The purpose of security is to serve business, and today, more than ever, a strong and proactive security and business strategy is vital for success.

Security is most effective when it is integrated within core business practice. Creativity, ingenuity, fortitude, and accountability become not mutually exclusive but mutually inclusive within the context of a secure business operation.

It's impressive when security and business merge to achieve an objective. Impressive, but irrelevant, without also clearly achieving the business objective that spawned it. When security drives business results, security drives the business, and ultimately, the purpose of security is to serve business.

Security efforts need to be born of and harnessed to corporate business objectives. Like laying bricks to build a house, every dollar spent should measurably build your business.

The fusion of business and security within any organization is orchestrated by senior executive leadership, not by divisions or silos. For business leaders to address only “the business”; to speak only in business dialect; to offer ourselves only in service to marketing goals; would be myopic. Security must be merged into our vernacular.

The CXO Summit provides the common ground necessary for the development of realistic approaches and corporate strategies to effectively integrate security into business goals and objectives, and into the corporate culture.

Against a backdrop of change, ongoing compliance, and oversight, waves of next generation technologies and communications services are making their way into the digital economy and marketplace. While they offer opportunities for innovative business paradigms, they also bring with them dynamic vulnerabilities and security threats.

The CXO Summit will provide you with the tools you require to look beyond the technology to gain an evocative, strategic approach to the business of managing information security and mission critical business processes and assets. You will get the clear and focused picture you need, without the hype.

We’ve created a program that leverages a dynamic blend of international business and information security leaders who will discuss not only the latest in security threats, vulnerabilities, and GRC, but also the realistic approaches, strategic responses, and effective solutions you require to manage today’s continually evolving business and security challenges.

We're creative. We're strategic. We're wise. We understand the doubt and frustration of corporate leaders who can't tell if security is solving or adding to their business problems. And that makes us unique.

Our promise: DYNAMIC CONTENT. STRATEGIC FOCUS.

We look forward to seeing you in Dallas this May.

Diana Kelley
CXO Summit Chair