Executive security leadership on demand, a senior CISO who owns your strategy, roadmap, and risk decisions without the cost of a full-time hire.
Virtual CISO (vCISO)
Executive security leadership on demand, a senior CISO who owns your strategy, roadmap, and risk decisions without the cost of a full-time hire.
CyberX One’s Virtual CISO service embeds an experienced security executive in your organization on a fractional basis. Over a typical two-to-three-year horizon we baseline your current posture, build a prioritized cybersecurity roadmap, and drive the initiatives that move you from reactive to resilient, reporting to your leadership or board throughout.
Objectives
- Establish a clear baseline of your current security posture through a structured maturity assessment.
- Build a two-to-three-year cybersecurity roadmap and operating plan with short- and long-term goals, owners, timelines, and budget.
- Secure leadership and board buy-in for security investment with business-aligned cases and KPIs.
- Stand up and maintain a living cybersecurity risk register, driving remediation to acceptable levels.
- Advise on the evolving threat landscape and framework-aligned protection of your critical assets.
Outcomes & benefits
- Business alignment: security initiatives mapped directly to your organizational strategy.
- Risk management: clear criteria and consistent risk reporting to senior leadership.
- Governance: an annual documentation cycle, a security committee, and defined roles.
- Measurable maturity: posture improvement tracked through meaningful KPIs.
- Compliance: initiatives that stay aligned to the frameworks and regulations you answer to.
Scope of service
- Lead security projects and execute against the roadmap.
- Chair or support a cybersecurity governance committee.
- Own the risk register and remediation tracking.
- Provide third-party and vendor risk oversight.
- Deliver board and executive reporting with a live KPI dashboard.
- Guide policy and framework adoption across the organization.
Our process
1. Baseline: Assess current maturity, controls, and risks to set an honest starting point.
2. Roadmap: Build the multi-year plan, goals, owners, timelines, and budget cases.
3. Execute & govern: Drive initiatives, chair governance, and keep the risk register current.
4. Report & adjust: Report KPIs to leadership and adapt the roadmap as threats evolve.
What you receive
- Security maturity baseline report
- Multi-year cybersecurity roadmap and operating plan
- Living cybersecurity risk register
- Executive / board reporting pack and KPI dashboard
- Ongoing advisory access between reporting cycles
Engagement at a glance
| TYPICAL DURATION | LED BY | SERVICE TYPE |
|---|---|---|
| Ongoing retainer | CISM / CISA-certified vCISO | Advisory retainer |
| NIST CSF | ISO 27001 | CIS Controls | ISACA CMMI |
