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Testimonials

“I wanted to be part of the Cyber Exchange 360 and Talk to the Board event because I’ve always been so fascinated by technology, particularly what it brings on the dark side – the dark underbelly of technology being cyber attacks and the cyber risk. Being from the world of insurance, I was hoping to share some of my experience with assessing risk and managing risk because, fundamentally, this is what the CISOs are trying to do. I think they’re doing an amazing job, but cybercriminals are always faster and quicker than any of us, so we must stay alert. I’ve learnt about how lonely and vulnerable the CISO feels. I’ve been a CEO a few times and always felt the CEO took the can for everything. I thought then that people working lower in the organisation wouldn’t feel so vulnerable. But I was hearing that from some of the attendees, and as boards, we need to think about how we can be more of a support for them so that they don’t feel so lonely and perhaps under threat. If your world is looking at cyber risk and you’re a CISO, I would come to this event and get involved because you are sharing and gaining simultaneously.” Dame Inga Beale, Former CEO, Lloyd’s of London

“The great thing about Pulse Conferences events is you get a different perspective from our core market. So it’s perfect for me to come here and get that completely different perspective and speak to people at the level that Pulse Conferences attract. Talk to the Board is interesting because the business dimension is the most important thing about cyber security. So, speaking to the board brings me that business dimension to cyber security. As a sponsor, we get so much value out of these events, not just from potential clients but for people to partner with, and we get different perspectives on what the market is and what other people are prioritising.” Dr. Paul Kennedy, Chief Engineer – Cyber and CEMA, QinetiQ

“The theme of CISO Exchange 360 and Talk to the Board, for me, is absolutely spot on. We must bridge the gap between the IT community and the board members, because we’re all fighting against the same enemy. We have competitors in the business who steal our market share. We have competitors in cyber security who steal our intellectual property and money. And so a competitor is a competitor. Coming here and talking to the board and helping validate what resonates with them to help the IT community have their voice heard by the board members is very special and powerful. We have silos of silos in companies. But criminals don’t have silos. They don’t have borders or boundaries. So, to win the fight, we must come together and build coalitions of capability and bridge across the boundaries we live in so we can stop the enemy and kick them out of our networks and our organisations. This event is fantastic. It’s a great forum. It’s a great opportunity. Anytime you can connect to another individual on a human level, person to person, it’s powerful. Board members and IT people speak different languages. We must learn to communicate effectively to help make rational decisions within a context that matters. So this event, this forum, is exactly what I’m looking for.” Michael Beaupre, Head of Cyber Security, Hays

“The session Talk to the Board was a rich discussion with two interesting themes emerging for myself. The primary ask from the Board is for them champion the importance of Cyber security and employee Cyber vigilance across the organisation as a cultural norm. To secure this commitment the audience noted the value of having a standing agenda item on the Board annual agenda. The panel also encouraged the audience to craft carefully any presentation to the Board to focus on what outcome they were asking for and to avoid just an information update. Both the audience and panel found the event very interesting and informative.” Jeremy Schwartz, Former CEO, The Body Shop, Pandora and Conival plc, Current Chairman Sustainability and Inclusion Practice, Kantar; Advisor Business, Transformation, McKinsey

“The afternoon discussion with the Board focused on a number of key themes, how to build trust with Board members, what priorities a Board cares most about and how to sustain the conversation as a rolling programme. Such diverse Board representation from Audit, Tech, Sustainability, Risk, Marketing, People and Change meant the participants could fully engage in debate across a range of challenging topics” Deborah Exell, Former Board Member, Head of Human Capital & Business Transformation, Getronics

“First class organisation and presentations. I would highly recommend Pulse conferences for those Senior Managers who need to get value from their time and attendance and for the quality of guest speakers” Ray Jackson, CISO, Telrock Systems Ltd

“It’s a great event with some high-calibre attendees, and the turnout has been impressive. The one-to-ones provide a superb opportunity to spend some focused time with key customers. And it was brilliant to have one of our teams hosting one for the roundtables around CISO practical tips. It’s a unique in that it is a closed community. You get more one-on-one time than you would do at another conference.” Remco Postma, Sales Leader, SailPoint

“The day has been great. I enjoyed a lot of good conversations. I’ve spent time with interesting companies and interesting people. Pulse always uses thrilling venues, and the Science Museum in London is special. What’s unique is that CISOs can talk to the board – they have opinions and they want to share them, and also listen to the guidance offered.” Scott Daly, Commercial Manager, HUMAN

