Watch Rachel Briggs' Keynote at 2024 Ontic Summit: The business value of corporate security

Clarity Factory CEO, Rachel Briggs OBE, delivered the keynote at the 2024 Ontic Summit in Austin Texas in February. Drawing on Clarity Factory data and insights, she talked about how corporate security functions can deliver business value, how to work out what matters to business leaders, and what the corporate security function can learn from HR's journey from 'corporate cop' to the C-Suite.

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