vCISO (Virtual CISO) Services
We deliver NextGen vCISO (Virtual CISO), super-charged by AI + GPT
Virtual CISO (vCISO) services is a subscription-based service (i.e. part-time CISO/freelance CISO) that offers InfoSec/CyberSecurity mainly focus on strategy advisory for your organization. During our engagement, we work with customers to build and plan a customized security program and policy, that aligns with the organization’s business and security goals. Once the security goals are defined, our team assists customers in implementing them according to the planned roadmap. Our vCISO service aims to help organizations protect their information assets and operations from security risks including external threats and insider threats. Our dedicated vCISO personnel will also be the focal point regarding security concerns for your organization.
We understand your industries
Our security experts engaged with a wide range of organizations in different industries, and therefore understand both the business and security goals of customers from different industries. Our team members also understand the concerns and threat landscapes of different industries. As a result, these experiences empower our teams to deliver the services that are most suitable for your organization.
CIA triad is not equally weighted
Nowadays, most organizations also understand confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA triad) as fundamental to information security. From our experience, most of our customers weighted confidentiality higher than Integrity and availability. However, there are some exceptions such as Operation Technology (OT) industries, which may focus on availability more than confidentiality and Integrity. In other words, those organizations care about Ransomware attacks more than insecure protocols such as FTP. Our security experts certainly fully understand these concerns and will apply tailored security assessments for those organizations.
Legal and Regulation Compliance
Due to the global shortage of security professionals, the resources from an organization that can be allocated to legal and regulatory compliance are usually limited. Your organization should consider local regulations and also global regulations such as ISO-27001, GDPR, and PCI-DSS. It further puts a huge burden on the existing organizational structure. Some organizations may not be aware they need to comply with those legal and regulatory requirements until they are fined.
For instance, a Data Protection Officer(DPO) is required by GDPR, and violations of GDPR may lead to a fine of up to €10 million, or 2% of the firm’s worldwide annual revenue from the preceding financial year, whichever amount is higher. Therefore, the budget to engage our vCISO services is relatively small amounts. In addition, some countries have mandatory requirements for some organizations to have CISO in place but allow the CIO to act as the role of CISO. In this case, the acting CISO may not have the security expertise or resources to handle all security concerns.
Why are businesses moving to vCISO?

The threat landscape, high-impact vulnerability, and supply chain vulnerability have changed rapidly since COVID-19. Due to the increasing acceptance of Work-From-Home (WFH), more and more organizations are now open to remote workers including CISO. Information Security is most organizations’ concern, and also a mandatory requirement for some businesses. Due to the global shortage of InfoSec professionals, your organization may not have the right budget to employ a full-time CISO or not be able to find qualified personnel. Our group of talents and subject matter experts is capable of handling technology stack and security incident investigation, as well as communicating with CEO/Chairman, or working with public relations to prepare scripts during security incidents.
Organization’s Concern
According to PayScale statistics, the average annual salary of global CISOs is $165,000 US dollars, and it does not include other benefits. This may exceed your organization’s budget.
Our pricing model is based on your company size, company’s security needs, service scope, actual service delivery person-hours, attack surface, and risk levels. The price started from USD 32,000 per year. In addition, you can optionally consume more service hours from our teams at a reasonable charge.
Our vCISO services, as well as other CyberSecurity consultant services, are delivered by our worldwide virtual teams.
This virtual team consists of both security experts and subject matter experts from different roles and industries including information security manager, information system auditor, SOC manager, SOC analysts, Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) experts, ethical hackers, AppSec(Application Security) experts, Security Engineer, System Engineers, Network Engineers, and Cloud Engineers.
One of the challenges for customers in dealing with security service providers is NO dedicated personnel who understand the organization’s environment. Our dedicated vCISO personnel will also be the focal point regarding security concerns for your organization, and therefore can effectively handle security incidents or provide security advisory.
