Executive-level security leadership focused on governance, risk management, and compliance strategy to align your security program with business objectives.
Startups and mid-market companies needing a strategic security leader to interface with board members, investors, or major enterprise clients.
Monthly advisory
$3,000/month
Final scope depends on system count, complexity, compliance target, and access readiness. Pricing is presented as a starting estimate, not a guaranteed quote.
Fractional CISO advisory is for startups and mid-market teams that need a security leader in the room for an enterprise contract, board conversation, audit, acquisition, or regulator inquiry but do not need a full-time executive hire.
It is also useful when security work is scattered across engineering, IT, compliance, and operations. The engagement creates a single decision rhythm for risk, governance, evidence, and communication while leaving day-to-day system ownership with the client.
The advisory begins by clarifying business objectives, critical systems, current commitments, and the decisions that cannot wait. From there, governance is made practical: policies have owners, risks have treatment decisions, and evidence requests have a responsible source.
Regular leadership conversations translate technical exposure into business choices. Board or investor updates can focus on material risks, progress, exceptions, and investment instead of a long list of disconnected controls. Customer and auditor conversations are supported with accurate scope and evidence boundaries.
The work may include security program roadmaps, incident-response planning, vendor-risk direction, compliance sequencing, security metrics, and coordination among technical owners. The emphasis is on a manageable operating system for security, not a binder of policies that no one uses.
Vyer.Net provides advisory leadership and implementation guidance. It does not become the legal signatory, independent auditor, 24/7 incident-response provider, or replacement for internal IT and engineering ownership.
The engagement is monthly advisory work with a defined operating cadence, priority list, and leadership touchpoints. The $3,000/month starting point is a planning estimate; final scope depends on system count, complexity, compliance target, and access readiness.
The engagement leaves leaders with clear decisions, an evidence trail, and a roadmap that internal owners can execute.
Executive security work becomes concrete through focused capabilities such as:
The published starting price for Fractional CISO advisory is $3,000/month. The final scope depends on system count, complexity, compliance target, access readiness, and the cadence of leadership and operating work required.
vCISO is a common market synonym for virtual or fractional CISO support. The practical question is the scope: this advisory provides part-time security leadership and governance without presenting it as a full-time internal executive role.
The advisory is structured as monthly work and can continue while the organization needs leadership capacity. Priorities and scope are reviewed as business commitments, systems, and internal ownership change.
A Fractional CISO can help organize readiness, evidence, control ownership, and responses, but cannot replace the independent auditor or issue a SOC 2 attestation. Final sign-off belongs to the authorized assessor and organization.
No. The role adds security leadership, prioritization, and decision support around the existing IT, engineering, compliance, and operations teams. Those teams keep operational ownership and receive guidance they can apply.
A start date follows a short scope and access conversation. Timing depends on availability, the urgency of the trigger, and whether the initial evidence and decision owners are ready to participate.