“It is hard to describe what an amazing experience it was to attend, in person, a conference after such a long time. From impeccable and reassuring preconference comms to a beautiful indoor and outdoor setting, excellent speakers and audience engagement, surprisingly unobtrusive vendors where productive conversations were held, without all the sales hype. It will certainly be a conference I will not forget and setting a standard with which, I will hold other conferences to.” Deborah Saffer, Global Deputy CISO, Cushman & Wakefield 











“Where else can you find a higher quality of security leaders all in one place?” – Owanate Bestman, Director, Bestman Solutions 











“Insights & experience shared by Industry leaders will definitely help me & my organization in course correcting the strategy” Manish Dave, Lafargeholcim

“Amazing opportunity to share experiences and to learn in a very nice environment, CISO 360 is a great experience. You meet interesting people and you can learn a lot about cyber (risk, security, threats) and share experience and knowledge with top professionals. For me it has been a great experience and pleasure to attend the CISO 360.” Europe Industries- Security Officer, Air Liquide GMS

“The team always do a great job of providing excellent content, great networking, valuable introductions and useful sponsors. The must attend event for a senior information security leader.” CISO, Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC

“This is my second CISO Exchange 360 and Talk to the Board and, once more, it’s a great mix of enterprise professionals, security professionals and senior leaders. It’s always a good atmosphere; people get to ask questions in a setting they might not ordinarily have the chance. I’ve been coming to Pulse Conferences events for a few years now. I think the Pulse team run amazing events. They’re always covering relevant subjects, the audience gets involved, and the speakers are a good mix of generalists and specialists. It’s great to hear from board executives and have CISOs sit alongside them, asking questions. It’s a sort of reversal of the status quo.” Jonathan Luff, Co-Founder, CyLon Ventures

“The agenda of Talk to the Board was a big pull. I’ve heard of Pulse Conferences, but this was my first CISO event. I saw the questions posed and the incredible line-up of people speaking, and I knew I had to be in the room. It’s so rare to have that opportunity to hear it directly from the CISOs and the board. So what more could you ask for if you’re up and reporting to boards and you need to communicate with them effectively? It’s a unique opportunity. What is important for them? For anyone thinking of coming to a Pulse Conferences event, just do it. Block out that time, make the commitment and realise that it’s an investment not only in your company and what your company needs from you but also in your professional development.” Katherine Leivesley, Head of Legal, Offer and Sourcing, Kingfisher PLC

“The Talk to the Board session provided a wonderful opportunity for CISOs to hear first-hand how and where they might tailor their Board interaction more strategically to achieve greater impact at this level. By doing so, board members could be better served as CISOs educate and update them about evolving organizational cyber security risk exposures and vulnerabilities. More intriguing, perhaps, was that CISO’s were urged to also see risks as potential opportunities that, with careful due diligence, might be thoughtfully exploited.” Graham Joscelyne, Former Auditor General, World Bank and Chair: Audit and Ethics Committee, The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Current Advisory Committee for Internal Oversight, United Nations (UNRWA)

“The emerging consensus from Talk to the Board was how challenging it is for CISOs to present cyber risk to the board in an intelligible way for non-technical people. The challenge for the board is then to understand that and take action. Having a plan prioritising, getting the basics right, not trying to do everything or running off in different directions demands some follow through, both by boards and CISOs. It’s great to have board and CISO side of the equation together at this event. It shows the maturity of the board-CISO relationship that we’re having much better conversations about this now than we were 10 years ago.” Robert Hannigan, Chairman, BlueVoyant. Former Director, GCHQ

“As ever, an excellent opportunity to have time infront of executives who are likely to be very similar to the executives that all CISOs are likely to have to bring on side. It gave fascinating insights, and some I will certainly be using in the future.” Julia Harris, Information Security Assurance and Compliance Director, Flight Centre Travel Ltd

“I’ve had a few good sessions with various organisations. Looking at what’s going on across the industry and how organisations are doing things slightly differently has been very interesting. The need for greater collaboration is a key message. It is a fantastic event, and the venue at the Science Museum is the perfect size: I’ve had a breadth of conversations, but it’s small enough to have one-to-one discussions.” Andrew Kelly, Principal Consultant, QinetiQ

