The Next Security Evolution

The SEC has been building towards 5D Security for 20 years. It's time to move from conventional security to business valued security.

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We can assist with security program development or enhancement, risk assessments, organizational structure, or leadership issues such as executive-level communication and demonstrating corporate security's value. From contained advisory services to transformational consulting engagements, we are your trusted advisor.

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Business Alignment, Demonstrating Value, Executive Communication and Influence, Metrics, Optimized Operations, Organizational Structure, Risk Identification, Strategic Planning and more.

About the Security Executive Council

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Security Program Strategy & Operations

Building a Comprehensive Security Governance Framework for Today's Businesses

Good security governance provides a structural, reliable, and consistent approach to managing security risks. A framework for security governance drives adherence to corporate security programs and reduces external risk by ensuring compliance with company standards and policies.

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Security Program Strategy & Operations

The Perils of Benchmarking: Why Corporate Security Programs Are Radically Different

Corporate security programs are as diverse as the corporations they serve. Each company, with its unique history, structure, and evolving needs, develops its security function in a distinct way. This inherent uniqueness poses significant challenges when attempting to benchmark one corporate security program against another.

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Corporate Security Career

Tier1 Target Report - Developing Top Talent - Public Version

This Tier1 Target Report offers a powerful framework for identifying, hiring, and cultivating high-performing corporate security leaders. With clear definitions, practical tools, and a scalable model, it helps security leaders move beyond gut instinct and build a repeatable, inclusive process for talent growth.

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Our Team

SEC subject matter experts are former security executives. Our staff come from security practitioner, research, business and technology backgrounds. What makes the SEC different? Simply stated - our process and our people.

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News

The 2024/2025 Corporate Security Organizational Structure, Cost of Services and Staffing Benchmark is now open! If you act now and your data is used in the benchmark, you will be provided access to the research results AND receive both of our published books (eBook version) on Security Metrics at no cost.

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What Your Peers Have to Say About the SEC

"I was initially drawn to the Security Executive Council in 2014 because of their strategic focus on communicating security value at the board level. Their business focused and forward-thinking philosophy aligned perfectly with where I wanted to take my department. The SEC’s leadership and subject matter experts have continued to impress and provide significant guidance and resources that have allowed me to successfully evolve my program. Equally as valuable, is the ability to collaborate with other Tier 1 Security Leaders from large Fortune 500/1000 companies who all share similar strategic objectives. It’s these things that have kept and will continue to keep me involved."

- A Director of Global Security from a Fortune 1000 manufacturing company
"The Security Executive Council has been a trusted partner as we evolved our operating model. Their guidance turns strategy into actionable initiatives, enabling agility and value when priorities shift. Peer forums like GSOC provide benchmarking we can apply immediately. Over time, they’ve become an extension of my leadership team—strengthening decision-making, alignment, and credibility."

- A Chief Security Officer at a Fortune 500 financial services company
"As a CSO and/or senior security leader for almost 25 years, I have been strategically engaged with the Security Executive Council for over a decade. Our relationship has evolved from an initial specific request-driven relationship to our current state relationship of partnering through the most challenging strategic issues and concerns on a global scale. The SEC faculty has an appreciation for the challenges CSOs face since they themselves are very often former CSOs who have learned and excelled throughout their careers. They are thought leaders and problem solvers grounded by the highest levels of security knowledge and real-world experience."

- A CSO from one of the largest U.S. commercial banks
"The SEC helps security leaders translate enterprise strategy into a defensible operating model. They connect executive vision, legal expectations, and operational realities into actionable roadmaps. Their guidance moves security from activity to intent—aligning risk with enterprise frameworks and developing metrics that show value. As a strategic partner, they accelerate clarity, reinforce confidence, and support security’s evolution as a valued contributor."

- A Chief Security Officer at a Fortune 500 global biopharmaceutical company
"The SEC provides rare, trusted counsel for high-stakes situations with no playbook. Their perspective cuts through noise on geopolitical risk, executive decisions, and sensitive internal matters. They understand trust and influence at senior levels, helping articulate security’s invisible yet critical value. As a true confidant and strategic sounding board, they strengthen leadership decision-making and reinforce security’s role as a trusted business function."

- A Chief Security Officer at a Fortune 500 global healthcare company
"The SEC has been a force multiplier—bringing research-backed insights that elevated security’s credibility beyond ‘gates, guards, and guns.’ Their work gave us the language to influence HR and leadership on issues impacting employee experience and psychological safety. They consistently surface modern, business-relevant ideas that reduce frontline pressure and improve outcomes. The SEC helps leaders translate security into business value and keep programs evolving."

- A Chief Security Officer at a Fortune 500 global retail company
"The Security Executive Council is our main resource for improving our programs and ensuring our strategy for business value. The SEC provides unmatched skill and intelligence for benchmarking our programs with top industry talent and programs. The staff and faculty of the Security Executive Council are skilled problem solvers who add capabilities to our internal security staff."

- A Vice President of Security from one of the largest financial services companies in the world
"As we scaled a global security program under intense pressure, the SEC was an indispensable strategic partner. They helped us move fast without sacrificing rigor—bringing clarity and defensible frameworks for complex challenges like tool selection, incident management, and executive protection. Their input sharpened thinking, avoided costly missteps, and established credibility early—positioning security as a business enabler with shared standards and consistent messaging."

- A Chief Security Officer at a Fortune 500 global media and technology company
"Being involved with the SEC provided me with the opportunity to tap into the collective knowledge of the SEC subject matter experts, provide meaningful training for my global security team, and allowed me access to valuable security benchmarking data. I always strived to lead a highly functioning team that protected our employees and our business. My association with the SEC assisted me in analyzing my efforts."

- A CSO from a Fortune 500 financial services and communications company
"The SEC represents the best aggregation of security leadership knowledge, global research, deep expertise and objective impartiality. They have plugged and played at every level and across the full enterprise security risk spectrum (tactical through strategic)—security strategy formulation, security program evaluation, advocacy and assessment, security process design and development, risk mitigation project implementation and measurement. The SEC broke the mold in their charter to help develop creative, adaptive and risk-aware security leaders. They have been extended staff since their introduction to the team. Their collective and data-driven solutions continue to drive relevance and help elevate our game. Couldn’t live without them."

- A Director of Global Security Services for a not-for-profit research and development organization
"Our company has been an SEC member because of the practical benefits received from the organization such as expertise received on a wide variety of security issues and assigning complex security projects to experienced SMEs that our company has neither the expertise nor time to complete. They help us keep current on issues that confront other security practitioners and are on the cutting edge of where the security profession is heading so we stay current with trends and make the appropriate adjustments to our program in a timely manner. Our department has grown and matured exponentially from the expertise and guidance provided by the SEC."

- A CSO from a large privately held consumer electronics company

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