Instituted in 2017, CSO100 Awards by Foundry (formerly IDG Communications) brings together top security leaders in India to explore new ideas and adopt creative and game-changing ways of tackling cybersecurity in the modern enterprise. 

CSO100 awards is a global event across US, Europe, ASEAN, APAC since many years and in India. The awards program had the editions in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2022. This year, CSO100 awards and symposium 2023 will re-establish itself as a recognized platform for excellence in cybersecurity.

The 2023 symposium will feature sessions by top security experts and exhilarating panel discussions, keynotes by industry experts, power sessions by technology/security vendors and other sessions followed by the felicitation of top CSOs in the country for the year 2022 - 2023. The CSO100 Awards recognizes 100 CSOs/CISOs for security projects and initiatives that demonstrate outstanding business value in today’s constantly-evolving digital and threat landscape over the past 12 months. This year’s CSO100 Awards & Symposium 2023 will be centered around ‘Cybersecurity 2023: Business Risk at the Brink’.