Guardyne Virtual vCISO Advisor
What is virtual Chief Information Security Officer? Guardyne Virtual vCISO Advisor is a security practitioner who uses the culmination of their years of cybersecurity and industry experience to help organizations with developing and managing the implementation of the organization’s information security program. While this may seem daunting Guardyne Virtual vCISO Advisor can help make it easier.
- vCISOs can be more experienced – A vCISO has implemented information security programs for many clients in a diverse set of industries and sizes, thus giving them a broad range of expertise that can be applied to your organization.
- vCISOs can be anywhere – Rather than needing to hire someone locally (which limits your options) or need to help pay for a candidate to move, the vCISO works as a consultant, thus working from just about anywhere, giving the organization exposure to more potential candidates.
- vCISOs are a consumption-based option – While not every vCISO works the same, as a contractor, will perform the tasks based on an agreed upon scope of work. So, you’re paying for the services you want from them.
Who should consider hiring a virtual CISO?
Let’s walk through a few reasons that may provide some guidance as to whether Guardyne virtual vCISO advisor is a good fit:
The Org Has Sensitive Information – while this is pretty much every organization today, regardless of size, industry, etc. The question at hand is whether the organization is serious enough about protecting that data (and the organization) to hire an expert to help develop and put in place a program that keeps valuable data safe and secure?
The Org Has a Limited Budget – Those organizations that are limited in budget should be considering a vCISO. However, the cost of a vCISO is estimated to be between 30-40% of a full-time CISO.
The Org Has Specific Information Security Needs – it’s possible that the intent isn’t to fully utilize a vCISO, but instead to address a few specific tasks. While this might include defining needed security policies, helping to classify data, addressing procedures and policies to meet compliance objectives, performing a risk assessment, and more. While the focus isn’t to fully develop and implement an information security program, however a subset, a vCISO is the perfect choice.
The Org Requires Specific Skill Sets – Not every vCISO has the same set of experiences, expertise, industry institutional knowledge, etc. This makes finding just the right vCISO to fire full time difficult.
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Reasons for hiring a vCISO?
Guardyne virtual vCISO advisor can provide small and mid sized businesses with the best options towards meeting their needs.
- Cybersecurity Leadership
-Our expert vCISOs becomes an integral part of your leadership team, while ensuring that cybersecurity principles and methodologies are made a priority in the execution of corporate initiatives.
- Policy Development
-Your vCISO will develop and implement policies, security protocols, and procedures, monitoring to ensure continuous compliance and ongoing situational awareness in your workplace.
- Incident Management
-We help your team prepare for incidents by developing response plans, documentation, and exercises, rehearsing to ensure that your team is ready and prepared to respond if a breach occurs.
- Risk Assessments
-Your vCISO can assess the business impact of vulnerabilities in your security posture and threats specific to your organization. We prioritize and help to implement effective mitigation strategies, maximizing preparedness.
- Compliance Guidance
-Our experts bring extensive experience in HIPAA, HITECH, GLBA, NYDFS, CCRA, CCPA, GDPR, PCI-DSS to your organization, helping your organization to achieve and maintain ongoing compliance.
- Employee Training
-We provide employee training to enhance awareness of potential cyber threats. Our experts will provide Education, Training and Awareness workshops while ensuring employees are fully trained and ready to respond.
Partner with Guardyne Today:
Don’t leave your M365 security to chance. Contact us today for a consultation and let us show you how we can help you achieve:
- Enhanced security posture: Mitigate risk and protect your valuable data.
- Improved compliance: Meet industry regulations and data privacy standards.
- Empowered workforce: Equip your employees to be security champions.
- Peace of mind: Focus on your business, knowing your security is in expert hands.
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