Practitioner-led virtual CISO services for teams that need senior security leadership without the full-time hire.Virtual CISO services from a practitioner-led firm. Compliance readiness, penetration testing, and embedded security leadership for SMBs, growth-stage startups, and established teams that need senior firepower without the long hiring cycle.
Practitioner-led.
CISSP · OSCP · CREST
Pittsburgh-based.
Clients nationwide.
Framework-agnostic.
SOC 2 · ISO 27001
Month-to-month.
Cancel anytime.
The depth depends on the engagement level and agreed scope, but the first month follows a consistent sequence: understand the business, examine the technology, prioritize the work, and establish an accountable operating cadence.
We map business commitments, critical systems, data flows, access paths, owners, and deadlines. The engagement starts with the reality of how your company operates—not a generic control checklist.
We review architecture, identity, cloud configuration, control evidence, and exposed attack paths. Technical validation is planned around material risk and the scope we agree together.
Findings become an owned, sequenced plan—not a static assessment deck. Each priority has a risk rationale, accountable owner, target window, and agreed approach to technical validation.
Leadership gets the decisions, accepted risks, metrics, and next 60–90 days in plain language. We establish the working sessions, reporting rhythm, and escalation path that keep the program moving.
Compliance work and offensive testing are usually two firms with two contracts. We run both inside one engagement, so the controls we implement reflect what an attacker would actually try.
SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, CMMC, NIST CSF. We run all of them. Most engagements start with SOC 2; frameworks stack cleanly when customer contracts require more.
Technical validation tied to the engagement roadmap. Continuous attack surface monitoring when in scope. Findings get prioritized by exploitability, not by CVSS severity rating.
Security programs are continuous, not one-off. The ownership level changes by engagement, and the scope shifts as your program matures, but the working areas below stay connected. It is the full scope of our virtual CISO services, whether you call it a vCISO or a fractional CISO.
See all servicesReal policies that match how your team actually operates. Quarterly access reviews with signed attestations from each system owner.
Vendor inventory, tiering, and ongoing risk monitoring. Customer security questionnaires answered. Trust center kept current.
Auditor walkthroughs, control design defense, evidence curated across the audit window. We sit the meetings with you, not hand off a binder.
Continuous scanning that catches net-new exposures between pentests. Recurring authenticated scans on internal infra.
MDM and endpoint hardening. Identity provider audit, SSO and MFA enforcement, privileged access reviews.
Runbooks for the most likely scenarios. Annual tabletop with engineering and leadership.
Threat-informed 12-month roadmap. Board-grade briefings on cadence. Updates evolve with the program.
Choose the level of ownership your team needs. Every option is senior-led and month to month, from strategic guidance to hands-on security leadership. See the full vCISO cost guide for where these rates sit in the wider market.
Save 15% with annual billing
Your team executes. We guide.
We manage the program.
We embed and execute.
Monthly billing remains month to month. Annual billing is one prepaid invoice with a 15% discount; cancel with 30 days notice and the unused prepaid balance is refunded on a prorated basis. Final scope depends on your environment, frameworks, and response expectations.
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If vCISO.com is not a fit, we will say so and point you toward someone who is. If we are, we will identify the right ownership level and scope the engagement on the call.