Jinan Budge

London, Sydney

Principal Analyst at Forrester Research

My research at Forrester contributes to the Security & Risk professional. It centers on building and maintaining effective security programs.

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Tenable to Acquire Vulcan Cyber: More Consolidation in The Vulnerability Management Market

Jan 30, 2025 | forrester.com | Erik Nost |Jinan Budge |Paul McKay

The proactive security market is consolidating further as exposure management vendor Tenable announced its intent to acquire Vulcan Cyber, a unified vulnerability management (UVM) vendor that specializes in third party vulnerability collection, vulnerability response, and application security posture management. This acquisition demonstrates how vendors are reacting to CISOs’ continued need to unify and consolidate their fragmented arsenal of security tools.
Oops! It did it again: The Italian “Garante” asks DeepSeek about its data privacy practices.

Jan 29, 2025 | forrester.com | Enza Iannopollo |Carlos Casanova |Jinan Budge

While the world and (the financial markets!) was taken by surprise by the raise of DeepSeek’s open-source model, DeepThink (R1), the Italian privacy regulator – Il Garante – didn’t waste time and sent a formal request to the Chinese company to disclose information about their practices with personal data.
Breaking Down Human-Element Breaches To Improve Cybersecurity

Jan 28, 2025 | forrester.com | Jinan Budge |Jess Burn |Paul McKay |Tracy Woo

We are thrilled to announce our research, Deconstructing Human-Element Breaches, detailing the many and varied risks posed by and to humans — a problem that has plagued cybersecurity teams for decades. Forrester clients can use this research as a catalyst for productive conversations with executives and peers across functions about controls to mitigate the human element breach types most common to their organizations and industries.
Highlights And Implications Of Biden’s Executive Order On Strengthening And Promoting Innovation In The Nation’s Cybersecurity

Jan 21, 2025 | forrester.com | Heidi Shey |Jinan Budge

Building on the 2021 Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, former US President Joe Biden’s 2025 Executive Order (EO) 14144 puts forth additional actions for strengthening security, improving accountability for software and cloud service providers, and promoting innovation, including use of emerging technologies.
Rose-Colored Glasses Hide All The Red Flags: Advice From The S&R Forrester Women’s Leadership Program

Dec 23, 2024 | forrester.com | Jinan Budge

Despite the continuous and shocking gender disparity in cybersecurity where 16% of Fortune 500 CISOs are women, women continue to contribute, develop, and lead amazing careers. As has now become a Forrester Security & Risk Summit tradition, a room full of amazing women and a few brave fellas gathered last week as part of Forrester Women’s Leadership Program to celebrate the successes, and solve for the many challenges women face in this field. The theme?
If You’re Not Using Data Pipeline Management For Security And IT, You Need To

Nov 12, 2024 | forrester.com | Allie Mellen |Jinan Budge |Brian Hopkins

Data ingestion into security information and event management (SIEM) is too expensive. In fact, it’s so expensive that “How do we reduce our SIEM ingest costs?” is one of the top inquiry questions I get from Forrester clients. And the problem is not new — security leaders have struggled with managing their SIEM budget for over a decade. The increasing spend in SIEM is driven by a few factors. First, the shift to the cloud produced more data to intake and store.
Deconstruct Human Element Breaches To Protect Your Workforce

Sep 30, 2024 | forrester.com | Jinan Budge |Heidi Shey |Tope Olufon

When we predicted that “Ninety percentage of data breaches will include a human element” in Predictions 2024: Cybersecurity, Risk, And Privacy, we learned that not all publications, standards, or regulations mean the same thing when they talk about “human element” breaches. Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) states that human element breaches, which form 68% of total breaches, include social engineering, BEC, human error, pretexting and use of stolen credentials.
Apply For The 2024 Forrester Security & Risk Summit Scholarship Today

Sep 30, 2024 | forrester.com | Allie Mellen |Sandy Carielli |Jinan Budge

I’m excited to announce that Forrester is providing free admission to Forrester’s Security and Risk Summit for four women looking to break into cybersecurity. Forrester partners with Women in Security and Privacy (WISP) to make it happen, and this year, applications are open until October 4.
CrowdStrike Holds Its Fal.Con Conference As It Tries To Move On From July 19

Sep 24, 2024 | forrester.com | Allie Mellen |Jinan Budge

Last week, CrowdStrike held its yearly user conference, Fal.Con, in Las Vegas. The conference comes just two short months after CrowdStrike issued a config update that took down 8.5 million Windows endpoints which disrupted air travel, hospitals, media outlets, and impacted many other industries. Despite the incident (or perhaps because of it), the event was well-attended, with over 6 thousand attendees, surpassing CrowdStrike’s initial expectations.
Who Is Your CISO? Understand Their Background To Reduce Risk And Bolster Trust

Sep 23, 2024 | forrester.com | Jinan Budge |Bernhard Schaffrik |Subhendu Pattnaik

One of the three principles of High-performance IT (HPIT) is to build trust on a foundation of security, privacy and resilience. As a CIO, executing your strategy will be much easier if you unleash the talent of the person who plays an outsized role in building a trusted business: your Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).