Board-level security leadership without the full-time cost.
Your Virtual CISO owns your security strategy, manages your risk, leads your response to incidents, and gives your board a credible answer on cyber. Senior expertise, flexible engagement, a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire.
Everything a full-time CISO delivers, sized for your business.
Your vCISO is a senior security leader who works as part of your team, not a consultant who audits once and disappears. Every engagement links directly to the certifications and controls that win you business.
Security Strategy and Roadmap
A prioritised, costed security roadmap mapped to your business risk and your clients’ requirements. No jargon, no shelfware, just the controls that matter most first.
ISO 27001 and Certification Oversight
We own the certification programme end to end, from gap analysis to audit, so you achieve and keep ISO 27001, SOC 2, or Cyber Essentials without pulling your team off their day job.
Risk Management and Governance
A living risk register, clear ownership, and governance your board and auditors can see. We turn abstract cyber risk into decisions your leadership team can actually make.
Incident Response Leadership
When something goes wrong, your vCISO leads the response, coordinates your SOC, and keeps the board and regulators informed. Calm, senior direction when it counts most.
Security Awareness and Culture
Your people are your biggest attack surface. We build practical training and phishing simulation programmes that measurably reduce human risk across your business.
Board and Compliance Reporting
Clear, plain-English reporting that gives your board the security visibility they need and gives your clients the assurance they ask for. Monthly, and whenever it matters.
Operational in two weeks, reducing risk from day one.
Security Posture Review
We assess your current controls, policies, suppliers, and live risks. Stakeholder interviews establish business priorities and the certifications your clients demand.
Strategy and Quick Wins
A prioritised security roadmap agreed with your leadership team, with the highest-impact quick wins identified and actioned inside the first 30 days.
Ongoing Leadership and Governance
Continuous oversight of your risk register, certification programme, and incident readiness. Regular board attendance and monthly security reporting.
Review and Improve
Quarterly reviews to adapt to new threats and business changes, with an annual programme audit to keep certifications current and controls effective.
How we have helped Lancashire businesses.
SaaS Business Facing Enterprise Due Diligence
A Preston software company kept losing enterprise deals at the security-questionnaire stage. They had no one senior enough to own the answers or the roadmap behind them.
vCISO engaged in 2 weeks. ISO 27001 programme launched and two stalled enterprise deals unblocked within the first quarter.
Manufacturer After a Near-Miss
A Burnley manufacturer suffered a ransomware near-miss and the board demanded credible security leadership without the cost of a permanent CISO.
Risk register and incident plan in place within 30 days. Cyber insurance premium reduced at the next renewal on the strength of demonstrable controls.
Professional Services Firm Scaling Up
A Blackburn accountancy firm handling sensitive client data needed board-level security oversight to satisfy its own clients and regulators.
Cyber Essentials Plus achieved, staff training rolled out, and a clear security story the firm now uses to win work.
Get senior security leadership working for your business today.
Book a free introductory call with one of our senior security consultants. We will assess your current posture and explain exactly how a vCISO engagement would work for your business.