Security & Compliance
Senior Security Leadership, on Demand
A vCISO who owns outcomes rather than advice: your risk posture, your board reporting, your framework program, your vendor risk, and now the AI questions arriving from customers, carriers, and directors. You get the seniority without the search, the salary, or the single point of failure.
The problem
The Demands Arrived. The Headcount Didn’t
Customers send security questionnaires. Carriers ask for evidence at renewal. An auditor wants a risk assessment with a date on it. The board wants to know about AI. Each request is answerable; together they’re a full-time job that your CTO is doing at night, badly, between releases.
Hiring a CISO solves it at a cost most mid-market organizations can’t justify, and a single hire brings one person’s experience, which is a narrow bet in a field this wide.
How we help
The Role, Sized to Your Business
Risk Management and Board Reporting
A live risk register, a reporting rhythm, and a director-legible view of what’s exposed and what’s being done.
Security Program and Roadmap
What to build in what order, costed, with the framework requirements folded in rather than bolted on.
Third-Party and Vendor Risk
Assessment, tiering, and the contract language that makes obligations enforceable.
Cloud and Infrastructure Security Consulting
Architecture review, identity and access design, network and endpoint hardening standards, and the configuration baselines your teams build against.
Compliance Ownership
The framework calendar, evidence readiness, and the auditor relationship, run rather than reacted to.
AI Governance Leadership
The AI register, the intake path, and the answer when a customer asks how you govern it.
Fractional CISO · security program design · risk assessment and register · policy suite · board and audit committee reporting · vendor risk · cloud and infrastructure security consulting · framework ownership (SOC 2 · HITRUST CSF · HIPAA · NIST CSF · PCI DSS · ISO 27001 · ISO/IEC 42001) · incident readiness oversight · security awareness program ownership
What you get
A Security Leader Accountable for Outcomes
- A named senior practitioner, with the firm’s bench behind them
- A prioritized roadmap and a live risk register you can show anyone
- Board and committee reporting on a rhythm
- Questionnaires, audits, and carrier reviews handled
- Escalation to specialists, testing, privacy, incident response, AI, without a new contract
“4A Security has been our security advisor from the beginning. They helped with everything from policy development and security control implementation through to achieving SOC 2 and HITRUST CSF certifications.”
VP Infrastructure & Security, population health organization
Plus the record: 1,000+ engagements, 99.6% satisfaction, and a 100% breach-free record across active vCISO and preventative consulting engagements.
The Work Stays Proven after We Hand It Over
Your vCISO works on the CyRisk platform, so the risk register, control status, and evidence are in one place your team can see between meetings, and stay usable if the engagement ever ends.
CyRisk is 4A’s sister platform. Where our work for CyRisk appears on this site, we disclose the affiliation.