The Clarity Factory Services

The Clarity Factory offers a range of consulting services that support CSOs to enhance their performance, innovate operations, develop their team, and drive improvements to deliver best in class services to their organisation. 

Our consulting draws on Clarity Factory proprietary data and the extensive experience of its founders of advising some of the world’s largest companies over almost three decades. 

We support CSOs through:

 

If you would like to discuss how we can help you, get in touch.

Services
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Metrics, KPIs and storytelling

Clarity Up Front:
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Talent Report

10-Point Retention Plan for CSOs

Corporate Security: 10-Point Retention Plan for CSOs, is published by SI Placement and

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Reports

Connected Corporate Security

Effective corporate security is increasingly dependent on the ability to connect: within the function, across the business, and between the business and external stakeholders.
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Reports

Effective Cyber Security Board Governance

Cyber security is no longer just a necessary hygiene factor – it is a key differentiator for the increasingly digital organisation.
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Events

Clarity Factory Events & Workshops

The Clarity Factory offers a range of virtual and in-person events and workshops for CSOs and their teams, offering latest data, expert speakers, thought leadership, practical lessons, and professional development.
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Reports

Annual Chief Security Officer Survey 2025

The Clarity Factory produces research and thought leadership for professionals 

in corporate security, cyber security, resilience and national security. 

 
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Reports

The Business of Resilience

Doing business is getting more and more complex.
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Reports

The Business Value of Corporate Security

This report seeks to understand what trends in the global business operating environment mean for the corporate security function: its value proposition, narrative and positioning, leadership, talent strategy, areas o

2026 CSO Survey Advisory Council

The Clarity Factory Annual CSO Survey

Sign up for The Clarity Factory Insights

Stay current with corporate-security thinking that helps you lead with clarity.
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Executive Summary

Business Value of Corporate Security
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Events

Storytelling for Security Professionals Workshops

Our Storytelling for Security Professionals workshops can be delivered for small groups, security leadership teams or global security team meetings and off-sites. It can be delivered in-person or virtually. 
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Corporate Security Transformation

There has never been a more interesting – or challenging – time to work in corporate security.
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Corporate Security Maturity Assessments

The Clarity Factory Corporate Security Maturity Assessment Framework provides an independent, structured and data-driven maturity assessment to drive insights on strengths and areas for development.
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Benchmarking

Benchmarking

One of the most frequent questions CSOs get from the C-Suite is ‘how do we compare to our competitors?’ 
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Services

Security Briefings

The Clarity Factory CEO, Rachel Briggs, offers executive briefings for CSOs and their teams.

Her briefings draw on our Annual CSO Survey and industry-leading research, and include:
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Our Work

The Clarity Factory produces essential data, insights, operating frameworks, maturity models and benchmarking for CSOs and their teams. 

This includes: 
CSO

CSO Survey

The Clarity Factory Annual CSO Survey
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Talent Report

The Future of Talent: Outsourcing takes hold in corporate security

‘The key trend for the future will be increased outsourcing, contracting, and sub-contracting, including by country heads of security.
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Reports

Holistic Security

How physical and cyber security can join forces to strengthen operational resilience 

by Rachel Briggs OBE
CSO

2025 Annual Corporate Security Survey

The Clarity Factory

2026 Annual CSO Survey
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Research

The Clarity Factory Research

The Clarity Factory is the leading research body for corporate security leaders.
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Storytelling

Storytelling for Security Professionals Workshop

Engaging storytelling techniques tailored for security professionals.
Strategic Assessments - The Clarity Factory

Strategic Assessments - The Clarity Factory

Get in touch to discuss our strategic assessment

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Executive Summary

Holistic Security
The 2025 Annual Corporate Security Survey
Survey

The 2025 Annual Corporate Security Survey

The Clarity Factory 2025 Annual Corporate Security Survey is now CLOSED. Thank you to everyone who completed it and we look forward to sharing the data in September.
Holistic Security: How to right-size the relationship between corporate and cyber security
Holistic Security

Holistic Security: How to right-size the relationship between corporate and cyber security

Clarity Up Front
Rachel Briggs predicts trends for 2025
Rachel Briggs

Rachel Briggs predicts trends for 2025

The Clarity Factory Founder and CEO, Rachel Briggs OBE, shared her predictions for 2025 in Ontic's annual forecast. She stressed the growing imperative f
Towards an Effective Partnership between Corporate and Cyber Security

