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Your Car Is Listening To You — And So Are Hackers
Skoda and Volkswagen are the latest vehicle manufacturers that have had vulnerabilities discovered in their cars that could allow malicious actors to execute code remotely. Find out more about privacy risks in cars and what can be done to minimize them.
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Warning: The Mobile Endpoint In Your Pocket May Be Just As Vulnerable As Your Desktop
Learn why the Android OS can be just as vulnerable to attacks as Windows and what steps you can take to minimize the risk.
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Predictions 2025: Security And Risk Pros Will Brace For Regulations And Resilience
With cybercrime expected to cost $12 trillion in 2025, regulators will take a more active role in protecting consumer data while organizations pivot to adopt more proactive security measures to limit material impacts. Find out more in our 2025 predictions for cybersecurity, risk, and privacy.
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Apply For The 2024 Forrester Security & Risk Summit Scholarship Today
Forrester is once again partnering with Women in Security and Privacy to provide free admission to our Security & Risk Summit for four women looking to break into cybersecurity. Learn the details and find out how to apply for the scholarship here.
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Why Attack The Front Door If The Mobile Side Door Is Open?
When it comes to mobile device security, barely half of organizations are using unified endpoint management (UEM). That’s like locking the front door and leaving the side door wide open. Find out why security teams overlook mobile devices in this preview of our upcoming Security & Risk Summit.
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That’s A Nice IoT Device You’ve Got There … It’d Be A Shame If Mirai Used It For Its Botnet
A variant of the Mirai DDoS botnet that arrived in late 2016 and has remained active (because its creators released the malware for anyone to use) is using unpatched (and, in this case, unpatchable) AVTECH closed-circuit television cameras as part of its botnet to attack targets of opportunity, such as an early target of the […]
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Don’t Let Another Organization Win Your Forrester 2024 Security & Risk Enterprise Leadership Award
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.
Join Us Live: Key 2025 Tech & Security Predictions
Get ahead with insights from Forrester analysts. Join us on Jan. 30 for a webinar on our 2025 predictions covering the future of technology and security, from rising cyberthreats to the impact of AI and automation.
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The Shakedown From Black Hat USA, 2024
What happens when five security analysts gather at a security conference in Las Vegas? Stuff gets broke. Find out more in this review of the recent BlackHat USA event.
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A Recent Issue Highlights The Importance Of Securing The Hypervisor
Learn how applying Zero Trust, identity and access management, and endpoint detection and response (EDR) can help protect VMware’s ESXi hypervisor from a newly exploited vulnerability.
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Falcon Fallout: What’s Next For CrowdStrike, Competitors, And CISOs
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.
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Invest, Experiment, And Scale Back: Budget Priorities For CISOs In 2025
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.
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Even Greener Pastures Have Their Own Manure
Tech leaders considering migrating critical systems away from Windows to other operating systems in the wake of CrowdStrike might want to give that strategy some thought. Find out why.
2025 Tech Predictions: Your Must-Have Guide
From AI’s impact to cloud evolution and smarter workflows for the SDLC and AIOps, 2025 is set to be a big year for tech. Download our Predictions guide to see if you’re on track to make the most of these changes.
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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Mobile Threat Defense Solutions, Q3 2024
Learn three emerging trends in mobile security in this preview of our new Wave report on mobile threat defense systems.
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Securing IoT Devices Demands Applying Zero Trust Principles
Two recent sets of vulnerabilities discovered in medical IoT devices highlight the importance of implementing Zero Trust principles when deploying IoT devices. Learn more in this post.
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Top 10 Emerging Technologies For 2024
The pace of technology innovation can make it hard to keep an eye on the tech horizon. In this episode, Vice President of Emerging Tech Portfolio Brian Hopkins walks through this year’s list of the top 10 emerging technologies, describing when each technology will bring value to users.
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Forrester’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies For 2024: As AI Dominates, Security Becomes Paramount
Forrester’s list of the top 10 emerging technologies for 2024 reflects the continued dominance of AI but also emphasizes the growing importance of security in our increasingly connected world. Get a deep dive on the top 10 list in this blog post.
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Crashing Through The Walls Of Your Enterprise, Modern Cars Are Leaving Security Gaps
As organizations implement more security controls on existing applications and devices, attackers are looking for the next target of opportunity. Lax security makes connected vehicles a new vector of potential compromise. Learn more in this preview of a new report.
Plan Your IT & Security Budgets For 2025 Success
Watch our on-demand technology budget planning webinar. Get benchmarks for strategic investments, divestments, and experiments to maximize business value from 2025 tech and security spending.
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Announcing Forrester’s Security & Risk Enterprise Leadership Award
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.
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Secure Your Use Of Generative AI
Watch and learn how to use a security framework to secure genAI adoption and explore the security controls and skills crucial for safeguarding this emerging technology.
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Tremors Originating From A California Ripple In The Enterprise Browser Market
Learn why the news of Palo Alto Networks' intentions to acquire Talon Cyber Security demonstrates the importance of securing the browser.
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