Initiatives

Practical work for a stronger cybersecurity sector.

Help shape CSBG’s developing agenda in industry dialogue, business readiness, talent, and innovation. Choose a shared challenge and tell us what experience or insight you could contribute.

These areas describe work CSBG aims to develop. Each includes a question and a practical way to contribute. Use its inquiry link to share your perspective or ask about a specific activity, your role, and the time involved.

Initiatives

Policy dialogue and consultation

Industry dialogue and consultation

Clarify shared industry issues and develop informed business perspectives.

Bring the experience of service providers, enterprises, and specialists into focused discussion of the issues affecting cybersecurity businesses. The aim is to develop informed contributions on shared challenges and consultation topics through appropriate channels.

Shared business barriers, structured consultation, and nonbinding issue briefs that clarify a sector perspective.

Activities to explore

Focused roundtables and thematic discussions
Written industry contributions and consultation feedback
Research-informed, nonbinding position papers

Which recurring business barrier would benefit from a clearer shared industry perspective?

Describe a recurring business barrier, who it affects, and a nonconfidential example. Suggest the clarification or discussion that would help.

How this can help

Understand different business perspectives and contribute practical evidence to industry dialogue.

What you could help develop

A short, nonbinding issue brief that explains a shared business barrier, its practical effects, and questions for further consultation.

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Capability and reference practices

SME cyber readiness

Make cybersecurity priorities clearer and more practical for smaller businesses.

Help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) connect common cybersecurity risks with actions suited to their needs and resources. Awareness and clear guidance can help business owners and teams identify priorities and build a stronger security culture.

Accessible guidance, awareness materials, and starter checklists shaped around smaller teams and limited resources.

Activities to explore

Awareness sessions for business owners and teams
Developing starter kits, checklists, and self-assessment resources
Shared learning about practical security priorities

Which security decisions need clearer, more practical guidance for a small business team?

Identify a security decision that is difficult for a smaller team. Explain the resource constraints and the guidance that would make the decision clearer.

How this can help

A more accessible starting point for understanding cyber risk and identifying sensible next steps.

What you could help develop

A starter checklist that helps smaller businesses discuss priorities, responsibilities, and questions with their teams and service providers.

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Capability and reference practices

Reference practices and peer learning

Turn shared experience into clearer, nonbinding practical guidance.

Explore common security practices, sector-specific challenges, and questions organizations can ask about supplier security. Shared experience can help identify where practical guides and consistent terminology would improve understanding.

Practical playbooks, shared terminology, and supplier-assurance questions drawn from recurring implementation needs.

Activities to explore

Peer discussion of implementation experience
Collaborative development of playbooks and reference control practices
Common terminology and guides for discussing supplier security

Where do unclear terminology or inconsistent requirements make security harder to implement?

Suggest an implementation question, unclear term, or supplier-assurance issue that would benefit from a shared reference.

How this can help

Learn from different approaches and contribute to more useful reference material.

What you could help develop

A practical guide that clarifies a recurring implementation problem, common terminology, and questions to ask suppliers.

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Capability and reference practices

Incident preparedness exercises

Examine how organizations prepare, coordinate, and make decisions during cyber disruption.

Use fictional scenarios and lessons that exclude sensitive information to explore organizational readiness. Discussion can cover responsibilities, escalation, communication, and business continuity during a cyber incident.

Fictional tabletop scenarios and discussion guides that support practice in decisions, escalation, coordination, and communication.

Activities to explore

Scenario-based discussions and tabletop exercises
Cross-functional decision and communication practice
Review of nonconfidential lessons and readiness questions

Which decisions, escalation points, and communications should teams rehearse before disruption?

Suggest a fictional scenario and the decision or coordination question it should explore. Describe roles and learning objectives without sharing live incident details.

How this can help

A shared understanding of preparation, coordination, and business decision-making during disruption.

What you could help develop

A fictional exercise scenario and discussion guide for practicing escalation, coordination, and communication during disruption.

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Talent and workforce

Talent and career pathways

Connect workforce needs, education, and professional experience.

Explore the skills and experience expected in cybersecurity roles and ways to strengthen learning at different career stages. Universities, researchers, employers, and practitioners can contribute to clearer career guidance and a closer connection between education and practice.

Skills and role frameworks, career guidance, practical learning, and closer exchange between employers and educators as areas to explore.

Activities to explore

Skills-needs dialogue, role frameworks, and career guidance
Curriculum feedback and research-to-practice exchange
Exploring practical learning, labs, mentoring, and apprenticeships

Which practical capabilities should connect learning more closely with cybersecurity roles?

Identify a cybersecurity role and the skills or practical experience it needs. Explain where closer exchange between employers and educators could help.

How this can help

Clearer skills expectations and stronger connections between learning and professional practice.

What you could help develop

A role or skills guide that connects employers’ expectations with learning priorities and practical experience.

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Ecosystem and innovation

Innovation and enterprise readiness

Connect cybersecurity innovation with real business requirements.

Explore the challenges facing cybersecurity startups alongside the requirements of organizations adopting new solutions. Discussion can address responsible adoption, interoperability, deployment, and the capabilities that support sustainable business growth.

Enterprise problem statements, adoption requirements, and practical discussion of trust, interoperability, and deployment.

Activities to explore

Startup learning and growth-readiness discussions
Problem-led innovation challenges and research exchange
Enterprise perspectives on trust, deployment, and interoperability

What must an emerging cybersecurity solution demonstrate to meet an organization’s needs?

Describe an enterprise need and the trust, integration, or deployment questions an emerging solution must address. Keep the contribution focused on the problem.

How this can help

A better understanding of enterprise needs and the conditions that help useful cybersecurity ideas progress.

What you could help develop

A shared problem brief that explains an enterprise need and the deployment, trust, and interoperability questions a new solution would need to address.

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