vCISO
A Security Executive
on Your Side of the Table.
A dedicated virtual CISO who owns your security and compliance posture: the accountability of an executive hire, without the executive search.
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Why It Matters
Regulated businesses have outgrown “the IT guy handles security”: auditors, insurers, and enterprise customers now expect a named leader accountable for security posture.
But a full-time CISO is a scarce, expensive hire that most mid-sized businesses can’t justify. The role is real; the headcount doesn’t have to be.
What’s Included
Dedicated to Your Account
With Comply, or through a standalone vCISO agreement, a named vCISO who knows your environment, your framework, and your risk tolerance, not a rotating consultant.
Specialists on Call
Your vCISO leads, backed by certified ethical hackers, auditors, and information security experts, so the right specialist works each problem instead of one generalist stretched across all of it.
Security Program Ownership
Policies, controls, risk assessments, and incident readiness, built, maintained, and defended in front of auditors.
Compliance Accountability
In Comply, your vCISO owns meeting and maintaining every required control of your framework.
Board & Insurer Fluency
Security posture translated for the people who ask about it: leadership, cyber insurers, enterprise customers, and examiners.
Backed by the Platform
Your vCISO directs the same Forte security operation that watches your environment: strategy and execution, one accountable partner.
The Forte Difference
Most vCISO offerings are advice by the hour. Forte’s vCISO sits on the platform that runs your IT and security every day, so the person setting the strategy can see, and change, what’s actually happening in your environment.
Security Leadership for
Regulated Businesses
Forte’s vCISOs maintain framework controls for clients across these regulated industries.
Where It Fits
Included in Comply; available as an add-on at other tiers. Pairs with:
Compliance
The frameworks you answer to, handled as part of the service.
Cybersecurity
Detection, response, and prevention, watching around the clock.
Cyber Assurance
A separate Forte team that reviews and signs off on your security and compliance work.
Advisory
vCIO leadership, assessments, budgets, and roadmaps: strategy first, wherever you are.