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Don’t Call It A Comeback: Stay Ready For Ransomware
So far, 2025 is filled with … distractions for security leaders. Between scrambling to secure their organizations’ AI initiatives, staying on top of critical vulnerabilities (and the organizations delivering the CVE process), perpetually communicating and training to guard against human element breaches, and navigating yet another period of uncertainty and volatility, it’s tempting to take […]
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Forrester’s Top Threats For 2025
2025 started with a bang! Technology and geopolitics are changing so fast that many can’t keep track of the latest trends, with an announcement of new, benchmark-shattering genAI-related tech seemingly every week.
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Get recognized for excellence in security, privacy, and risk innovation. Apply for a Forrester Security & Risk Enterprise Leadership Award to celebrate your success in creating resilient operations. Apply by July 23, 2025.
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The European Cybersecurity Consulting Services Market Is Ready For Disruption
As digital threats grow more sophisticated and European and international regulatory landscapes more intricate, the role of cybersecurity consulting services is critical. Hence, I’m excited to announce The Forrester Wave™: Cybersecurity Consulting Services In Europe, Q1 2024 (available for Forrester clients). In this report, my colleagues and I scrutinize the offerings of major players in […]
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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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Retailers Are Being Barraged By Cyberattacks This Holiday Season — Prepare!
Cyberattacks continue to threaten the availability of online shopping for retailers — and the profits that come from it. Retailers can take these three steps to defend against them, this holiday season and into 2024.
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Ransomware Defense For Constrained State And Local Budgets
Explore the state of ransomware vulnerability for state and local governments — and how you can protect your agency with limited resources.
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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.
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The US Government Is Here And Really Wants To Help Protect You From Ransomware
Ransomware Vulnerability Warnings Are Coming To A Critical Infrastructure Near You The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) launched the Ransomware Vulnerability Warning Pilot (RVWP) in January 2023 in response to ongoing concerns about the threat of ransomware. This is the CISA’s ransomware-centric take on external attack surface management for critical infrastructure. The RVWP pilot […]
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Cyber Grant Program Is Welcome News For Small Governments
Local governments have become frequent targets of cyber attacks, and funding and planning for preventing for more attacks have been left largely to the local level. A new initiative is changing that.
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Threat Hunting 101: A Human-Led Exercise
Here, we clear up some misconceptions about threat hunting and explain why it’s in the best interest of your team to start doing it.
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The Return Of The Forrester Wave™: Cybersecurity Incident Response Services
The Forrester Wave™: Cybersecurity Incident Response Services, Q1 2022 is now live! This is the first evaluation of cybersecurity incident response service (CIRS) providers we’ve published since March of 2019. Remember 2019? Ah, those halcyon pre-pandemic days … back when most of us were traveling freely, meeting in person, blissfully unfamiliar with the challenges of […]
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Freeze Out Hackers During The 2022 Winter Olympics
For security leaders, Olympics-related security attacks are a reason to remind your users about potential threats and the latest security procedures.
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It’s Groundhog Day Again — The State Of Enterprise Ransomware Defense
Ransomware attacks have increased threefold since 2020. Is your security team fully equipped? Get four key takeaways from Forrester's new report on ransomware.