CISO Next: Navigating Cyber Resilience & AI in Cybersecurity

In a rapidly changing digital world, today’s CISOs must go beyond traditional defences; they need to foresee disruptions, ensure continuity, and weave cyber resilience into the fabric of their organisations. As artificial intelligence reshapes the cybersecurity landscape, both as a tool for protection and as a potential weapon in cyber attacks, understanding its implications is essential.

CISO Insights offers comprehensive perspectives, innovative tools, and valuable lessons from peers to empower you to anticipate emerging threats, harness AI for proactive defence, and lead with foresight in an era where resilience is paramount.

Connecting CISOs and thought leaders

What is CISO NEXT?

CISO Next connects CISOs and data security and privacy thought leaders to explore and shape how their role will evolve in the current and future business landscape. The CISO Next initiative provides diverse perspectives, innovative tools for collaboration and cross-industry resources that enable security leaders to effectively address the known and unknown challenges in a dynamic cyber threat landscape and strengthen cybersecurity defence and resilience.

Participating CISOs are empowered to:

Network and collaborate with fellow CISOs
Acquire innovative methods to tackle current challenges in data security and privacy and build solutions for the future
Expand their toolbox by gaining insight into different CISO personas and approaches
Tap into a knowledge sharing community

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Cloud Security

We help you understand, address, and actively manage the risks you face to successfully operate your business in a secure cloud.

Data Protection

We help preserve your business value by protecting sensitive data while assessing and maintaining compliance with regulatory and contractual requirements.

Attack and Penetration

We help protect your critical assets and data by identifying vulnerabilities and providing actionable remediation guidance. Applications, infrastructure, databases, IoT and mobile apps, whether on-premise or in the cloud, are safer with Protiviti.

Digital Identity

We tackle identity and privileged access management from a risk management perspective, giving you empowered and trusted users who can safely connect to sensitive resources, no matter where they are.

Security Programme and Strategy

We help you understand and manage the evolving cybersecurity and privacy risks you face, determine your readiness to address them, tailor your cybersecurity governance, and communicate effectively with stakeholders.

Cyber Risk Quantification

By leveraging quantitative modelling, we empower you to fully understand the risks you are facing in ways that make sense for your business.

Managed Security Services

Protiviti helps you mitigate risk and optimise processes while simultaneously sustaining business operations. We do this by applying scalable, contractual services delivered by highly skilled security resources.

Cyber Defence and Cyber Resilience

Protiviti helps you prepare for, respond to, and recover from security incidents. When incidents happen, a trusted partner like Protiviti guides you through the process to help avoid costly pitfalls and recover as quickly as possible.

Operational Resilience

Improve resilience through a robust testing program, building on existing business continuity management activities, IT disaster recovery, and cybersecurity incident response. We bring knowledge across the four domain areas of operational resilience: business, technology, cyber, and third-party.

Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM)

One-stop solution for financial, information technology, compliance, and operational due diligence. We integrate procurement and TPRM to enhance your visibility, efficiency, risk, and cost management.