Chief Information Security Officer

Forum Select
for CISOs

The private executive community where Chief Information Security Officers talk about AI, the threat surface it creates, the tools it enables, and the governance questions no one is answering yet.

AI is your biggest
tool and your biggest threat

No role in the C-suite has been more fundamentally disrupted by AI than the CISO's. AI has given attackers unprecedented scale, given defenders powerful new tools, and created an entirely new category of risk: the AI systems your own organisation is deploying.

Forum Select gives CISOs a room to work through all of this with peers who are living the same reality, without the performance of a conference panel or the agenda of a vendor briefing.

"The most dangerous thing for a CISO right now is isolation. The threat landscape is changing faster than any one person can track. The ones who are winning are the ones sharing what they know, even when it feels risky."
  • AI-powered attacks, how threat actors are using LLMs at scale
  • AI in the security stack, what's real, what's hype, what's working
  • Securing enterprise AI deployments, the risks your vendors aren't disclosing
  • AI and data governance, what happens when the model learns from sensitive data?
  • Shadow AI, employees using unapproved AI tools at scale
  • AI and board reporting, how do you explain AI security risk to directors?
  • CISO liability in an AI breach, what does personal exposure look like?
  • AI regulation, GDPR, EU AI Act, US executive orders and what they mean operationally

CISOs need peer intelligence
more than any other role

Security is a team sport. The most effective CISOs have always been the ones who share threat intelligence, compare notes on breach patterns, and warn each other about vendor failures before they become incidents. AI has made that peer exchange more urgent, and Forum Select's off-the-record format makes it possible in a way no public forum can.

Threat intelligence

Share what you're seeing

CISOs at Forum Select share real-world threat intelligence, attack patterns, vendor failures, emerging AI threat vectors, that would never surface in a public briefing or conference session.

Vendor reality

The reviews no vendor will show you

Forum Select dinners surface the honest assessments of AI security tooling that you'll never find in analyst reports, from CISOs who have actually deployed them, at scale, in production.

Board translation

How to talk to the board about AI risk

One of the most valuable conversations at Forum Select is how CISOs are framing AI security risk to boards and audit committees, what language works, what metrics land, what gets funded.

The questions that
don't have public answers yet

Forum Select dinners regularly surface the AI security questions that CISOs are wrestling with privately, questions that have no good public answers yet because the technology is moving faster than the frameworks.

  • ?How do you secure an AI system that learns from user behaviour?
  • ?What does a mature AI security governance framework actually look like?
  • ?How do you detect an AI-generated spear-phishing attack at scale?
  • ?What are your personal legal obligations when an AI system is breached?
  • ?How do you manage shadow AI without destroying productivity?
  • ?What does AI-era zero trust architecture actually require?
  • ?How are other CISOs handling AI vendor security assessments?

Why sharing makes
every CISO stronger

The security community has always understood something that other professional communities are only now learning: sharing information makes everyone more secure, not less. The CISO who shares a threat indicator helps every peer organisation that might face the same attack vector.

Forum Select is built on exactly this principle, extended to every dimension of executive leadership. CISOs who share what they know, candidly and without competitive posturing, build the trust networks that make the entire community more resilient.

  • Shared threat intelligence benefits all members simultaneously
  • Off-the-record enables the candour that public ISACs cannot
  • Peer network accelerates response to novel AI threats
  • Honest vendor assessments prevent repeated mistakes across the community
  • Board communication strategies improve for every CISO in the room

The room where CISOs
share what they're really seeing

If you are a CISO navigating the AI security landscape and want honest conversations with peers who are doing the same, Forum Select was built for you.

Forum Select for CISOs, Open Future Forum

Open Future Forum's Forum Select is a private executive community for Chief Information Security Officers navigating the AI security landscape. CISOs at Forum Select dinners discuss AI-powered attacks and threat actors using LLMs, AI security tooling (real-world assessments), securing enterprise AI deployments, AI data governance and privacy risk, shadow AI and employee AI use, board reporting on AI security risk, CISO personal liability in AI breaches, AI regulatory compliance (GDPR, EU AI Act, US executive orders), and zero trust architecture in the AI era. Off the record, no attribution, no vendors. Quarterly private dinners in San Francisco and Palo Alto, Silicon Valley. By invitation of Murray Newlands.