CISO 360 Think Tank: Cyber Risk Quant
From Quantified Cyber Risk to Strategic Advantage
How CISOs Measure, Prioritise, and Communicate What Matters Most.
Measuring and Communicating Cyber Risk That Drives Decisions
Wednesday 18 March 2026
{10-11} Carlton House Terrace and Gardens – Westminster – London
14:00-17:30: Fireside Chat and Roundtable
17:30-19:00: Networking Reception
You are warmly invited to an exclusive half-day CISO 360 Fireside Chat and Think Tank: Cyber Risk Quant, taking place on Wednesday, 18 March at 10–11 Carlton House Terrace—an iconic London venue overlooking St James’s Park, Whitehall, and The Mall, offering a setting worthy of senior-level, strategic conversation.
Sponsored by Qualys and hosted by Pulse Conferences, this CISO 360 Think Tank brings together a carefully curated group of CISOs and senior security leaders for a closed-door, peer-only exchange focused on one of today’s most urgent leadership challenges: how cyber risk is quantified, prioritised, and communicated in a way boards genuinely act upon.
The afternoon opens with afternoon tea, offering time to connect informally with peers before the conversation begins. From there, the Think Tank moves into a Fireside Chat, where CISOs will share candid insight into how they are approaching cyber risk quantification in practice—what is gaining traction in boardrooms, where friction remains, and how expectations are evolving.
This is followed by benchmarking-driven roundtable discussions, designed to encourage open, experience-led exchange. Participants will compare approaches to translating technical risk into business-relevant insight, quantifying exposure across critical assets and threat scenarios, and influencing decisions on investment, trade-offs, and risk acceptance. The emphasis throughout is on what actually works – not theory, frameworks, or vendor pitches.
The day concludes with a private networking reception, providing further opportunity to continue conversations, deepen connections, and exchange perspectives in a relaxed, informal setting.
Chatham House Rule applies. Discussions are confidential and non-attributed, creating the space for honest exchange, challenge, and insight among peers.
This invitation-only Think Tank is complimentary for CISOs and senior cybersecurity practitioners and intentionally limited to ensure meaningful, high-value discussion.
Seating is strictly limited, with places allocated on a first-to-confirm basis.
Sponsored by
Hosted by
About Qualys
Qualys is a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions with over 19,000 active customers in more than 130 countries, including a majority of each of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. Qualys helps organizations streamline and consolidate their security and compliance solutions in a single platform and build security into digital transformation initiatives for greater agility, better business outcomes, and substantial cost savings.
For more information, please visit www.qualys.com
Why Attend?
Why Attend
- Hear directly from peers during a CISO-led Fireside Chat on how cyber risk quantification is landing at board level
- Benchmark your approach against other senior security leaders facing similar challenges across sectors
- Translate cyber risk into decision-grade insight that influences investment, trade-offs, and risk acceptance
- Engage in trusted, closed-door discussion under Chatham House Rule, enabling candid and practical exchange
- Build meaningful peer relationships through curated networking, afternoon tea, and an end-of-day reception
- Chatham House Rule applies: all discussions are confidential and non-attributed, ensuring open, trusted peer exchange throughout
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Timings
Timings at a glance:
14:00-14:30 Guests arrive and afternoon tea is served
14:30-17:30 Fireside Chat and Roundtable Discussions
17:30-19:00 Networking reception
AGENDA
14:00 – 14:30
Guest Arrivals and Afternoon Tea
14:30 – 14:45
Introductions
Co-Chairpersons
14:45 – 15:25
Fireside Chat: From Quantified Cyber Risk to Strategic Advantage
How CISOs use risk quantification to influence board decisions
This fireside conversation explores how CISOs use cyber risk quantification – not only for metrics or dashboards – to translate technical exposure into business, financial, and strategic insight for the board. Grounded in real boardroom experience, the discussion focuses on how quantified cyber risk supports investment decisions, trade-offs, crisis response, and growth initiatives, and how CISOs build credibility without false precision.
- How do you use quantified cyber risk (not just metrics) in board discussions?
- Which quant-based threat and incident measures drive board-level decisions?
- How do you translate cyber exposure into financial impact, ranges, or scenarios?
- What risk–reward trade-offs have helped secure investment for AI, innovation, or transformation?
- How do you justify security spend using loss avoidance, resilience, or confidence metrics?
- What quantified insights help you compete for funding against revenue initiatives?
