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CIO Cyber & Risk Network

A vendor independent forum to learn from and share with your peers

"I'd like to thank you for a fantastic discussion regarding cyber security, the discussion was facilitated very well."

The CIO Cyber & Risk Network Mandate:
To provide CIOs in Australian organisations with a forum in which to share their issues and approaches to cyber security and risk. The intended outcome is that organisations make better informed decisions to help protect their organisations, staff, customers and the economy.
Introduction
Not all Australian organisations are fortunate enough to have a Chief Information Security Officer. But not having a CISO doesn’t mean the challenge of managing cyber risk goes away. IBRS clients have been telling us that the frequency with which they are being asked to report on cyber security to their boards has increased. Now, four times a year is the minimum, and the board members are asking better, more in-depth, questions. The CIO Cyber and Risk Network is a vendor independent forum for CIOs to share with and learn from each other.

Benefits

  • Through interaction with your peers, gain an understanding of effective security practices.
  • Save time and effort by sharing policies, frameworks and security literature.
  • Discuss vendors and services from people who are using them or have moved on from them.
  • Discuss different approaches to security.
  • Raise ideas, challenges and solutions to the network of CIO's to provide their independent thoughts and advice.
Who Can Participate?
The CIO Cyber & Risk Network is a service for CIOs who are accountable for cyber security as part of their role. To ensure that trusted relationships can develop, and provide an experience of continuity within the group, CIOs invited to participate will not exceed 20 The CIO Cyber & Risk Network is an invitation only forum. This is to ensure that the forum is not swayed by vested interests, and that the participating CIOs are assured of the confidentiality of the discussion.

Format

  • 4 gatherings per year. Each gathering will be for 5 hours; 4 hours as a formal facilitated discussion and a 1 hour informal session which is an opportunity for the CIOs to have the 1:1 and small group conversations to follow up to the formal session.
  • IBRS will facilitate each gathering.
  • IBRS will also coordinate any external guests.
  • All gatherings are closed door, and held under the Chatham House Rule.
  • A summary of findings is distributed after each gathering.
  • Participate in a distribution list of like minded CIOs.
  • Should a CIO not be available to attend a gathering, sending a direct report is possible but discouraged. If direct reports are sent too often, as determined by the group, the CIOs’ invitation to participate may be withdrawn and no refund will be offered.

Highlights

CIO Cyber & Risk Network August 2019
The Cyber and Risk Network August gathering focused on the following areas:
1. The roadmap of Microsoft for security. This discussion included: licensing implications, vendor management and Microsoft Powerapps, and the impact of these in the enterprise environment.
2. Reporting to the board, and how to best join the dots for board members so they have a more complete understanding around the risk issues their organisations are facing.
2b. Most of the CIOs were reporting to the board regularly, from every 6 weeks, through to twice a year.
3. Information classification projects - what works, and strategies to bring the whole organisation on the journey.
4. Most of the CIOs had a seperate cyber audit from their technical audit. Some of the CIOs shared about how to best engage with auditors in order to achieve valuable audit findings that were relevant to the business.
5. An issue that came up in conversation was the business units were assuming that because a service was in the cloud that it was inherently more secure - without knowing which cloud vendor it was hosted with, how it was configured, or even if it was a genuine cloud service at all.

Testimonials

"At the February gathering this year, the CIOs had one particular conversation about the new Australian mandatory breach notification scheme that saved me weeks of work and thousands of dollars. It's an important area for me and I got the value of the annual membership right there."
Global CIO
“Our first Cyber & Risk Network meeting justified the participation time and energy. Networking and experience sharing is critical in cyber risk management, and getting first hand feedback and input for phishing simulation tools allowed us to make a better solution choice.”
APRA regulated CIO
CIO Cyber & Risk Network Schedule

November 28th 2019 - Sydney

CIO Cyber & Risk Network

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