You need someone who owns your security program. Who keeps your insurance posture current. Who governs your AI tools. Who shows up to your board meetings with answers. A full-time CISO costs $300K+. You need the outcome without the overhead.
Fractional CISO is a named senior practitioner who owns your compliance program, your AI governance, and your claims readiness. Month-to-month. The program doesn't leave when someone quits.
You told your carrier you had controls in place at renewal. But your environment changes monthly. When a breach hits and the carrier audits, the question isn't what you said you had. It's what you actually had when the incident occurred. Nobody is tracking that.
Every department is adopting AI tools. No security review. No acceptable use policy. No vendor risk assessment. Customer data flowing into third-party LLMs. This is the breach vector nobody is watching, and it's growing every week.
Policies age the moment they're approved. Evidence gaps widen. Control drift goes undetected. You rebuild from scratch every audit cycle because nobody maintained the program between assessments.
You have tools. You have platforms. You have last year's consultant's report. What you don't have is a person who wakes up every day accountable for whether your insurance would pay out and whether your AI tools are governed. That's the gap.
Your Fractional CISO takes ownership of your security program from day one. Here's how the engagement works.
Continuous validation that your controls match your attestations. Gap remediation. Pre-renewal posture checks. Post-incident documentation. Powered by CoverShield.
Shadow AI discovery and inventory. Acceptable use policies. Vendor risk assessments. Data flow monitoring. Employee guidelines. Board-ready AI risk reporting.
Full lifecycle management across your frameworks (CMMC, NIST, SOC 2, HIPAA). Continuous control monitoring, evidence collection, policy management, and audit prep.
Monthly compliance status reports. Quarterly board briefings. Risk posture dashboards. Clear metrics that leadership can act on without needing to be security experts.
Third-party risk assessments, vendor security questionnaires, contract security requirements, and ongoing monitoring. Covers both traditional vendors and AI tools.
IR plan maintenance, annual tabletop exercises, and coordination during real incidents. When something happens, your Fractional CISO is the first call.
Living policies that reflect how your organization actually operates. Annual reviews, version control, approval workflows. Updated when your environment changes, not just at audit time.
Audit evidence collected and organized year-round. When your assessor arrives, everything is packaged and ready. No last-minute scrambles.
Quarterly access certifications, privilege analysis, orphaned account detection, and segregation of duties. Covers both human and AI service account access.
You've outgrown ad-hoc security. Customers are asking about SOC 2. Your insurance carrier is asking harder questions. You're deploying AI tools with no oversight. You need someone to own all of this, but a $300K hire doesn't fit your stage.
Multiple compliance frameworks. Cyber insurance with serious attestation requirements. AI proliferating across departments. Board asking questions about security posture. You need senior leadership, not another junior analyst or another platform subscription.
CMMC 2.0 requires an ongoing program, not a one-time checklist. Your contracts depend on maintaining compliance between assessments. A Fractional CISO keeps your program alive and audit-ready at all times.
Your insurance posture is drifting. Your AI tools are ungoverned. Your compliance program is decaying. A 30-minute conversation will tell you exactly where you're exposed and whether a Fractional CISO is the right fit.