vCISO / Fractional CISO
Ongoing part-time security leadership to guide risk, compliance, and security direction as you scale.
Ongoing part-time security leadership to guide risk, compliance, and security direction as you scale.
Startups face real security decisions every day — which controls to build, which risks to accept, what customers will ask for. Without dedicated leadership, security becomes reactive, inconsistent, and hard to communicate to customers, investors, and the board.
We provide senior security leadership that scales with you — setting strategy, owning compliance, prioritizing risk, and representing security to customers and leadership — for a fraction of a full-time CISO's cost.
Our methodology focuses on granular implementation across every layer of your organization.
Set a security and compliance direction aligned to growth.
We build and maintain a pragmatic security roadmap tied to your business milestones and customer demands.
Run security as a business function with clear ownership.
We chair security reviews, advise on risk acceptance, and support the leadership team with clear direction.
Own and coordinate your ISO, SOC 2, and privacy programs.
We keep compliance programs on track and audit-ready, acting as the accountable senior owner.
Board and customer-ready security reporting.
We translate technical posture into concise updates for investors, the board, and enterprise customers.
Assess current posture, team, and business goals.
Set a prioritized security and compliance strategy.
Run reviews, own compliance, and drive the roadmap.
Deliver executive and customer-ready updates.
Everything you receive at the completion of this engagement.
Everything you need to know about our vCISO / Fractional CISO process.
Have more questions? Ask usA consultant delivers a bounded project; a vCISO provides ongoing accountability, leadership, and ownership of your security program.
It scales with your needs — from a few hours a week for guidance to a more hands-on role during key milestones.
Yes. Many clients start with a vCISO and transition to full-time leadership as they scale.