Overview

Virtual Chief Information Security Officers (vCISO) allows our clients to tap into a pool of seasoned security advisors across industries. Kadmak Consulting vCISOs can help in many capacities, whether acting as a full vCISO, augmented vCISO, or strategic cybersecurity advisor. We provide a flexible model to help fulfill and meet your organization's cybersecurity needs. This can range from overseeing individual projects, being on-call for advice as needed, and providing complete- or part-time support or training resources for a permanent security leadership role within your organization. A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is an essential member of every enterprise, great or small. This role serves the CEO and business by providing direction on eliminating as much risk possible while developing measurable strategies to keep the business operational from unexpected interruptions and maintaining compliance. Kadmak Consulting virtual CISO (vCISO) Leveraging our service to serve as your Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) program provides a cost-effective solution tailored to an organization's specific cybersecurity needs. Our typical vCISO engagements are a fraction of what a full-time CISO might cost and can be rapidly scaled according to the organization's growth and cybersecurity risk profile.

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vCISO Office Expertise:

  • CISSP

  • CISA

  • CEH

  • CRISC

The Program Plan:

Kadmak Consulting vCISO will be assigned to your organization and become an extension of your IT/Security team. ThevCISO will establish a recurring meeting cadence with your leadership and technical team after an initial engagement kickoff. At each meeting, the vCISO will discuss the status of critical projects, deliverables, priorities, etc. Operationally, the vCISO will work on developing and delivering those key components that benefit the security program from end to end, fostering greater cybersecurity resilience and/or regulatory compliance such as drafting policies, analyzing data, conducting risk assessments, etc. based on the organization's needs.


Reasons Organizations Come to Kadmak Consulting for our vCISO services:

• Our team's security experience guides how to achieve greater compliance or cybersecurity maturity,
• Kadmak Consulting provides a "vendor-neutral" perspective
• We give your Cyber Security programs focus
• Experienced in quickly identifying what Cyber Security policies, tools, and procedures are required to be compliant,
• When time or resources are limited to sort through all of the Cyber Security vendors, frameworks, and standards,
• Providing a Security partner perspective view of your" unique" environment needs, not focusing on upselling security services
• Delivering Board information an independent perspective on how your security program aligns with good practices and where there are gaps that require their support to remediate,
• Provide compliance assurance with a security framework and help identify what is critically important in planning your security roadmap.
• Our clients don't need to worry about oversight of cybersecurity areas because our team is knowledgeable.
• Kadmak Consulting's teams are proven based on the long term relationships we maintain, and auditors have positively accepted our deliverables as advantageous over the self-driven attempts previously performed by IT teams already over resourced


Advantages of a vCISO:


Cost-effective

Provides Rapid Value

Deliver Industry Expertise and Knowledge

Flexibility

Adaptive

Effective and measurable results

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Roles and Responsibilities

Some examples of how we work with organizations include the following

  • • Help develop and create the security program
  • • Create plans, milestones, and action items to address cyber threats,
  • • Perform assessments of compliance controls to ensure compliance with regulatory or frameworks and corporate policies
  • • Manage the security staff and resources. Responsible for hiring needs as they arise
  • • Work with Clients leadership to ensure the security program support business initiatives
  • • Develop a roadmap for compliance and information security program
  • • Deliver reports to management on the status of the cybersecurity program, as well as discuss key points on how current risks affect the organization
  • • Strategic information security leadership and guidance
  • Instant Malware Removal
    • ◦ Coordinating with clients' executive leadership to help define the information security program and framework
    • ◦ Help establish information security engineering & operational capabilities