WHAT THE✦alliance is for!✦
BSA exists to connect the people who are responsible for security - across corporate and physical security, cyber, risk, resilience, investigations, guarding and systems. It is a membership body, not a supplier: it does not sell security products or services.
What The Alliance Runs
Pioneering the Future of Security
The Business Security Alliance unites elite security practitioners, researchers, and executive leaders under one shared operational mission.
Zero-Trust Defense Architecture
Empowering security leaders to implement resilient zero-trust frameworks across physical and digital perimeters.
Global Executive Intelligence
Connecting verified C-suite security officers, CISOs, and directors across 80+ countries for real-time peer alignment.
Live Threat Telemetry & Intel
Sharing actionable field intelligence, post-mortems, and emergency directives before vendor advisories drop.
Practitioner Mentorship & Career Growth
Accelerating the next generation of security talent through direct 1-on-1 executive mentorship and board seat pathways.
A membership body for people whose job is security
Security is not one profession. A head of corporate security, a threat intelligence lead, a systems integrator and an independent consultant all work on the same problem from different sides, usually without knowing each other. The alliance brings them into one membership, one directory and one events programme.
Membership is individual. You join as a person, publish a profile, and decide how much of it is visible. Your organisation matters - it is on your profile and it is searchable - but the relationship is with you, and it moves with you when you change jobs.
In practice a member does four things: finds people in the directory, joins the chapter covering their region, attends events and working sessions, and uses the resources and opportunities board. Committee work is the fifth, and the one that keeps the industry moving rather than just the individual.
What BSA is not: a supplier, a reseller or a recruitment agency. Partner organisations fund the programme and are listed openly with what they support, and what any member shares is set by that member.
Disciplines represented in the directory
Taken from the field each member selected on their own profile, not from a fixed taxonomy.
What members actually use, in order
Each one is a working part of this platform rather than a statement of intent. The numbers underneath are live.
Help security professionals find each other
The member directory is the centre of the alliance and the reason most people join. Every member publishes a profile covering their role, organisation, discipline, location and specialisms, and every member can search it.
Security is a small industry with poor internal visibility. Most people can name five peers and have no route to the sixth. The directory replaces that with a searchable list of 4 people across 4 disciplines, with availability stated up front rather than guessed at.
Open the directory →Professional and business growth
Opportunities posted to the alliance cover senior roles, consulting partnerships, invitations to tender, speaking calls and non-executive appointments - the things that reach people through networks rather than job boards.
5 listings are open right now, and 1 members have marked themselves open to approaches. Consultants and smaller practices get visibility they would otherwise have to buy.
See opportunities →Industry content and practitioner expertise
Resources are written by members doing the work, in modules you can finish in a sitting. Closed sessions are written up and circulated. Events carry recorded CPD hours against your member profile.
1 resources covering 2 modules, plus 5 published insight pieces from members and partner researchers.
Browse resources →Events, chapters and committees
Regional chapters run their own programme of meetings. The alliance runs the annual conference, working sessions, webinars and closed-door roundtables. Committees produce the guidance and consultation responses.
6 chapters across 3 countries, 5 events on the record and 0 member registrations against them.
Find your chapter →A stronger, better-connected security ecosystem
The parts of the job no single organisation can do alone: technical standards, installer and training quality, workforce and succession research, and responses to emerging regulation on connected products.
This work runs on members giving time to committees. It is slower than an events programme and it is the reason a professional body exists at all.
Read the research →Practising professionals, at every level
Membership assumes you work in security in some capacity. Beyond that the alliance is deliberately broad - the value of the directory comes from having the whole industry in it, not one slice of it.
People with day-to-day operational responsibility: security managers, operations leads, analysts, investigators, architects and assurance specialists. The largest group in the directory.
Heads of security, directors, CISOs and anyone accountable to a board for security risk. Roundtables and executive resources are aimed here.
Independent advisers and small practices who need visibility, referrals and a route to work that does not depend on one former employer.
Companies that make, install or operate security systems and services. In the directory as practitioners, not as advertisements.
Employers who want their security function connected to the wider industry, and who use the alliance for benchmarking, recruitment and professional development.
Organisations funding the programme - the conference, the chapter network and the research the alliance publishes.
You control what is visible
A profile holds your name, job title, organisation, discipline, location, years in the industry, a short biography, your specialisms and your skills. You choose whether it is public, visible to members only, or hidden while you continue to use everything else.
Contact details are separate switches. Email, phone, organisation, LinkedIn and website each have their own visibility setting, so you can be findable without being contactable by every route.
Three availability switches do most of the useful work. They are the difference between hoping someone will reply and knowing they are willing to be asked.
- Public profileWhether your profile page is reachable at all.
- Listed in the directoryWhether you appear in member search results.
- Show organisationSome members cannot name their employer publicly.
- Show email addressOff by default.
- Show phone numberOff by default.
- Show LinkedInThe most-used contact route in practice.
- Show websiteUseful for consultants and independent practices.
6 regions, each running its own programme
A chapter is a group of members in one region with a committee, a meeting cadence and a contact address. Joining one is a switch on your profile, and you can belong to more than one.
Three roles inside a chapter
- MemberAttends, hosts occasionally, and appears on the chapter roster.
- CommitteePlans the programme, finds venues and speakers, and represents the region.
- ChairAccountable for the chapter and its reporting into the wider alliance.
Partners pay for the programme
5 organisations partner with the alliance. Partner funding underwrites the annual conference, the chapter programme, the resources library and the research the alliance publishes.
Every partner is listed publicly with what they support, so members can see exactly where the money comes from and what it pays for. Partners appear in the directory as practitioners like anyone else when their people join as members.
The industry is easier with the directory open.
Join as a member and you are searchable the same day. If you would rather understand the model first, send an enquiry and a person will answer it in writing.