VIRTUAL CISO
Chief Information Security Consulting
Security is only an afterthought
until it costs you a contract.
Executive-level information security leadership — building the program, hardening the posture, and keeping your business audit-ready without a full-time CISO hire.
✽ THE PROBLEM WITH TREATING SECURITY AS A CHECKBOX
Security that holds up when it matters
Most mid-market companies have some security measures in place. A firewall. An antivirus. Maybe a password policy. But when an auditor walks in, or a major client runs a vendor security review, those measures rarely hold up. And by then, the contract is already in jeopardy.
A Virtual CISO or vCISO doesn’t just evaluate your security posture — they build the program, train the team, and establish the architecture that makes your business defensible. Not just for today’s threats, but for the compliance requirements your clients and regulators will impose on you next year.
What we do as your Virtual CISO
SECURITY ASSESSMENT
Cyber Insurance Readiness Analysis
Assess your security posture against cyber insurance requirements — so you can obtain coverage, keep premiums manageable, and actually qualify when you need to make a claim.
Comprehensive Application Security Review
Deep analysis of application architecture for resilience and compliance with security best practices — before vulnerabilities become breaches.
Infrastructure Security Assessment
Gap analysis of your IT architecture against security best practices — with a prioritized remediation plan, not just a list of problems.
Business & Technical Architecture Review
Work with your executive team and department heads to assess your technology stack and data processes against current security standards.
IT & Information Security SOP Review
Examine internal systems and address data security inefficiencies in standard operating procedures — aligning your business with current security requirements.
SECURITY TRAINING
General Security Awareness
A comprehensive training program that equips every employee to recognize and respond to threats — because your security posture is only as strong as your least-informed staff member.
Executive Security Awareness
Custom security education for leadership — building the security mindset at the top that cascades through the entire organization.
Tabletop Exercise Facilitation
Simulated security incidents and breach scenarios — rigorously testing your response frameworks before a real event exposes the gaps. Covers business continuity, incident handling, and breach response.
Threat Modeling Workshop
Identify and address vulnerabilities in your systems before they manifest as critical issues — a proactive approach to uncovering security weaknesses at the design stage.
Secure Coding for Developers & Managers
Results-driven training for development teams to identify and eliminate software vulnerabilities — building security into the build process, not bolted on after.
SECURE ARCHITECTURE
Business Architecture & Design
Work with executives and architects to evaluate security implications in current or proposed system designs — before they become expensive to change.
Technical Architecture & Design
Work directly with engineering teams to design and build secure solutions that withstand real-world threats.
Security Resiliency System Design
Design and implement systems that allow your organization to endure and recover from security incidents and operational disruptions — not just survive them.
AI SECURITY GOVERNANCE
AI System Threat Modeling
Identify and mitigate the security risks specific to AI systems — including adversarial inputs, model poisoning, and the attack surfaces created by integrating LLMs into business processes.
Proprietary Data Protection in AI
Establish controls that prevent your sensitive business data and intellectual property from being exposed or used to train third-party AI models without your knowledge or consent.
Shadow AI Risk Management
Identify and govern unsanctioned AI tool usage across your organization — because employees using unauthorized AI tools with company data create compliance and security exposure you may not be aware of.
AI Incident Response Planning
Build and test response procedures for AI-related security incidents — from model compromise to data exfiltration via AI interfaces.
Security and privacy are two sides of the same compliance requirement. See our Fractional DPO page for data protection program design and regulatory compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, and the EU AI Act.
Ready to build a security program
that actually holds up under scrutiny?
Schedule a free 30-minute discovery call. We’ll assess your current security posture and identify the gaps that matter most — before an auditor or an attacker finds them.
