"The event was well received and we plan to do this twice or thrice a year and we expect it to grow bigger every year," Clawson told Computerworld Philippines. "This is not really about our product. It's more about IT education where people such as CEOs and CIOs (chief information officers) can learn from each other."

Santos and Clawson noted that the forum attracted a mixture of CEOs and some CIOs.

"In many respects, it is IT education for CEOs because CEOs usually don't like to say what they don't know," Clawson revealed. "They find it hard to ask questions within their organizations because it might yield that they don't know something."

Clawson said it is important for CEOs to have "a strong CIO" that they can count on and who would educate them about IT. Yet CEOs, he said, must force themselves to learn.

Clawson revealed traditional security is no longer relevant as most IT security products today were built for problems 10 years ago.