Human Risk Management is rapidly maturing from a compliance-driven function into a strategic market with board-level visibility. In this session, Forrester’s Jinan Budge and SimSpace's Graham Westbook explore the current state of the HRM market, where it is headed, and how organizations should prepare for the shifts ahead. Together, they highlight emerging opportunities and challenges in governance, accountability, and cultural resilience—while also examining the transformative role of agentic AI in reshaping how organizations measure, prioritize, and reduce risk at scale.
Jinan leads Forrester’s security and risk research in Asia Pacific. Jinan’s research focuses on enabling chief information security officers (CISOs) and technology executives to lead a high-performing security organization and culture. Jinan globally leads Forrester’s awareness, behavior, and culture coverage, using strategic and innovating thinking to shape the market. Jinan is also an advocate for diversity and inclusion in security. She focuses on ensuring that cybersecurity teams not only attract but also retain the best talent, and she brings a local and global perspective and cultural lens to her research and practice.
Graham serves as the Vice President of International Markets at SimSpace, providing solutions for elite live-fire exercises, stack testing, and world-class training to global organizations. Prior to joining SimSpace, Graham spent time as a consultant for the DoD's Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) web vulnerability scan team and JFHQ-DoDIN Readiness and Security Inspection Audit team, inspecting facilities within the DoD Information Network for compliance with US CYBERCOM regulations and NIST standards. Graham also built the Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) team at Geisinger Health, before joining Crowdstrike as a Strategic Advisor and leading Flashpoint's global Advisory practice. Graham has supported Federal & Global 2000 organizations and delivered threat briefings and ransomware response tabletops to CISO-level decision-makers, helping them better understand how to combat cyber threats. Graham holds a B.A. in Intelligence Analysis, an M.S. in Criminal Justice & Forensic Psychology and is a post-graduate candidate in AI for Business at University of Oxford.