Virtual CISO Service
With virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) services from FortaTech, you retain executive level leadership and expertise to ensure your technology, operations and controls are aligned with your businesses risk tolerances and empowering your businesses mission. This technology and security leadership is supported by a portfolio of cybersecurity experts to ensure full visibility to business risk and a clear roadmap to adopt security controls.
REQUEST A CONSULTATIONKey Benefits of our CISO-as-a-Service
Using the FortaTech Virtual CISO service allows companies to leverage extensive industry knowledge, gaining access to a pool of highly skilled cybersecurity advisors, consultants and practitioners without needing to incur high costs and long timeframe going through a traditional hiring process. Below are the eight cyberseciurity programs that clients choose most commonly to be a part of their virtual CISO package.
CYBERSECURITY TRANSFORMATION AND STRATEGY
Our vCISO’s will learn the company culture, mission, and risk tolerance, then work with technologists and stakeholders to establish and evangelize a cybersecurity transformation plan, functional strategies, technology roadmaps and budgetary requirements.
TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURE
As companies grow, we see they often end up with a jumble of technologies that fail to integrate effectively or incur greater costs than are needed. The FortaTech virtual CISO service will review your overall technology architecture and business needs, then work with stakeholders to transform the IT architecture into a contemporary, resilient and cost-effective architecture.
CYBERSECURITY POLICY
Whether your company needs updates to outdated or ineffective policies or an entire rewrite of policy to comply with contemporary standards like NIST or ISO, the FortaTech vCISO team can lead the effort in determining “best practice” and aligning policy to company expectations.
CYBERSECURITY STANDARDS
The establishment of technology policy can also be paired with an assessment of business processes and technology to ensure appropriate standards are in place to minimize cybersecurity risk and ensure technology empowers the company’s mission and strategic objectives.
VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT
Many organizations are blind to the hundreds or thousands of vulnerabilities within their technology, business processes and workforce. Even with software tools to catalog the vulnerabilities, many companies lack the expertise and resources to prioritize remediation and establish programs to eliminate these vulnerabilities in a systematic and efficient manner. The vCISO team can establish a highly effective and efficient vulnerability management program or manage existing vulnerability management workflows that your business doesn’t have resourced.
IT INCIDENT MANAGEMENT AND INCIDENT RESPONSE
IT incident management and incident response programs are often a highly visible weakness within cybersecurity programs. The team at FortaTech is experienced in understanding current business requirements and organizational structures to make recommendations and facilitate the transformation of IT incident management and incident response to meet best practices and established industry standards such as ITIL.
CERTIFICATION
If your business is interested in certifying your technology or cybersecurity program with major industry standards, the “CISO as a Service” advisors at FortaTech can assist by leading the assessment or supplementing with knowledgeable and experienced experts. Certification to these standards is often expected within certain industries and often helps reduce not only cyber risk but also save on cyber insurance costs. Common standards we assess include HITRUST, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST 800-171, HIPAA and PCI-DSS.
AUDIT PREPARATION AND DEFENSE
Many cybersecurity or IT programs lack expertise in security control requirements from internal and external audit entities, and as a result, are often blindsided by embarrassing audit findings or cyber incidents. Our Virtual CISO team helps to proactively identify IT audit control gaps or works with audit teams to remediate current issues by identifying appropriate compensating controls and trusted best practices within your industry and amongst your peers.
Frequently Asked Questions
WHAT IS THE COST FOR A VIRTUAL CISO?
Our VCISO engagements are tailored to the specific needs of your business. Services often range between $30k and $500k per year depending on the scope and scale of services needed such as after-hours support, regular board reporting and operational technology maintenance.
WHAT IS A VIRTUAL CISO (VCISO)?
A virtual CISO or virtual ISO provides information security strategic leadership and strategy to an organization. The Fortatech team can serve as the entire cybersecurity team, or frequently works to supplement existing IT or security roles in areas needed most by the business.
WHY DO CLIENTS CHOOSE FORTATECH?
The experienced VCISO team at FortaTech is able to quickly elevate your cybersecurity program maturity and effectiveness. We aren’t a reseller or 3rd party security products, so you can rest easy that our guidnace is trustworthy and impartial. Certifications held include CISSP, CISA, CEH, MCSE, Security , CSIS, DCCA and Microsoft Azure Architect Experts.
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