For Security & Risk Professionals

Shift In Ownership: Protecting Data Outside Your Four Walls  (1.6 MB PPT)

by Robert Whiteley, October 28, 2009

In September 2009, Forrester hosted a two-day event designed to help security and risk professionals understand the top three shifts impacting their job heading. This document summarizes the key recommendations we made to help master the shift in ownership . . .

For Security & Risk Professionals

Shift In Expectations: Modernizing Your SRM Program  (2 MB PPT)

by Robert Whiteley, October 28, 2009

In September 2009, Forrester hosted a two-day event designed to help security and risk professionals understand the top three shifts impacting their job heading. This document summarizes the key recommendations we made to help master the shift in expectations . . .

For Security & Risk Professionals

Shift In Architecture: Building A Flexible, Compliant Foundation  (1.9 MB PPT)

by Robert Whiteley, October 27, 2009

In September 2009, Forrester hosted a two-day event designed to help security and risk professionals understand the top three shifts impacting their job heading. This document summarizes the key recommendations we made to help master the shift in architecture . . .

For Security & Risk Professionals

Application Threat Modeling: Uncover Security Vulnerabilities Before It's Too Late

Using Threat Modeling To Develop More-Secure Applications

by Robert Whiteley, April 22, 2009

Security and risk professionals have long used security threat modeling to find security vulnerabilities. However, many of your application development colleagues don't even know what threat modeling is. By communicating the benefits of threat modeling . . .

For Security & Risk Professionals

Incident Response Policies And Processes 2008  (400 KB PPT)

by Robert Whiteley, April 7, 2009

The current economic environment requires that today’s security and risk executives ensure their incident response policies are in place and accurate. The business cannot tolerate significant downtime or unnecessary cost associated with an outdated incident . . .

For Security & Risk Professionals

Vendors Tailor Product Offerings To Security's Needs

Market Momentum: IT Security Product Market, H1 2008

by Robert Whiteley, March 4, 2009

To investigate the IT security software market, Forrester examined a set of 20 representative IT security vendors and tracked more than 200 different activities in the market. These activities included mergers and acquisitions (M&A), partnerships, . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Look To Network Access Control (NAC) To Streamline IT Compliance

Maximize Your NAC Deployment To Aid In GLBA, HIPAA, PCI DSS, And SOX Efforts

by Robert Whiteley, February 24, 2009

Did your organization just fail an audit test, and were you, the IT manager, blamed for not keeping your infrastructure or IT operations up to snuff? The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

NAC Remains A 2008 Blockbuster — But Wait Until You See The 2009 Coming Attractions

Look For Vendors To Add Key Virtualization, Identity, And Profiling Features

by Robert Whiteley, October 29, 2008

For most enterprises, network access control (NAC) has been like a classic Hollywood movie. There are frustrating plot twists, interesting characters, and plenty of death as vendors consolidate and fall to the wayside. This year's version has a happy . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

SaaS Success Takes Careful Consideration

SaaS Clients Face Growing Complexity

by Robert Whiteley, September 29, 2008

Adoption of software-as-a-service (SaaS) is on the rise across businesses of all sizes. As SaaS solutions become larger, more flexible, and more complex, IT professionals are getting more involved in customizing them as well as integrating them with legacy . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

What Does IT Do For The Business?

The Five Essential Metrics For Managing IT

by Robert Whiteley, September 29, 2008

Providing understandable and relevant metrics to business leaders is an integral part of the transformation from traditional IT to service-oriented business technology. However, many IT metrics lack clear relevance to business outcomes and are difficult . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

The Sun Never Sets On The Global Workforce

Distributed Teams Need Real-Time Collaboration Tools

by Robert Whiteley, September 24, 2008

As businesses become increasingly distributed, IT professionals need to provide tools for workers to collaborate with one another quickly and easily. Therefore, IT operations professionals must understand the different types of collaboration tools — as . . .

