Virtual CISO (vCISO) Services:
Virtual Chief Information Security Advisory

Not all organizations can afford a full-time Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to address regulatory compliance, security, and privacy and their impact on IT infrastructure. This opens up the door and need for a cost effective alternative in the form of vCISO or a Virtual Chief Information Security Officer. RKON’s On-PAR vCISO or Virtual Chief Information Security Officer incorporates our On-PAR (Preparedness, Assurance & Response) advisory and frameworks helping protect business operations and driving IT objectives of private equity and mid-market organizations. Some benefits of RKON’s vCISO services that private equity and mid-market organizations get is:

• Cost Effective Security Approach
• Security Leadership
• Reduced Cybersecurity & Compliance Risks
• Improved Organizational & IT Capabilities

RKON’s On-PAR Virtual CISO Services Methodology

RKON’s On-PAR Virtual Chief Security Officer provides skilled security leadership to implement and maintain our proactive approach to IT governance framework, advise on security risk, and develop security policies, guidelines and controls with the goal of protecting the business and ensuring IT objectives are met.

vCISO White Paper

• Preparedness: Position your organization to meet strategic imperatives for expense management and growth. Manage risks and issues quickly to ensure the integrity of your organization is never compromised.
• Assurance: Provide assurance that your organization has appropriate and cost-efficient measures in place. We ensure these measures meet compliance expectations with regulatory and industry requirements.
• Response: Your organization must be primed to manage incidents with a prompt response to assess and remediate the risk. In addition, ensuring the remediation and recovery services are the most appropriate and cost-efficient solution.

On-PAR Virtual CISO Methodology

On-PAR vCISO Services

RKON’s On-PAR Virtual Chief Security Officer provides skilled security leadership to implement and maintain our proactive approach to IT governance framework, advise on security risk, and develop security policies, guidelines and controls with the goal of protecting the business and ensuring IT objectives are met.

On-PAR vCISO Maturity Model

• Compliance: Implement an innovative security compliance framework to leverage the direction set by company policies, government regulations, industry mandates, and client security requirements.
• Security Architecture: Review current state of security controls and recommend future state sustainable and secure solutions aligned to NIST Cyber Security Framework to protect the viability of your business.
• Risk Advisory: Facilitate risk analysis with key business, IT, and vendor stakeholders identifying control posture at all levels of your organization.
• Risk Metrics: Develop executive level compliance dashboard, risk visibility, and operational security metrics from key controls, solutions, and services. 

RKON’s primary goal is to provide a comprehensive approach to fulfilling all compliance needs ranging from helping with responses all the way to providing a comprehensive outsourced compliance solution and service with:

1. CISO Advisory: Policies, response strategies, readiness
2. Automated Response Tools: To help solve volume spikes and provide evidence for clients
3. SOC & Compliance Tool Outsourcing: Security solution management, monitoring, planning, and disaster recovery
4. Compliant Ready Cloud: ISO 27001 Certified Security Architecture & Service stack

On-PAR vCISO Compliance Framework

On-PAR vCISO Security Reference Architecture

RKON’s vCISO Security Architecture service includes evaluation of current “as-is’ state security controls and recommended future “to-be” state sustainable and security solution aligned to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and best practices around endpoint, perimeter, datacenter, DMZ and cloud systems.

Key Deliverables:

1. Determine security operations KPIs
2. Report on the future ‘to-be’ state recommendations and diagram
3. Three-year IT security roadmap
4. Project list with budgeted costs to address recommended solutions
5. Input into IT Risk Register highlighting risks and remediation identified within security program review

RKON’s virtual CISO Risk Advisory Services establish a risk management process by characterizing assets, identifying threats & vulnerabilities, analyzing controls & determining the overall risk of projects, services, and vendors. Through the implementation of our third-party risk management program we can assess risks that chosen vendors introduce and ensure appropriate security controls are in place to protect your business operations and supply chain. This helps ensure compliance risks are identified and remediation occurs quickly.

Our virtual CISO Security Risk Advisory Services provides security leadership that is focused on driving a sustainable governance framework for technology risk analysis, security architecture improvements, security policy and disaster recovery plan development and security assessments to protect your business and IT infrastructure.

Our vCISO Risk Advisory services include:

• Project Risk Consulting
• Service Risk Consulting
• Third Party Risk Management
• IT Risk Register
• Top 5 Risks: Executive Report

On-PAR vCISO Technology Risk Advisory

Are you a private equity or mid-market organization looking to take advantage of a Virtual CISO? Contact RKON today for more information on our vCISO services and our other Security Advisory capabilities.