Fractional / Virtual CISO
Ongoing security leadership. We own the program, sit in the meetings, and answer to the board — at a fraction of a full-time hire.
Cybersecurity Strategy & Advisory
Your security leader,
without the full-time overhead.
A fractional CISO who knows your environment, your people, and your risk profile — not a rotating cast of consultants reading from a playbook. Strategy when you need direction, and hands-on program work when you need it built.
What the engagement covers
A security leader on the org chart — fractionally.
Mid-market healthcare can't justify a $250K CISO salary, but can't afford to go without one. This is the whole role, sized to your reality.
Strategy & multi-year roadmap
Where the program is, where it needs to be, and the sequenced, budgeted plan to close the gap.
Security architecture review
Design and review of your environment against real threat models — not a generic checklist.
Risk assessment & register
Threat modeling and a living risk register tied to business impact, not a spreadsheet that rots after the audit.
Incident response planning
IR plans, tabletop coordination, and a steady hand when something actually happens.
Board & executive briefings
Security translated into risk and dollars for the people who fund it.
Regulatory compliance advisory
HIPAA, SOC 2, and PCI DSS guidance from someone who has sat on both sides of the audit.
M&A & third-party due diligence
Security diligence for acquisitions and for the vendors you are about to trust with PHI.
Cloud & transformation security
Azure and AWS security advisory as you modernize — guardrails set before, not after.
Tool evaluation & selection
Independent tooling recommendations scoped to your actual needs. No reseller markup, ever.
Program development
Build the program, not just the policy.
Most organizations don't need more policies — they need the right controls implemented and evidenced. A control nobody follows isn't a control; it's a liability with a signature.
Policies you can prove
Short, accurate policies that describe what you actually do — so the auditor checks evidence instead of reading fiction.
Framework alignment & gap analysis
NIST CSF 2.0, HIPAA Security Rule, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 mapped to the controls you already run, with the gaps ranked by risk.
Evidence & audit preparation
Evidence collected as the work happens and mapped to controls, so audit prep is a review, not a fire drill.
Secure development lifecycle
An SDL that catches issues in the IDE and the pull request, with SAST and SCA gates wired into CI/CD so vulnerable code cannot merge unnoticed.
Vendor risk program
A repeatable third-party review process — tiering, questionnaires, BAAs, and a review cadence — sized to your vendor list.
Security awareness program
Training your team will actually finish, with completion evidence your auditor will accept.
See the trainingWhy this model
A named leader, not a rotating cast.
The difference between advice you can act on and a report that sits in a drawer is knowing who owns the outcome.
Named human accountability
One owner
One person owns your security outcomes — not a rotating cast of analysts reading from a playbook. You always know who has your program.
Healthcare specialization
PHI-native
HIPAA, OASIS, and clinical-workflow context baked in. PHI-adjacent risk is the default lens, not an afterthought bolted onto a generic template.
Board-to-firewall range
Strategy + hands-on
CISSP plus a hands-on engineering background. Can brief your board in the morning and troubleshoot the firewall that same afternoon.
No reseller markup
Independent advice
Tooling recommendations are independent. We don't take a cut on what we tell you to buy — so the advice is about your risk, not our margin.
Credentials & framework fluency
One named, accountable security leader — CISSP-certified, healthcare-focused, and fluent in the frameworks your auditors and your board actually care about.
- CISSP (ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional
- CC (ISC)² Certified in Cybersecurity
- MSCIA WGU M.S. Cybersecurity & Information Assurance — candidate
- RITx Cybersecurity MicroMasters — risk, network security, forensics
Framework expertise
- NIST CSF 2.0
- HIPAA Security Rule
- SOC 2 TSC
- ISO 27001
- CIS Controls
- OWASP ASVS 4.0
- CWE Top 25
Get started
Start with a conversation, not a contract.
Tell us where the program is today and what's keeping you up at night. We'll come back with an honest read and a sequenced plan — whether or not it ends with us.
Book a strategy call