Challenges You Face
Security and risk leaders are making high‑stakes decisions with limited margin for error. That pressure shows up in a few critical ways:
- Keeping the security roadmap current as business priorities, technology, and threats rapidly change
- Evaluating new and emerging technologies — including AI — without adding risk or complexity
- Managing constrained budgets and vendors while proving that security investments deliver value
- Guiding the business with confidence, balancing speed, protection, and enablement
- Building and sustaining capable teams amid talent shortages and burnout
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Questions We Answer
What are the major trends and challenges affecting security and risk leaders?
For many CISOs and CIOs, the pressure to deliver real, measurable results from secure Al initiatives has intensified significantly. At the same time, geopolitical pressures and security risks continue to command attention, pushing security and risk leaders to focus on outcomes that align to business goals and build trust across the business.
In 2026, tech and security leaders will be called upon to recalibrate investments under tighter financial scrutiny and governance, navigating increasingly complex geopolitical and economic risks. Learn more in our guide: 2026 Predictions for Technology and Security.
How do I ensure my organization implements AI responsibly?
Security leaders must proactively embed security and risk mitigation throughout the entire AI agent lifecycle, from initial design to continuous operation, using comprehensive threat modeling and robust governance frameworks. Organizations also need to extend software supply chain security to their broader AI ecosystem, thoroughly vetting third-party components, implementing software and AI bills of materials, and maintaining human-in-the-loop oversight.
To safeguard AI integrity, enterprises should develop dynamic risk management approaches that use continuous monitoring, context-aware policy-as-code, and automated compliance controls to detect and mitigate emerging AI-related risks. From our industry leading Zero Trust and AEGIS frameworks, Forrester is on your side and by your side as you navigate the changing AI landscape.
How do I ensure my organization is compliant with evolving regulations?
New AI governance frameworks continue to barrage tech and security leaders, but security leaders don’t need another framework. They need a sequencing plan. AEGIS gives you one.
Forrester’s AEGIS regulatory cross walk is a fully cross-referenced, regulation-aware blueprint for building trust in AI systems. If you’re a CISO, CIO, or CTO — or you report to one — AEGIS is a pathway to AI agent and agentic trust. You’ll start with the controls that anchor trust, then layer in nuance and regional specificity. Learn more about AEGIS.
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Bold Solutions To Drive Better Outcomes
Forrester guides security and risk leaders to anticipate threats, safeguard business growth and reputation, and build lasting trust with customers and employees.
Key Priorities
As a security and risk leader, you’re under constant pressure to anticipate emerging threats and protect business growth strategies, customers and employees, and company reputation. Forrester Decisions for Security & Risk Leaders is tailored to help you deliver on your most pressing priorities:
- Proactively manage enterprise risk and sustain compliance.
- Lead a high-performing security organization and culture.
- Defend against cyberattacks and emerging threats.
- Manage identity and access for humans and machines.
- Establish an effective privacy and data protection program.
- Secure products through their lifecycle.
- Secure and manage the risks of emerging technologies.
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Forrester Decisions services are uniquely built to give you strategic insights for your role as a business leader in your organization and help you deliver on your functional role as a division or department leader. Here’s what’s inside:
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Forrester Decisions for Security & Risk offers multiple levels of service to ensure the right expertise and degree of support for you and your team. All service levels offer access to research, tools, data, and certification courses.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Forrester Decisions for Security & Risk designed for?
It’s built for security and risk leaders responsible for anticipating emerging threats, sustaining compliance, managing security programs, and enabling business growth, as well as for teams focused on identity management, privacy programs, and securing emerging technologies.
Whether you’re a CISO, CIO, or application development leader, or if you work for one, Forrester Decisions for Security & Risk can help you drive better outcomes.
What topics and priorities does this service cover?
Our research spans all of the key priorities for CISOs and other security leaders, from managing enterprise risk and defending against cyber threats to leading high‑performing security teams and implementing privacy and data‑ protection programs.
It also includes guidance on securing AI, navigating emerging technologies, and other enterprise-wide priorities.
What resources are included in this service?
Forrester clients gain access to leading research, cutting-edge data, planning guides, templates, forecasts and predictions, technology evaluations, and analyst guidance to help de-risk decisions. Clients also receive access to Forrester AI, our generative AI tool, to accelerate success with answers from trusted Forrester research.
These resources are designed to both shape long‑term strategies and support day‑to‑day functional decisions.
How does Forrester Decisions help organizations stay ahead of threats?
Forrester Decisions provides insights into emerging threat landscapes and equips leaders with tools to proactively protect their organizations. Our leading insights and data support continuous risk management and enable organizations to make informed, data‑driven security decisions, while our frameworks and templates support teams as they work to implement best practices.
From our industry leading Zero Trust and AEGIS frameworks to our signature research for security and tech professionals, Forrester is on your side and by your side as you navigate the changing cyber security landscape.
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