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vCISO · SaaS

vCISO for SaaS

A vCISO gives your SaaS company a named security executive on questionnaires, audits, and board decks, without a full-time hire. We own the program so your team can build.

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From $2,500 CAD · per month See full pricing →

Why SaaS companies need vCISO

  • Enterprise customers want a named security owner on questionnaires and calls; a vCISO fills that role.
  • SaaS companies accumulate SOC 2, pentest, and vendor-risk obligations faster than they can staff for them.
  • A vCISO drives your security program end to end instead of leaving it as everyone's side project.
  • You get executive security leadership sized to your stage, not a premature full-time salary.

More context on this sector on our SaaS industry page.

What our vCISO engagement covers

Tailored to SaaS, delivered by a Toronto security and compliance team led by a published security researcher, with our offensive-security partner where offensive testing is involved.

  • Named security contact for customer questionnaires and reviews
  • Leadership of SOC 2 / ISO 27001 readiness
  • Ownership of your security program: policies, standards, and exceptions
  • Security-questionnaire, audit, and framework-readiness leadership
  • Third-party and vendor risk management
  • Board-, customer-, and regulator-facing security reporting

See the full vCISO service page, or productized pricing for fixed-scope engagements.

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vCISO for SaaS: common questions

What does a vCISO actually do?

Owns your security program: policies, controls, vendor risk, audits, incident leadership, and board and customer reporting, as a fractional executive.

When do we need a vCISO versus a full-time CISO?

A vCISO fits when you need executive security leadership but cannot justify a full-time hire, common from early stage through Series B. We scale the engagement as you grow.

Can a vCISO run our SOC 2?

Yes, leading framework readiness and audits is a core part of the role.

vCISO for SaaS, on your timeline

Book a free 30-minute discovery call. We will tell you whether this engagement fits, what it would cost, and when we could start.

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The same work, without the line item

Every readiness programme needs a control library, an evidence register, policies and a score for the board. Being quoted five figures a year for that is normal. Paying it is not.

traztech Workspace Other GRC platforms
Licence cost $0. Free forever, no card, no paid tier $7,500 to $50,000 a year, on an annual contract
Control library, evidence register, policy templates, risk register, vendor questionnaires, readiness scoring Included Included
What it costs inside an engagement with us $0. You need a workspace either way Unchanged. The subscription sits on top of the fee
What it does to your audit quote A documented readiness position the audit firm can scope and price against Nothing. The audit firm prices your readiness, not your tooling

Platform pricing is a publicly reported range, since none of them publish a number. The fuller comparison, including when a paid platform is the better buy, is on the Workspace page.

Track record

Who is actually doing the work

We would rather show you the work than a wall of logos. Here is what is behind the advice.

5
Published CVEs, including a CVSS 9.1
Zero
Exceptions on a SOC 2 Type II built from nothing in-house

Published vulnerability research

Five published CVEs. CVE-2024-45163 (CVSS 9.1) is a flaw in the Mirai botnet itself, which gave defenders a way to shut down attacker infrastructure. CVE-2026-42626 takes HP ENVY 5000 printers offline from any unauthenticated device on the same network.

The printer is the one that matters on a compliance page: an asset nobody counts as a computer, on a flat network, downed by a device that never had to log in. Auditors ask how controls fail. We have found out first-hand.

A SOC 2 Type II built from nothing

At Humera, a venture-backed US security company, Jacob built the compliance programme in-house from nothing: no report, no policies, no documented controls. It ended in a Type II attestation with zero exceptions.

The platform stayed in production throughout, which is the part most readiness projects get wrong: controls are easy to design and hard to retrofit onto a system people already depend on.

Recent engagements

For a Waterloo data centre operator we ran SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 together rather than one after the other, across a production campus, an AI compute platform and a self-hosted collaboration stack. Scoped so further Ontario and Quebec sites enter as they reach production. Findings delivered and remediated.

For an Ontario medtech company putting an AI clinical assistant in front of practitioners, we ran the gap analysis and built the evidence programme behind their SOC 2.