Virtual CISO
Plenty of organisations need a CISO's judgement without needing a CISO's salary. Astra provides an experienced security leader on a defined engagement: setting direction, owning the management system, chairing the risk process, and being the person who answers the regulator's and the board's questions.
What you get
Outcomes, not activity.
- Direction, not just documentsSecurity objectives, scope and roadmap are set against your business risk and budget, and revisited as both change.
- The management system has an ownerDocument control, internal audit programme, control effectiveness measurement and management review all have someone accountable for them.
- Regulatory coverageWhere you are subject to RBI or NHB requirements, the mandated audits and reporting are planned and tracked rather than discovered late.
- Incident and change governanceA working incident management process, and review and approval of changes that affect the security posture.
- Board-ready reportingRegular reporting on posture, incidents and programme progress, written for people who do not work in security.
How it runs
A defined sequence, agreed up front.
You know what happens in each stage, who is involved, and what lands at the end of it before the engagement starts.
- 01
Assess
Current posture, obligations, existing controls and the organisation's real risk appetite are established in the first weeks.
- 02
Set direction
A security strategy and roadmap are agreed with executive sponsorship, with objectives that can actually be measured.
- 03
Operate the governance cycle
Risk reviews, internal audits, incident post-mortems, control testing and management reviews run on a published calendar.
- 04
Report and adjust
Progress and posture are reported to the board and, where required, to the regulator; the roadmap is adjusted on evidence.
Deliverables
What lands on your desk.
Written for two audiences: the engineers who have to fix it and the executives who have to fund it.
- Security strategy and prioritised roadmap
- Risk assessment framework, templates and maintained register
- Access control, incident and change management processes
- Internal audit programme and management review packs
- Board and regulator reporting
Related
Often engaged alongside
Next step
Scope a virtual ciso engagement.
Half an hour with a practitioner. You will leave knowing what the work involves, roughly how long it takes, and what it would find.