Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 23, 2021

When we launched the most recent Forrester Analytics Business Technographics® Security Survey, it was summer of 2020. We’d been in quarantine for about three months, and firms had long since realized that they needed to digitally transform their businesses (and fast) in order to survive the new normal.

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Forrester eCommerce

JUNE 16, 2021

and “Security teams hate their SIEM!” SIEMs (security information and event management systems) — especially those that have evolved into security analytics platforms — are not what […].

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Forrester eCommerce

JULY 31, 2020

Low-code platforms speed delivery of applications, but are they secure? We’re still gathering information, but we’ve discovered that: Low-code security is not well understood. Even vendors with extensive security investments acknowledged that […].

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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 6, 2023

Forrester recently published Top Recommendations For Your Security Program, 2023 for CISOs and other senior cybersecurity and technology leaders. This year’s overarching theme involves protection (as you might expect) — but not exactly in the way you’d think in the context of security.

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Forrester eCommerce

OCTOBER 9, 2020

When I was working at @stake in the early 2000s, most of my client engagements were in application security. Grep’ was an important security tool. I did a number of code reviews that actually involved people handing me stacks of paper to go through. When I was involved in application penetration tests, we used a […].

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Technology Customer Management 347

Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 1, 2022

We’ve said it many times: security matters, and security leaders have more influence and access to boards and senior executives than ever. Thanks to external forces like ransomware attacks, evolving security and privacy legislation, and existential loss of cyber insurance dread, they get it at the top.

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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 23, 2021

As the dust settles from this flurry of reactive, but necessary, activity, it’s time for security and risk (S&R) pros to take stock and streamline operations for longer-term strategic […].

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Kissmetrics

MARCH 3, 2021

A security breach on your WordPress site can kill your business instantly. Using the best WordPress security plugins, you’ll be able to prevent attacks from happening in the first place. I’ve got a lot of experience with WordPress security plugins. 1 – Sucuri Security — The Best for WordPress Developers.

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Forrester eCommerce

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Zero Trust is not one product or platform; it’s a security framework built around the concept of “never trust, always verify” and “assuming breach.” One of the top challenges and misunderstandings that I continue to see here at Forrester is about what the definition of Zero Trust actually is.

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Forrester eCommerce

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Before I joined Forrester, my colleagues Jeff Pollard and Amy DeMartine initiated our product security research, leading to our first report on the topic, Secure What You Sell: CISOs Must Tackle Product Security To Protect Customers.

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Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 24, 2020

The COVID-19 global pandemic was top-of-mind for security leaders (and everyone else) during the second quarter of 2020.

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Improvements Recommendation Management 322

Forrester eCommerce

JANUARY 17, 2023

What should security […]. Each iteration, commonly called minimum viable product (MVP), helps the product team answer a question about customer requirements, priorities, or usage scenarios. The goal: Build a product that best meets customer needs.

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Customer Management 195

Forrester eCommerce

OCTOBER 28, 2021

How will that impact security concerns in 2022? Continued uncertainty has put more emphasis on third-party relationships and collaboration.

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Forrester eCommerce

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

This week, I attended IBM’s fifth annual Security Summit in New York City, an exclusive event for a who’s who of IBM’s security customers. This is my third year attending, and I always look forward to going for a few reasons: 1) This is a small, targeted half-day security conference — perfect for a forced […].

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Forrester eCommerce

APRIL 12, 2021

In the absence of explicit regulatory mandates, when and how to delete different types of records and personal data can become a tug-of-war between line of business, legal, and security teams. There are consequences of improper deletion and disposal, as well as excessive retention.

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Forrester eCommerce

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

S&R pros can’t build a security culture by themselves. Security champions act as extra members of the security team; these people have connections across the organization and can translate security-speak into a language that everyone can understand.

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Customer 369

Forrester eCommerce

OCTOBER 31, 2022

On top of the usual challenges, in 2023 security pros will see more risk coming from internal forces like enabling anywhere work and the future of the office. Learn more in our 2023 predictions.

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Customer Management 195

Forrester eCommerce

MAY 14, 2020

The novel coronavirus is also affecting security and risk […]. Organizations in many industries and regions now face an uncertain and rapidly deteriorating economic outlook because of efforts to contain the novel coronavirus and its life- and health-threatening impacts.

