Forrester Research

June 30, 2021

PERSPECTIVES

Don’t Wait for the Going to Get Tough to Modernize Operations

2 min read

This is the first installment of our automation strategy series, based on a Forrester Consulting thought leadership paper commissioned by Cisco: Modernize Operations To Digitally Transform And Weather Any Storm. The research focuses on how enterprises can modernize their operations to boost agility — which is key to their ability to weather adversity.

June 16, 2021

PERSPECTIVES

Operational Maturity Delivers Great Results, But Where Do You Start?

2 min read

We wanted to understand how automation enables operational maturity and – ultimately – the business itself. We partnered with Forrester Consulting to research organizations of varying sizes and across industries with a global footprint.

August 11, 2020

SECURITY

Cisco Named a Leader in the 2020 Forrester Wave for Enterprise Firewalls

2 min read

Cisco firewalls deliver world-class security controls everywhere with consistent visibility, policy harmonization, & unified management. Cisco was named a leader in the report; The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Firewalls, Q3 2020.

August 29, 2018

SECURITY

New Study Shows Correlating Network and Endpoint Data is Highly Manual

3 min read

We recently commissioned Forrester research to survey IT security professionals to find out what their desired end state was when it came to correlating security intelligence from network and endpoint....

July 18, 2018

SECURITY

Moving Towards The Zero Trust Cybersecurity Framework?

2 min read

The first step should be an investigation and analysis of what your sensitive data is, where it lives, and who accesses it. Then analyze the three Foundational Pillars (see...

June 5, 2018

SECURITY

Why has Forrester’s Zero Trust Cybersecurity Framework become such a hot topic?

2 min read

Let’s focus on the Zero Trust approach first. If your infrastructure was on the Internet how would you design your organization’s cybersecurity framework? Authentication to confirm who logs into...

January 10, 2018

NETWORKING

Forrester TEI Survey Documents 156% ROI for CMX

2 min read

The stock market has had a pretty good run during 2017. Lucky investors have seen returns of more than 15 percent when, historically, anything greater than 8 percent is considered good. So what would you think of a 156-percent return? You wouldn’t be alone if you thought such an astronomical rate is only a teaser […]

It’s Time to Rethink the Value of “Support”

2 min read

A company with $2 Billion in annual revenue and 20,000 users maintains their network with less effort, resulting in 120% ROI. How? Automated capabilities manage your infrastructure in three ways.