Executive security leadership, without the six-figure hire.
A fractional CISO who sits in your leadership meetings, translates cyber risk into business terms, and owns the compliance program — anchored by a full team of practitioners who do the work behind the strategy.
Security leadership shouldn't wait for a full-time hire.
A dedicated CISO is a $350K+ annual commitment before benefits, tooling, and the team beneath them. A vCISO gives you the same seat at the table — strategic oversight, board-ready reporting, compliance ownership — sized to what your business actually needs today.
Not just an advisor. Not just an auditor. All three.
A solo advisor consults on strategy but stops at the whiteboard. A compliance shop ships a report and moves on. A Convene vCISO does all three at once.
Executive presence
Joins leadership meetings, translates risk into business terms your board understands, and owns the annual security narrative — no cyber fluency required from you.
Compliance discipline
NIST 800-171, ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS — whichever apply, built to sustain, not just pass an audit and slide back to reactive.
Operational depth
Behind the CISO sits a full team — identity engineers, cloud security architects, incident responders. Strategy that ships, not strategy that stalls.
Nobody arrives at “we need a CISO” on their own.
Usually a contract, an insurance renewal, a regulator, or an incident forces it — and by then the calendar is unforgiving. A vCISO fills the gap without the twelve-month executive search.
Which one is happening to you?
Customer security questionnaires
200-question reviews on every enterprise deal. No owner → inconsistent answers, stalled sales, deals that slip a quarter.
Cyber insurance renewal
Carriers now demand documented controls, MFA everywhere, tested incident-response. Miss one and premiums double — or coverage disappears.
Regulatory pressure
SEC cyber-disclosure, state privacy laws, sector rules. Without someone tracking the landscape, exposure quietly compounds.
The board asks hard questions
“How are we protected? What’s our risk? Are we insured?” — and no one at the table has the credible answer.
Post-incident cleanup
Something happened. The board wants it to never happen again. A vCISO leads remediation and stays through the next audit.
M&A due diligence
Buying or being bought, cyber diligence is table-stakes. Gaps lower valuations — a vCISO closes them ahead of the review.
Five layers of protection, working together.
Good security isn't one tool or one setting. It's layers — each one catching what the layer before it missed. Tap any layer to see what it protects, in plain terms.
The controls closest to your people — laptops, phones, and the software they rely on. Attackers test these most, so they get the most attention.
Strategy that ships. Backed by a team that builds.
Most vCISO offerings stop at advisory. We bring the operational depth — so the strategy your vCISO writes actually gets executed.
Same person, every meeting
Not a rotating consultant. The same named executive across leadership meetings, board reviews, and audit sessions — continuity your regulators can verify.
Framework-mapped from day one
Every control maps to the framework that requires it (NIST CSF, ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS). No redundant work, no orphaned controls, no wasted spend.
Practitioners behind the seat
Cloud security architects, identity engineers, GRC analysts, incident responders. The vCISO owns the strategy; the team executes it — so nothing dies on the whiteboard.
Board-ready reporting
A quarterly risk register, executive dashboards, and an annual narrative your board can defend to auditors, insurers, and investors. Measurable, defensible — no theater.
Three ways to engage — match one to your moment.
Assessment-first when you need a starting point. Fractional when you need executive presence but not a full-time hire. Interim when you need to bridge to a permanent CISO without losing momentum.
Security Assessment
Where you actually standA focused readiness assessment against your target framework (NIST CSF, ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS). Gap analysis, prioritized roadmap, and a defensible baseline — whether you build the program with us or in-house.
Fractional vCISO
Executive presence, part-time cadenceTwo to four days per month of executive-level security oversight, plus the practitioner team behind them. Best when you need a CISO seat at the table but the business doesn't yet warrant a full-time hire.
Interim CISO
Bridge to a permanent hireFull-time-equivalent executive coverage during a search, a transition, or a post-incident rebuild. We stay through the runway and hand off to your permanent CISO with a documented program intact.
Bring a CISO to the table — before the auditor does.
Schedule a free comprehensive consultation. We'll walk through your current framework alignment, upcoming compliance obligations, and where a vCISO would create the most immediate leverage in your program.