Is your security function a Blocker, a Trusted Service or a Strategic Enabler?
Find out in 18 questions – and get a personalised results email that tells you what to do next.
18 questions · 10–12 minutes · personalised results by email · free
Every security function sits somewhere on the same path. A Blocker is reactive, compliance-driven and experienced by the business as the department of no. A Trusted Service is proactive and collaborative – a partner that helps the business meet shared goals and is measured on reliability and customer trust. A Strategic Enabler has a seat at the table: security is embedded in strategy and product design, its value is measured in business terms, and it is a reason the organisation can pursue opportunities competitors cannot.
The assessment places your function on that path – overall, and on each of the six dimensions that decide where you sit.

Within minutes of submitting you receive a personalised results email containing:

Does security have a seat at the table?
Can you prove that security pays?
Does the business understand you – and want to work with you?
Whose job is security?
Do you manage risk, or react to it?
Does security speed the business up, or slow it down?
CISOs and heads of security or controls who want an honest reading of how the business sees them. Risk, audit and compliance leaders. IT and technology leaders who own the security function. And business leaders who depend on it.
The most useful result comes from comparison: take it yourself, then ask two business stakeholders to take it about your function. Where their answers differ from yours is where the work is.
Digital Enterprise Resilience: Reframing Security as a Strategic Enabler is a two-hour interactive session for security, risk and technology leaders, designed by CaroKahn Research Labs and delivered with Turnkey Consulting. It works through the maturity model, value engineering and benefits realisation, stakeholder management and communication, and closes with a personal action plan. Your assessment results are the starting point.
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