The ultimate responsibility for overseeing and managing cybersecurity risks—regardless of your organization’s size, industry, or maturity—falls on its leaders. It’s a daunting task, since the cyber threats that organizations face today are more sophisticated and complex than ever. Frequently, no one in senior management has had information security training or experience. And finding an experienced, well-qualified Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) in today’s job market can be challenging and expensive. How can a Board of Directors or management team exercise effective information security oversight? Tensyl’s Virtual CISO service provides your organization with a cost-effective solution.
We have served as interim CISOs and supplemented internal security teams for clients across a broad range of industries. Our experts bring leadership, vision, and strategy, making an immediate impact. We liase with senior management and other key stakeholders. We work quickly and effectively to develop a realistic baseline understanding of your current security program. We identify its strengths and weaknesses. We work with you to set realistic goals and help strategize how best to meet or exceed them. Our Virtual CISO service provides strong leadership and cost-effective oversight of your organization’s information security program in several ways —
Drive information security strategy and initiatives.
Provide Board of Directors and C-Suite unbiased, objective cybersecurity reporting and assurance.
Build robust cybersecurity awareness education and training programs.
Assess adequacy of internal information security resources.
Assist senior management in balancing security needs with the organization’s strategic business goals.
Develop security policies and procedures that protect data confidentiality, integrity, and availability without interfering with core business requirements.
Perform data privacy analysis to identify and map the technologies and data flows that store, transmit, or process personal data such as names, device identifiers, passwords, account numbers, and others.
Respond to requests for Standardized Information Gathering (SIG) questionnaires, Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaires (CAIQ), or the equivalent.
Provide oversight and coordination of incident response efforts that take place in the event of a security incident.
Oversee the selection testing, deployment, and maintenance of security hardware and software products as well as outsourced arrangements.
Provide pre-certification counseling for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audits.
