In May, Forrester announced our Security & Risk Enterprise Leadership Award. The Security & Risk Enterprise Leadership Award will recognize organizations — and their leaders — that have transformed the security, privacy, and risk management functions.

This award recognizes those who have transformed the security, privacy, and risk management functions into capabilities that fuel the organization’s long-term success. Our award stands out from other awards because it:

• Celebrates the entire organization, not a single individual. Security, privacy, and risk cannot succeed when siloed from the other parts of an organization. It’s about how these functions can make an entire organization successful.
• Rewards security teams for the impact that they have on their business. This is not an assessment of an organization’s security posture, controls, or certifications — these are table stakes. Instead, our award recognizes those teams that build trust deliberately with: 1) customer experiences that are secure, private, and resilient by design; 2) employee practices that both protect the organization and help it succeed; and 3) partner ecosystems that unlock innovation without exposing the organization to unnecessary risk.
• Recognizes that there are no perfect organizations. No organization is immune from breaches, privacy missteps, or outages. If you’ve had a crisis (breach, outage, compliance fine, privacy abuse) recently, we still encourage you to apply, especially if you have insights to share about how your organization handled the crisis and what you learned from the experience. Response matters, and we need to learn from each other to improve.

During the past 20 years, security, privacy, and risk have all become board-level priorities: Expanded influence, budgets, and teams have followed. We’ve made progress, but we still can — and must — do better. These awards showcase to the world the critical importance of security, privacy, and risk management. Now is your chance to highlight where your program shines!

Who Should Apply? You! Because Your Org Could Win!

Nominations for Forrester’s Security & Risk Enterprise Leadership Award are open to organizations with 1,000 or more employees in both the public and private sectors. High-tech service providers that compete in these markets are excluded, but they can nominate clients (with those clients’ permission, of course). Last year’s winner and runner-up for the Security & Risk Enterprise Leadership Award were Barclays and RingCentral. This year, it could be your organization!

You can find more information about the award categories plus detailed submission packages and instructions here.

Submissions close on October 4, 2024. Submissions details are confidential and will be reviewed by a panel of Forrester analysts. We’ll notify finalists by November 4, 2024. We’ll then announce finalists and award recipients ahead of Forrester’s Security & Risk Summit in North America. The award recipients will join us at our Forum and on stage to receive and celebrate their award during the event, which will take place in Baltimore on December 9–11, 2024. Apply today to ensure that your organization has the chance to be honored!