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Cisco Is Getting Back Into The Game
Big changes have started to ripple through Cisco as it slims down one of the industry’s largest routing, switching, and wireless product portfolios. Learn more about its updated networking strategy.
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VMware Customers: Brace For Impact
With the VMware-Broadcom deal set for closing, what should you know? Learn five key things VMware customers can expect in the coming years.
Conquer Your GenAI Security, Risk & Privacy Fears
Watch our webinar to learn how security leaders can identify and manage enterprise genAI risk across models, APIs, and applications — and follow paths to secure, trusted adoption.
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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust Platform Providers, Q3 2023
Get an inside look at some of the highlights and findings from the new Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust Platform Providers, Q3 2023 report.
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Zero Trust Past, Present, And Future
Zero Trust has evolved since its earliest iterations, but it’s never been more vital than it is today. In this episode, Principal Analyst David Holmes discusses the origins of Zero Trust and its future impact on driving business value.
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The CISO And CIO Microsoft Security Dilemma: Fend Off Or Learn To Love?
Should CISOs fend off Microsoft to keep their preferred products or embrace consolidation? Find out in this blog.
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Enhance Your Security Operations Practice With Agile And Detection Engineering
Get a deep dive on detection engineering in security operations. Hear Forrester advice on best practices and the use of detection–as–code.
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2003 Called, And It Doesn’t Want Its Email Security Appliances Back
Email security appliances have come a long way in the past 20 years. Learn the benefits of cloud-delivered email security.
Stay Ahead Of Threats With Detection And Response Engineering
Enhance your security operations by learning the latest detection and response engineering practices.
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Seize The Opportunity: The Security & Risk Enterprise Leadership Award 2023
Last month, Forrester announced its inaugural Security & Risk Enterprise Leadership Award. As former CISOs, my Forrester colleague Brian Wrozek and I are sharing our thoughts about why you should apply. There are tangible benefits to you, your team, your organization, and the greater security community. You should apply — and apply now — for […]
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Announcing Forrester’s Security & Risk Enterprise Leadership Award
Forrester is thrilled to announce its inaugural Security & Risk Enterprise Leadership Award, which will recognize security organizations that have transformed the security, privacy, and risk management functions to fuel long-term success. Learn how to apply here.
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Shift-Everywhere Is The Bullet Train To Secure Software
Application security is in the spotlight with continued breaches due to the vast attack surface applications and their ecosystems provide.
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The Microsegmentation Plot Thickens
Inquiries about microsegmentation (also called Zero Trust segmentation) have been rising steadily, especially since the start of the year. This is great, because it means people are getting serious about Zero Trust (microsegmentation is the super-serious part). All these phone calls are prompting me to share my latest thoughts on the subject, so here we […]
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Protecting Against The Top Cybersecurity Threats In 2023 Requires A Balanced Approach
Get a preview of the top five cybersecurity threats — established and emerging — for this year and learn how to defend against each.
Strenthen Security Operations With Agile SecOps
Read this report to learn how to apply agile software development lifecycle practices (SDLC) to detection and response to create engineering-driven detection operations.
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The EU Cyber Solidarity Act Will Fail If It Is Stunted By Geopolitics And Protectionism
On 18 April 2023, the European Commission adopted a proposal for the EU Cyber Solidarity Act to strengthen cybersecurity capabilities in the EU. The proposed act will support detection and awareness of cybersecurity threats, bolster preparedness of critical entities, reinforce solidarity, and improve crisis management and response capabilities across member states. Additionally, the Commission presented […]
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Get A Head Start On The National Cybersecurity Strategy
This blog outlines Forrester’s existing Security & Risk research to help organizations navigate, manage, and prepare their organizations for the implications of the National Cybersecurity Strategy.
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Introducing Forrester’s Network Analysis And Visibility Landscape, Q1 2023
In today’s Zero Trust (ZT) world, organizations have been heavily focused on Zero Trust edge identity solutions. In some cases, however, they’ve neglected visibility across all the connections, endpoints, and applications in the enterprise. Network analysis and visibility (NAV) solutions have become almost an afterthought to ZT, but they are actually central to a robust […]
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A Zero Trust Paradox: Which Comes First, Microsegmentation Or Microperimeter?
The common trope, “What came first, the chicken or the egg?” is a question about origins and paradoxical relationships. Security and risk conversations about microsegmentation and microperimeters suffer from a similar dilemma. These two concepts are heavily emphasized in Zero Trust conversations as key components to advance maturity. Security and risk pros confuse the usage […]
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Cybersecurity Risk Dashboards: No Value, Extreme Liability
Over the last 12 months, “risk dashboards” became all the rage in cybersecurity, with varied titles such as “risk index,” “security baseline,” “security posture,” and “risk posture.” These dashboards appear in a vendor’s user interface and purport to help security programs improve. Some even offer coveted “benchmark data” that leaders can share with boards and […]
Learn How AI Can Be Used In Detection And Response
Watch this video for a reality check on what can (and can’t) be done with AI and security.
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Enterprise Firewalls: The Security Tech That Keeps On Ticking
Learn the three approaches enterprise firewall vendors are taking to work around a shortage of network security techs.
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Has Zero Trust Killed Defense in Depth? Or “DiD” It Refine It?
Zero Trust (ZT) continues to make waves (no pun intended), with US federal agencies now publishing guidance, such as the OMB’s M-22-09 or the DoD’s ZT strategy, for effective implementations, allowing for the government to be viewed as a source of trust in cybersecurity — although ZT is still mired in myths, and these can […]
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Predictions 2023: Economic Uncertainty And Climate Shifts Will Shape Edge, IoT, And Networking
From the city to the farm, market forces will have a dramatic impact on edge, IoT, and networking. Learn more in our 2023 predictions.
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