Jeff Pollard

Government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels must prepare for a future where they experience uncertainty, headcount reductions, contract cancellations, and budget cuts. This is gut-wrenchingly difficult to process, yet remaining leaders must figure out how to move forward to serve the mission. For public sector cybersecurity leaders, this is even more paramount. […]

As we put together our game plan for what to see at RSA Conference 2025, we wanted to scope out innovation, identify which vendor booths will be a must-see, and (at least for one of us) minimize the number of steps to take around the Moscone Center.

In today’s unpredictable economic climate, CISOs face familiar — but intensified — challenges. Get some actionable insights to help navigate through turbulent times in this preview of a new report.

The security landscape continues to evolve, as does global uncertainty, leaving CISOs preparing for turbulence ahead.

The third installment of The Forrester Wave™: Managed Detection And Response Services is now live, and there’s so much to love about the managed detection and response (MDR) services market: fantastic providers, engaged clients, and meaningful outcomes. This year is no different. Forrester clients can access the full report here. As we mentioned in Choose […]

Managed detection and response (MDR) — without a doubt — has successfully claimed the crown of all managed security services for making and keeping clients happy.

Get a simplified view of the the top three generative AI use cases that security leaders need to worry about and get recommendations for prioritizing them.

Forrester's security and risk research team breaks down the key highlights and implications of former US President Joe Biden’s 2025 Executive Order (EO) 14144 on strengthening security, improving accountability for software and cloud service providers, and promoting innovation, including use of emerging technologies.

Data ingestion into security information and event management (SIEM) have been too expensive for too long. Find out what's driving up the cost and how to manage it better in this post.

Here are the top things you need to know coming out of CrowdStrike's recently held Fal.Con user conference, just two months after its config update took down 8.5 million Windows endpoints.

The July 19 CrowdStrike Falcon outage created major trust issues for the company and the broader security market. What's next for CrowdStrike? Find out as we make several predictions on where the company will go next.

The majority of security technology decision-makers anticipate further budget increases in 2025. Learn three key areas for CISOs to focus on in the year ahead in this preview of our 2025 Budget Planning Guide for security leaders.

Crises such as the one triggered by CrowdStrike's global outage shine a bright light on many aspects of business and technology. Our new report provides a thorough overview of recommended actions for tech leaders as they face the unfolding long-term repercussions.

Technology leaders woke up this morning to find that a software update by cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike had gone badly wrong. Get updates on the steps that your organization should take now and in the long term as a result of the CrowdStrike outage.

Cybersecurity breaches continued to rise in 2023. Learn the eight most common incident types and get four key takeaways from our new report.

Cloud detection and response is not a market category — it is a feature of existing cloud tools. Get a formal definition and more in this post previewing a new report.

RSAC gives security startups two structured opportunities to distinguish themselves, and Forrester always finds it revealing to see which startups make the cut.

Find out what Palo Alto Networks' acquisition of IBM’s QRadar business means for the broader security information and event management SIEM market.

More than 41,000 attendees, 600 exhibitors, and 425 sessions. Get some of the key themes and takeaways from the Forrester security & risk analysts who attended RSA Conference (RSAC) 2024.