Joseph Blankenship

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. […]

Forrester is delighted to announce the opening call for our annual Security & Risk Enterprise Leadership Award. This award recognizes organizations that have transformed their security, privacy, and risk management functions into capabilities that fuel the organization’s reputation for trust and its long-term success.

One of the main themes from the recent Insider Summit was that insider risk is very much a human problem, not a technology problem. Find out more in this review of the event.

Cybersecurity vendor ThreatLocker recently hosted its fifth annual Zero Trust World (ZTW) conference in Orlando, welcoming attendees from 28 countries to learn about Zero Trust principles and ThreatLocker offerings. Over two days, the event celebrated Zero Trust as a cybersecurity model and the ThreatLocker approach for achieving Zero Trust. Industry leaders, managed service providers, security […]

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.

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 Security & Risk Enterprise Leadership Award recognizes orgs that transformed the security, privacy, and risk management. Learn more about the award and find out how to apply.

In recognition of National Insider Threat Awareness Month, we’ve gathered up some helpful focus areas and next steps to reduce your exposure to insider risk. Learn more at our upcoming Security & Risk Summit in Baltimore on December 9–11.

Forrester just published the second edition of The Forrester Wave™: Microsegmentation Solutions. Just over two years separates this research from the previous report, and the technological advances over that short time are stunning. The previous evaluation, The Forrester New Wave™: Microsegmentation, Q1 2022, was all about layer 3 microsegmentation in a data center (or private […]

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.

The big question at the Splunk annual user conference — .conf — was simple: What will happen to Splunk in the wake of the Cisco deal? Find out if the question got answered in this review of the conference.

After a previous sale fell through, Fortinet has announced the acquisition of Lacework for an undisclosed amount, catching some customers by surprise. Get a detailed analysis of the deal including side-by-side product comparisons in this post.

Cisco recently announced a new network and cloud security platform, called Hypershield. Find out what benefits it provides and why organizations should pay close attention to its development going forward.

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

LogRhythm and Exabeam announced their intent to merge, representing another big change for the security analytics platform market. Find out what's driving the merger and what the implications could be.

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.

We have opened the call for our annual Security & Risk Enterprise Leadership Award. This award recognizes organizations that have transformed the security, privacy, and risk management functions into capabilities that fuel long-term success. Learn more about the award and how to apply.

Forrester data shows that 22% of data breaches in 2023 were the result of internal incidents. What does that have to do with fantasy football? Find out in this post.