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vCISO / vDPO

Senior security and privacy leadership — without the seven-figure hire.

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OVERVIEW

What this engagement covers

Practising CISOs and DPOs embedded with your leadership team on a monthly retainer. We own board reporting, strategy, regulator engagement, incident response leadership and day-to-day security / privacy decisions — with named backup so cover never lapses.

WHO IT'S FOR
  • Scale-ups needing executive security leadership before a full-time hire is justified
  • Regulated entities with a mandatory DPO / CISO role
  • Boards wanting an independent voice reporting into the audit committee
DELIVERABLES

What you receive

  • Named vCISO / vDPO with agreed monthly hours
  • Quarterly board / audit-committee reporting pack
  • Incident response leadership and post-incident review
  • Regulator and client-security-questionnaire representation
  • Named backup practitioner for continuity
OUTCOMES

What changes for your organisation

  • Executive-level security & privacy accountability from month one
  • Independent, defensible voice for the board
  • Continuity across leave, incidents and organisational change
FREQUENTLY ASKED

Questions clients ask before engaging

How is a vCISO different from a consultant?
A consultant delivers a project. A vCISO holds the role — accountable to the board, on-call for incidents, and named in your regulatory filings where required.
Can the vCISO also be our DPO?
Only where the roles are compatible under the applicable regulation. In most cases we assign separate named vCISO and vDPO practitioners to preserve independence.
OTHER SERVICES

Often combined with this engagement

Service 01

Standards Advisory

Interpretation across ISO, NIST, COBIT, SOC 2.

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Service 02

Gap Assessment

Baseline your posture against any framework.

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Service 03

Implementation

Stand up controls, evidence and workflow.

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Scope a vciso / vdpo engagement.

Tell us your target standards, timelines and regions — we'll come back with a fixed-scope proposal within two business days.

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