- In a crisis, what quantified information do boards expect in the first 24–72 hours?
- What metric gets the best reaction when I share it?
15:20 – 15:40
Coffee Break and Networking
15:40 – 17:00
Roundtable Discussions: Cyber Risk Quantification – Sharing and comparing successes and challenges
Three topics are discussed across three tables (or this could be two topics across four tables). Each table has two table hosts to facilitate the input and discussion, a senior strategist from Qualys and a CISO. As a participating guest, you rotate tables once after 40 minutes, giving you the opportunity to contribute to both (or three) topic discussions.
Roundtable 1: Cyber Metrics That Matter
What are we really measuring—and why?
Discussion Prompts
- What cybersecurity metrics do you actively rely on today?
- Which metrics influence prioritisation and which create noise?
- Capability-based, control-based, or outcome-based: what works best?
- What metrics survive escalation to ExCo or Board level?
- Which metrics have you stopped usingand why?
Benchmarking Question
If you could only take three cyber metrics to your board tomorrow, what would they be—and what decision would they support?
Roundtable 2: Quantifying Risk Where It Matters Most
From exposure to prioritised business risk
Discussion Prompts
- How do you define “material cyber risk” in your organisation?
- How do you identify and protect crown-jewel assets?
- Do you use financial ranges, scenarios, or scoring—and why?
- Where does quantification add clarity vs false precision?
- How do assumptions and uncertainty get challenged?
Benchmarking Question
How confident are you that your top cyber risks reflect true business exposure – not just technical vulnerability?
Roundtable 3: Communicating Risk to the Board
From reporting to influence
Discussion Prompts
- How do you translate cyber risk into business language?
- What framing resonates most with your board: trends, thresholds, scenarios?
- How do you present uncertainty without losing credibility?
- How do you avoid fear-based messaging and dashboard fatigue?
- How aligned is cyber risk with enterprise risk and audit conversations?
Benchmarking Question
What has actually changed a board decision or investment discussion in your experience?
17:00 – 17:25
Summary of key points by Table Hosts
17:25 – 17:30
Closing Statements
17:30 – 19:00
Networking Reception
SPEAKERS
About the Speakers:
Speakers will be announced shortly – CISO-led
VENUE
{10-11} Carlton House Terrace
London, SW1Y 5AH
www.10-11cht.com
Once the former residence of Prime Minister William Gladstone {10-11} Carlton House Terrace sits at the very heart of the capital, overlooking St James’s Park, Whitehall and the Mall. Superbly located just a short walk from Piccadilly, Charing Cross, and Embankment stations, the picturesque setting of St James’s gives the venue an air of distinction and the peaceful nature of Carlton House Terrace provides a rare reprieve from the hustle and bustle of the West End. The British Academy (housed within 10-11 Carlton House Terrace) is a forum for debate and engagement – a voice that champions the humanities and social sciences. Both through its convening power and an enhanced role as a funder of research, the Academy is developing programmes to address the great challenges of our time – nationally and internationally.
The event will be hosted in the Council Room, a grand space, with impressive paintings on the walls, on loan from the National Portrait Gallery. Bright and airy with high ceilings and well-ventilated rooms that look out onto wrap around balconies, we have chosen this modern venue that is steeped in history with safety in mind and in keeping with a sense of the occasion.
The networking hub will be in the Barnard Room, with its soaring ceilings, ornate guilt carvings and painted ceiling that will wow our guests! Located on the first floor of the venue, guests make their way to the Barnard Room room via a beautiful black marble staircase. Be enthralled by the Trompe L’oeil painted ceiling, commissioned by the Ridley family in the style of Eugene Delacroix, the leader of the French Romantic school. This unique painting remains unfinished due to the outbreak of war, during which the room was turned into a ward for wounded officers. During this transformative period, the nurses would push the beds to the open windows and people would cheer the heroes from the steps outside.
Directions to {10-11} Carlton House Terrace
{10-11} Carlton House Terrace is conveniently located just a short distance from many major transport links. Charing Cross station is an 8-minute walk. The venue is located a 2-minute walk from Trafalgar Square, behind the Institute of Directors (off Pall Mall).
LONDON UNDERGROUND
Piccadilly Circus, Charing Cross, Embankment
MAINLINE TRAINS
Charing Cross, Waterloo.
BUS
Buses to all parts of London run every minute from Trafalgar Square.
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