What Our Clients Have to Say About the SEC
"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 [subject matter experts] has an appreciation for the challenges CSOs face since they themselves are very often former CSOs who have learned and exceled 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
"Since 2010, the SEC has afforded me a pool of external expertise that has intimate domain knowledge of the security space and the dynamic challenges we face as CSOs each day. As former CSOs themselves, the SEC allows me flexibility to utilize their non-advocate expertise to either consult on a project/initiative or assign the work statement and the end-product to them directly for completion on my behalf. I view the SEC as a trusted resource and business enabler for my team."
- A CSO from the world’s largest aerospace 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
"For the last 13 years, our company has been an SEC member because of the following practical benefits received from the organization:
- Expertise received on a wide variety of security issues from SEC Faculty.
- Being able to assign complex security projects to experienced SEC Faculty that our company has neither the expertise nor time to complete.
- Keeping current on issues that confront other security practitioners.
- Since the SEC is always on the cutting edge of where the security profession is heading, we are always current with security 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
"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
"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. Since then the SEC’s leadership, emeritus faculty and other subject matter experts have continued to impress and provide significant guidance and resources that have allowed me to successfully evolve my program.
In addition to those resources, and equally as valuable, is the ability to collaborate with other Tier 1 Security Executives 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 as a Tier 1 member of the Security Executive Council."
- A Director of Global Security from a Fortune 1000 manufacturing company
“From concept to full production, any initiative or program must have a process to allow for a spiral development and infusion of proven practices across the specialty and expert domain. This is true in security program design and is certainly the magic of sustained program growth and continued relevance. The more complexity - the bigger the impact of timely tutelage. Each inject, every new thought, the next important perspective, key data points and progressive nuggets of knowledge all share in assuring and advancing goals. This is particularly magnified in the security and risk management fields of service delivery where global risk phenomena, disruptive events, insider threats, regulatory changes, technology accelerators, and far-reaching hazards combine to challenge security leaders in their never-ending quest to deliver higher value in the corporate setting.
Security resilience in the right places, on the right issues, with the right risk owners, and at the right price points, are success imperatives. And all efforts most certainly benefit from trust, confidence and engagements with the right partners, at the right times. Partners who understand the lessons from industry and can masterfully help identify and tailor critical paths to success. Partners who can help security leaders navigate the unique corporate risk landscape with battle tested and contemporary advise from those in industry who preceded and those who are currently on the same journey.
To say the SEC has filled this role in this demanding domain is an understatement. They represent the best aggregation of security leadership knowledge, global research, deep expertise and objective impartiality. The SEC has 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, etc., In a growing consultant and plentiful advice latent world, the SEC has broken the mold in their charter to help develop creative, adaptive and risk-aware security leaders. Considered family, 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
Dave Komendat, Vice President and CSO, The Boeing Company, in his keynote speech at ISC West, comments on the
collaboration with the Security Executive Council to enable telling Security’s story using value metrics. (Speech starts 8:26 minutes in.)
Our clients would be happy to discuss their SEC experiences with you. Contact us:
contact@secleader.com
