Virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO)

Leverage the benefits of highly experienced senior consultants to set, develop and operationalize your information and cybersecurity strategy.

The virtual CISO role embeds senior security leadership into an organization and brings the security lens to the organization’s vision. The role hits the ground running whether in a small to medium size business or in a large enterprise with existing security functions in place. As the role is that of an external advisor, an objective view is always presented.  

BSI possess expert capability in aiding organization’s in embedding security into their operations and culture. BSI’s approach to ensuring security resilience is to work extensively and collaboratively with existing teams, ensuring that security is approached in a meaningful way. The focus of this approach is to:

• Facilitate the delivery of business objectives
• Meet compliance obligations
• Enable secure ways of working, without stifling innovation and delivery 

• Lower financial barrier to gain access to experienced, fully-qualified advisors and additional security services, compared to hiring a full time CISO
• Objective feedback on current risks and security maturity
• Insight to the wider security landscape given experience in multiple industries and organizations
• Increased information security resilience and decreased likelihood of a successful attack

BSI works with our clients to find the right balance of resources required. Often, these are front-loaded across the first three phases into continuous blocks time which taper down as operational security functions mature. The senior CISO role focuses on monitoring KPIs and continuous improvement and adaption to the threat landscape.

Below represents a sample end to end vCISO engagement leveraging the BSI model.