About this session

CISO Peer Group gatherings are your elite “network within network” for CISOs from UK’s leading companies. This group serves as your personal arena to dive deep and dissect the multifaceted aspects of your role with your peers.

Engaging in quarterly gatherings with the changing constellation of members each time, with the aim to build collaborative relationships & support each other in facing challenges, solving problems, and identifying opportunities.

This edition will be hosted by Sajid Iqbal, CISO at Arcus FM.

Cybersecurity is often perceived as a necessary cost rather than a measurable value driver. As threat landscapes evolve and budgets tighten, organisations increasingly need to demonstrate clear, quantifiable returns on their security investments.

This roundtable will bring together senior technology, risk, and finance leaders to share real-world experiences, metrics, and frameworks for maximizing and proving the ROI of cyber initiatives. Participants will engage in an open discussion on methods to align security programmes with business outcomes, reduce operational friction, enable innovation, and improve resilience in a measurable way.

• Identify practical ROI metrics that resonate with executive leadership and boards.
• Translate cyber investments into business value, including risk reduction, operational efficiency, and revenue enablement.
• Share peer experiences on which security initiatives have delivered the strongest measurable value.
• Explore approaches to cost optimisation within cybersecurity operations and tooling.
• Align cybersecurity strategy with organisational goals to ensure ongoing support and funding.
• How can Cyber Security drive innovation?