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VIRTUAL CISO (vCISO)

Develop Your Cybersecurity Strategy And Keep It On Track

eSentire's named Virtual CISO (vCISO) works directly with you to assess your cybersecurity program maturity against your industry peers and measures your ability to address the latest cyber threats. With our Virtual CISO services, you can align your cybersecurity strategy and business objectives to build a cyber roadmap that reduces your cyber risk.

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57%

of mid sized businesses don't have a CISO1

36%

of mid-sized organizations don’t have an incident response plan2

750K

of cybersecurity jobs in the US are unfilled3

1.  Trends in Midsize Enterprise Security and Risk Management, Gartner 2021
2.  2022 Cybersecurity Trends for Mid-Sized Organizations, Egnyte
3.  2023 Official Cybersecurity Jobs Report, Cybersecurity Ventures

Cybersecurity Advisory Services that Prepare You For Tomorrow's Cyber Threats Today

Many organizations find themselves stuck between ever-evolving cyber threats and tightening regulatory requirements. As a result, your cybersecurity program may satisfy the compliance requirements but fail to address the greatest areas of cyber risk and build cyber resilience.

As part of every engagement, our Virtual CISO (vCISO) team conducts an organization-wide cybersecurity maturity assessment based on the NIST framework. This ensures our vCISO experts understand your organization's specific strengths, weaknesses, and areas of improvement.

In addition to our Virtual CISO services, our cybersecurity advisory services portfolio includes security policy guidance, incident response planning, and security architecture review. This allows your organization to mature with a tailored, comprehensive cybersecurity program that meets your industry regulations and business objectives.

OUR VCISO SERVICES BENEFIT YOU BY:

Aligning to your business objectives, risk and cybersecurity strategy

Promoting organization-wide buy-in with effective resource allocation

Demonstrating measurable success to your executive management and board

Defining action plans for a new cybersecurity program or updating your existing cybersecurity program

Examining your organization’s unique environment, architecture, operations, culture and cyber threat landscape against industry frameworks

Identifying and prioritizing your cybersecurity architecture risk, subsequent control and remediation opportunities

Meeting and exceeding your compliance mandates

What You Can Expect From eSentire's vCISO Services

End-to-end evaluation of your cybersecurity strategy

Build your action plan

Set objectives for your security program and support execution

Demonstrate value and gain clear results

OUR DIFFERENCE

End-to-end evaluation of your cybersecurity strategy

YOUR RESULTS

Our vCISO team completes a 15-point cybersecurity program assessment to understand your current strategy and inform your future strategy.

OUR DIFFERENCE

Build your action plan

YOUR RESULTS

We align your cybersecurity strategy, business objectives and risk enabling efficient roadmap development.

OUR DIFFERENCE

Set objectives for your security program and support execution

YOUR RESULTS

Your refined cybersecurity strategy will be delivered by a named eSentire vCISO who becomes an extension of your team and builds a program tailored to your business.

OUR DIFFERENCE

Demonstrate value and gain clear results

YOUR RESULTS

Gain buy-in for a comprehensive cybersecurity program development at the board level while meeting and exceeding compliance mandates.

A preview of eSentire cybersecurity maturity assessment that identifies security concerns in your environment. Our vCISO services include a NIST-based organization-wide cybersecurity maturity assessment as part of every engagement. This ensures our experts understand your strengths, weaknesses and greatest areas of cyber risk.

CYBERSECURITY MATURITY ASSESSMENT

Test Your Cybersecurity Maturity

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Why eSentire vCISO Services

Our Virtual CISO services portfolio contains modules that address each component of your cybersecurity posture, including policy guidance, incident response planning, and security architecture reviews. These are all aligned to one singular strategy and measured across a multi-year engagement.

Security Program Maturity Assessment (SPMA)

In-depth appraisal of information security maturity against industry standards.

Security Incident Response Planning (SIRP)

Focused, pragmatic strategy on key steps to take when an event occurs.

Security Policy Review and Guidance (SPG)

Best practices for policies and procedures from NIST Cybersecurity Frameworks.

Security Architecture Review (SAR)

Evaluation and audit of current technologies, security controls and system criteria.

Vendor Risk Management Program (VRM)

Establish a process to track third-party and vendor risks to your business.

Vulnerability Management Program (VMP)

Create and refine procedures to account for emerging vulnerabilities.

eSentire vCISO Data Sheet

The eSentire Virtual CISO Services Difference

While most managed security service providers (MSSPs) deliver a one-and-done approach, we operate with insight and context. Every vCISO engagement at eSentire starts with an organization-wide security maturity assessment based on the NIST framework. This ensures our vCISO experts understand your strengths, weaknesses, and greatest areas of cyber risk.

OUR vCISO EXPERTS:

  • Are industry certified professionals with decades of experience from the C-level to technical implementation and controls
  • Have an average of 17 years of security experience
  • Hold numerous certification including CISSP, CISM, CISA, and more

THE RESULTS YOU CAN EXPECT FROM ESENTIRE VIRTUAL CISO CONSULTING SERVICES INCLUDE:

  • Alleviate resource contraints in your organization
  • A comprehensive security program with strong policies and procedures
  • Meet or exceeds your compliance requirements
  • Aligns business objectives with your unique risk and exposure

Are You Experiencing a Security Incident or Have You Been Breached?

If you need immediate assistance, we can help. eSentire Digital Forensics & Incident Response services are available for Emergency Incident Response Support or as an Incident Response Retainer. When you’ve been breached, every second counts so we make 4-hour threat suppression possible, remotely, anywhere in the world.

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Security Leaders Count on eSentire

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It’s a pleasure working with a group of people that know what they’re doing. They are an extension of the Wetherby technical security team."
Trevor Hicks
Principal and CTO | Wetherby Asset Management
A logo of eSentire’s customer, CWS Apartment Homes, Inc., next to a testimonial which discusses how eSentrie managed phishing training and security awareness training keeps the organization’s environment secure 24/7.
I have enjoyed having the additional security knowledge on my team. I sleep better at night."
David Greene
IT Vice President | CWS Apartment Homes, Inc.
A logo of eSentire’s customer, EnCap Investments L.P., next to a testimonial which discusses how eSentrie managed phishing training and security awareness training improves EnCap’s security posture.
eSentire provides a better security posture for our organization."
Shahab Kazim
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) | EnCap Investments LP
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