Virtual CISO
A trusted security executive who owns your risk — part-time cost, full-time commitment.
Your vCISO sets security strategy around the risks that matter most to your business, keeps the program moving, and speaks for security with your executives, board, customers, insurers, and auditors.
Your vCISO will
- Own the Risk Ledger and the security roadmap
- Set risk appetite with leadership
- Brief the board in business terms
- Prioritize security budget by risk reduction
- Lead incident readiness and tabletop exercises
- Handle customer, insurer, and auditor questions
What we do
Everything it takes to understand, reduce, and monitor your information security risk.
Engage us for a single piece or the whole lifecycle. Every service feeds the same Risk Ledger, so nothing you build is wasted.
Risk Assessment & Quantification
A candid, evidence-based view of your exposure, ranked by business impact.
- Crown-jewel asset and data-flow mapping
- Likelihood and impact scoring aligned to NIST SP 800-30
- FAIR-based loss estimates for top scenarios
- Prioritized treatment roadmap
Security Program & Strategy
The governance, policies, and roadmap that turn risk decisions into daily practice.
- Security strategy and annual program plan
- Right-sized policies and standards
- Roles, steering cadence, and decision rights
- Control design with named owners
Threat & Vulnerability Risk
Fix what attackers are most likely to exploit, in the systems that matter most.
- Attack surface and exposure reviews
- Vulnerability prioritization by exploitability and business impact
- Threat modeling for critical systems
- Penetration test scoping and remediation tracking
Third-Party Risk
Your risk includes everyone who holds your data or runs your systems.
- Vendor inventory and risk tiering
- Due diligence reviews and questionnaires
- Contract security terms and BAAs
- Ongoing monitoring for critical suppliers
Continuous Risk Monitoring
A monthly rhythm that catches drift before an attacker — or an auditor — does.
- Key risk indicators with agreed thresholds
- Monthly control health checks
- Quarterly Risk Ledger reviews
- Executive and board reporting
Incident Readiness & Resilience
Be ready for the bad day: detect fast, respond calmly, recover fully.
- Incident response plan and playbooks
- Tabletop exercises for leadership and responders
- Ransomware readiness and backup recovery testing
- Business continuity and cyber insurance alignment
Data Privacy Risk
GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and U.S. state privacy laws managed inside the same risk program.
- Data mapping and records of processing
- DPIAs and CCPA risk assessments
- Rights-request and consent workflows
- Vendor DPAs and transfer safeguards
AI Risk & Security
Govern and secure the AI agents and tools your teams are adopting.
- AI inventory and risk assessment
- Agent threat modeling and least-privilege design
- Prompt-injection and tool-abuse testing
- AI governance aligned to ISO 42001 and NIST AI RMF
Audit & compliance
Compliance, handled as part of the program.
When customers, regulators, or partners ask for proof, you’re ready. The same controls that reduce your risk produce the evidence auditors need — mapped once to every framework you answer to.
Audit & assessment support
- Readiness assessments and gap analysis
- Evidence packages organized by requirement
- Auditor and assessor coordination
- SOC 2, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, NIST, HIPAA, HITRUST, GDPR, CCPA
Not sure where to start?
Most organizations start with a risk assessment. We’ll listen, ask a few pointed questions, and recommend the smallest engagement that answers your biggest question.