Accountability or liability: The CISO’s latest nightmare

C-suite Exchange: When security leadership means taking the blame for risks you can’t fully control.

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Today’s CISO is stuck between a rock and a hard place: remain an operational leader and risk never having their voice heard, or fight for a seat at the C-suite table—and be prepared to take the heat when the inevitable breach hits.

As organisations expand their use of cloud-native architectures and AI-driven technologies, the attack surface is growing faster than ever - often beyond the direct control of security leaders themselves. From shadow AI to third-party dependencies, CISOs are increasingly accountable for risks they do not fully own.

In this C-Suite Exchange, hosted by HotTopics in partnership with Fastly, security executives will explore how CISOs are being held personally and professionally liable for failures in complex, distributed systems. Drawing on insights from Fastly’s latest Global Security Report (GSR), the discussion will unpack how shifts in reporting structures, regulation, board-level expectations, and the expanding AI attack surface are reshaping the personal risk landscape—and what today’s security leaders can do to remain responsible without becoming personally liable.

Event details

📍 Location: Virtual

🗓 Date: 26th March 2026

🕛 Time: 12:00 - 1:00 PM GMT

👥 The Hosts: Doug Drinkwater, Strategy and Editorial Director, HotTopics

Meet the speaker

 

Ozgur Savas is the Sr. Director of EMEA Sales Engineering in Fastly. Ozgur is an established technology leader with over 25 years of experience in the cybersecurity and networking industries, having held senior technical leadership roles at Fastly, Cloudflare, Zscaler, Meraki and Cisco. His current focus is on Web and API Security, Bot and AI threat protection, and DDoS mitigation, to bring a pragmatic, real-world perspective to securing modern, high performing and scalable applications.

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