About the CIO Institute
Chief Information Officers, their deputies, and their closest advisors
are a community of practice responsible for ensuring that information
technology is deployed effectively to support enterprise goals. In the
early years of information technology, CIOs had few trusted channels to
share lessons learned in solving important problems. The CIO Institute
began in 1992 as an informal group of CIO community members from very
large government agencies who shared the goal of identifying what works
and what does not work in areas of great opportunity and high concern to
people who serve as CIOs.
Beginning with the creation of the
Government Technology Leadership Awards, the CIO Institute has designed and provided essential assistance to
new programs and institutions to help them become continuing sources of
information on solutions to challenges faced by CIOs. Its first target
was data warehousing, but by 2000, cybersecurity had shown evidence of
becoming an existential issue and most of its work in the past two
decades has been focused on cybersecurity. The CIO Institute’s portfolio
includes the
Data Warehousing Institute, 1995, the
Center for Internet Security, 2000, the
Critical Security Controls, 2008, the
U.S. Cyber Challenge, 2009,
three landmark reports from the
Center for Strategic and International Studies, the
National Cyber Scholarship Foundation, 2020,
What Works in Finding Elite Cybersecurity Talent, 2021, and several other initiatives.
The CIO Institute’s current focus is on supporting promising practices
for expanding the national pipeline of elite cybersecurity talent to
protect enterprises and nations in the face of escalating cyber
intrusions.
