About the Computer Security Institute (CSI)
Computer Security Institute (CSI) is the original and leading educational membership organization for information security professionals, with over 30 years of experience in the industry.
Our mission is simple: to provide you with high quality products that focus on practical, cost-effective strategies, solutions and methodologies that will help you to protect your
organization's greatest asset: Information.
If you're an information security professional or are aspiring to be one, then CSI is here to help you succeed.
How Can We Help You Succeed?
We believe that the best way to succeed in your professional career is by getting peer guidance in developing strategies that fit you and your organization's specific goals and challenges. Here at CSI, we focus on three critical areas of success: Education, Community, and Research.
Education
Stay ahead of the curve by reading our monthly publications, keeping your employees informed with our awareness tools, participating in our webinars and training courses, and getting breaking headline news updates from our sister publications, Dark Reading and Information Week.
Community
Network with your information security peers by joining our awareness peer group, attending our CSI conferences, and interacting in our CSI blogs and forums.
Research
Challenge your mind by doing research in our CSI Resource Center, which houses insightful articles on topics ranging from end-user awareness and risk management to identity management and virtualization.
Our members say it best - CSI offers informed, contextualized, and vendor-neutral guidance through important developments in the world of enterprise security.
Who We Are.
Computer Security Institute serves the needs of Information Security Professionals through membership, live and web-based educational events, publications, and awareness tools.
Membership: Joining CSI provides you with access to our Security Resource Center, discounts on CSI conferences and awareness packages, career development, networking opportunities and more.
Conferences: CSI conferences set the industry standard with the balance of educational sessions, networking opportunities and high quality speakers. You are assured to come away with all the skills you need to succeed in today’s competitive environment. Can’t leave the office? CSIVX offers a valuable mix of trade show and education by providing a multi-track educational program where you will earn CPE’s, network globally, attend webinars and surf the trade show floor without having to leave the office.
Webinars and Discounted Member Courses: CSI offers webinars and courses on a monthly basis that will cover topics ranging from hardware virtualization security to cloud security and more.
Publications: CSI is noted for its annual CSI Computer Crime & Security Survey, which attracts widespread media attention and has been read by over 100,000 professionals. CSI also publishes monthly ALERT newsletters that go beyond the usual headlines and delving deeper into the news with interpretive analysis.
CSI Awareness: CSI offers products and training to help improve awareness that includes Frontline end user awareness newsletter, web-based security awareness training, awareness peer groups and more. Private training from CSI is also available for organizations.

