Embedded security leadership
Virtual & Fractional CISO
A named senior security leader who owns your program: strategy, roadmap, budget, board reporting and vendor management, all at the fraction of a full-time hire that your stage actually needs.
The situation
You need a CISO's judgment, not a CISO's salary
- Security decisions are landing on an engineering leader who already has a full job, or on nobody at all.
- Customers and insurers are asking who owns security, and the honest answer is “everyone a little.”
- The board wants a straight answer on risk and the room can only produce a tool list.
What we do
- Own the security program end to end with a named, accountable senior leader
- Build and maintain a 12–18 month roadmap tied to business milestones, not tool releases
- Run the security governance cadence: risk register, exceptions, metrics, steering reviews
- Present risk to the board, investors, insurers and enterprise customers in their language
- Set security budget and defend it with a defensible cost-of-risk argument
- Manage security vendors, MSSPs and pen test partners so they earn their invoice
- Stand up policy, standards and the operating rhythm that makes them stick
- Coach and level up your internal engineers into real security owners
Deliverables
What you actually receive.
Artefacts your team can operate after we leave, not a slide deck and a wave goodbye.
| Deliverable | What it contains |
|---|---|
| Security program charter | Scope, authority, RACI and decision rights, agreed with your executive team |
| Risk register + treatment plan | Ranked, owned, dated, with the accepted risks written down on purpose |
| 12–18 month roadmap | Sequenced by risk reduction per dollar, mapped to your funding cycle |
| Board / customer reporting pack | A repeatable deck and metric set you can run without us |
| Policy and standards set | Written to be followed, mapped to the frameworks you are held to |
| Quarterly program review | What moved, what didn't, what changes next quarter and why |
Ways to engage
Sized to the problem in front of you.
Ongoing
Fractional CISO
A recurring commitment, typically 2 to 6 days a month, with standing exec presence.
3–12 months
Interim CISO
Full-time coverage through a departure, a crisis or a funding event.
Retainer
CISO advisory
Your internal leader keeps the title; we're the bench they call.
Talk it through with someone senior
Thirty minutes on your situation specifically, what is driving the timeline, what you have already tried, and what we would do first.