ValueMentor’s vCISO service helps customers with effective advisory strategies and controls, building an upright cyber security posture.
A Virtual CISO is an outsourced security practitioner who offers their time and insight to an organization on an ongoing basis, to help design or manage organization’s security strategy. The Virtual CISO (vCISO) service from ValueMentor is a subscription-based security management offering geared towards helping smaller to mid-sized companies that would prefer to partner with a specialist information security firm to perform some or all CISO functions.
Virtual CISO Program
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Goal of Virtual CISO Service
Guide Customer through annual security vision, mission, roadmap, planning, and management
- Defining security strategy and goals
- Determining the level of acceptable risk
- Defining and implementing security and compliance governance
- Coordinating compliance activities and communicating with regulatory groups
- Help define security budgets and most appropriate security solutions
- Help define Security policies & processes
- Review current internal security controls
- Be a readily available expert security resource saving you time and money
- Attend monthly or quarterly executive meetings and board meetings
- Provide other advisory input as required
Small to mid-sized organizations are required to adhere to a wide range of legal, regulatory, and contractual security requirements; however, for several reasons (such as high costs, limited availability of qualified resources) they find it difficult to keep it up. Most of these organizations have staff who can manage technology products but remain challenged when it comes to addressing their long-term or strategic security needs. Hiring a full-time staff at an executive level can be a very expensive matter as well. Chances are you don’t really need a full-time resource though; all you really need is a trusted advisor who can provide security leadership and guidance ‘on demand’ and help with the ‘heavy lifting’ when necessary.
VCISO – Advisory Role
Some of the advisory roles the customer can utilize the vCISO includes the following:
- Manage the Information Security Management Program for the customer
- Provide strategic leadership on information assurance, governance and information risk management
- Act as the trusted advisory on information security and data privacy
- Provide advisory to address existing and evolving security threats
- Help identify, assess and select cost efficient technologies
VCISO – Managerial Role
Some of the managerial roles the customer can utilize the vCISO includes the following:
- Delivering security awareness programs for Sr. Management / Board of Directors
- Overseeing the Security Awareness Training program
- Overseeing the security assessments and associated risk mitigations
- Fine tuning the security plans such as incident response
- Overseeing the Internal / external security team associated with the customer
- Overseeing the vendor risk management programs
VCISO – Operational Role
Some of the operational roles the customer can utilize the vCISO includes the following:
- Participation and leadership in meetings, committees and interaction with board meetings, and other senior executives
- Creation, review and optimization of Information security framework, policies, procedures and processes.
- Perform annual maturity assessments of the information security posture of the organization
- Design / Review and update security architecture, design and assurance frameworks to address the existing and evolving security threats
- Representation of the client in regulatory queries / 3rd party audits
- Operate the incident response plan during an emergency / cyber crisis
