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Read the blog →A vCISO, or virtual or fractional Chief Information Security Officer, is an experienced security executive who runs your security program on a part-time or contract basis instead of as a full-time hire. The vCISO owns policies, controls, risk decisions, audits, and board reporting. It gives a company executive security leadership without a six-figure salary.
A vCISO is the named person on customer security questionnaires, in regulator correspondence, and in the board deck. That accountability is often the actual deliverable buyers and auditors care about.
The model fits companies that have outgrown ad hoc security but cannot justify a full-time CISO yet. The vCISO sets the program direction and cadence, then hands day-to-day execution to internal staff or specialist partners.
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A vCISO usually enters at one of three moments: an enterprise deal has stalled on security questions, an investor has asked who owns security, or an incident has made the absence of an owner obvious.
The work in the first ninety days is rarely technical. It is establishing what you actually have, deciding what the next two quarters should cover, and putting a name against every control so that things run on a schedule rather than when somebody remembers.
A consultant delivers a piece of work and leaves. A vCISO holds the role: they are accountable for the programme, attend the buyer calls, own the roadmap and answer for it over time.
For most companies below a hundred people, a few days a month is enough to hold the programme together, with more during an audit or after an incident.