Virtual CISO is a service designed to make top-tier security experts available to organizations who need security expertise and guidance. Our team of experts has decades of experience; building information security programs that work WITH business objectives and show measurable improvement to security posture.
A virtual CISO is an assigned resource with experience building and improving information security programs. Starting with a risk assessment, a virtual CISO first gets an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of an organization’s security program.
Starting with a high-level risk assessment, your program and your analyst will get a chance to get to know each other. This initial meeting will set a baseline and help determine the full risk assessment level.
This time will be used to prepare you for your full risk assessment. We’ll assist you in activities such as reviewing patch management, coaching policies, putting together an asset management approach, or having weekly working sessions.
The assessment level determined in the onboarding assessment will be conducted here. With the help of our analyst, this assessment will determine administrative, physical, internal technical, and external technical risk.
A roadmap will be created, focusing on the activities to accomplish over the next 12-18 months, as well as setting ongoing meeting cadences that meet your organizations needs and capacity.
A virtual CISO is an assigned resource with experience building and improving information security programs. Starting with a risk assessment, a virtual CISO first gets an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of an organization’s security program. Based on the results, the virtual CISO then works with executive leadership teams to understand goals, budget, and bandwidth—allowing them to provide actionable recommendations, or a roadmap, based on the business’s goals and the risk assessment’s findings. With the roadmap in place, they work with the organization’s internal security team to train staff and make the recommended improvements, improving the ability of the organization to protect its sensitive information and increase its operational efficiencies. Over time, they simply become a sounding board for the organization’s staff to bounce questions and challenges off of.
CISO as a service is another name for virtual CISO consulting services. A provider assigns organizations a proven and certified information security professional to help organizations protect sensitive information and achieve related business goals along the way.
Virtual CISO services are meant to be flexible in order to meet the needs of each of our clients. Engagements typically follow a cycle of assess, plan, and remediate.
Whether you need high-level guidance on a monthly or quarterly basis or need hands-on help several days per week, our virtual CISO’s will be able to build a solution for you.
Typical objectives of virtual CISO engagements include:
Lower Cost Over Time
With virtual CISO you can drastically reduce your costs compared to having a full time CISO, while leveraging much broader experience of security professionals supporting as virtual CISO multiple organizations.
Extensive Industry Knowledge and Skill
Does your “security” person wear a ton of hats in the organization? It’s not uncommon for companies to assign security roles as a secondary function of an employee’s primary role. Because of this, they’re often not true experts.
Virtual CISOs, especially those at ArmadilCo, are highly skilled and certified experts with years of information security experience. A virtual CISO is going to be able to enhance the internal capabilities of your employees tasked with handling security through the techniques they’ve learned.
Limited Turnover
Let’s face it, the security job market is as competitive as ever. We have to worry about employees leaving anyway, but that only adds to it. With an ArmadilCo's virtual CISO, you equip your team with the expertise, methodologies, and resources to avoid losing a step—either as you work to hire a new CISO, or if you want our team to occupy that role.