About CSO Forum

CSOs are increasingly expected to contribute to business success by effectively managing the risk profile of organizations Therefore, CSOs must shift their primary focus from the internal and functional, to the enterprise and transformational, and ultimately to the external and business strategy.

To compliment this shift, they must apply specific leadership competencies, enhance their staff’s expertise and elevate their business stakeholder relationships. Given the enhanced ask from the role, there is a need for pioneers, for collective problem-solving and agenda-setting, for research, tools and insights, and for peer engagement; the first steps to build the professional security community CSO Forum is envisioned to be a community-led and community-driven platform on corporate security issues which draws on peer engagement and collective wisdom to promote best practices/benchmarks.

Over time, it endeavors to emerge as the preferred independent authority on all issues relating to corporate security