vCISO Services

Business leaders understand their business. They know their customers, suppliers, ongoing projects, employees, market, and clues about the future. And that is enough!

No one can know everything. Modern business depends on modern technology. Modern technology constantly exposes you to new threats and shifting regulatory demands. Managing these risks requires experience and business insight, which is probably not in "your wheelhouse."

The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is the leader responsible for understanding the company's mission, its information assets, and developing risk mitigation strategies that align with the organization's risk tolerance. Like any leader, that person must have expert-level experience with the subject matter and effectively strategize and collaborate with other company leaders.

Most small and medium-sized businesses lack the budget or need for a full-time CISO, but they do need assistance. That’s where a fractional, virtual CISO (vCISO) comes in. A vCISO service offers the essential strategic expertise at a significantly lower cost.

The Fractional/Virtual CISO

We will lead you to resilience and compliance

Whether it is meeting the demanding CMMC standards or designing and implementing a strategy to meet your company's needs, our vCISO service experts can provide guidance and the persistence to succeed. We have decades of experience and recognize that a balanced, multi-layered approach, sensitive to the company's financial needs, is the best way. We will help you achieve measurable improvements in risk mitigation that will satisfy both the board of directors and auditors.

You can rest assured knowing that your company's cyber risk profile and reputation are resilient.

Aligning with Your Business

Tailored Solutions

What are your business objectives? What assets do you have to support those goals? We will work together to develop a strategy that keeps your business secure.

Framework-Agnostic

If you are working to meet the DoD's CMMC requirements, we will lead that effort. However, while doing so, you need to focus on securing your business, not just the government's information. We can leverage NIST CSF, ISO 27001, CIS, or another framework to develop a strategy that aligns your risk mitigation efforts with your business's needs.

Full Lifecycle Support

From initial assessment through remediation and ongoing compliance, we provide expert guidance at every stage of the process. After the first iteration of securing your information, it becomes a continuous improvement process. The job of a CISO is to make sure the business is vigilant and resilient.

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We will enhance and develop your CMMC compliance program and your risk mitigation strategies based on the specific factors that most significantly impact your organization.

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The vCISO Process

1-Assessment & Analysis

2-Strategy Development

3-vCISO Partnership

4-Ongoing Improvement

Our service starts with understanding you, your business, and mission. Our team will lead you through each step. From start to finish, to begin again as a continuous improvement cycle, whether it is CMMC or other frameworks.

Cybersecurity, our efforts to mitigate risks to your information, information systems, and business, must be a business enabler. This involves being involved in all key projects and implementing cybersecurity measures that increase revenue, profitability, and customer demand.

Once we understand you, your business, and its mission, we will collaborate to develop a strategy that addresses the risks faced by your company and the compliance goals it needs to achieve.

Our strategy will outline a roadmap to meet the requirements of the government and your clients while aligning with your specific risk tolerance and fitting within the financial needs of the organization. The results of cybersecurity can be technical, but it starts with business decisions made by leadership.

5 Star Data Systems provides a complete assessment of the risks to your business, as well as CMMC compliance. We will identify the threats against your information and operations, as well as the evident and latent vulnerabilities. We start with baseline standards and build upon them to make your company resilient.

Our partnership is with your company leadership and the business, where we become a trusted partner to ensure business enablement, increased revenue, profitability and customer satisfaction.

So many business processes are iterative. The strategy we develop must recognize that cybersecurity is never "one and done." Over time, your business will change. You will have different projects, employees, goals, and markets. The landscape in which your business operates changes daily.

Also, on the first pass, we will miss some things. Some things will go unrecognized. Other things will be lower priority and outside of the budget. All of them can be addressed on the second, third, or later passes. In time, your business will become more resilient and more mature in its cyber risk preparedness.