Peer-Led Community for Cybersecurity &
Anti-Fraud Leaders Across the US
Executive Briefings, Regional Forums, & Industry Gatherings
Built on Trust, Insight, and Real World Experience
Forums Designed for How CISOs Actually Learn
CxO Security Forum is a national community of cybersecurity, risk, and compliance executives who come together for private, purpose-driven discussions. Each gathering is designed to deliver strategic clarity through high-trust dialogue, not sales decks or surface-level content.
Modern CISOs operate in an environment defined by accelerating AI adoption, regulatory scrutiny, identity sprawl, and increasing personal accountability. While information is abundant, opportunities for honest peer exchange are rare. Curated gatherings bring together senior leaders with shared accountability who can exchange experiences, pressure-test assumptions, and learn from one another in real time.
Strategic Priorities Guiding Today’s Executive Security Leaders
Cybersecurity executives are facing greater scrutiny than ever before, from boardrooms, regulators, and internal stakeholders. Each of our forums is shaped around the decisions that matter most to senior leaders working in enterprise, healthcare, finance, and beyond.
- How to govern AI responsibly
- How to communicate cyber risk to boards
- How identity and access models are changing
- How fraud, security, and compliance are converging
What Makes a CxO Security Forum Room Functionally Different
A Trusted Environment for Open, Executive-Level Dialogue
Conversations are thoughtfully moderated to encourage exploration rather than presentation. Discussion leaders draw on real-world experience to frame issues, introduce relevant tensions, and invite multiple perspectives, enabling participants to examine downstream implications, strategic tradeoffs, and decision-making patterns across organizations. This structure supports meaningful exchanges about how priorities evolve, how organizations adapt under pressure, and how leaders refine their approaches over time in response to new risks and opportunities.
We operates under Chatham House Rules to foster a high-trust setting where candid knowledge sharing can occur. Confidentiality is a foundational element of the Forum’s design, allowing participants to speak freely about operational experiences, regulatory interactions, governance models, and technology adoption journeys. This environment encourages the exchange of practical insights, lessons learned, and forward-looking perspectives that leaders can apply directly within their own organizations.
Member-Led Forums
Invited
Executives Only
No Sponsored Presentations
Premium Networking
Carefully Curated Sponsors
Regional Forums with Local Context and National Perspective
Two Audiences. One Mission. Real Connection.
Gatherings are designed as small, curated, practitioner-led environments where senior executives engage in focused, high-value dialogue. Participation is intentionally limited to leaders with direct responsibility for cybersecurity, risk, compliance, and technology strategy, creating a room defined by shared accountability and lived experience. This peer-level composition allows conversations to move quickly to substance, with executives communicating in shorthand, building on common assumptions, and engaging openly on complex topics that benefit from mutual understanding.
FOR EXECUTIVES
Join a peer community of CISOs, CTOs, CIOs, and senior GRC leaders who are shaping enterprise resilience across regulated industries.
- Learn from trusted peers and agency partners
- Earn CPEs
- Expand your network
- Get mentoring and share expertise
- No marketing. Just meaningful conversations.
FOR SOLUTION PROVIDERS
We partner with a limited number of vetted sponsors who bring strategic value to the community.
- Connect with ultimate decision-markers
- Don't waste time with uninterested prospects
- Receive curated introductions
- Promote your brand through thought leadership
- No booth overload. High visibility, low noise.
Upcoming Gatherings
Boston & NYC CxO Security Forums
24 & 25 February 2026
Regional Forums
These Executive Briefings bring together a tightly curated group of senior cybersecurity, risk, and compliance leaders for candid, peer-led discussion on the issues shaping executive decision-making in 2026.
February’s agenda features Tim Brown, speaking beyond the headlines about executive accountability and lessons from the now-defunct SEC action, and Josh Woodruff, author of Agentic AI + Zero Trust, sharing actionable takeaways on securing autonomous systems at scale—alongside founders, investors, and seasoned practitioners.
AI in Healthcare Forum
10 July 2025
Executive Briefing
This private executive gathering convenes senior leaders in cybersecurity, compliance, and risk to address the complex realities of AI integration in healthcare. Timed alongside the HIMSS AI & Healthcare Forum, the forum offers a focused space for peer-driven dialogue on security, governance, and responsible innovation. Participants engage in candid conversations shaped by real-world experiences, with no product pitches and no distractions, just actionable insights and high-trust connections.
Not an Event Organizer. A Community Platform.
CxO Security Forum is not an event marketing company. Our model puts cybersecurity decision-makers in control, with a format that values time, trust, and relevance. We prioritize insight over exposure, substance over sizzle, and trust over transactional exchange.
Whether you’re leading security at a health system, evaluating AI governance in a SaaS company, or refining risk posture in a regulated enterprise, this is a space to connect with others doing the same.
Format That
Respects Time
Agendas with zero downtime, focused sessions, & expert-moderated discussions, no long lectures.
Real World Scenarios
Case studies are shared by executives who have used or vetted those solutions.
Spaces That Inspire Conversation
No hotel ballrooms. Forums are held at academic institutions or executive boardrooms for authentic, distraction-free interaction.
Access Without
Overload
We cap attendance, vet participants, and ensure sponsors gain quality, not quantity, connections.
No Sales List
Attendee information is never shared. Follow-ups only happen when participants explicitly request them.
Request a Forum In Your Area
CxO Security Forum exists because leaders like you asked for something better, gatherings where trusted peers, not sales pitches, drive the conversation. If you’re part of a cybersecurity, risk, or compliance community that would benefit from a local executive forum, we want to hear from you.
Our team works closely with agency partners, associations, and local practitioners to design forums that reflect the priorities of the region. Whether you’re in a major metro area or a rising tech hub, we can help bring together the right people in the right setting for meaningful discussion, mentorship, and connection.
If you’re ready to see this community model in action where you live or work, reach out. We’ll guide you through what it takes to organize a forum, and help make it happen.
