vCISO & Advisory / CORE SERVICE

Security Leadership & Program

vCISO services, cybersecurity risk assessments, and security program roadmaps, with principal-led governance and clear reporting for leadership.

THE WORK, IN CONTEXT

Security Leadership & Program, with a clear purpose.

This core gives the security program a named owner and a written direction. Three services sit under it. vCISO and Fractional Security Leadership is the ongoing engagement: a part-time security leader runs the governance rhythm, owns the risk register and policy set, answers customer security questionnaires, and briefs the board. Security Risk Assessment is a bounded project that identifies the threats most likely to hurt you, rates each one on a clear, documented scale, and hands over a register with named owners and treatment decisions. Security Program Maturity Assessment and Roadmap scores the program against a recognized security framework, shows where you are today against where you need to be, and sequences the work that closes the gap. Fractional engagements usually begin with the risk assessment and the maturity roadmap, then run both as a program. Each service is scoped in writing, performed by the principal who scoped it, reported for engineers and for executives, and revisited at an agreed checkpoint to record what changed.

A GOOD FIT WHEN

For founders, CEOs, CTOs, and COOs who need someone accountable for security decisions without a full-time hire, and for CISOs who want an independent read on risk and maturity. Common triggers: a customer due-diligence questionnaire that nobody owns, a cyber insurance renewal, a board asking for a security update, or a first regulated contract.

THE WORK BEHIND THE SERVICE

What we do.
What you can use.

Scope ownership and obligations

We begin with your contracts, regulatory obligations, insurance application, open customer questionnaires, and prior assessments. Then we agree in writing which decisions the principal owns and which stay with your executives and counsel, which recognized framework anchors the work, and how often leadership hears from us.

Run the program by hand

The principal interviews owners and samples control state directly in your consoles, such as the identity provider, endpoint detection, backup, and cloud platforms, rather than relying on questionnaires, rates each risk on a documented scale, and drafts the register, policies, scorecard, and roadmap personally. Nothing is delegated, and nothing is generated from a template and left unchanged.

Report to two audiences and check back

You receive a register, gap list, or roadmap written for the people who do the work, plus an executive summary written for the board, customers, and insurers. At an agreed checkpoint we rescore the affected items, record which risks moved and which initiatives closed, and package that evidence for your insurers, customers, and auditors.

FIND YOUR FOCUS

Specific services.
Substantive answers.

01 / Security Leadership & Program

vCISO & Fractional Security Leadership

Virtual CISO services provide fractional cybersecurity leadership for risk management, vendor reviews, customer due diligence, and board reporting.

  • Onboarding inventory of policies, tooling, vendors, obligations, insurance documents, and open customer questionnaires
  • Governance built out end to end: risk appetite, clear decision ownership, a policy hierarchy, and a leadership oversight loop
  • Monthly risk register maintenance in a consistent, portable format with treatment tracking

From $1,200/mo

Scope, pricing & FAQs
02 / Security Leadership & Program

Security Risk Assessment

Threat scenarios identified, rated on a documented scale, and tied to the owners, treatment decisions, and spending that reduce them.

  • Purpose, scope, assumptions, and risk model documented before interviews begin
  • Owner interviews and review of architecture, data flows, prior pentest and audit findings, and incident history
  • Direct sampling of multi-factor authentication coverage, endpoint protection, backup restore tests, privileged accounts, and logging

From $6,000

Scope, pricing & FAQs
03 / Security Leadership & Program

Security Program Maturity Assessment & Roadmap

Your program scored against a recognized security framework, with a clear picture of where you stand today and a sequenced roadmap to close the gaps.

  • Framework and target selection matched to your obligations, your data sensitivity, and your staffing
  • Workshops with owners of identity, endpoint, network, cloud, application, data, vendor, incident response, and governance
  • Artifact review of policies, diagrams, runbooks, ticket samples, and prior audit results

From $7,500

Scope, pricing & FAQs
WHAT YOU TAKE FORWARD

Built to support the next decision.

  • Cybersecurity risk register with named owners, treatment decisions, and clear triggers for when each risk is reviewed
  • Current-state and target-state maturity scorecard with a sequenced roadmap to close the gap
  • Governance package: a program charter, clear decision ownership, a policy set with a review calendar, and metrics tied to your stated risk appetite
  • Quarterly board deck and monthly written report that stay in your repositories after the engagement ends
  • A reusable answer library for customer security questionnaires and an evidence binder for cyber insurance renewals

The selected services, deliverables, access requirements, and any follow-up validation are agreed in your engagement scope.

INFORMED BY RECOGNIZED GUIDANCE
START AT THE SOURCE

Let’s find your next move.

A focused conversation. A clear scope. A practical path to stronger security.

Let’s talk security