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.

We work with clients to assess the maturity of their: 

  • Security governance
  • Operating model
  • Team and talent strategy
  • Skills and competencies
  • Data strategy
  • Use of technology
  • Alignment with the business
  • Use of KPIs  


Clients receive a data-rich report, recommendations, and insights suitable for sharing with the C-suite,

If you are interested in learning more about our maturity assessment, get in touch.

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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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Talent Report

Empowering DEI in Security

Organizations are faced with increasingly complex, complicated and fast-moving challenges – internally and externally – and corporate security leaders need to find new ways to deliver resilience in th
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Talent Report

Securing Future Talent

Corporate Security: Securing Future Talent is a new insight paper from SI Placement and The Clarity Factory. 

Our study shows that:
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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

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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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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: 
Services

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 orga
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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
Security Culture:
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Six Insights for Effective Security Culture

The front line of cybersecurity is as much about psychology and culture as software and technology.
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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
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.
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Corporate Security

Three myths preventing diversity in corporate security

CLARITY UP FRONT
CSO Insights: 2025 corporate security data and trends for 2026
Corporate Security

CSO Insights: 2025 corporate security data and trends for 2026

Rachel Briggs was joined by Manish Mehta (Ontic), Meredith Wilson (Emergent Risk International), and Jules Parke-Robinson (Philip Morris International) to discuss data from the 2025 Annual CSO Survey and trends to wat
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
Security Culture: What is it, why it matters, and how to build it
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Security Culture: What is it, why it matters, and how to build it

Why security culture matters
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.
Corporate Security: Future Talent
Corporate Security

Corporate Security: Future Talent

The corporate security function is at an inflection point; trends outside organizations are impacting what the function does, how it positions itself, its relationship with other functions, and

From corporate security intelligence to intelligence-informed business insights

From corporate security intelligence to intelligence-informed business insights

CLARITY UP FRONT
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.
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Rachel Briggs discusses latest CSO trends data

Clarity Factory co-founder and CEO, Rachel Briggs, sat down for a conversation with Manish Mehta on Ontic’s Connected Intelligence podcast.
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Corporate Security

Is corporate security an attractive profession for the next generation of workers?

Security is a very attractive profession for the next generation; 69% of young people working in corporate security who completed a survey said that they agreed.
Six Insights for Effective Security Culture
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Six Insights for Effective Security Culture

Clarity Up Front:
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
What do shifting social and political dynamics mean for corporate security?

What do shifting social and political dynamics mean for corporate security?

Clarity Up Front:
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:
The 2025 Annual Corporate Security Survey
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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.
New Research: The Future of Corporate Security
Corporate Security

New Research: The Future of Corporate Security

In 2005, ten companies came together to commission a white paper to explore the future of corporate security.
Storytelling for Security Leaders Workshop
Storytelling

Storytelling for Security Leaders Workshop

The Clarity Factory is delighted to partner with leading storytelling consultancy, HumanStory, to offer a