Virtual Chief Information Officer (vCISO)

A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is a senior level executive responsible for the Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability (CIA) of the organizations intellectual property and technology assets amongst others. Our virtual CISO (vCISO) provide the leadership and guidance necessary to develop and deploy an information security programme, manage the increasing risks and threats and protect your organization's data whether it is a small to medium size business or a large enterprise with existing security functions in place. As an external advisor to your organization, our vCISO provides objective feedback at all time.   

How can your organization benefit from a vCISO?

• 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

With over 20 years’ experience, Stephen O’Boyle, Global Practice Director for Cyber, Risk and Advisory at BSI Consulting Services, leads the team specializing in information management, data governance, privacy, and compliance services.

BSI possess expert capability in aiding organizations 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

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.