A common reason to hire a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is outgrowing outsourcing cyber security to a management consulting firm.

Another common reason is to lock the barn door after a major breach.

In these interconnected times, sometimes funders or business partners insist on hard assurances that you are adequately protected.

A CISO takes responsibility for Cyber Security. Cyber Security is about ensuring that authorized users can access data and computer systems critical to your business, but that unauthorized people cannot.

What can stop authorized access? Vulnerabilities in your IT infrastructure. These are weak points which could cause failure, e.g. lack of back up power.

What can allow unauthorized access? Threats to your IT infrastructure. These are attacks by bad actors, e.g. ransomware by outsiders and data theft by insiders.

We can help you take a critical pre-CISO step: coming up to speed on cyber security and figuring out how much cyber security you need. Also how much cyber security you can get without hiring a CISO.

We are not anti-CISO but we feel that hiring a CISO to head up a smoothly running, fully integrated program is safer and surer than the alternative.

Consider our Level 3 offering as a solution.