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VCISO (VIRTUAL CISO) SERVICES

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Virtual CISO (vCISO) services is a subscription based service (i.e. part-time CISO/freelance CISO) that offers InfoSec/CyberSecurity mainly focus on strategy advisory for your organization. During our engagement, we work with customers to build and plan a customized security program and policy, that aligned with the organization’s business and security goals. Once the security goals are defined, our team assists customers to implement them according to the planned roadmap. Basically, our vCISO service aimed to help organizations to protect their information assets and operation from security risks including external threats and insider threats. Our dedicated vCISO personnel will also be the focal point regarding security concerns for your organization.

We understand your industries

Our security experts engaged with a wide range of organizations in different industries, and therefore understand both business and security goals of customers from different industries. Our team members also understand the concerns and threat landscapes of different industries. As a result, these experiences empower our teams to deliver the services which are most suitable for your organization.

CIA triad is not equally weighted

Nowadays, most organizations also understand confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA triad) as fundamental to information security. From our experience, most of our customers weighted confidentiality higher than Integrity and availability. However, there are some exceptions such as Operation Technology (OT) industries, which may focus on availability more than confidentiality and Integrity. In other words, those organizations care about Ransomware attacks more than insecure protocols such as FTP. Our security experts certainly fully understand these concerns and will apply tailored security assessments for those organizations.

Legal and Regulation Compliance

Due to the global shortage of security professionals, the resources from an organization that can be allocated to legal and regulatory compliance are usually limited. Your organization should consider local regulations and also global regulations such as ISO-27001, GDPR, PCI-DSS. It further makes a huge burden on the existing organizational structure. Some organizations may not aware they need to comply with those legal and regulatory requirements until they are fined.

For instance, Data Protection Officer(DPO) is required by GDPR, and violations of GDPR may lead to a fine of up to €10 million, or 2% of the firm’s worldwide annual revenue from the preceding financial year, whichever amount is higher. Therefore, the budget to engage our vCISO services is relatively small amounts. In addition, some countries have mandatory requirements for some organizations to have CISO in place but allow CIO to act as the role of CISO. In this case, the acting CISO may not have security expertise or resources to handle all security concerns.

Why are businesses moving to vCISO?

The threat landscape, high-impact vulnerability, and supply chain vulnerability had changed rapidly since Covid-19. Due to the increasing acceptance of Work-From-Home (WFH), more and more organizations are now open to remote workers including CISO.

Information Security is most organizations’ concern, and also a mandatory requirement for some businesses. Due to the global shortage of InfoSec professionals, your organization may not have the right budget to employ a full-time CISO or not able to find qualified personnel. Our group of talents and subject matter experts is capable to handle technology stack and security incident investigation, as well as communicating with CEO/Chairman, or working with public relations to prepare scripts during security incidents.