vCISO
Your part-time cybersecurity leader.
Leadership
Cybersecurity leadership is not just about managing budgets and forecasting projects. Leadership is knowing what the right next step is for your company and conveying it with credibility. An InfoMason vCISO doesn’t just know the latest cybersecurity program strategies (they do). An InfoMason vCISO takes the time to understand your company’s needs, and start you down the path to a program that works for you.
Know The Terrain
An InfoMason vCISO knows what’s going on in the world outside of your organization, and can apply those lessons to your program. We keep a close watch on the latest threats. We know which national and state regulations impact your cybersecurity efforts. From data privacy to breach notification requirements, to the latest protection strategies – our knowledge is your knowledge.
Strategic Planning
What’s your 3-5 year plan? How does cybersecurity integrate with the 5-year IT strategy? How do security plans impact customers, operations teams and other stakeholders? Can cybersecurity readiness be leveraged as a marketing tool and differentiator? What are the key compliance concerns your company has to face in the near future? A vCISO is not just a hacker in a suit. A vCISO understands the intersection between strategic business planning and formulating cybersecurity roadmap that matches your business evolution.
Projects
While cybersecurity leadership is not just about managing budgets and forecasting projects, it requires those abilities too. Prioritizing next steps, creating project plans, estimating costs, resources and time, project delivery… an InfoMason vCISO has the experience to ensure that you’re always working on the most productive aspect of your cybersecurity program. Step by step, using business risk as our guiding star, we help you enumerate and fill the highest priority gaps first.
Advise the Board
A CISO, and therefore a vCISO, advises the board on a host of security related issues. They convey to the board security compliance and operational requirements of the organization, and get buy-in from them on the organizations strategic security objectives over 1, 2 and 5+ years. They communicate strategic objectives to executive staff and drive the action plan forward. They assess and communicate risk to the board and the executive – risk to delivery on objectives, as well as material risk to the company. In addition, they always come prepared with several solution proposals for every escalated problem.