CISO Communities – Cybersecurity’s Secret Weapon

The only defense better than the expertise of one CISO is the combined expertise of many CISOs. 

In recent years, closed CISO communities have increased in number and grown in size. They act as an information exchange, advice center, pressure valve, and safe haven from the critical oversight.

The need is obvious. CISOs occupy a unique position in business. Despite greater integration with business operations, they remain the only business leaders trying to counter active and adaptive threats; and yet they remain a role that is little understood by the rest of the business. The only other leaders capable of discussing their needs, grouses, pressures and adversaries are other CISOs (although 1001 product vendors claim they understand and offer expensive solutions).

CISOs need a channel to discuss work (and other shared problems) with peer CISOs. Since nature abhors a vacuum, CISO communities naturally emerged in a process that can be ...