Asserting Forrester’s Safety & Danger Award

We’re thrilled to announce our inaugural Security & Risk Enterprise Leadership Award. This award will acknowledge organizations which have remodeled the safety, privateness, and danger administration features from obstructionist value and compliance facilities to enterprise features that drive trusted relationships with clients, staff, and companions and that gasoline the group’s long-term success. Our award is exclusive as a result of it:

• Celebrates the group, not a single particular person. Elevating safety, privateness, and danger throughout the group takes a whole staff dedicated to having a powerful imaginative and prescient and seeing it by way of. This might take months (and even years) of fixed reeducation of the board and C-level execs, embedding champions and liaisons in enterprise models, reimagining safety and privateness consciousness and coaching, and reskilling groups and redefining processes to work intently with counterparts in advertising, buyer expertise, DevOps, and many others. This isn’t an award that one CISO, CPO, or CRO can win on his or her personal. It’s concerning the efforts of your entire group.
• Rewards organizations for his or her affect on the enterprise. This award isn’t an evaluation of a company’s safety, privateness, or danger posture or an evaluation of controls in opposition to an business normal. Attaining sure business certifications and assembly a baseline degree of maturity are vital achievements, however we view these as desk stakes. Our award acknowledges these groups that construct belief intentionally with clients, staff, and companions with: 1) buyer experiences which can be safe, personal, and resilient by design; 2) worker practices that each shield the group and assist it succeed; and three) companion ecosystems that unlock innovation. We all know from our analysis that trusted organizations have increased development potential. For instance, within the public sector, when residents have increased ranges of belief, people usually tend to help insurance policies, search professional recommendation, observe directives, and use the companies supplied to them.
• Acknowledges that no group is ideal. No group is immune from breaches, privateness missteps, or outages. Organizations that show management throughout these crises, nonetheless, put the wants of their stakeholders (clients, staff, and companions) first. They use the levers of trust (e.g., accountability, transparency, empathy, and many others.) to information their actions. We encourage organizations which have confronted crises up to now and which have carried out the learnings from these occasions to enhance their organizations to use and share their classes.

Over the last 20 years, safety, privateness, and danger have all change into board-level priorities and considerations, and affect, expanded budgets, and sizable groups have adopted. We’ve made progress, however we will nonetheless do extra to additional embed safety, privateness, and danger administration inside each a part of the group. These awards not solely have fun the organizations pushing the business ahead, however they convey to enterprise and tech leaders throughout industries on how safety, privateness, and danger administration drive the belief that’s important to success.

Who Ought to Apply?

Nominations for Forrester’s Safety & Danger Enterprise Management Award are open to organizations with 1,000 or extra staff in each the private and non-private sectors. Excessive-tech service suppliers that compete in these markets are excluded, however they’ll nominate purchasers (with these purchasers’ permission, after all). For those who’ve had a disaster (breach, outage, compliance tremendous, privateness abuse) lately, we nonetheless encourage you to use, particularly when you have insights to share about how your group dealt with the disaster and what you discovered from the expertise.

You’ll find extra details about the award classes, plus detailed submission packages and directions, here.

Submissions shut on August 11, 2023. We’ll notify finalists by the tip of August. We’ll then announce finalists and award recipients forward of Forrester’s Security & Risk Forum in North America. The award recipients will be part of us at our Discussion board and on stage to obtain and have fun their award throughout the occasion, which is able to happen in Washington, D.C., on November 14–15, 2023.