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Institute Partner Program
The Institute Partner Program is the premier annual research membership program for the world’s leading IT security teams. The Program delivers real-life, tactical decision support for information security executives and professionals from Fortune 1000, Government and Academic Institutions. Free of vendor influence, the Program provides its clients with cutting edge managerial and technical insight that allow them to make faster, better and more informed information security decisions.

Three of the FORTUNE 10 are Institute Partner Program Clients.

Click here to download the Partner Program Overview.




Institute Live
The face-to-face interactions of our Partner Program clients

  • Information Security Forums - Two-day, end-user based events, with discussions focusing on technical, compliance, and managerial topics (Full schedule listing of Forums)
  • Multimedia Briefings - End-user only, feature topics such as “Demystifying NAC”, “PCI: One Year Later”, and “Fitting Security into the Software Development Lifecycle"
  • Ask An Expert - Allows our clients to pose questions to the Institute’s world-class Faculty or to another Institute client


  • Institute Community
    Clients sharing managerial and technical insights with themselves and the Institute's Faculty

  • Institute Symposia - Half day, client-only information sharing sessions that focus on topics such as Data Leakage Prevention or Thwarting the Insider Threat
  • Working Groups - Three-month long series of client-based conference calls, surveys, and interviews that culminate in a summary document. Topics focus on Security Metrics or Satisfying Payment Card Industry (PCI) Standards.
  • QuickView - Proprietary client-only surveys that focus on topics, such as Intrusion Prevention Deployment Usage or Different Security Organization Structures.



  • Institute Knowledge Center
    Password protected “client-only” access to a growing series of Institute proprietary databases and publications

  • Summary of Findings Series
  • Institute’s Point of View
  • Institute Annual
    Examples: “Virtualization Security” (Multimedia Briefing Summary), “Advanced SIM Deployment Best Practices”( Working Group Summary), and “Data Classification/Data Leakage Best Practices” (Partner Symposium)

  • Institute Research Services
    Institute Research Services, created in response to client requests, is a collection of custom product and service offerings that are available to the clients on á la carte basis.
  • Faculty consulting
  • Private forums
  • Speeches
  • Custom market surveys
    The Institute has created straight forward and cost effective payment system for these services, known as Research Credits.




  • What's New:
    Atlanta Symposium - April 15, 2008
    PCI DSS Update and Guidance - April 01, 2008
    Understanding NAC - March 04, 2008
    IANS 2007 Year in Review - February 29, 2008
    2008 Mid-Atlantic Information Security Forum - February 25, 2008


    Next Up:
    Live: New England Information Security Forum
    September 8-9, 2008
    Live: Midwest Information Security Forum
    October 20-21, 2008