Virtual Chief Information Security Officer

VIRTUAL CISO SERVICES

Worldwide-Privacy Virtual Information Security Officer vCISO – with our vCISO services you retain a resource with minimum of 5 years’ CISO experience and at least 2 top level security certifications. Our vCISO can provide the entire range of CISO services including program charter, risk assessment and mitigation, compliance assessment and management, security strategy and architecture, budget creation and management and board level presentations. With our vCISO service you get:

  • Information Security Strategy/Process and Architecture Development
  • An experienced CISO, highly specialized security talent for a portion of the cost of a full-time CISO
  • Risk assessment, rating, risk register and risk mitigation services
  • Analysis of your compliance requirements, creation and management of a compliance program using the proper compliance frameworks
  • Red team ethical hacker program, continuously testing for weaknesses
  • Incident response program and / or ongoing management
  • Customized security awareness program, rightsized for your business culture
  • Security policy review with identified gaps closed by updating existing and creating new policies
  • Security Controls Implementation – Standard Operating Procedures
  • vCISO Participation in Management and Board Level Meetings
  • vCISO Participation in IT and Information Security Audits

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vCISO Compliance Services

Worldwide-Privacy offers consultation services for many compliance mandates, including:

  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • NIST
  • ISO 27001
  • PCI DSS
  • HIPAA / HITECH / HITRUST

Why your business needs a CISO and why a vCISO may be the best choice

Without a person solely responsible for information security, privacy and compliance, a business has no coordinated defense against cyber-criminals, employee mistakes, inside and outside threats. Not having a leader in place or someone with the right level of expertise in the CISO role could itself pose an existential threat to your business.

Hiring a full-time CISO can be time consuming and costly. Once your business reaches a certain size measured either in number of employees, revenue, services offered or complexity of your business model, hiring a full-time CISO is a must. Until then the expense will be higher than most small businesses can afford and even if affordable, attracting and keeping a seasoned CISO can be difficult without the right level of challenge.

A virtual CISO can build your program in stages depending on your needs and the highest areas of risk to your business. Rather than spending time and money on a program and processes that are not generating risk, a vCISO can focus on what matters, implement the program necessary and train your staff on how to keep it up and running, or you can let us run the program for you.

Security programs work best when they are risk-based and objective-driven. Rather than a series of one-off engagements that do not connect or build on one another, Worldwide-Privacy will work with you to create your road map of security objectives and progressively work them through implementation.

Worldwide-Privacy’s consultants hold a variety of certifications:

  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
  • Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
  • Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
  • CompTIA Security+