“It was a fantastic day. It is great to be back in London and meeting people again. Pulse events are always absolutely amazing. As usual it was such a diverse group of people from so many different departments – finance, manufacturing and so on – and they are all at a certain level where you start to understand strategy and where the industry is going in the UK. I probably learnt more than the people I spoke with, so it’s been brilliant.” Paul Baird, UK Chief Technology Security Officer, Qualys

“Pulse always delivers the very best events so the fact that this event was impeccably organised wasn’t a surprise. But the fact they delivered such an excellent event at this time with the various rule changes and restrictions placed on them was truly surprising. The team showed great strength of character and the ability to innovate. It was a super event and fun too.” Jonathan Armstrong, CEO, Cordery 

“Probably the one must-attend conference of the year. Excellent speakers, fast-moving pace, differing methods of delivery, just simply the best value usage of my time.”
Julia Harris, Information Security Compliance and Assurance Director, Flight Centre UK









“I just wanted to say thank you again for another fantastic event. I had a very good time and lots of very useful conversations.” – Charles McAlpin, Qualys




“Absolutely excellent! The quality of the presentations, and the ideas shared, were first class. Looking forward to implementing what we learned.” Chris McCann, Resilient. World

“A meticulous and engaging event highlighting the key security concerns business leaders face today!” Owanate Bestman, Bestman Solutions

“I found CISO360 2019 extremely valuable for several reasons, primarily networking with industry peers comparing our challenges and successes stories, hearing thought provoking and inspiring content during the conference itself and also hearing updates from vendors and solution providers on their latest capability additions and developments. A very worthwhile investment of my time and I hope the conference continues to grow.” Technology Services Head of Cyber Security, DWP 

“A very thoughtful event, great networking and industrial expertise in the room to learn from!” Ryan Chan, Director, Security, Laureate International Universities Malaysia

“Excellent value for me and my organisation. Being able to engage senior level execs in the cybersecurity space on a 1-1 basis is invaluable. The evening activities were entertaining and really helped build trust and relationships.” SailPoint

“Pulse Conferences delivered a really enjoyable, informative and immersive experience with the 4th CISO 360 Congress-Hybrid. The virtual platforms were excellent, providing an effective substitute for an in-person experience. The speakers and panel sessions were engaging and knowledgeable and the avatars round-table was both informative and fun.” – Peter Wood, Naturally Cyber LLP 

“This was great, we have a lot of good take away’s and loved the lessons learned!” Sybil Kleinmichel, 360 Treasury Systems AG

“It was great to watch live interviews rather than recorded presentations. The roundtable session on Friday was particularly interesting” Jennie Rogers, Vectra

“Overall Excellent Conference under challenging circumstances” Barbara Aung, Telefonica

“If you want to hear real CISO experiences, you must attend this event!” CISO, ST Engineering, Singapore

“The best cybersecurity event that I have ever attended. I look forward to seeing you next year!” Senior Manager, Cybersecurity, EY Singapore

“Team Pulse put together a fantastically well organised and thoroughly enjoyable event this year in Rome. The CISO 360 Pulse Conference was most informative, engaging and gave us a great opportunity for learning, networking and relationship building.  Looking forward to the next one.” Synack

“ Thank you Pulse for the smooth organisation of this huge logistical challenge. My team told me it worked brilliantly and that the networking was one of the most valuable parts of being a sponsor.” Company85 

“Excellent event Pulse Conferences, we very much enjoyed the opportunity to meet new contacts in both a professional and social capacity. We also had a large number of new members to ClubCISO, an added bonus…. ” Company85 

“I would like to extend my appreciation having been given the chance to witness the success of your recent event. I look forward to a further outstanding line-up of events from your organisation!“

Head of IT, intec, GOPA International Energy Consultants (Abu Dhabi)

“Excellent event, opportunity to meet likeminded professionals, sharing risk, worries, tools, best practises with
CISO from other industries sharing same issues, great eye opener, looking forward to the next event”
CISO, MS Amlin

“Nowhere else will you find such relevant content for CISO’s, shared by leaders in their fields”, Director Security Engineering, Inmarsat

“A very engaging, varied and interactive event. The best conference I have ever attended!”

