CISO Focus Group
The CISO Focus Group brings together senior cybersecurity leaders who play a strategic role in shaping their organisation’s cybersecurity direction, risk priorities and investment decisions.
The group provides a trusted peer environment to exchange experiences and perspectives on the strategic challenges facing cybersecurity leaders. Its focus is not on technical implementation as such, but on the choices, trade-offs and governance challenges involved in managing cybersecurity as an enterprise risk and business priority.
By bringing together CISOs and professionals operating at a comparable level of responsibility, the Focus Group aims to foster candid discussion, mutual learning, and the exchange of practices across organisations and sectors.
Objectives
The CISO Focus Group aims to:
- Facilitate trusted peer-to-peer exchange on strategic cybersecurity challenges and priorities.
- Share experiences and lessons learned on cyber risk governance, decision-making and leadership.
- Explore how cybersecurity risks can be translated into business risks, strategic priorities and investment decisions.
- Exchange practices on engaging with executive management, boards, and key stakeholders across the organisation.
- Discuss emerging developments and their potential strategic impact on cybersecurity and the organisation.
- Strengthen the community of cybersecurity leaders in Belgium and contribute relevant experience and insights to the broader Cyber Security Coalition community.
Topics
Depending on the priorities and emerging challenges identified by its members, discussions may cover topics such as:
- Cybersecurity governance and cyber risk management
- Cybersecurity strategy and multi-year priorities
- Risk appetite, investment choices, and prioritisation
- Board and executive management reporting and engagement
- Cybersecurity and AI security governance
- Cyber resilience and crisis governance
- Strategic lessons learned from major cyber incidents
- Third-party and supply-chain risk
- Collaboration with risk, legal, regulatory, privacy, IT and business functions
- Cybersecurity operating models and organisational positioning
- Talent, capabilities and cybersecurity leadership
- Internal and external communication
- The strategic impact of technological, regulatory and threat landscape developments
The agenda is driven by the challenges and priorities of the participating CISOs, allowing the group to respond to developments that are most relevant to their organisations.
Practices
The CISO Focus Group convenes four times a year, with meetings limited to maximum 15 participants to enable open and meaningful peer-to-peer discussion.
Participation is based on a named seat. Members are expected to participate personally rather than delegate their seat and are asked to attend at least two of the four meetings per year.
Sessions are designed around active exchange rather than one-way presentations. Depending on the topic, they may include peer discussions, experience sharing, strategic cases, and contributions from invited experts.
The Focus Group operates within the Cyber Security Coalition’s trusted and non-commercial environment, in accordance with its Focus Group code of conduct, Traffic Light Protocol (TLP) and Chatham House Rule. This enables members to openly discuss challenges and share experiences in confidence, consistent with the approach used across the Coalition’s Focus Groups.
Members are also encouraged to contribute back to the broader Coalition community by sharing relevant experiences and insights and, where appropriate, contributing to Coalition activities and events.
