Practitioner exchange
A standing forum for security people across GTA networks to share what is working, what failed, and what is coming. Peer to peer, under the same informal norms that made GTA work in the first place.
A Global Tech Advocates guild
Cybersecurity expertise that sits across the network, not beside it.
GTA Cyber brings together the security practitioners already inside Global Tech Advocates networks worldwide, so their expertise reaches every part of the organisation rather than one corner of it.
Founding title sponsor
40,000+Business leaders, experts and investors across the GTA network
42+Global Tech Advocates groups in the world’s fastest growing tech regions
One craftA single guild for cybersecurity, spanning all of them
Why a guild
Security knowledge is everywhere. Reaching it is the hard part.
Cybersecurity expertise is already distributed across Global Tech Advocates. It sits with a CISO in one city network, a founder building detection tooling in another, a policy specialist somewhere else entirely.
What has been missing is the connective tissue. A new vertical chapter would have added another silo and asked those people to choose between it and the network they already belong to. GTA Cyber does the opposite. Members keep their existing GTA membership and their day jobs, and the guild becomes the place where people practising the same craft meet, compare notes, and answer the call when any part of GTA needs a security perspective.
What we do
Four things the guild is for
Deliberately few, and deliberately practical. Each one asks for time rather than budget, which is what a volunteer network can actually sustain.
Expertise on call
When another GTA group, a member company or a policy conversation needs a security view, the guild is where that request lands and finds someone qualified to answer it.
Raising the floor
Most organisations in the network are small and have no security function at all. Plain guidance on the basics, aimed at founders and operators rather than specialists, moves more risk than any single deep engagement.
A voice in policy
GTA gives tech a voice worldwide. Cybersecurity policy is being written quickly in a lot of places at once, and practitioners are better placed than most to say what will work in practice.
Support the guild
Volunteer-led, sponsor-funded.
Global Tech Advocates is not-for-profit and volunteer-driven, financed by sponsors and collaborating partners. GTA Cyber follows the same model. Nobody draws a salary from it; sponsorship pays for the programme itself.
Klarvant is our founding title sponsor. We are talking to a small number of further partners who want to support security practitioners rather than market at them.
Common questions
The short answers
What is GTA Cyber?
The cybersecurity guild of Global Tech Advocates. Not a regional chapter and not a vertical business line, but a cross-cutting group that draws on security practitioners already inside GTA networks and makes that expertise available across the whole organisation.
How does a guild differ from a working group?
A guild is organised around a craft rather than a territory or a product. Members keep their existing network membership and their day jobs. The guild is where people practising the same discipline meet, set standards and support everyone else.
Who can join?
Practitioners working in cybersecurity who are already part of a Global Tech Advocates network, and those who would like to join GTA in order to take part. Membership is free and volunteer-led.
How is it funded?
Through sponsorship, as the wider organisation is. Klarvant is the founding title sponsor. Sponsorship funds programme delivery, not salaries.