Virtual CISO
A Virtual CISO who sets your security strategy, owns the roadmap, and speaks to your board — on the days you need one, not five days a week.
When a vCISO makes sense
No security leader in the building
You have engineers who can patch and a board asking about risk, but nobody who owns the answer. We take that seat, set priorities, and give your team a decision-maker to escalate to.
An audit or questionnaire you can't answer
A customer's security questionnaire or an auditor's evidence request lands on someone's desk and stalls. We own the policy set, the evidence, and the gap list until the answers hold up.
After an incident
Once the immediate fire is out, someone has to work out what happened and what changes. We run the post-incident review, rewrite the controls that failed, and track the fixes to done.
Growth that outpaces your controls
Headcount, new markets, and a first enterprise customer all change what you have to prove. We revisit access, vendors, and data handling as you scale, so the controls grow with the company.
A budget that won't stretch to a full-time hire
Executive security leadership is expensive to hire and hard to keep busy at a smaller company. You get the judgment on a fractional schedule and spend the difference on the fixes themselves.
Get a Chief Information Security Officer's judgment on a fractional schedule, without carrying the role on your payroll.
Most companies reach a point where cybersecurity decisions need an owner before they can justify a full-time executive. Our vCISO engagements fill that gap. We set the roadmap, run the reviews, and sit in the meetings where risk gets decided — at whatever cadence your business actually needs.
Services provided
Security program design
We build the policy set, standards, and control framework your business actually needs, then help your teams adopt them. The aim is documents your engineers and your auditors both use, not a binder on a shelf.
Risk register and mitigation planning
We catalog what could hurt you, rank it by likelihood and impact, and agree a treatment for each item. You get a living register your leadership team can review each quarter.
Incident response planning
We write the runbook: who decides, who calls counsel, who talks to customers, and when. Then we rehearse it in a tabletop exercise, so the plan meets reality before an incident does.
Security awareness and training
We train your staff on the risks they actually face — invoice fraud, credential phishing, careless data sharing — and brief engineers and executives separately, because their exposure isn't the same.
Assessments and audit support
We assess your controls on a set cadence, prepare the evidence auditors ask for, and handle customer security reviews so your engineering team keeps shipping.
Board and stakeholder reporting
We translate your security posture into the terms your board, investors, and largest customers use. That means a short written update, a clear view of open risk, and no jargon.
What a vCISO engagement gives you
We scope the hours against what you're required to prove and what's genuinely exposed, work inside your existing tools and meetings, and hand over documentation you keep when the engagement ends. You get:
- A named security lead your team and board can escalate to
- A prioritized roadmap with owners, dates, and a defensible order of work
- Policies and evidence ready for customer security reviews and audits
- An incident response runbook rehearsed with your team, not just written
- Quarterly reporting that shows what changed and what's still open
Before IDNotion we were answering security questions ad hoc, in whatever order they arrived. Now there's a roadmap, an owner, and a board update that doesn't need translating.
Ready to get started?
Tell us what you're building or protecting, and we'll tell you where we would start.