In February 2025, I transitioned to the position of Vice President, Analysis Director, Worldwide Safety & Danger. With the change, I’m extending my remit from efficiently main our APAC Safety & Danger Forrester Selections enterprise, to our nicely established EMEA perform. I additionally transfer from a person contributor position to 1 the place I’m main a crew of extraordinary folks, and being chargeable for our collective analysis agenda throughout EMEA and APAC. As I deep dive into our backgrounds, present analysis and capabilities, I really feel a way of delight, hope and pleasure on the alternative forward. As a crew, we cowl a large number of safety & danger priorities (see Figure1). We’re additionally geographically distributed throughout six international locations throughout Europe, Asia and ANZ – nobody else is as uniquely positioned so as to add this stage of world perspective to our analysis and our purchasers. In my excitement and anticipation, I’d prefer to introduce you to our newly fashioned crew, and our 2025 priorities:
Paul returns to the analyst chair, supporting Forrester’s world enterprise and cyber danger administration and maturity evaluation. Fortunately for us, Paul McKay made the choice to get again within the analyst chair, as VP, Principal Analyst, working with Alla Valente and Cody Scott to globally assist cyber danger administration analysis. Paul has already delivered some exhausting–hitting analysis and blogs which have the potential to maneuver our purchasers to do vital issues. This consists of refreshing Forrester’s Data Safety Maturity Mannequin (FISMM), and an informative weblog outlining the important thing dangers within the 2025 WEF Danger Report. Paul may also be engaged on key know-how and repair markets, together with: governance, danger and compliance (GRC) platforms; he’ll reclaim his prior cyber danger scores protection, main a Forrester Wave™ analysis in 2026; and can consider danger consulting providers.
Tope leans into his improvement, engineering and pen testing background to ship pragmatic ZT, MDR, and Digital Identification analysis. With a world background in safety structure, penetration testing, and advisory, Tope Olufon’s analysis displays this background, main Forrester’s Managed Detection And Response Europe, quickly to publish a panorama and a Wave™ analysis in 2025. He works with our Zero Belief (ZT) colleagues, with a deal with making ZT pragmatic, delivering our analysis on How To Construct A Zero Belief Roadmap. Tope is presently writing analysis on the best way to suppose like an attacker, with the intention to use offensive safety strategies to uplift ZT capabilities. Leaping off his analysis on Europe’s fragmented, however hopeful, Digital Identification panorama, Tope will proceed to drive our analysis on digital id market developments, and their sensible purposes within the office.
Madelein units herself a broad and bold agenda, masking safety org construction, consulting providers, resilience regs, and API safety. Madelein van der Hout has an formidable agenda for 2025. She is ramping to guide Forrester’s analysis on safety organizational construction and working fashions, a extremely requested subject by our purchasers (heads up: we will likely be calling out for analysis interviews shortly). She continues to guide the Cybersecurity Consulting Europe Forrester Wave™ analysis, to be printed in 2025. Madelein will assist Amy DeMartine’s analysis on operational resilience in 2024, specializing in rules and mandates, particularly DORA – a sizzling subject for our purchasers. She additionally has plans to double-click on her 2024 API Safety protection with Sandy Carielli, giving our purchasers a nicely– wanted API safety roadmap.
Enza and Meng enrich our worldwide analysis, main on privateness, belief, AI regs, IAM and menace intel. Enza Iannopollo joined Forrester across the similar time as I did, and it’s been an honour following her profession path changing into one of many world’s most sought–after specialists on Privateness and BeliefEthics – one of many uncommon individuals who earns standing ovations to privateness keynotes. She has led vital analysis on the EU AI Act, how sellers can belief the usage of Generative AI, and artificial knowledge. Meng Liu heralds from a funds background, increasing his protection in recent times to adjoining areas in fraud administration , anti-money laundering and id verification in collaboration with Andras Cser. Meng noticed his research as a pure transition to safety and danger, and can collaborate with Jitin Shabadu to increase his protection in Asia Pacific to menace intelligence, particularly given how adjoining it’s to fraud associated points equivalent to impersonation and deepfake detections. Meng may also collaborate with Geoff Cairns to increase our most requested subjects in APAC: id and entry administration.
My profession objective of human-centered safety, safety tradition and safety management will continue. I’ll stin poor health to contribute to analysis which aligns to my objective, which is making safety human-centered, in addition to our Forrester’s Safety & Danger Precedence to “Lead A Excessive-Performing Safety Group And Tradition”. In this capametropolis, I’ll lead markets and analysis equivalent to Human Danger Administration and Safety Tradition, and a few choose safety and CISO management and profession paths analysis. Inevitably, I will should relinquish some deeply beloved components of my agenda that are essential to our purchasers, to very succesful palms. Madelein will replace our analysis on safety champions networks, CISO’s information to efficiently main change, and human danger administration metrics. Jess Burn will take over my plans for analysis on management and human expertise in safety, to enrich her present cybersecurity expertise physique of labor.
As a crew, we’re continuing to be relentlessly dedicated to our purchasers, our analysis, and one another. With our world safety and danger colleagues, we sit up for serving you in the above capacities.
Forrester safety and danger purchasers who’ve questions on the next danger, safety or privateness associated subjects can join through inquiry or steerage session to our specialists:
Human-centered safety, safety tradition, safety management or human danger administration: Jinan Budge.
GRC, Cyber Danger Scores, Danger Companies or Enterprise And Cyber Danger Administration: Paul McKay.
Constructing ZT Roadmaps, MDR, or Digital Identification can attain out to: Tope Olufon.
Safety org constructions, consulting providers in Europe, resilience regulations, or API safety: Madelein van der Hout.
Privateness, Trust, AI Regs and Ethics, Artificial Information: Enza Iannopollo.
Menace intelligence, fraud administration or id and entry administration in APAC: Malesg Liu.
