Fractional CISO-as-a-Service
Executive-level security leadership, scaled to your needs
Why This Matters
Are you losing deals because of security questionnaires? Getting stuck in the supply chain due to compliance gaps? Or simply unsure if your product and team are truly security-ready?
As a startup, scale-up, or SME, you don’t need to live with that uncertainty. Security should enable growth, not block it. With Fractional CISO-as-a-Service, you get senior-level cybersecurity leadership tailored to your budget, operations, and niche, so you can keep scaling confidently.
You’ll have an experienced CISO on your side, guiding your strategy, answering client demands, and mentoring your team, for just a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire.
Services
- Leadership & Representation: Join executive and board-level calls, translate security/compliance risks into business terms, and act as the face of security with investors, clients, and partners.
- Sales Enablement: Handle vendor security questionnaires, respond to client audits, and accelerate deals by providing credible, authoritative answers.
- Quarterly Security Reviews: Run structured assessments of posture, identify gaps, and translate them into a pragmatic roadmap leadership can track.
- Compliance Readiness: Prepare for frameworks and certifications that matter most: ISO 27001 (SaaS), SOC 2 Type 2 (enterprise trust), PCI-DSS (fintech), HIPAA (medtech), CMMC (DoD contracts), and NIST CSF 2.0 for risk alignment.
- Ongoing Advisory: Flexible 4–8h/month retainer, with optional scale-up for urgent projects or incidents.
- Team Mentoring: Teach internal staff to integrate security operations, cultivate security champions, and empower your team to be proactive. I step in for authoritative, complex matters.
Deliverables & Tangibles
- Security strategy document & quarterly roadmap updates
- Standardized vendor questionnaire templates & response library
- Executive dashboards tracking KPIs, risks, and maturity progress
- On-call crisis support for incident handling & escalations
- Mentoring playbooks to sustain security culture internally
Why Choose This Over a Full-Time CISO?
- Cost-effective: Fraction of a $150k–250k annual salary, pay for ~8 hours per month or per value delivered.
- Flexible: Scale support up or down as your business grows.
- Immediate credibility: Board-ready reports and proven methodologies.
- Specialized experience: IIoT, fintech, and medtech, industries with heightened compliance, supply chain, and safety stakes.
Get Started
With this model, you get executive-level security leadership on call, without the overhead.
Reach out directly:
marius@keibisoft.com