Virtual CISO
Enhance your information security
In order to protect your vital systems and assets as effectively as possible, you need to develop efficient procedures and policies to secure them.
Many organisations don’t have the time, resources, or funds to manage legislation and regulations in-house. It’s often an overlooked area of business practices, but it is needed to avoid regulatory fines and GDPR concerns.
We understand the challenges that prevent internal management of this area, which is why we introduced our Virtual Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). With a Virtual CISO, you will develop necessary strategies quickly and effectively, ensuring your organisation meets necessary guidelines while straying protected against evolving threats.
Why get a Virtual CISO?
Sometimes it’s impossible to know where information starts or stops. When data sits with numerous teams within your company, it can be a challenge to track and remediate the information, leading to inefficiency and breaches of guidelines.
What’s important is that teams come together to align to the bigger picture for organisational need and direction. Understanding how different parts of the organisation uses and controls data, both inside and out, is key. Without a strategic approach, organisations often adopt a ‘control by contract’ approach, which results in a greater spend on equipment, heavy restrictions on business operations, and negative employee experiences.
What is a Virtual CISO?
For organisations that don’t have their own CISO, or for larger organisations looking for a trusted advisor to sanity check legislation and regulations, a Virtual CISO will help you gain all of the benefits you’re looking for.
The Virtual CISO operates as an extension of your organisation, adding value with proven methodology and best practice, based on years of working with both public and private sector organisations.
They will assist you with setting strategies, aligning, and working closely with your leadership teams to help you establish an internal delivery team and provide ways in which to monitor performance, while you maintain full control of your organisation’s information and data security strategy, ensuring full protection from evolving threats.
How is it done?
We follow best practice methodology, whether you select end-to-end support or any part of the journey. The process the Virtual CISO takes you through is designed to cover every element of an information security strategy to ensure all areas of your business profile are secure and optimised. The Virtual CISO will:
Review your business strategy
they will study your current strategies, noting the elements that work and those that don’t to ensure your new strategy is not only fully comprehensive, but right for you
Establish security baseline
they will understand your current security stance, then establish a baseline for your organisation to build on
Establish risk appetite
they will determine the level of risk your organisation is willing to be exposed to before taking action, helping them understand your current security expectations and defences
Board review and steering
they will meet with necessary employees, gaining an understanding of the inner workings of the organisation
Business aligned security strategy
they will create a comprehensive security strategy tailored to your organisation, based on the information they collected
Implementation oversight
they will oversee the implementation of the strategy, ensuring everything goes as smoothly as possible
Maintenance and certification
they will then ensure the proper maintenance of the strategies, helping you to gain the data protection certifications you need
Why choose Phoenix for your Virtual CISO?
Set the strategy and the vision for your security in a way that reflects your governance and regulatory requirements, reputation, and brand and maps into your corporate social responsibility and information assurance with your unique and complex environments.
Our Virtual CISO service is completely independent from any vendor, technology, or IT department, so we deliver neutrality, and our specialists are free to consider the uniqueness of your challenges and opportunities.
Our consultants understand with clarity what your organisation needs. We will always offer best practice and guidance with peer group mapping to deliver true value without additional costs, each and every day.
Enhance your security with a Virtual CISO
Talk to one of our specialists today to secure your organisation’s future with the help of our Virtual CISO.
You can also email us at [email protected] or call 01904 562200 – whatever works best for you.