Typically, we work with organizations in the following situations:
– The organization does not consider a full-time CISO due to budget concern
– CIO acting as CISO
– The organization only has security staff reporting to the CIO.
– Organizations need dedicated certified InfoSec professionals to fulfill local and regulation compliance.
These customers need additional resources or consulting services to provide them with insights or build strategic plans for them to execute.
Comparison
Service | CyberSecThreat vCISO | Independent Consultant | CISO |
---|---|---|---|
Wide Industry knowledge | ✔️ | | ✔️ |
Subject Matter Experts for different domains | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ |
Strategic Planning | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Flexible Pricing Model | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ |
No additional Cost (e.g. Benefits/Training) | ✔️ | | ❌ |
Expert Consulting | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ |
Dynamic resources allocation | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ |
Legal and Regulation Compliance advisory | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Why work with us?
Global Expertise
Our vCISO services, and other CyberSecurity consultant services, are delivered by our worldwide virtual teams, which consist of both security experts and subject matter experts from different roles and industries including InfoSec manager, information system auditor, SOC manager & analysts, Digital Forensics, and Incident Response (DFIR) experts, pentester, AppSec(Application Security) experts, Security Engineers, System Engineers, Network Engineers, and Cloud Engineers.
Business Alignment
Our security team will utilize experience and tools to evaluate the effectiveness of security controls, and then determine security budget allocation. We can also make InfoSec’s budget more quantifiable by charging internal consumers. Our dedicated vCISO communicates with senior management in the same way CISO does, which addresses the most important concerns such as KPI, ROI, Metrics, and how much the organization earns because breaches are prevented.
Modern approach
Adversaries weaponize advanced techniques to bypass security controls, SOC detection, and machine learning. Our security experts continue to research those new techniques from the latest threat intelligence or experiences. Therefore, we combine our experiences, technology stack, traditional prevention approach, defense-in-depth approach, and assumed breach approach to protect your organization from security breaches and ransomware attacks.
Flexible Pricing Scheme
Our pricing model is based on your company size, company’s security needs, service scope, actual service delivery person-hours, attack surface, and risk levels. In addition, you can optionally consume more service hours from our different kinds of experts at a reasonable charge. Also, your organization does not need to pay for benefits and training fees.
Dedicated focal point
Our dedicated vCISO personnel will be the focal point for all security-related matters including but not limited to security incident response process and security consulting. You can also choose us to be the Data Protection Officer(DPO) required by GDPR. A dedicated vCISO will understand your environments and handle security issues effectively.
Flexible working models
Our team can assist customers in performing various activities including strategic planning, building security policy, procedures, standards, and guidelines, filling security questionnaires, ISO27001 pre-assessment or even recruiting security team or SOC (Security Operation Center) members, security devices configuration review, and more… …
Our vCISO engagement process
vCISO & organization’s senior management
The first week of engagement
Kick-off meeting
Our dedicated vCISO service lead will meet with your organization’s management team. This high-level kick-off meeting will enable our team to understand the business & security goals, current operation & workflows, security team structure, and current security controls as well as security challenges faced.
vCISO team & organization’s working team
4 weeks – 8 weeks
Information gathering
We will work with your team to gather detailed information about operation & workflows, and other technical details such as patch management, Active Directory policy, and configuration of security devices.
vCISO team
2 weeks – 4 weeks
Information Review
During this stage, our team will review the provided information and determine the risks from different aspects.
vCISO & organization’s senior management
1 week
Review meeting
Our dedicated vCISO will report all the determined risks to senior management in this meeting, and propose a plan with priority, approach, solutions, and roadmap to reduce those risks.
vCISO team & organization’s working team
12 – 18 months
Execution stage
An execution plan consisting of different tasks to be completed within 12-18 months will be established, as well as regular review meetings to keep track of the status and difficulties.
vCISO team organization team
After execution stage
Continuous refinement
Our security team will continuously review the risks based on the latest threat landscape, adopted technology, and changes.
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