiltrate corporate networks. Advances in malicious email protection can recognize and stop obvious phishing attempts, but...

• Blog Insider Threat Gets Its Own National Awareness Month

  September 3, 2019 | Joseph Blankenship

  The US National Counterintelligence and Security Center has deemed September to be National Insider Threat Awareness Month to increase awareness about insider threats. 2019 is the first year that...

• Blog Security & Risk 2019: Cybersecurity’s Staffing Shortage Is Self-Inflicted

  August 6, 2019 | Joseph Blankenship

  Unless this is your first day working in cybersecurity, you’ve heard numerous times that we have a hiring crisis — there aren’t enough people to fill the need for security talent. Current...

• Report Reverse Cybersecurity's Self-Inflicted Staffing Shortage

  Adopt More Realistic Expectations And More Effective Hiring Practices

  July 18, 2019 | Jeff Pollard, Chase Cunningham, Joseph Blankenship

  Every day, we hear news stories, speeches, and vendor pitches that lament our acute cybersecurity talent shortage, one that will take years to address. However, the shortage is largely...

• Blog The Security Snapshot: Forrester Time Machine

  July 17, 2019 | Joseph Blankenship

  At Forrester, it is our goal to be ahead of the market trends so we can advise clients on what is to come and how they should prepare. Each year, we publish a series of predictions reports about...

• Blog AWS re:Inforce Recap: The Cloud Isn’t Going Away, But Scare Tactics Should

  June 28, 2019 | Joseph Blankenship

  Boston’s bustling Seaport District played host to the first-ever AWS re:Inforce 2019 cloud security conference, with over 5,000 reported attendees. Amazon Web Services set the tone of the event to...

• Report Best Practices: Mitigating Insider Threats

  Defend Your Organization Against The Threats Insiders Pose

  May 31, 2019 | Joseph Blankenship, Claire O'Malley

  Whether accidental or malicious, insider incidents can result in financial fraud, privacy abuses, intellectual property theft, or damage to infrastructure. It's difficult for security pros to...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Email Security, Q2 2019

  The 12 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  May 16, 2019 | Joseph Blankenship

  In our 32-criterion evaluation of enterprise email content security providers, we identified the 12 most significant ones — Barracuda, Cisco, Clearswift, Forcepoint, Microsoft, Mimecast,...

• 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...

• Report Recruiting And Retaining Insider Threat Analysts

  To Avoid An Embarrassing And Devastating Insider Attack, Hire Dedicated Analysts

  March 7, 2019 | Joseph Blankenship

  Whether accidental or malicious, insider incidents can result in fraud, privacy abuses, IP theft, and other damage. It's difficult for security pros to detect this activity because insiders need...

• Blog Tech Titans Alphabet And Microsoft Are Transforming Cybersecurity

  March 4, 2019 | Joseph Blankenship

  Last April, we outlined how the “Tech Titans” (Amazon, Google, and Microsoft) were poised to change the cybersecurity landscape by introducing a new model for enterprises to consume cybersecurity...

• Report New Tech: Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security Solutions, Q1 2019

  Forrester's Landscape Overview Of 21 Providers

  February 28, 2019 | Merritt Maxim, Joseph Blankenship

  A new crop of industrial control systems (ICS) security technologies, and the solutions they power, stand poised to unleash new paradigms in protecting and securing high-value industrial systems,...

• Report How Insiders Use The Dark Web To Sell Your Data

  Financial Services Firms Need To Prioritize Monitoring For Insider Threats

  February 28, 2019 | Joseph Blankenship

  Financial gain is one of the primary reasons malicious insiders steal valuable data or sell access to sensitive systems. The internet connects buyers and sellers of sensitive data, making it easy...

• Blog Big Fish Eat Little Fish As Portfolio Players Gobble Up SAO

  February 20, 2019 | Joseph Blankenship

  Security has long been hampered by a deluge of data, manual processes, and vendor sprawl. Technology has evolved to address the first two of these, but expense in depth continues as new...

• Report Now Tech: Antiphishing Solutions, Q1 2019

  Processes: The Zero Trust Security Playbook

  January 8, 2019 | Joseph Blankenship, Nick Hayes, Claire O'Malley

  You can use antiphishing solutions to detect and block malicious emails, protect against impersonation attacks, and educate employees with training and phishing simulations. But to access these...

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  Webinar Beware Of And Prepare For The Coming Data Integrity Crisis

  January 8, 2019 | Jeff Pollard, Joseph Blankenship, Trevor Lyness

  Companies increasingly rely on data and automated decision making to transform their business. This, however, means that the impact of a data integrity attack – where an attacker alters...

• Report The Forrester Tech Tide™: Zero Trust Threat Detection And Response, Q1 2019

  Tools And Technology: The Zero Trust Security Playbook

  January 2, 2019 | Josh Zelonis, Joseph Blankenship

  Zero Trust threat detection and response technologies are increasingly critical to securing customers and protecting the firm's brand. To accelerate their performance in threat detection and...

• Blog Phishing: The Simple Attack That Shreds The Defenses Of Sensitive Networks

  December 20, 2018 | Joseph Blankenship

  Diplomatic networks carry some of the world’s most sensitive information: communications between world leaders, key technical intellectual property, trade strategies, and military plans. A recent...