Pick Your Battles To Avoid Overconsolidation – Jess Burn, Jeff Pollard – BSW #337
Large security vendors and hyperscalers, including Microsoft, continue to expand their cybersecurity product and service portfolios. Microsoft’s extensive enterprise reach, massive partner network, and enormous influence in the C-suite puts pressure on CIOs and CISOs to consolidate on it as much as possible for cybersecurity. This report helps security leaders understand Microsoft’s cybersecurity portfolio, the tactics it uses, and how to manage peer and executive pressure to single-source security technology.
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Jess is a senior analyst at Forrester serving security and risk professionals. She contributes to Forrester’s research on the role of the CISO and Zero Trust. Additionally, Jess covers email security; incident response and crisis management; and security training, education, and certifications. Prior to her analyst role, Jess spent eight years as a principal advisor on Forrester’s Security & Risk Council. In this role, she was a trusted partner to a network of CISOs and security and risk leaders making critical decisions in the areas of risk management, data privacy and protection, cybersecurity operations, and identity and access management.
Jeff primarily contributes to Forrester’s offerings for security and risk professionals. He leads Forrester’s research on the role of the CISO, specializing in topics related to security strategy, budgets, metrics, business cases, and presenting to the board. His research also includes security services, featuring global coverage of managed security services, professional security services, and security-as-a-service. Jeff also takes an active role in Forrester’s forward-looking research on security innovation, the security market, and security predictions.
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