Towards an Effective Partnership between Corporate and Cyber Security

The relationship between corporate security and cyber security has been a hot topic among corporate security professionals for almost two decades.
Clarity Factory August 2025 Insight
Insight

Clarity Factory August 2025 Insight
Holistic Security Assessment Service
Holistic Security

Holistic Security Assessment Service

The Clarity Factory Holistic Security Maturity Model provides a frame
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Rachel Briggs

Rachel Briggs speaks alongside Secretary Blinken on hostage diplomacy

Clarity Factory CEO, Rachel Briggs, spoke alongside US Secretary Blinken this week at an event on hostage diplomacy co-sponsored by the State Department and the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Watch Rachel Briggs' Keynote at 2024 Ontic Summit: The business value of corporate security
Ontic

Watch Rachel Briggs' Keynote at 2024 Ontic Summit: The business value of corporate security

Clarity Factory CEO, Rachel Briggs OBE, delivered the keynote at the 2024 Ontic Summit in Austin Texas in February.
2025 CSO Survey Published by The Clarity Factory
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2025 CSO Survey Published by The Clarity Factory

The Clarity Factory 2025 Annual CSO Survey is published.

Download the 2025 CSO Survey Report
How Activism and Executive Risk Converge Today, Rachel Briggs and Cynthia Marble
Rachel Briggs

How Activism and Executive Risk Converge Today, Rachel Briggs and Cynthia Marble

Rachel Briggs of The Clarity Factory and Cynthia Marble of Ontic explore the impact of increased activism and protest on executive risk and EP p
Webinar: How to measure and communicate the impact of corporate security, 14 April
Corporate Security

Webinar: How to measure and communicate the impact of corporate security, 14 April

Webinar: 
How to measure and communicate the impact of corporate security 
April 14, 4pm UK / 11am EST
Rachel Briggs shares 2025 Annual CSO Survey data and insights
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Rachel Briggs shares 2025 Annual CSO Survey data and insights

Clarity Factory CEO, Rachel Briggs, joined Kirsten Meskill from Solventum and Joshua Levin-Soler from Take Two Games for a conversation hosted by Ankur Arora of Ontic.

They covered:
NEW: Clarity Factory launches Security Culture research project sponsored by the ASIS Foundation
ASIS

NEW: Clarity Factory launches Security Culture research project sponsored by the ASIS Foundation

The Clarity Factory is pleased to announce a new research project on Security Culture sponsored by the ASIS Foundation.
What can corporate security learn from HR's journey to the C-Suite?
Corporate Security

What can corporate security learn from HR's journey to the C-Suite?

Clarity Up Front:
How to measure and communicate the impact of corporate security
Corporate Security

How to measure and communicate the impact of corporate security

CSOs tell us that measuring and communicating the impact of corporate security is one of their biggest and most enduring challenges. In our 2025 CSO Survey, CSOs said that the top challenge to their effectiveness was

Security Culture: What is it, why it matters, and how to build it
Culture

Security Culture: What is it, why it matters, and how to build it

Why security culture matters
What growing outsourcing means for security management

What growing outsourcing means for security management

Our report on the rise of outsourcing in corporate security, co-authored with Kathy Lavinder of SI Placement, is covered by

2026 CSO Survey Open
Survey

2026 CSO Survey Open

TAKE THE 2026 CSO SURVEY
I'm a hostage expert - here's what's happening between Israel and

I'm a hostage expert - here's what's happening between Israel and

Clarity Factory CEO, Rachel Briggs OBE, writes in The Independent as Hamas release the first proof of life vi
What has happened to the 'missing' hostages in Gaza - Business Insider

What has happened to the 'missing' hostages in Gaza - Business Insider

Clarity Factory CEO, Rachel Briggs, spoke with Business Insider about the potential explanations for some 40 ho
The bad guys don't respect organisational silos - physical and cyber security must plug the gaps to deliver holistic security

The bad guys don't respect organisational silos - physical and cyber security must plug the gaps to deliver holistic security

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Increasing risk appetites put security front and center as an influencer - Security Management Magazine

Increasing risk appetites put security front and center as an influencer - Security Management Magazine

Our Founder and CEO, Rachel Briggs OBE, spoke with Claire Meyer of Security Manag