Information Security Manager, Lloyd’s of London

“The best speaker line-up of any security conference in Europe!”
Head of UK Security, AXA

“This was our first but definitely not our last CISO360! A well planned and executed event with a clear goal of providing tangible value for the participants in combination with a great community feel sure makes it a stand-out event to return to.” NetClean

“CISO 360: guaranteed insight and inspiration. A triumph thanks to the Pulse team!” Chief Privacy Officer, Nokia Group 

“Pulse delivers some of the most informative and worthwhile events. Their topics, speakers and ability to engage at the highest level to secure attendance means that you are constantly engaged and come away learning something new and meeting new contacts.” SailPoint

“By far the best event all year that I have attended. I always makes an effort to attend CISO 360 as it is not just an event, it is a trusted community that comes together from around the world!” Group CISO and Group DPO, MS Amlin

“A unique opportunity to share challenges thoughts and ideas with trusted friends, and gain valuable insights.”, President, (ISC)2 Scotland Chapter

“CISO 360 is a must attend conference to keep up to the latest trends, best practices as well as main security concerns within the cybersecurity landscape” GRC Specialist, Euronext

 “Pulse have raised the bar when it comes to planning and running conference events. Other organisers should take note.”, CISO, Channel 4

“CISO 360 is a great experience. You meet interesting people and you can learn a lot about Cyber (risk, security, threats) and share experience and knowledge with top professionals. For me it has been a great experience and pleasure to attend the CISO 360.” – CSO, Logista Portugal

“CISO 360 Congress 2019 created a strong platform for peer review, cross pollination of idea and networking.” CISO, Gebauer & Griller

“Thank you, Pulse Conferences, for a great event. CISO 360 combined interesting varied talks with fantastic networking opportunities, facilitating very interesting thought-provoking conversations”
Dr Jessica Baker, Co-Founder, Socio-Technical Lead, Redacted Firm Ltd

“Great speakers, great venue, intelligent discourse, Pulse CISO 360 Congress has it all!” Director of Information Security EMEA, Canon Europe

“The CISO 360 conference brought together a collection world leading experienced security leaders who shared their knowledge and experience with their peers in an open and collaborative manner under The Chatham House Rule. This was complimented with case studies from selected top tier partners and organisations to provoke further debate and discussion during the talks or later during one to one networking conversations. The presentations; case studies; and strategy sessions were practical and relevant because they were born out real world security challenges faced by Global CISOs across multiple sectors. I found the open knowledge sharing; networking; and presentations were very valuable to either validate existing approaches or provoke fresh ideas by getting a different perspective.”
Global Head of Information Security Architecture & Transformation, Royal Bank of Scotland

“Refreshing views of security topics for knowledge improvement!”
 CISO, Credibom

““Top class speeches and presentations at the CISO 360 Congress in Barcelona! Thanks for such a worthful and enjoyable time”
CMO, Blueliv

“”The conference was full of expert speakers. You wouldn’t want to miss any of them. Particularly on the Boardroom/ Roundtable discussion (last day), it is like a strategic planning and facing the board of directors, but with less pressure. Excellent!”
Section Head – Planning & IT Security, Western Region Municipality – UAE Government

“An excellent event in beautiful Rome! I had an amazing time socially and professionally… made so many great connections!. ” Sailpoint 

“”I found CISO 360 Congress a great place to share ideas about current and future problems”
Head of Section, GMV

“Pulse Conferences stand out for being up to the minute with developments and concerns. Fist rate speakers
and an agenda that is total appropriate and informative. Excellent buzz and networking.”
Lady Olga Maitland, CEO Copenhagen Compliance; Founder, Defence and Security Forum

““Interesting exchange of insights and experiences from different companies, sectors, and levels of maturity. An honour to have been there.”
Head of Information Security, Risk Management and Quality, Almirall

““Pulse organised a fantastic CISO 360 Congress in Barcelona, which brought together some of the world’s most successful CISOs to discuss pressing cyber security issues and share experiences. The agenda was diverse, with senior professionals from across the globe sharing their experiences, and great networking sessions were facilitated by the organisers with good food and flowing conversation. I would highly recommend CISO 360 and look forward to this conference going from strength to strength”
Freaky Clown, Co-Founder, Head of Ethical Hacking, Redacted Firm Ltd

““Excellent conference, brilliantly put together.”
Director, Bridewell Consulting

“You brought the world’s cyber concern to the UAE for awareness and also brought world experts                to provide advice based on their own experience!” Head of Planning and IT Security, Al Dhafra Region Municipality (UAE)

“I’m very pleased to be part of this extraordinary event – very important to exchange ideas and hear experiences and ideas from peers across sectors!” Corporate Security Manager, Logista

“Marvellous event, well-run, packed with useful content you can use”, Technology Services Head of Security, DWP

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