The Business of Resilience

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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. 

There has never been a more interesting – or challenging – time to work in corporate security.

The Clarity Factory has a proprietary maturity assessment framework that provides an independent, structured and data-driven maturity assessment to drive insights into strengths and areas for development.

One of the most frequent questions CSOs get from the C-Suite is ‘how do we compare to our competitors?’ While informal benchmarking and information sharing among CSOs provides an essential ‘reality check’, especially

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:

The Clarity Factory produces essential data, insights, operating frameworks, maturity models and benchmarking for CSOs and their teams.

The Clarity Factory offers a range of consulting services that support CSOs to enhance their performance, innovate their operations, develop their teams, and drive improvements to deliver best in class service to thei

‘The key trend for the future will be increased outsourcing, contracting, and sub-contracting, including by country heads of security.

Doing business is getting more and more complex.

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

How physical and cyber security can join forces to strengthen operational resilience 

by Rachel Briggs OBE

The Clarity Factory produces research and thought leadership for professionals 

in corporate security, cyber security, resilience and national security. 

The Clarity Factory is the leading research body for corporate security leaders.

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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.

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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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Cyber security is no longer just a necessary hygiene factor – it is a key differentiator for the increasingly digital organisation.

In 2005, ten companies came together to commission a white paper to explore the future of corporate security.

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Our report on the rise of outsourcing in corporate security, co-authored with Kathy Lavinder of SI Placement, is covered by

The Clarity Factory 2025 Annual CSO Survey is published.

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I was pleased to speak with Claire Meyer of Security Management magazine about the all-important issue of effective transitions from the public sector into private sector security.

Clarity Factory CEO, Rachel Briggs, and Kathy Lavinder of SI Placement joined Chuck Randolph of Ontic to discuss their joint study on the future of talent in corporate security.

They discuss:

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

Clarity Factory CEO, Rachel Briggs, spoke with Business Insider about the potential explanations for some 40 hostages that Hamas says are 'missing' in Gaza.

Clarity Factory CEO, Rachel Briggs, joined Kirsten Meskill from Solventum and Joshua Levin-Soler from Take Two Games for a conversation hosted by Ankur Arora of Ontic.

They covered:

The Clarity Factory CEO, Rachel Briggs, sat down with Corporate Security Advisors (CSA) to discuss the changing role of the CS

The Future of Talent: Outsourcing takes hold in corporate security is a new insight paper from SI Placement and The Clarity Factory.

Thank you to everyone who took part in our survey on diversity, equity and inclusion in the security industry. The survey closed on 15 August, and we are now analyzing the results. 

The pandemic has taken its toll on our wellbeing – twice as many adults as normal have feelings of depression, with figures much higher for some groups.

The Clarity Factory looks forward to working with sponsors who are thought leading innovators within the security industry to deliver the 2026 Annual CSO Survey.