Predictions 2025: Cybersecurity, Risk, And Privacy

In this webinar we will look at the state of IT sustainability survey Forrester conducted at the end of 2024 looking at the buyer and spending behavior for sustainability initiatives for 2025. We will take a closer look at the most impactful initiatives on sustainability enterprise leaders told us they undertook in the past year how investments will look like for 2025 the key capabilities for sustainability management software solutions that enterprise leaders sort and the services capabilities that were most asked for in the market.Key takeaways: Buyer trends for sustainability management softwareServices partnerships enterprises seekMost impactful IT decarbonization efforts by organizationsTarget audience level: all levels

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Abhijit Sunil

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Diane Deng

,  Jan Sythoff  

This client webinar was originally scheduled for March 26th, 2025.Machinery-of-government (MoG) changes restructure agencies, eliminating or splitting up some, combining others, and often causing radical shifts in mission. The US is currently facing significant upheaval across federal agencies, as the current administration has intensified these changes.In this webinar, we explore best practices, examples, and considerations that you should be aware of to successfully weather these changes.Key takeaways: Learn how to facilitate successful organizational transformations.Create a plan to address upheaval and change.Understand best practices for MoG change.Target audience level: all

Sam Higgins

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Bobby Cameron

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Chris Gallacher

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Kim Herrington

 

The CISO is the arbiter of confidence and protection for the business in a world of geopolitical strife and shifting allegiances; regulatory hurdles and changes to AI and tech; quickly emerging and changing technologies in generative AI (genAI); and constantly evolving cybercriminal activity, including deepfakes. In 2025, five threats will affect security teams more than any other: global regulatory disruptions, high-quality deepfakes, tech exuberance over genAI, job loss radicalization, and genAI-driven extortion. Security pros need to prepare in advance.Key takeaways: Global regulatory disruptions: Data-related policies, regulations, and standards are becoming less aligned between domains and across countries.High-quality deepfakes: Attackers are increasingly using deepfakes because of their ability to cast doubt on security, trust in the media, and brand reputation. Deepfakes impact verification and authentication for almost every user group, including customers, business partners, and workforce members.Tech exuberance over genAI: Enterprise adoption of genAI continues to accelerate as models proliferate, training costs come down, and deployment options increase. But tech and security leaders are learning hard lessons about how different models behave — and the work required to make them secure — as new models emerge.Job loss radicalization: A new economic reality has emerged in 2025 with a flurry of activity that saw job cuts to 4% of the US federal government workforce, massive tech layoffs, and job cuts in Europe. Employees who remain after layoffs are not happy.GenAI-driven extortion: Between continued law enforcement disruption of ransomware gangs and enterprises’ greater focus on business resilience and data backups, ransomware became less lucrative for cybercriminals in 2024. Before genAI, stealing data was only so useful — reviewing millions of emails takes far too much time. Now, with genAI, attackers can perform a quick sentiment analysis on troves of stolen data for extortion schemes.Target audience level: intermediate

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Allie Mellen

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Jitin Shabadu

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Enza Iannopollo

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Andras Cser

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Cody Scott

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Jess Burn

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Jeff Pollard

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Jinan Budge

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Joseph Blankenship

 

So far, 2025 is proving to be a challenging and volatile time, especially for security and risk professionals. Charged with protecting the enterprise, security leaders can’t take a backseat to facing and taking charge of volatility. In this webinar, analysts from Forrester’s security and risk team will discuss some immediate actions you can take to help your enterprise navigate the current chaos and improve your organization’s security posture Key takeaways: Learn ways to optimize current security spending.Understand the broader enterprise risks facing all organizations in 2025.Learn how to improve your organization's approach to enterprise risk management to address these risksDiscover how having a structured approach to change management can optimize business performance. Target audience level: beginner and intermediate

Merritt Maxim

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Jeff Pollard

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Alla Valente

 

As we move further into 2025, the security landscape continues to evolve in parallel with the uncertainty unfolding globally. Our latest report, Top Recommendations For Your Security Program, 2025, provides timely guidance for security leaders as they navigate another precarious year for their roles, programs, and organizations. Join us in this webinar to go over highlights from our 2025 recommendations and hear directly from the analysts making these calls.Key takeaways: Learn the most important recommendations for your security strategy in 2025 and our rationale behind them.Leverage our research and insights to guide your security program strategy.Understand how to prioritize changes in areas including security platforms, privacy and data protection, critical infrastructure, emerging tech, and security leadership in the coming year.Target audience level: intermediate

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Jess Burn

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Jeff Pollard

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Heidi Shey

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Enza Iannopollo

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Paddy Harrington

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Allie Mellen

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Cody Scott

 

Anyone who sells software or digital goods online and wants to grow through globalization will at least consider a third-party Merchant Of Record model. Merchant of Record (MOR) solutions have existed for decades, but the industry has made headlines recently with some notable departures: Digital River, a former heavyweight in the market, is closing up shop, and a relative newcomer in the category, Lemon Squeezy, was acquired by payments heavyweight Stripe, which, per its founder, will “scale Merchant Of Record selling in a big way.”In this webinar, Forrester analyst Lily Varon is joined by a panel of CEOs from three major players in the MOR solution space: David Nachman, CEO of FastSpring; Jimmy Fitzgerald, CEO of Paddle; and Wendi Sturgis, Board Advisor and Former CEO of Cleverbridge. Key takeaways: Understand what is really going on with the Merchant Of Record market right now.Learn how to avoid common pitfalls of MOR selling.Discover the best ways for digital leaders to prepare for the future of MOR selling.Target audience level: all levels

Lily Varon