Jeff Pollard

1 week ago | forrester.com | Jeff Pollard

Although details are limited with more expected to come during an upcoming earnings call, we know that a leader in the SSE market will consume a leader in the MDR market with Zscaler announcing that it intends to acquire Red Canary. Here’s our analysis of the good, the bad, and the concerning about this acquisition, what it means for the cybersecurity market, and what it signals for security leaders and their teams. On its face this acquisition makes sense.

2 months 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.

2 months 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.

2 months 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.

2 months 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.