An invite-only room for the people who run security.
The room is already talking. Ask for a seat.
Beyond CISO is a private room of 2,500 senior security leaders. CISOs, CTOs, and the people who run security with them. No vendors in the room.
The room is senior by design.
Seats are held by people who have signed the contracts, run the programs, and lived with the tools.
Banks, health systems, retailers, cloud platforms, and public bodies. There is no audience in here and nobody is selling. Everyone is in the work.
The threads are members-only. That is why they are honest.
Three reasons people stay.
Most arrive for one. They stay because the room does all three.
Shortlist before you spend.
Before a tool reaches your board, odds are someone in here has run it in production. Ask them, get the honest read, and walk into procurement with a shortlist you trust.
Ask what you cannot ask your own board.
Off the record, answered in hours, by people who have already been there.
Hear it before it is a headline.
New threats, new regulation, the quiet moves that matter. The room reads the signal early because the room is the industry.
The things you cannot Google.
What the inside looks like from the outside.
Honest reads
What a tool is actually like after a year in production, from the person running it.
War stories
Procurement plays, board language that lands, live help when something is on fire.
The dinners
Closed-door salons where the room meets face to face, off the record.
Warm intros
The fastest route to a peer who has already solved it is a name in a thread. You have 2,500.
The signal
A running read on what is moving, from the people who see it first.
The room keeps score the old way.
Not a badge you buy. Earned in threads, dinners, and vouches.
Answers count. Vouches count more. Dinners hosted count most.
The channels, the honest reads, and the dinner list.
First calls on salon seats and the quieter threads.
Vouch rights, first looks, a seat at the closed tables.
The straight answer
For the read that saved someone a bad buy.
The early flag
For calling it before it was a headline.
The good intro
For the door that opened.
The dinner host
For putting the room around a table.
The vouch
For staking your name on a new seat.
The board resets every quarter. You can see it from the inside.
If you sell to security teams, there is a different room.
Beyond CISO works because it is not a lead list.
The people in here sign the contracts.
The Cyber Forge is the founders room, where the product conversation actually happens.
Alchemy curates the crossing, through the dinners and the moments we create.
The introductions that matter happen at a table, not in a thread.
We protect the buyers first. That is why they stay.
See The Cyber ForgeRun by a working CISO, not a marketer.
Beyond CISO is hosted by Anand Thangaraju, a practicing Field CISO who still sits on the buyer's side of the table every week. He started the thread because he wanted a straight answer from someone who had done the job.
The room is curated by hand, one seat at a time, for that reason.
Alchemy Cyber, the advisory behind the room, runs the founder side separately and curates where the two rooms meet.
You do not sign up. You get in.
Every seat is invited or vouched for. That is the whole point.
Request an invite, or get vouched in by a member who knows you.
We check that you are senior, real, and here to contribute.
You get the invite, and the room hears who you are before you post.
The bar is the price of entry.
Who this is for.
A fit
CISOs, CTOs, VPs and heads of security.
Practitioners who own the outcome, not the pitch.
People who answer as often as they ask.
Not a fit
Recruiters working a list.
Founders and vendors. The Cyber Forge is your room.
Anyone here to broadcast instead of contribute.
No hard feelings on the second column. This only works if the first column trusts the room.
The room reads every request. Make yours count.
Tell us who you are and why you belong in here. If you are a fit, you will hear from us.
Every request is read. A vouch skips the queue.
Building something instead? Introduce your company.
Invite only. Curated by hand.
Straight answers.
Is this just another Slack group?
It started as a two-person thread and grew to 2,500 senior leaders because it was useful, not because it was promoted. The bar is what keeps it that way.
What does it cost me?
Your time and your honesty. Membership is by invitation.
I sell to security teams. Can I join?
No. Beyond CISO is practitioners only. The Cyber Forge is the founders room, and Alchemy curates where the two meet.
What is the CXO Syndicate?
The ring of members who choose to back the companies the room believes in. Member-led and still forming. It is not a fund, and nothing there is an offer to invest. The room talks. The ring acts.
Beyond CISO is a trademark of Alchemy Cyber.