Get senior cybersecurity leadership without hiring a full-time CISO

We don’t just provide tools; we provide integrated advisory and technical leadership. By combining our ISO/IEC 27001 certified expertise with an AI-powered Virtual CISO platform, we bridge the gap between complex IT security and business strategy. Our goal is measurable risk reduction: the risks that matter most identified, prioritised, assigned to a named owner and tracked to a date — while your business stays agile and compliant.

A Virtual CISO provides the strategic leadership of a high-level Chief Information Security Officer without the cost of a full-time executive hire. This service is ideal for organizations that need to build a security roadmap, manage risk, and ensure regulatory compliance but prefer a flexible, expert-led model.

We offer an end-to-end compliance journey. This includes an initial gap analysis to identify weaknesses, the implementation of required technical controls (like MFA, encryption, and incident response frameworks), and ongoing monitoring to meet strict EU reporting timelines. We turn compliance from a legal burden into a competitive advantage.

Neither on its own. The engagement is staffed by a team — a lead vCISO, an information security officer, an audit-readiness consultant and a technical expert — so the service does not depend on one person’s calendar, and leave or illness does not stop it. Between them the team holds ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor, NIS2 auditor, ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Auditor, CISA and CISM certifications. The platform runs underneath for the whole term and is included in the fee: it is where your security posture, your compliance status and your open tasks live, not a separate licence you buy.

Above them, not in place of them. We take the security leadership role, and where a framework or the law requires a named information security officer, that role too, including contact with the supervisory authority. Your IT team and your providers keep doing the technical work; we review the controls, specify what has to change, and track it to completion. An outsourced provider is not a blind spot in this model — it becomes a supplier risk we assess, evidenced through their contracts and their own reporting. Statutory accountability stays with your leadership; our work is to prepare those decisions properly.

We do the governance work ourselves, and we do not touch your systems. Writing and updating policies, procedures, system security plans and registers, building the evidence store, running the internal mock audit and the corrective action plan, preparing people for audit interviews, dealing with the authority — that is our work, not a list we hand you. Changing a firewall rule, rolling out MFA or rebuilding a backup schedule stays with your IT team or your provider: we specify it, sequence it, and chase it until it is done. Penetration testing is not part of the fee, though arranging one is.

Platform access is provisioned within about a week of signature, and the kick-off meeting happens in the same week. Inside the first 30 days the named officer is designated and registered where that applies, and the scope is settled and approved by management — which systems are in, and where the boundaries run — with the gap analysis already under way. After that the rhythm is weekly: a short status call on open tasks and blockers, driven off the platform’s task list. Monthly you get a management report on progress against milestones, open risks, and the decisions we need from you. Quarterly we re-review the action plan, the risk register and the supplier assessments; annually, the posture assessment and the training plan. Where a named officer is required on site, that visit happens and is documented every two to three months. Across the year the split runs about 20% on site, 80% remote.

You can start smaller. We run fixed-scope security projects and paid one-off assessments as well as the continuous engagement, and an assessment is a reasonable way to see how we work before committing to anything. We prefer the continuous model because security leadership is not a task that finishes, and the continuous engagement runs on a twelve-month minimum term: a programme dismantled after a quarter leaves you with documents rather than a practice.

A fixed monthly fee, agreed before we start, with no hourly rate and no reconciliation at the end of the month — and the platform inside it. What sets the level is the scope fixed at signature: how many information systems are in, and how they are classified. Where there is an audit deadline the fee is two-stage, higher through the preparation months and lower through the operational months that follow. The fixed fee holds under a fair-use principle: if what you actually need persistently and materially exceeds the scope we agreed, we re-open scope and fee together rather than sending you a larger invoice. Outside the fee: the technical remediation itself and anything it requires you to buy, penetration testing, travel to remote sites, and the audit fee, which you pay the auditor directly.