Risk And compliance

Most businesses today understand how important it is to have a strong information security posture. But what many don't realize is that achieving and maintaining top-level security is a complex and ever-changing endeavor. A virtual CISO is an assigned resource with experience building and improving information security programs. Starting with a risk assessment, a vCISO first gets an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of an organization’s security program. Based on the results, the vCISO then works with executive leadership teams to understand goals, budget, and bandwidth allowing them to provide actionable recommendations, or a roadmap, based on the business’s goals and the risk assessment’s findings. With the roadmap in place, they work with the organization’s internal security team to train staff and make the recommended improvements, improving the ability of the organization to protect its sensitive information and increase its operational efficiencies. Over time, they simply become a sounding board for the organization’s staff to bounce questions and challenges off of.

Benefits:

• Lower Cost Over Time

 A typical vCISO engagement is between $35k and $250k annually and depending on your business’s size and needs. But, most of the work is preliminary, so the involvement (and therefore the cost) decreases over time.

• Extensive Industry Knowledge and Skill

 Does your “security” person wear a ton of hats in the organization? It’s not uncommon for companies to assign security roles as a secondary function of an employee’s primary role. Because of this, they’re often not true experts.

vCISOs, especially those at PulsesIT, are highly skilled and certified experts with years of information security experience. A virtual CISO is going to be able to enhance the internal capabilities of your employees tasked with handling security through the techniques they’ve learned.

• Limited Turnover

 Let’s face it, the security job market is as competitive as ever. We have to worry about employees leaving anyway, but that only adds to it. With a PulsesIT vCISO, you equip your team with the expertise, methodologies, and resources to avoid losing a step either as you work to hire a new CISO, or if you want our team to occupy that role.