Our Purpose Is - The CISO
CISO ExecNet is a peer-to-peer networking organization
dedicated to helping the most senior InfoSec executives be more successful.
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1500+ Members
Members are Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), the senior information security executives in their organizations. A majority of our members are from US Fortune 2,000 global organizations, and span every industry segment. Read more about membership criteria on the Member page.
Nearly 75 Roundtables per year
We host Regional Roundtables in each of our 11 Regions that encompass our 27 Chapter cities 6 times annually. We also host Breakfast Roundtables at the major security conferences, and we host our own National Member Symposium each year, for more nearly 75 total roundtables annually!
27 Chapter Cities
2026 Roundtables will take place in 11 Regions that encompass our 27 US Chapter cities across the US.
Atlanta, Austin, Bay Area, Boston, Chicago, Charlotte, Cleveland, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Hartford, Indianapolis, Las Vegas, MidAtlantic (DC, MD, VA), Minneapolis, Nashville, New York City, Orange County/Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, San Antonio, San Diego, South Florida, Tampa
12-18 or 25-40 CISOs per Meeting
Our CISOs are eager to consistently engage with their peers during our boardroom style events, hear thought leadership presentations from top cybersecurity vendors, and earn CPE credits. We see an average of 25-40 CISO members per Regional Roundtable and12-15 CISOs at our National Conference Adjacent Roundtables
2 Tiers of events
We host meetings at the national and regional
About Us
Our Purpose Is the CISO
A peer-to-peer professional organization serving senior information security professionals for almost 20 ears, CISO ExecNet started as the CSO Breakfast Club. Our executive gatherings provide a forum for sharing best practices, education, learning and support among executives across the US. It also provides opportunities for cybersecurity solution providers to share their thought leadership via interactive presentations at our esteemed Local Chapter Roundtable Series, Custom Curated National Events, Industry Conference Breakfasts, and our National Symposium.
See our overview video.
Members have access to special events, private materials, and regularly published newsletters and videos. Chief Information Security Officers can inquire about membership today.
Organizations interested in sponsorship can connect via email [email protected].
Coming up
18 AUG - 17 SEP 2026
The Identity Security Challenge - From Humans to NHIs
Discussion Points: Identity Sprawl & Complexity Across Cloud, SaaS, and On-Prem – How are CISOs regaining control over a fragmented identity landscape? Securing Non-Human Identities (NHIs) – Managing service accounts, machine identities, APIs, bots, and workloads. Privileged Access Management (PAM) at Scale – Reducing risk with just-in-time access, automation, and zero standing privileges. Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) – Ensuring appropriate access and visibility across the identity lifecycle. Threat Detection for Identity-Based Attacks – Stopping lateral movement, ATO (account takeover), and insider misuse. The Role of Identity in Zero Trust Architectures – Making identity the new perimeter for adaptive access and segmentation. Identity Fabric & Federated Identity Strategies – Approaches to unify identity across business units, M&A, and multicloud. Auditing, Compliance & AI-Driven Identity Risk Scoring – Meeting audit demands with contextual, real-time identity intelligence.
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