AI security, data governance, and responsible use for chief information security officers
The CISO Executive Forum is a curated peer community for chief information security officers and senior security leaders working through the most consequential security decisions of the AI era. It operates within Open Future Forum, a private executive community in Silicon Valley that runs events and dinners for C-suite executives.
The forum is small, off-the-record, and entirely free of vendor presence. CISOs can discuss real security challenges, failed policy experiments, and live decisions in a room with no audience and no reputational risk from candor. That is a rare thing in the security industry, where the incentive to appear in control is constant.
These are the AI and security questions Open Future Forum CISO members are working through right now.
How do we set an AI use policy that employees follow rather than route around? How do we know which AI tools are already in use across the organization? What does responsible AI governance look like in practice, not just in policy documents?
How do we evaluate what AI vendors actually do with our data? What questions should we be asking in vendor security reviews that are specific to AI? Where do standard third-party risk frameworks fall short for AI providers?
How do we design security controls for systems that include AI components? What does observability look like for AI-integrated pipelines? How do we work with the CTO on AI architecture decisions without becoming a blocker?
How do we present AI security risk to a board that is still developing its AI literacy? What does a credible AI risk framework look like in board reporting? How do we avoid both underplaying and catastrophizing the risk?
How do we write AI use policies that are specific enough to be enforceable but flexible enough not to be obsolete in six months? How do we roll them out in a way that builds culture rather than compliance theater?
What new attack surfaces does AI adoption create? How do adversaries use AI to attack organizations, and how does that change the security posture we need to maintain? What are peers seeing in the wild?
The CISO Executive Forum is built for security leaders at growth-stage and enterprise companies who are making consequential AI security decisions and need a trusted peer room that is genuinely off-the-record.
The CISO Executive Forum operates within Forum Select, the private invitation-only tier of Open Future Forum. Gatherings are small, off-the-record, and free of vendor presence. No recording, no session summaries shared externally, no vendor pitches.
The CISO Forum occasionally intersects with the CTO Forum on AI architecture and governance decisions, and with the CFO Forum on AI security budget and risk framing. Open Future Forum convenes cross-functional sessions for decisions that require alignment across the C-suite.
Open Future Forum is built on Adam Grant's Give and Take philosophy. The CISO Forum operates by the same standard. The room is curated for people who make it better.
Not polished case studies. The real story: what failed, what you would do differently, and what you are still figuring out. The CISO seat uniquely requires candor that cannot happen in public rooms.
The room is other CISOs working through the same decisions. No vendors, no consultants with something to sell, no sponsored content.
The CISO role is one where the peer room is especially valuable precisely because so much of the real conversation cannot happen in public. The off-the-record standard is not a preference. It is the condition for honest exchange.
Open Future Forum is founded and convened by Murray Newlands, Partner at IA Seed Ventures and Tilden Family Office Group.
Open Future Forum is a private executive community in Silicon Valley that runs events and dinners for C-suite executives. The CISO Executive Forum is for security leaders who need a genuinely off-the-record peer room for AI security decisions, not another vendor panel or conference session.