For Security & Risk Professionals

The Forrester Wave™: Network Access Control, Q3 2008

Microsoft, Cisco, Bradford, And Juniper Lead The Pack

by Robert Whiteley, Usman Sindhu, September 5, 2008

In Forrester's 73-criteria evaluation of network access control (NAC) vendors, we found that Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Bradford Networks, and Juniper Networks lead the pack because of their strong enforcement and policy. Microsoft's NAP technology is . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Enabling Business Technology

Five Essential Best Practices For The IT-To-BT Transformation

by Robert Whiteley, August 15, 2008

As technology becomes increasingly integral to firms' offerings, strategy, and organization, the traditional model of IT as an independent and monolithic entity within the larger business is outmoded. Business technology (BT) will replace IT's technology . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Emerging WAN Services: Look Before You Leap

Recent Ethernet RFIs Show Chinks In Providers' Armor

by Robert Whiteley, August 15, 2008

As enterprises continue to migrate to emerging WAN services like Ethernet, it's easy to succumb to the path of least resistance by simply evaluating and migrating to the incumbent WAN provider's new offers. Think again. Forrester's evaluation of responses . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Today's WANs Don't Keep Pace With Applications

Growing Applications And Content Point To The Internet As The Future WAN

by Robert Whiteley, April 23, 2008

Your organization's demand for network capacity is growing at exponential rates. Why? Because new application trends like Social Computing and Web services, coupled with interactive content like video, drive massive bandwidth need. Your network operations . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

What Drives Enterprise Network Upgrades?

Security And Application Pressures Are Compressing Network Refresh Cycles

by Robert Whiteley, April 23, 2008

Today's networks are under siege. Infrastructure and operations teams worry about security upgrades, application rollouts, and new virtualization architectures that are stressing networks beyond their capacity. As the network manager, you once toiled . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Overcoming The Common Pitfalls Of NAC

How To Successfully Plan, Assess, And Implement Network Access Control

by Robert Whiteley, April 23, 2008

Network access control (NAC) is one of the hottest, yet vexing, technologies on the 2008 security agenda. As a network manager, you're eager to deploy it and mitigate risk by segmenting users and baking compliance checks directly into your network. Early . . .

For B2B Market Research Professionals

Network Refresh Trends, 2007  (160 KB PPT)

by Frank E. Gillett, Robert Whiteley, October 12, 2007

This data chart presents results from Business Data Services that explore trends in equipment refresh equipment for both the transport and application layers.

For Technology Product Management & Marketing Professionals

Vendor Profile: Cisco, Q3 2007

Making Risky But Necessary Moves To Expand From Its Dominant Position In Networking

by Christopher Mines, Robert Whiteley, August 9, 2007

Not content to rest on its laurels as the dominant provider of enterprise networking gear, Cisco has launched multiple initiatives to extend its reach. Using its financial resources and M&A expertise and setting its vision on "the network as the platform," . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Packeteer Provides The Deepest Application Visibility For WAN Optimization

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q3 2007

by Robert Whiteley, July 20, 2007

Packeteer is at an interesting juncture. It was the original WAN optimization vendor, but its original product — PacketShaper — predominantly focused on traffic management and quality of service (QoS). It has since acquired Tacit Networks, which provides . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Blue Coat Systems Adds Security And Control To WAN Optimization Appliances

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q3 2007

by Robert Whiteley, July 20, 2007

Blue Coat Systems surprised us with its very strong offering and came in fourth in our evaluation, almost tied for third. In addition to one of the best optimization architectures, Blue Coat also provides a strong road map for broader application delivery . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Citrix Systems Automates WAN Optimization Deployments

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q3 2007

by Robert Whiteley, July 20, 2007

Citrix Systems currently offers one of the best WAN optimization strategies and positions WAN optimization as part of the larger application delivery infrastructure. Its WANScaler product offers very strong optimization architecture that deploys at Layer . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Juniper Networks Has The Best WAN Optimization Strategy

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q3 2007

by Robert Whiteley, July 20, 2007

Juniper came in as the second strongest vendor all around. Its WX and WXC WAN optimization appliances are some of the most sophisticated, with particularly high scores for deployment capabilities, compression, and its comprehensive management system. . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

F5 Networks Is Busy Integrating WAN Optimization With Application Accelerators

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q3 2007

by Robert Whiteley, July 20, 2007

F5 jumped out to an early mindshare lead in WAN optimization with its acquisition of Swan Labs back in 2005. Since then, it has been busy working on integrating its WANJet technology into its TMOS architecture, which forms the basis of its flagship BIG-IP . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Silver Peak Systems Provides The Most Scalable WAN Optimization Appliance

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q3 2007

by Robert Whiteley, July 20, 2007

Silver Peak Systems provided the most technologically superior solution. It scored the highest on current offering, and its solution provides a full suite of optimization techniques as well as a performance-oriented solution. Silver Peak specializes in . . .