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Call for Participation: The 2026 CISO Priorities Survey


The CISO Network ·

We are opening participation in this year’s CISO Priorities Survey. It is short — about twelve minutes — and it is anonymous.

What we are asking about

  • Budget direction and how it was decided
  • Board and audit-committee reporting cadence
  • Team size, structure, and hiring pressure
  • Where the role is consuming more of you than it should

Why we are doing it ourselves

There is no shortage of vendor-sponsored security surveys. There is a shortage of ones where the questions were not designed to produce a chart that sells something. Ours is written by members, funded by nobody, and the raw framing is published alongside the results so you can judge the instrument for yourself.

What you get

Participants receive the full findings before publication, with a peer breakdown by sector and organization size. Everyone else gets the summary a month later.

How to take part

Participation is open to security executives whether or not you are a member. Get in touch and we will send you the link when the window opens.

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  • research
  • benchmark

Support the work

The CISO Network is funded by its members and its supporters. Every contribution goes directly into programming, mentorship, and keeping the community independent of vendor influence.