Most organizations that need a security leader cannot justify one full time, and end up distributing the role across people who each have another job. We hold it, on a defined cadence, with the authority to make the call.
Risk register, policy set, exception process and management review, operating on a schedule rather than being reconstructed the week before somebody asks for them.
Your provider is doing the work. Somebody who does not work for your provider should be reading what they deliver against what was specified, monthly rather than annually.
Contract reviews, customer security questionnaires, incident decisions and vendor selections tend to arrive without warning and need a defensible answer that day.
A fixed commitment each month rather than an open-ended retainer, so you know what you are getting and we know what we have promised.
Our principal, not a rotating bench. For an organization this size the relationship and the accumulated context are most of the value.
The objective is a program your own people can run. Where an engagement ends because you have hired internally, that is a good outcome and we will help you scope the role.
The ones that come up most often before a scoping call.
Commonly one to four days a month depending on the size of the environment and whether a compliance deadline is in play. We would rather set the cadence honestly at the start than quietly overrun it.
No. Your provider runs and secures the infrastructure. We set the direction, review their work against it, and represent your interests in that relationship. The two roles are complementary, and keeping them separate is the point.
Yes, and it is often the highest-value part of the engagement. Having somebody who can answer a prospect's security questions credibly, in real time, removes a common reason deals stall.
That is a normal shape. Interim coverage during a hire, a funding round, or a certification push are all reasonable reasons to engage and then stop.
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