Executive security leadership,
on demand.
Cybercide Solutions provides virtual and fractional CISO services: seasoned security leadership that builds, runs, and answers for your security program. Strategy, risk, and compliance — led by people who've been doing this since 2010.
Security leadership is the hire most organizations get wrong.
Most organizations need security leadership long before they can justify a full-time Chief Information Security Officer. A full-time CISO is a six-figure hire well north of $300K a year — and a hard one to make.
So when that hire isn't on the table, most organizations default to one of two mistakes. They promote a strong technical engineer — someone excellent at the tactical, hands-on work — and hope they'll grow into a strategic leader, governing a program and briefing a board they were never trained to address. Or they hand security to a capable executive with an MBA and no security background, and hope they'll architect a program they don't understand. Both come from good intentions, and both fail the same way: a security function that's either all tactics and no strategy, or all polish and no substance.
What both miss is the part that actually creates value. On paper, security is a line item that only spends — a cost center that burns money and returns none. A real CISO changes that math, and does it by being a translator. Upward, they sit with executives and show them how to leverage the security program to make money: closing enterprise deals that hinge on a security review, getting products to market faster, taking share from competitors who can't clear the same bar. Downward, they take the board's strategic vision and translate it into terms engineers can build against — so the technical work is architected to drive the business forward, not just to check boxes. That bidirectional fluency, business-to-engineering and back, is what separates security leadership from security administration.
A real CISO is the rare person who lives in that middle — technical enough to tell a genuine risk from a vendor's sales pitch, fluent enough in business to set strategy and answer for it in the boardroom. A virtual CISO gives you exactly that judgment on a fractional basis: someone accountable for your security strategy, your risk posture, your compliance obligations, and for making security pull its weight as a business driver — without carrying the role on your payroll.
The work of a security leader, on your terms.
Security strategy & roadmap
Where your program is, where it needs to be, and the prioritized path between the two.
Risk management & assessment
We identify what actually threatens your business, rank it by real impact, and drive remediation that matters.
Compliance & audit readiness
We map your obligations to the frameworks that apply to your business and keep you ready, not scrambling.
Policy & governance
We write, review, and maintain the policies that hold a program together and stand up to scrutiny.
Incident response planning
We build and test the plan before you need it, so a bad day is a managed event, not a crisis.
Board & executive reporting
We translate security into the language leadership actually uses: risk, exposure, and decisions.
- SOC 2
- HIPAA
- HITRUST
- PCI-DSS
- NIST
- ISO 27001
- CMMC
- GDPR
- FedRAMP
- CIS Controls
Three ways to bring us in.
Fractional retainer
Continuous security leadership at a set monthly commitment — your CISO without the seat.
Project-based
A bounded engagement: a risk assessment, an audit run-up, a framework build, a program reset.
Transitional leadership
We step in to lead during a leadership gap or transition, and hand off a program in better shape.
Leadership, backed by continuous detection.
Where it helps, we back our leadership with Neptune, our AI-assisted monitoring layer — continuous detection that feeds directly into our risk and response work. It supports the program; it isn't the product. The judgment is.
We've led security programs since 2010, and we've grown on referral alone — one organization telling another.
We don't run ads or chase logos; the work brings the next client. That's deliberate. It keeps us small, senior, and accountable to the people we already serve — which is exactly the kind of firm you want holding your security program.
The leadership behind Cybercide brings experience spanning Fortune 100 enterprises, healthcare, and pre-IPO organizations — including security integration across 100+ acquisitions, programs built and audited to IPO readiness, and AI-driven detection running in production since 2017, well before it was fashionable.
- CCISO
- CISSP
- CISM
- CISA
- CRISC
- OSCP
- OSCE
- GPEN
- TOGAF
- ITIL
Start a conversation.
Most of our work comes by referral, and we take on a limited number of new engagements each year. If someone pointed you our way — or you think we're a fit — tell us what's prompting the outreach and we'll get back to you directly.
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