Tailored senior support. Practical. Scalable.
Always aligned with your maturity.
One-off outside view or sustained senior support, combined, scaled up, or scaled back as your maturity grows.
Sharpening the impact of the person carrying the responsibility: for a security lead who is stretched or newly appointed.
Learn moreCapacity and counsel alongside your CISO: for a security lead doing the right things who needs experienced backup.
Learn moreThe security lead role itself, fractionally: for when you have nobody in it, or need a single accountable owner.
Learn moreSenior security leadership at board level, part-time: for a function with no senior voice where decisions are made.
Learn moreBeing a CISO is a lonely job. You are expected to be technically credible, commercially fluent, politically astute and calm in a crisis, often without a peer inside the organisation to test your thinking against.
We coach security leaders on the parts of the role that are rarely taught: influencing without authority, communicating risk to non-technical executives, building a board narrative that gets heard, handling pressure during incidents, and growing from technical expert into genuine leader.
Sometimes the need is not coaching but capacity and counsel. We work alongside your CISO as an experienced second pair of eyes: reviewing plans before they go to the board, stress-testing risk assessments, helping build business cases, preparing for audits and supervisory reviews, and stepping in during peak periods.
Your CISO stays in the lead. We make their work stronger and their case more persuasive.
Plenty of organisations need a security lead but cannot justify, or cannot find, a full-time one. The role then gets absorbed by an IT manager who already has a day job, or split across people who each own a fragment of it. Nobody is accountable for the whole, and it shows the first time a customer sends a security questionnaire.
We fill the role on a fractional basis, as a named person with an explicit mandate. That means owning the information security management system, maintaining the risk register, setting and maintaining policy, directing the work of internal staff and external providers, acting as the point of contact for customers, auditors and supervisors, and reporting to the board in terms it can act on.
We lead the security function. We do not run security operations: monitoring, tooling, patching and response stay with your own teams or your chosen providers, and we make sure they are properly directed.
Not every organisation needs, or can attract, a full-time Chief Security Officer. But almost every organisation needs senior security leadership represented where decisions are made.
We take that seat on a part-time basis: attending board and management meetings, owning the security agenda at executive level, translating between the security function and the business, and holding the organisation to its own roadmap.
This is deliberately a governance role rather than a functional one. A CISO as a Service leads the security function; a CSO as a Service oversees it and represents it at the top table. Neither role runs your security operations.
The difference is how much of the role we take on. Click a row to highlight it.
| Service | You have | We provide |
|---|---|---|
| Coaching for CISOs | A security lead who needs to grow into the role | Development for the person |
| CISO support | A security lead who needs backup | Capacity and counsel alongside them |
| CISO as a Service | No security lead | The role itself, fractionally |
| CSO as a Service | A function, but no senior voice at board level | Oversight and board representation |
ISOs are frequently handed a mandate far larger than their time, budget or authority. We help ISOs regain focus: cutting the backlog down to what genuinely reduces risk, sequencing work so each step makes the next one easier, defining what "done" means, and building the evidence needed to show progress upward.
The Cyberbeveiligingswet replaced the Wbni on 15 August 2026 with no transition period. A good many organisations were not ready and are working through it now. That is a normal position, not a reason to keep the subject off the agenda.
We help boards get to a defensible position on:
We assess where you are, agree with you where you need to be, and design the route between the two: phased, budgeted and assigned to owners. Built to be governed: milestones you can track, checkpoints for the board, and flexibility to absorb the things nobody planned for.
Security policies often accumulate over the years, borrowed from templates and never reconciled with what the company is actually trying to achieve. We review your policy landscape against your strategic goals and reshape it so the two pull in the same direction: tightening what matters, simplifying what does not.
Thirty minutes is usually enough to work out whether we can help.