Guess what's the topic of Gartner's Information Security Summit 2009:
"Your contribution to the success of your organization!"
"Let the Gartner analysts tell you how to make sure management recognizes the contribution professionals like you make to the success of your organization".

What a great luck for all the ones who attended the phion summit the recent years (especially 2008).
They saved a trip to London and got plenty of advises how to be smart before the word "crisis" was dominating the scene.

Remember: It is all about selling things, instead of being an expert or an attorney. It is about understanding the goals of the business and especially its enemies.

The gospel of protecting communication instead of just securing information or data is the utmost effective tool to contribute to business' success and in the end to get money to realise our expert goals.