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Customer Management 417

Forrester eCommerce

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

This January, I joined Forrester as an analyst on the Security and Risk team. Hello everyone! I’ll be covering topics like Network Analysis & Visibility (NAV), Zero Trust Architecture, and the Zero Trust eXtended (ZTX) ecosystem.

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Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 27, 2019

Security and risk pros have the opportunity to shape the future of technology and business in ways we might have only dreamed of two years ago.

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Technology 385

Forrester eCommerce

JUNE 12, 2020

Developer security champions are members of the development team that can translate application security into a language that the rest of the developers can understand. These champions embed application security knowledge where it’s needed most: with the dev team.

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Customer Management 361

Forrester eCommerce

MAY 21, 2021

Earlier this week, an op-ed published on The Hill sent infosec Twitter into a tizzy by blaming cybersecurity industry best practices for recent high-profile security breaches. For us, the security team at Forrester, the op-ed furthered a number of security myths that we felt compelled to bust here.

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Kissmetrics

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It’s a good idea to set up a business security system before you need it. Their company’s physical security gets compromised, resources are lost, and employees feel unsafe. A lot of people see cost as a barrier to installing a reliable business security system. The Top 5 Options for Business Security Systems.

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Forrester eCommerce

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Security tools cannot do what humans can do. Instead of replacing humans in the SOC, augment them so they can do what they are actually good at.

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Operations 407

Forrester eCommerce

APRIL 22, 2022

Hello, my name is Fahad Ehsan, and I am the newest analyst on the Forrester’s Security and Risk team. I will be joining Fred Giron, Jinan Budge and David Holmes doing research in Managed Security Service Providers, Vulnerability Management, Zero Trust and Cloud Security.

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Forrester eCommerce

MAY 14, 2021

I am excited to announce The Forrester Wave™: Endpoint Security Software As A Service, Q2 2021. Although Forrester has previously published other endpoint security Waves, this is the first Endpoint Security Software Wave that exclusively focused on SaaS-delivered products and functions.

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Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 7, 2019

Walk the show floor at any security event and you will be inundated with a multitude of purportedly cutting-edge and disruptive security technologies.

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Technology Events Customer 366

Forrester eCommerce

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

But that doesn’t mean that it should all be dismissed as nonsense, especially when it comes to information security. Even the most innocuous posts somehow manage to offend or anger someone out there on the internet. News of critical vulnerabilities, dangerous exploits, breaches, […].

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Forrester eCommerce

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The security analytics platform market is moving faster than it has in years, as demonstrated by these Wave results. Though Splunk still has a tight grip on the segment, competitors are finding opportunities to loosen its hold by addressing continued dissatisfaction with outdated pricing models.

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Marketing Customer 195

Forrester eCommerce

JANUARY 30, 2020

Multiple security and privacy issues have plagued the physical security device maker, it’s responded poorly by casting blame on users, and following that the EFF identified that the Ring app is littered with third party trackers. At virtually the same time, a security product company – […].

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Customer Experience Customer 286

Forrester eCommerce

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Life circumstances took her on a temporary detour, but she returned to pioneer an influential new stream of security and risk research. When Vice President, Principal Analyst Jinan Budge initially joined Forrester, she knew she had found the perfect role.

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Forrester eCommerce

MAY 4, 2020

In my new report, “The State Of Application Security, 2020,” some of the trends are. Applications remain the most popular attack vector, open source continues to infect everything, and too many industries are not investing in the application security controls they need. kind of discouraging.

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Customer Management 273

Forrester eCommerce

JANUARY 20, 2022

We’ve had a few high-profile security problems with open source software. A disgruntled developer recently delivered intentionally modified releases of his faker.js and colors.js packages, which broke “thousands of projects” that relied on them. Some are wondering if it’s safe to use open source software at all.

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Operations Customer 195

Forrester eCommerce

JULY 27, 2022

I am very excited to be covering security and risk for operational technology (OT) environments including the critical infrastructure and manufacturing industries. What Topics Will You Be Covering at Forrester?

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Operations Technology Management 195

Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 5, 2020

Technology leaders, are you sick of employees going around your security policies and using unapproved devices and apps? Employees, are you sick of having to enter in a password every time you want to access task-critical information?

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