About CSI

About CSI

If you're an information security professional or are aspiring to be one, then CSI is here to help you succeed.

Who We Are.
Computer Security Institute serves the needs of Information Security Professionals through membership, live and web-based educational events, insightful publications, and awareness tools.

Membership: Joining CSI provides you with access to our Security Resource Center, discounts on CSI conferences and awareness packages, career development, networking opportunities and more.

Conferences: CSI holds two conferences annually, CSI SX: Security Exchange in the Spring and the CSI Annual Computer Security Conference in the Fall. These conferences are targeted both to those entering the field, as well as to experienced practitioners and draw attendees from around the world.

Publications: CSI is noted its annual CSI Computer Crime & Security Survey, which attracts widespread media attention and has been read by over 100,000 professionals. CSI also publishes our monthly ALERT newsletters that go beyond the usual headlines and delving deeper into the news with interpretive analysis.

CSI Awareness: CSI offers products and training to help improve awareness that includes Frontline end user awareness newsletter, World Security Challenge web-based awareness training, awareness peer groups and more. Private training from CSI is also available for organizations.

How Can We Help You Succeed?
We believe that the best way to succeed in your professional career is by getting peer guidance in developing strategies that fit you and your organization's specific goals and challenges. Here at CSI, we focus on three critical areas of success: Education, Community, and Research.

Education
Stay ahead of the curve by attending CSI conferences, reading our monthly publications, keeping your employees informed with our awareness tools, participating in our webcasts, and getting breaking headline news updates from our sister publications, Dark Reading and Information Week.

Community
Network with your information security peers by joining our awareness peer group, attending our CSI conferences, and interacting in our CSI blogs and forums.

Research
Challenge your mind by doing research in our CSI Resource Center, which houses insightful articles on topics ranging from end-user awareness and risk management to identity management and virtualization.

Our members say it best - CSI offers informed, contextualized, and vendor-neutral guidance through important developments in the world of enterprise security.