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1 month ago | forrester.com | Jitin Shabadu |Enza Iannopollo |Andre Kindness

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 (MSPs), security practitioners, and (most importantly) Forrester analysts attended.

2 months ago | forrester.com | Enza Iannopollo |Andre Kindness |Paul Miller

This blog was co-authored with Martin Gill, VP, Research DirectorInternationally, the UK is prioritizing AI security over safetyLast week, together with the US, the International Agreement on Artificial Intelligence at the global AI Summit in Paris. The agreement aims at aligning 60 countries on the commitment to develop AI in an open, inclusive, and ethical way. According to the UK government, it fails to address global AI governance issues and leaves questions on national security unanswered.

2 months ago | forrester.com | Andre Kindness |Erik Nost

As SD-WAN hit the peak of excitement, Forrester analysts noticed that the hype wasn’t turning into deployments. Many of the SD-WAN investigations were being held up by security teams that put a pause on the projects as the teams tried to wrap their heads around the shift in security architecture and controls from data center to cloud. At the time, networking and security were becoming inter-dependent; yet organizations and solutions were not quite there.

2 months ago | forrester.com | Michael O'Grady |Andre Kindness |Ian Bruce

The growing digital economy will capture 17% of global GDP by 2028 and see 7% CAGR through 2028, which will in turn drive robust technology spending growth across the globe. In 2025 two thirds of global tech spending will come from software and IT services; in Europe and North America it is even higher.

2 months ago | forrester.com | Michael O'Grady |Andre Kindness

Despite persistent inflation US real GDP is forecast to grow 2.7% in 2025 and US tech spending will grow by 6.1% to reach a staggering $2.7 trillion. Buoyed by Federal Reserve interest rate cuts tech spending in 2025 is driven by:Software. Software spending in the US will increase by 10.7% in 2025. As cybersecurity risks escalate, and cloud and generative AI continue to revolutionize tech offerings, enterprises look to leverage these technologies to drive future growth and innovation.