Senior security leadership, without the full-time hire.
Most security gaps aren't tooling gaps. They're ownership gaps: the SOC 2 evidence nobody assembled until audit week, the pen-test report that got filed instead of fixed, the eight dashboards nobody has watched since Tuesday. A virtual CISO owns all of it. You get a named senior security leader who sets the strategy, runs the roadmap, sits in the board meeting, and answers the security questionnaire holding up your deal. Part-time and accountable, backed by the same delivery network that runs your security services.
The program, end to end.
Not a seat on a call. A named senior lead who is accountable for your security posture the way a full-time CISO would be, and who has run this before.
Strategy & roadmap
Where your security program is going, and why, in language your board and your auditors both accept. Not a framework printout but a plan tied to your actual risk and your next milestone.
Compliance ownership
SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS taken to attestation, with evidence collected against your live environment all year, not reconstructed the week before the audit.
Risk & third-party management
A risk register built from your real environment, and vendor risk that doesn't quietly lapse the day a supplier's SOC 2 report expires.
Board & customer answers
The security slide for the board, and the completed questionnaire for the enterprise customer whose security team is gating your contract.
Program orchestration
Owns your delivery services end to end, so a pen-test finding becomes a fix with an owner and a date, not a PDF in a shared drive.
Incident-response governance
The plan exists, names names, and has been rehearsed before the 3am call, not during it.
The layer above the seven.
Katalor Security delivers seven security services: testing, a 24×7 SOC, application, network, and cloud security, incident response, and compliance. A vCISO makes them add up to a program. One named senior lead with a certified delivery network behind them gives you the depth of a security team without the headcount, the tool sprawl, or the vendor management.
An MSSP watches your tools. A vCISO owns your program and decides which tools you need in the first place.
Four signs it's time.
- You're closing enterprise deals that arrive with a security questionnaire attached.
- You're partway into SOC 2 or ISO 27001 and nobody actually owns it.
- You've bought the tools, but no one is turning the alerts into decisions.
- You need a CISO's judgment without a CISO's salary.
vCISO is a mid-market engagement, delivered as a retained relationship with a named lead and a scope set on the first call. Running a small business? Start with a Pulse Check →
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