Jeff Pollard

2 weeks ago | forrester.com | Jeff Pollard

In today’s unpredictable economic climate, chief information security officers (CISOs) face familiar — but intensified — challenges. From US government funding cuts to global geopolitical instability, organizations must operate in an environment that is more volatile than ever. Our latest Forrester report, Security Leaders: How To Thrive Through Volatility, provides actionable insights for CISOs to navigate these turbulent times. Here are a few of the key lessons and what they mean for you.

1 month ago | forrester.com | Andras Cser |Paddy Harrington |Jeff Pollard

Google has announced definite plans to acquire cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) vendor Wiz for $32 billion, which is the largest ever acquisition in cybersecurity, surpassing the $28 billion that Cisco paid for Splunk in 2024. This is also Google’s largest ever acquisition and, based on Forrester’s estimates of Wiz’s annual revenue, represents an astronomically high, approximately 45–50x estimated multiplier of Wiz’s annual revenue.

1 month ago | forrester.com | Paddy Harrington |Jeff Pollard |Merritt Maxim

Protecting IoT devices is not easy. With few exceptions, you can’t take a traditional endpoint protection approach and install a local agent on the IoT device for protection. Proprietary OS/firmware in many cases precludes installing an endpoint. Even when the device runs embedded Linux or Windows Embedded OS, standard endpoint defensive measures aren’t available either as those are locked OS’s that require complicated processes to update.

1 month ago | forrester.com | Jeff Pollard |Allie Mellen |Merritt Maxim

The security landscape continues to evolve as does global uncertainty, leaving CISOs to prepare for turbulence ahead. 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. We’ve included four of our twelve recommendations in this blog as a starter pack for what CISOs will deal with in 2025 and most importantly: what they should do about it.

1 month ago | forrester.com | Allie Mellen |Jeff Pollard |Jitin Shabadu

Last week, I attended the AV Comparatives conference in Innsbruck, Austria. This conference brought together many cybersecurity vendors, particularly those with a European focus, as well as a few non-profits, academic institutions, and analyst firms. The event was a combination of talks and an award ceremony, a typical arrangement for a conference from a security testing lab vendor.