About CISO Ascent
Higher ground for the leaders who hold the line.
CISO Ascent is a community-first experience for security leaders, built around real friendships, time in the wild, and the kind of trust that does not come from name tags or panel discussions.
It started with a text.
Nine months before our second gathering, Bryce Carter sent a single message to Tyler White describing an experience unlike anything that existed on the planet for CISOs: A community, built in national parks, around real friendships, for the people quietly carrying the weight of protecting everyone else. The same night, the work began. One vision. One decision to put it into motion. What followed became CISO Ascent.
A safe place for leaders.
The CISO role is one of the heaviest seats in modern business. Quiet weight. Constant pressure. Few who truly understand it. CISO Ascent is one of the few places cybersecurity executives can let their guard down. We take CISOS outside. Trailheads and breathtaking National Parks. People above profit. We design for friendships and recovery. The outcome is a space where CISOs can actually exhale, speak honestly, and step far enough away from the role to come back sharper.
Three days in the Rockies.
At the second CISO Ascent, more than 80 total peers and a few amazing partners spent three days together in the Rockies. The mountains did some of the work. The rest came from the people. There were bear hugs at the trailhead. Belly laughs during bus and van rides. Honest conversations between leaders who had spent years carrying things they could not say out loud anywhere else. We choose national parks for a reason. Out here, phones lose signal. The pressure of the inbox fades. The mind clears. And what emerges, every time, is the kind of human connection that does not happen in a ballroom.