As executives face pressure to deliver exponential growth without increasing costs, CISOs are often forced to make risk decisions outside their comfort zone, where organizational demands, personal values, and professional responsibility collide. 

At the Nashville CISO Dinner, Jim Desmond will present scenarios of ethical dilemmas CISOs face that rarely have clear or “correct” resolutions. We will examine how values operate both as deeply held personal principles and as contextual commitments that are easiest to uphold when business conditions are favorable.

Rather than offering prescriptive answers, this session creates space for candid conversation: How do CISOs define their “no-cross” lines? How do you demonstrate values consistently over time, especially when those values are being pinched? When ethical tension becomes unavoidable, what recourse exists and when is walking away the only option?

Join your peers for a discussion grounded in real-world scenarios and an opportunity to gain practical guidance for navigating ethical decision making in an era where risk tolerance is being redefined in real time.