Virtual CSO Services

The Virtual Chief Security Officer (vCSO) service provides an organization with an expert resource in security without the fixed cost of adding an executive. This expert will work to understand the business, the assets that need to be protected, and  budgetary/business constraints. The vCSO provides the company with long-term security strategy and leadership. The vCSO provides the customer with a dedicated security professional, able to address security issues by balancing technology and business needs together.

This service is a fixed block of time partnership providing the organization with an industry security leader and visionary who can develop effective security policies and strategies while staying in sync with the needs and objectives of the executive team and board of directors.

Through this project, the client will receive:

• A dedicated CSO for you and your stakeholders
• A professional director of security strategy and risk, linked with the client’s organizational objectives
• A vCSO well-versed in all areas of security available to provide industry best practices
• An independent third party to provide direction and strategy for all of the IT security Decisions
• Cost-effective and affordable pricing mechanism that truly scales with your business evaluation on current Policy, Procedure, Process and Technology within the environment.

The vCSO service can include:

• Development of a security roadmap that meets the business needs; ensuring that security projects are approved, booked, and staffed
• Performing Security Awareness Training
• Ownership, approval, and update and development of the client’s security policies & procedures as necessary
• Provide developers with technical security training on how to develop & test applications securely
• Enforce security best practices
• Serve as a liaison to auditors (PCI, SOX, and customer-requested audits)
• Review scan & vulnerability reports, assist with prioritizing the issues, and track their resolution
• Work with business teams to come up with solutions for high-risk security areas
• Regularly review the overall security status of the client
• Identify the biggest security risks and communicate those to top levels of management
• Serve as a dotted line manager for Operations security team